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Global QSRs Dissecting the Indian fast food pie
Global quick-service restaurant brands are expanding their footprint in the quickly evolving Indian market. But some are also falling by the wayside. Here are some perspectives from the industry (ET...
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Talking about a revolution
(This piece appeared in ‘The Strategist’ supplement of the Business Standard newspaper, on 2 July 2012.) Modern retail is equated with a more structured and systematised organisation, hence the term...
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Retail’s Elves
(Published in “BusinessWorld SME Handbook 2012-13″, released on Oct. 29, 2012 in New Delhi, and “Indian Management”, the journal of the All India Management Association in January 2013, published by...
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Wal-Mart brakes, Indian JV hits the wall
[This article appeared in Daily News & Analysis (DNA) on 10 October 2013, under the headline "Without Wal-Mart, can Bharti play it alone?"] A year ago, Wal-Mart had called Bharti its natural...
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Tesco in India: Will every little help?
[This article appeared in the February 2014 print issue of Retailer, under the headline "Implications of the Tata-Tesco JV"] India is a civilisation that has borne fruit from thousands of year of...
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Opportunities & Challenges for Dutch (Semi-)Processed Food Companies in India
A seminar was organised on the 12th of May in Zeist (the Netherlands) on “the Opportunities & Challenges for Dutch (Semi-) Processed Food Companies in India”. Highlights of a report and other...
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Patanjali – from Yoga to Noodles
Third Eyesight’s CEO, Devangshu Dutta recently participated in a discussion about the phenomenal growth of the Patanjali brand, from yoga lessons to a food and FMCG conglomerate taking well-established...
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Heat Spots in the Cold Chain
The cold chain sector is expanding quickly due to increased investments from Indian and international organisations going towards both modernisation of the existing facilities and establishment of new...
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Shopping Malls – Start-Off on the Right Foot
If you’re planning to develop a mall, here’s a short-list of key issues you must address: Fail-proof the business plan by focussing on the customer: Focus on the development of retail brands and not...
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Retail 2020
Remember the year 2000? After Y2K passed safely, that year some optimistic analysts predicted that India’s modern retail chains would reach 20 per cent market share by 2015. Two years after that...
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