Modi 3.0: Industry seeks roadmap to cement India's lead in global digital arena, vows supportThe Digital Infrastructure Providers Association (DIPA) has expressed full support for India's digital and telecom transformation under the...
10 Jun, 2024, 01.24 PM IST
What could be the market cap of Reliance Retail in next 3 years? Abneesh Roy answersThe challenge here will be the fashion quotient has to be changing very-very rapidly, so that is the design aspect which has to be taken ca...
28 Aug, 2023, 11.48 AM IST
The pain after the gain: grocery deliverers reshuffle after lockdown boomAs the COVID-19 pandemic kept consumers behind closed doors, investors poured billions into "quick commerce" grocery firms that pledged to ...
08 Jun, 2022, 09.20 PM IST
German grocery app Gorillas to cut staff in search of profitBerlin-based Gorillas, founded in 2020, has tripled the size of its business since October when it raised 860 million euros ($921 million) ...
25 May, 2022, 09.00 AM IST
Shut shopMaharashtra’s harsh lockdown has crippled e-commerce in the state but the industry is booming elsewhere, with the demand for delivery agent...
14 Apr, 2021, 07.43 PM IST
Flipkart, Amazon suspend orders for non-essentials in MaharashtraThe Maharashtra government in its latest guidelines announced a state-wide lockdown from 8:00 pm on April 14 to 7:00 am on May 1. While e-c...
14 Apr, 2021, 03.44 PM IST
Coronavirus effect: State curbs choke ecommerce suppliesThe action against grocery e-tailers such as Grofers, BigBasket and e-pharmacy player 1mg and their on-ground staff, apart from larger firm...
23 Mar, 2020, 07.31 AM IST
E-grocers delay and cancel orders as demand surges amid outbreakUnable to handle a sudden surge in demand, India's two largest grocery players, BigBasket and Grofers, have started delaying orders by days...
21 Mar, 2020, 08.34 AM IST
Senior level exits peak in consumer companiesIn retail, food and grocery chain Nature’s Basket chief executive officer Avani Davda has put in her papers, thereby moving out months afte...
04 Dec, 2019, 10.18 PM IST
Startups fight big global e-commerce firms to win online grocery battleA real, unprecedented opportunity is triggering a war in India, and its contours are finally emerging.
13 Jul, 2018, 10.45 AM IST
Most of our sales come from products which are below Rs 1,000: Lalit Agarwal, CMD, V-Mart"Our key product assortment, merchandise mix, supply chain management wherein the customer gets the best of the product and with the best o...
23 Aug, 2017, 11.26 AM IST
Why freedom fighter Birsa Munda's village in Jharkhand is still in fettersThe only redeeming feature about the village is a smooth concrete road under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana that connects the decrepi...
13 Aug, 2017, 12.48 PM IST
Want perfect salads? Ask Sally the Robot!Sally occupies about the same amount of space as a dorm room refrigerator, and uses 21 different ingredients to craft more than a thousand ...
06 Apr, 2017, 11.59 AM IST
Unit economics challenging for food-tech startups: SpoonJoy's Manish JethaniSix months after online grocery delivery player Grofers acqui-hired food-tech startup SpoonJoy, the former CEO talks about challenges in th...
27 Apr, 2016, 10.20 AM IST
We learnt some harsh lessons from FedEX and Blue Dart: Navneet SinghAfter working with IFC and ExxonMobil, Singh started ecommerce reverse logistics firm NuvoEX before transforming it into PepperTap last yea...
27 Dec, 2015, 05.22 AM IST
Food & Grocery retailer iOrderFresh inks strategic tie-up with Natural Ice Cream in Delhi NCRDelhi-based mobile-only food and grocery retailer iOrderFresh has partnered with Natural Ice Cream to deliver ice cream products to the doo...
04 Nov, 2015, 09.12 PM IST
- Union rivalry costs Mumbai Port Rs 2 crore
Even 20 days after a one-month-old strike by mathadi workers’ unions was called off, work at its railway yards remain paralysed.
30 Jul, 2007, 08.28 AM IST