Retailer - January - March 2020

In this issue

This edition of Retailer features a cover story on METRO Cash and Carry format. It focuses on digitising kiranas and how large organised retailers can help kirana stores in organizing their business and find their own growth in the process.

FAREWELL, WENDELL RODRICKS: TRIBUTE TO THE MASTER COUTURIER

The sudden demise of fashion designer Wendell Rodricks came as a shocker for the Indian fashion industry. Anyone who is even remotely interested in fashion might have heard about him.

2 mins

FOOTWEAR BRAND BIRKENSTOCK PLANS BIG FOR INDIA

In an exclusive interview, Jens Hattab, Regional Managing Director (Middle East, Africa and India) for BIRKENSTOCK talks about the brand’s new-found focus on India and its expansion plans

2 mins

3 LEARNINGS FROM INDIA'S SAM WALTON OH HIS RETAIL JOURNEY

“Today, the rules of customer engagement have changed. Now you search for a brand online, you discover its product and start using it.”

1 min

IT'S A NEW FOOD AGE ALTOGETHER!

With technology and other disruptions changing the entire landscape of the food and beverage industry, the only way forward is to adapt, and adapt quickly, explains Harshavardhan Neotia, Chairman, Ambuja Neotia Group

3 mins

Doing It The Amazon Way

Given the increasing competition between e-commerce giants and retailers, the latter need to get into place a well-planned omnichannel strategy to be able to survive in the long run, says Lee Peterson

3 mins

PUTTING THE BEST FOOTWEAR FORWARD

Bata India is the largest footwear retailer in India, offering footwear, accessories and bags across brands like Bata, Hush Puppies, Weinbrenner, and Bubblegummers, to name a few. It retails in over 1,400 Bata stores, on bata.in and in thousands of multibrand footwear dealer stores pan-India. In an exclusive conversation, CEO Sandeep Kataria sheds light on the many important aspects of the brand.

3 mins

GLOBAL CHAMPION FOR SMALL BUSINESSES

METRO Cash and Carry India works with a vast network of over 3 million business customers and 8 lakh small traders and kirana store owners. More than a decade after its entry, the global champion for independent business, as they call themselves, METRO Cash and Carry India is tasting success in India.

5 mins

SOCKS WITH A SUCCESS STORY

Talking to Retailer, Harsh Saraf, Business Head, Superknit Industries, elaborates about the challenges in building a new brand called Supersox from scratch in the socks category and have it stand next to big established brands

2 mins

MAKING RETAIL STORE DESIGN REAL CHARMING

INSYNC Shop Fittings is a company that is invested into research design and manufacturing of the next-generation of technologically advanced retail display and store fixtures’ solutions to retailers. Huzefa Merchant, founder, INSYNC Shop Fittings and partner strategic alliances at Safe Enterprises shares his vision and foresight on the future of retail store design in this interview

2 mins

JUST IN TIME!

Pranav Saboo, CEO of Ethos Watch Boutiques, in an exclusive interview takes us through his journey as to how he created India’s largest chain of luxury watch boutiques with 50 premium stores across the country while working alongside his father

2 mins

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Retailer Magazine Description:

India's leading retail opportunity and consumer insight magazine completes nine successful years. The magazine has left its mark amongst the retail stakeholders comprised of small & medium retailers, retail professionals, suppliers & vendors, mall developers and retail students. Retailer covers every aspect of retail business – both front end and back end. This spans vast areas of customer engagement, sales strategy, marketing strategy, technology, SCM, creating unique retail experience, recent trends, etc. The features in the magazine are credited with authentic presentation of facts and data and trustworthy reporting of the latest happenings in the retail sector. The features explore insightful angles with the views and opinions of industry experts. The analyses give the retailers to understand the trend in consumers' purchasing behavior. Thus, they offer ample scopes for retailers to ramp up sales. The vendors and suppliers consider RETAILER as an important interface to connect with the clients, i.e., retailers. The retail management institutes look up to RETAILER as the important reference journal for case studies.