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Guidelines To Creating A Successful Franchise Network
Presenting business opportunities like never before, the Franchise Knowledge Series during the Master Franchise Show saw speakers streaming into the venue from across the globe to lend knowledge from their experience on how to build a successful franchise business, how to take it global and what all to avoid in order to escape the risk of failure.
Changing The Face Of Retail Design
The days of a store just being a place to indulge in shopping will soon be gone. That’s because retail design now makes stores ‘experiential spaces’. STUDIO.J is one such company that is taking stores into the next generation of retail
Body Beautiful, The Stem Cell Away
With an increasing awareness about the need to not only be fit and healthy but also retain a youthful personality, the anti-ageing and wellness industry has picked up pace. One of the prime players in this sector is StemGenn Stem Cell Anti-Ageing and Rejuvenation Centre
Easy Lessons For Edtech Start-ups
As India delivers the most valuable edtech start-up in the world, we look at how the market has flourished for top-gamers and things you need to know if you are in the business
On An 'Illuminating' Path
Delhi’s Gopi Chand And Son is not just another company that makes and sells lighting products. Rather, it is a brand that has created a niche for the quality and variety of its products, most of them highly creative too. Now, it wants to have a presence across India while strengthening its footprint in other countries as well.
Putting Time & Talent To Good Use
Talent Corner is a recruitment firm that has established a reputation for itself through its very transparent services of matching the demand and supply equation in the employment sector. It is now in a position to offer its services on foreign shores
Tapping The Potential In Design Education
For all those who wish to make a successful career in the booming world of designing, India’s premier institute like the International School of Design offers a wide portfolio of courses to choose from
And Now, Sharing Living Space Too!
When the millennial generation moves to bigger cities in search of jobs or for educational purposes, the choices remain a PG or a distant relative’s house. Taking a leap forward in the direction of cowork spaces, co-living is the new norm for new-agers
Organic Is Where The Opportunity Lies
With food habits changing fast, organic agriculture is coming into vogue. Getting the first-mover advantage is Terra Greens Organic which is quickly creating a pan-India footprint
Nurturing The Next Generation
For the fact that it has added 30+ branches in its first year of operation, ICON Nurturing Innocence, a preschool venture, seems to have done remarkably well
Foodie Profits From Food Fad
For Ashish Dhall, North Indian and Mughlai cuisine has always been a passion. Interestingly, he has now turned this into a successful business venture in the form of Tandoori Trumpets
Popping Profit
From being a very humble roadside snack, popcorn has turned into a gourmet option with a vast variety of flavours that add an extra zing to its basic taste.
Feasting On Fast Food
Such has been the vast change in the food habits of Indians, especially the young and working, that quick service restaurants today make for the best business opportunity. In this growing space, AGSmarty Food and Beverages LLP has taken huge strides in terms of expansion and is now looking to have a bigger footprint across India with franchise partners.
Franchising Today, Tomorrow!
What makes franchising a viable business model is understanding of local markets and retail the merchandise as per the catchment’s need and aspiration.
Beyond The Borders
Building a brand to transcend borders inevitably means building flexibility into a system whilst maintaining the fundamental brand standards wherever the system is operated. How do you build a franchise that transcends borders?
Picking The Perfect Partner
When you opt for a franchise business, it will become your baby, a business that you will watch grow and love and hopefully with a little hard work and research, be successful. But how do you go finding the perfect franchise partner?
Forging The Right Partnership
Delivering success through a franchising business model
Putting The Best Foot Forward
German sportswear brand PUMA made its India entry in 2006. Twelve years later, it now owns 360 stores across India. The brand’s Managing Director Abhishek Ganguly says the company aims to continue dominating the sports performance market in India.
Driving Development Far And Wide
Micro-franchising is not just a subset of franchising. In fact, can be a key trigger to reduce poverty and provide entrepreneurship opportunities to the less privileged in rural areas.
Can Franchising Be The Solution To India's Unemployment Challenge?
India tops the list of the fastest growing economies in the world for the coming decade and is projected to grow at 7.9% annually, ahead of China and the US, according to a Harvard University report.
On The Right Path With Raymond
With the opening of Raymond’s first ever Mini TRS in Nalgonda, Telengana, Tharun Rao, Franchisee, The Raymond Shop, is targeting to penetrate deeper into emerging towns with similar format stores within the next two years.
Pharmacy Makes For A ‘Healthy' Business
If there is one product that never goes out of demand and is completely recession-free or any other economic factors, that’s medicine. With handsome margins and profits, setting up a pharmacy store deserves serious thought.
Beauty Is Not Just Skin Deep
Tanya Krishna reports about the growth in the Indian beauty industry and the trends that have triggered this rapid rise
Salons And Spas On A Shining Trail
Tanya Krishna reports about the changing retail trends in the salon and spa industry
When Food Turns Into A Health Fad
The latest trend in the food industry that includes eating out is that of snacking or dining at health food cafes where the owners tie up with nutritionists to serve delicious, organic and healthy cuisine to those who are keeping a strict control on their bodies and fitness. Aysha Anam
Giving Healthcare A New Dimension
With heavy urbanization and modernization altering the lifestyle of people and technology opening up a number of innovative cost-effective treatments, the way healthcare is getting delivered in India is now undergoing a major transformation, reports Zarafshan Shiraz
Yoga Finds A Fit Way To Make Profits
Yoga is not merely a way to keep fit and healthy. It has turned into an industry, and a very competitive one at that. Aysha Anam
Making Information Technology A Gateway To Global Opportunities
A unique aspect of the Institute of Advanced Networking Technology is that it offers integrated certifications in IT training at probably the lowest price in the IT education industry. As this profile of the company indicates, it is driven by the need to create employment opportunities for the increasing youth population of the country
Renault Rides With Iron Man And Captain America
Even as movie buffs around the world gear up for yet another blockbuster from Marvel Studios – Avengers: Infinity Wars – brands have started monetizing on the franchise. Of late, French multinational automobile manufacturer Renault has associated with Disney India to launch KWID Super Hero Edition. Sumit Sawhney, Country CEO and MD, Renault India Operations, believes that this association has instigated a new chapter of brand licensing in India.
So What Makes For A Successful Franchisor-franchisee Bond?
The relationship between a franchisor and a franchisee does not start and stop with business terms. Many other elements have to be invested to be able to create a successful partnership that can weather all storms By Aysha Anam