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Marks & Spencer Opens Sustainable Learning Store in India – Green Retail Decisions

Posted on March 22, 2012 by

Marks & Spencer (M&S) opened its first high street (main street) sustainable learning store in India at South Extension Market in Delhi – as part of the company’s drive to become the world’s most sustainable major retailer by 2015. The … Continue reading →

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India Lets Starbucks, Ikea Open Wholly Owned Stores After Wal-Mart Reverse

Posted on February 4, 2012 by
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India abandoned a rule against foreign single-brand retailers operating stores without a local partner, paving the way for global companies including Starbucks Corp. and Ikea. The government ratified a Nov. 24 cabinet decision to raise the ownership limit to 100 … Continue reading →

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Where are Retail’s Hottest Emerging Markets?

Posted on June 15, 2011 by
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Wondering whether to open your new fashion store in China or in Brazil but you don’t have any clue? The annual A.T. Kerney’s Retail Index  provides you with a detailed list of the most emerging countries for apparel retail. The … Continue reading →

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Coffee and tea drinking habits in Asia: when culture matters.

Posted on June 13, 2011 by
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Evening drinking habits differ from country to country, and this is very important when creating customer-centric food Retail concepts, as our DESITA and ECOFFEE projects are. In Singapore, for example it’s not unusual to see coffee shops packed at 11pm/12 midnight every night of the … Continue reading →

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LVMH Group to fund India’s Ready-to-Wear Fashion Retail

Posted on May 6, 2011 by
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The world’s largest luxury goods conglomerate, LVMH Group, will launch its private equity fund in India, in an attempt to tap the burgeoning disposable income and rising aspirations of the country’s urban population, especially women. L Capital, present in New … Continue reading →

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How to implement grocery retaling and e-tailing in India

Posted on May 5, 2011 by
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We found this article by Avinder Batra, published on IndianRetailer.com very interesting because of its very detailed approach to the implementation of a home delivery service for those small groceries retailers that are facing the competition with by multinational like … Continue reading →

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Business Retail: a global view

Posted on April 18, 2011 by
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Retail is big, but how big it is and is it equally distributed worldwide or are there countries where retail is at its best?   The last CB Richard Ellis Survey  about the business of Retail, reveals how fluctuating this market … Continue reading →

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Beverage industry and sustainability: TATA beverages

Posted on April 14, 2011 by
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We have previously wrote about how the beverage industry is getting more and more Sustainable, with more sustainable packaging like the Coca-Cola Company PlantBottle packaging, or by taking greater attention to the supply chain, as PepsiCo is doing with its recent … Continue reading →

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Here's a new breed of consumers: the CITYSUMERS

Posted on February 3, 2011 by

Retailers be aware of this growing segment of consumers which will become each and every day more and more important: the CITYSUMERS. According to Trendwatching.com, Citysumers are "The hundreds of millions (and growing!) of experienced and sophisticated urbanites*, from San … Continue reading →

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