The Retail Operations and Benchmarking Excellence Survey 2013 (ROBES) is a first of its kind in India. After 2 decades of high growth, and at a time when the Industry is focusing on profitability, dealing with the disruptive innovation of…
“We’re Women – we don’t do it like that!”
To be really successful, every conference deserves a session like the panel discussion on “Women, empowering retail – Leading Innovation” – it provided a dash of spice and humor – just the right touch to liven up proceedings and add…
Your on air co-passenger is …. ‘A crate of fruit’!
This could be the ‘new normal’ if Jet Airway’s prototype of “Cargo on Seats” reaches commercial scale. The design of the model was presented to at the Retail Leadership Survey 2013. Much has been written about India’s logistical problems – …
FDI in retail : Clear Policy, cloudy implementation.
The panel discussion on FDI in retail was one of the highlights of the Retail Leadership Session 2013, and attracted a ‘standing room only’ audience. Panelists included Ajit Joshi, CEO & MD, Inniti Retail Limited, Arpita Mukherjee, Professor, ICRIER, Delhi,…
How green is your store?
The sessions on sustainability in retail bristled with facts, and made a powerful case for retailers to use the “carrying capacity” of the planet wisely. Sample this: Global balance is based on the equation that Population * Consumption = Carrying…
Innovation is beyond creativity.
“Innovation is beyond creativity” – stated Mr Harsh Mariwala, CMD of Marico India, at the Keynote address of the Retail Leadership Summit 2013. , where he used Marico’s journey as a design blueprint to the process of creating and sustaining…
“What’s your Kurkure”
Manu Anand’s keynote session at the Retail Leadership Summit, 2013 showed that innovation is not the prerogative of just owner-entrepreneur driven organizations. Perhaps it has something to do with the category – food and beverages – which is inherently local,…
Innovative Collaborations in Retail
“Can you think of a situation where there is a Shoppers Stop kiosk in Westside? “ Rahul Mehta – President of CMAI asked the audience, during the session on innovative collaborations in Retail. “The US market has seen the conceptual…