Retailers adopting new tech like AI-enabled chatbots to engage with customersRetailers are currently using chatbots to engage with customers, like giving details of products they click online, answering basic questio...
18 Nov, 2020, 06.30 PM IST
Large establishments in Chennai's shopping district asked to down shuttersWell-known textile names such as Saravana Stores, Nalli Silks, Kumaran Silks, Pothys, Chennai Silks in addition to popular jewellery brands...
17 Mar, 2020, 09.21 PM IST
Hotel Saravana Bhavan defaults on ESI, PF duesThe hotel chain has 3,190 employees (domestic) at present and is not looking at any layoffs for now.
20 Sep, 2019, 02.53 PM IST
Saravana Bhavan's Pitchai Rajagopal: The rise and fall of the dosa kingSaravana Bhavan founder Pitchai Rajagopal was many things—an entrepreneur who put idlis and dosas on the world map, a benevolent employer—a...
20 Jul, 2019, 10.33 AM IST
Tax evasion probe: I-T department raids 74 locations in Tamil NaduThe premises of Saravana group business owner Yogirathinam Pondurai are also being covered as part of the action, they said.
29 Jan, 2019, 04.06 PM IST
Bank consortium lodges complaint with CBI claiming Rs 825-crore fraud by jeweller KanishkThe 13-member lender consortium had declared the accounts of Kanishk as “Non-Performing” between May and July last year.
21 Mar, 2018, 07.20 PM IST
Cola sales catch a chill in Tamil Nadu as boycott heats upAfter small retailers, even large chains are heeding the boycott call. The Indian Beverage Association has expressed disappointment at the ...
04 Mar, 2017, 01.02 AM IST
Shopping destination of Chennai's T Nagar offers ecommerce cos, a window of opportunitiesThe budding entrepreneurs believe that T Nagar, or Thyagaraya Nagar, with its undiminished traffic over several years, has a lesson or two ...
29 Oct, 2016, 11.20 AM IST
Prominent food brands Saha, MTR, designer Andrew Piers expand their footprints overseasHaving satiated Bengaluru's evolved palates with Spanish restaurant Caperberry and Mediterranean fare at Fava, gourmand Abhijit Saha has sp...
26 Mar, 2015, 10.12 AM IST
Starbucks to enter Chennai's hardcore coffee market; faces stiff competition by rivals like Madras Coffee HouseStarbucks will not only have to contend with stiff competition from traditional names, but will also have to jostle with Kumbakonam degree ...
08 Jul, 2014, 10.38 AM IST
Pedal2Go to come up with three-wheeled and four-wheeled cyclesKumar Natarajan, founder of Pedal2Go, is working on building hand-made prototypes of three-wheeled and four-wheeled cycles.
20 Jun, 2014, 03.42 AM IST
Saravana Stores launches 'Elite' to target the upwardly mobileChennai-based Saravana Stores, a wellknown case study in how to profitably run low-cost retail targeted at the lower middle-class.
26 Nov, 2013, 04.00 AM IST
Cookie Man 's SBP Pattabhi Rama Rao plans national chain of idli & dosa restaurantsRao, 40, has bought into ID (standing for idli-dosa), started in 2010 by an arm of Chennai's prominent theatre chain Sathyam Cinemas.
13 Aug, 2013, 04.08 AM IST
Saravana Bhavan plans foray into hospitality sector after it strengthens international presence furtherSaravana Bhavan, which has more restaurants overseas than in India, is now mulling a foray into the hospitality sector.
03 Nov, 2012, 02.50 AM IST
- Smooth journey for Rs 475-cr Silk saree brand Nalli
Starting out from a small room in with a single loom in the silk town of Kanchi to running a chain of 22 branches, the journey of the Rs 47...
17 Mar, 2010, 06.14 AM IST
- NYLIM to pick 21.5% in KFC franchisee
Foreign PE fund NYLIM Jacob Ballas India Fund is close to picking up 21.5% stake in Devyani International.
19 Jun, 2008, 04.53 AM IST
- Retailers increase ad spend on TV
As retailers in India grapple to attract more footfalls, they increased their ad spent by 12% during Jan-May 07.
08 Aug, 2007, 11.00 AM IST