RAI suggests moving to flat GST rate across product categories instead of price-based thresholdsRetailers Association of India suggests a uniform Goods and Services Tax rate. Current price-based system creates market distortions. RAI e...
04 Sep, 2025, 03.10 PM IST
Budget 2025: Retailers seek relief in India's Budget through low interest ratesUnion Budget 2025: Retailers in India are seeking government support in Budget 2025. They want lower interest rates and a special fund. The...
18 Dec, 2024, 04.22 PM IST
Retail sector sees 2% on-year growth in 2024The Retailers Association of India’s (RAI) 53rd Retail Business Survey reports a 2% growth in the retail sector for 2024 compared to the pr...
19 Aug, 2024, 03.28 PM IST
RAI seeks urgent support for workers in retail industry amid COVID second wave"Retailers need to pay salaries, minimum electricity, rentals, property taxes, etc. even if the businesses are shut due to lockdown. The ca...
13 May, 2021, 03.34 PM IST
RAI urges govt to extend ECLGS benefits to retailersPutting forward a series of demands, RAI said around 80 per cent of the retail stores are closed due to various restrictions across states ...
28 Apr, 2021, 04.44 PM IST
Retailers Association of India partners with IGNOU for offering employment-oriented academic programme"We believe that employment in the retail sector will increase by as much as 25 per cent in the next five years. This tie-up is very useful...
04 Mar, 2021, 04.04 PM IST
Retailers Association of India appoints Bijou Kurien as ChairmanBijou Kurien is a veteran of Indian retail industry with over 35 years of experience, having worked with the likes of Hindustan Unilever Lt...
06 Oct, 2020, 12.40 PM IST
Retail industry showing signs of recovery: Survey by Retailers Association of IndiaThe association said that smooth rollout of Unlock 3.0 in August 2020 was hampered by localised lockdowns in some states.
09 Sep, 2020, 07.00 PM IST
Retailers Association of India welcomes govt's directive on localised restrictionsRAI said retailers are majorly depending on the upcoming festive season for the recovery of the business. Boost to the retail industry will...
31 Aug, 2020, 04.32 PM IST
Retailers seek RBI intervention as banks unwilling to extend debt moratorium to borrowersThe country is under a three-week lockdown starting March 25 and the number of cases infected with the virus is rising steadily. The RBI ha...
01 Apr, 2020, 08.09 AM IST
Shaping the future of travel: With over 4 decades of experience, Rajji Rai believes there is no shortcut to successThe chairman of Swift Group of companies has been working in the travel and tourism industry for more than four decades and is taking it to...
24 Mar, 2020, 12.02 PM IST
Kumar Rajagopalan: Architect of retailers’ fightback against ecommerce companiesA former Shoppers Stop veteran and ex-IBM executive, Rajagopalan is considered by many as one of the architects of brick-and-mortar’s fight...
22 Jul, 2016, 10.09 AM IST
Implementing agencies must ensure trades are compliant: Rakesh BiyaniThe ambiguity around it is zero now. If ambiguity doesn't exist then you must trust the law and trust the implementing agency whenever they...
16 Jul, 2016, 03.19 AM IST
- Retailers Association, Future Innoversity launch Post Graduate Programme in Retail Management course
Retailers Association of India in collaboration with Future Innoversity today announced first of its kind Post Graduate Programme in Retail...
27 Jun, 2012, 04.12 PM IST
- Hotel and restaurants industry is demand Infrastructure status
If govt extends infrastructure status to hotels & restaurants, tariffs can go down by around 3% feels Federation of Hotel and Restaurant As...
15 Jun, 2012, 07.18 PM IST
- PM's Task Force on MSME sets up sub-committees
Prime Minister's task force on Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises reviewed the problems faced by the sector particularly with regard to ba...
25 Sep, 2009, 05.51 PM IST
- Organised retail sector needs a mn people to grow
The organised retailing industry in India, estimated at Rs 35,000 crore, would need a whopping one million people to help it grow in the ne...
02 May, 2007, 06.50 PM IST