–Contributed by Vivin Wason A totally new introduction by the Australian giant Bartercard, which presently leads the trade exchange across the globe, might just change the way retail trade is done in India. Bartercard is planning to foray into the Indian retail market through a subsidiary and plans to have its operations in place by [...]

With the recent developments in India’s Domestic Airline market and growth in the international and domestic passenger and freight (cargo) traffics, Industry players (Airline/Forwarders/Passengers), Ministry of Civil Aviation, Airport Authority of India and IATA have unanimously identified the need of lacking support infrastructure essential for stabilizing Industrial growth. As the airline passenger traffic is projected [...]

—Contributed by Vivin Wason Retailers are taking the IPO route looking at the consumer confidence in emerging Retail Players and the merry state of the Stock market. Along with Landmark 11 other retail players are gearing up raise funds of nearly 2000 crore in 2007. These players include some of the heavy weights in Retail [...]

—Contributed by Sushant Munjal & Abhay Babbar What was started by a few players few years back has today become an obsession for many. Global retail formats/ corporations from the organized markets are heading for Asian economic titans like China, South Korea, Taiwan, Philippines, Malaysia and none other then our very own India. Although the [...]

–Contributed by Vivin Wason Travel retail is a serious option which any retailer in the expansion mode should consider. The fact they can bank upon is the steep rise in the number of air travelers in the last one year.  While in most developing countries the number of air travelers grew by 8-9%, India saw [...]

While large firms can weather challenges more easily, small and medium IT enterprises will need to innovate to survive. Here are some ways to go about it. A vast majority of the firms in the small and middle segments of the IT industry are already struggling to face the twin challenges of top-line and bottom-line [...]

Do you have it in you? IT TAKES an entrepreneurial fire in your belly to start a business — and make it succeed — and not everyone has it. How do you know if you have what it takes to start a business? There’s really no way to know for sure. But there are things [...]

–Contributed by Vivin Wason Private labels seem to have coming of age in India with the retail industry leveraging the growth in manufacturing sector. With a price band mostly lower than branded products and similar in terms of quality private labels are fast picking up the pace and are ready to take on well known [...]

–Contributed By Deepak Miglani (Legal Buddy) Law is necessary for maintaining peaceful environment for the growth of the industry.    Labour legislation in India has developed with the growth of the industry. In the eighteenth century India was not only a great agricultural country but a great manufacturing country too. Asian and European markets were [...]

–Contributed by Vivin Retail on the road to getting Hi-tech. In India medium and small sized retailers, along with the big players, are fast taking the technology route. Companies like IBM and Oracle are developing new software to simplify a customer transaction and generate most data out of customer touch point. The recently POS range [...]