Death of the kirana store: Will quick commerce quicken it?Quick commerce platforms like Blinkit and Instamart have begun to overshadow India's traditional kirana stores, known for their community-d...
21 Aug, 2024, 04.33 PM IST
HUL is one of Unilever's strongest & largest operations: Unilever's CEO Hein SchumacherHUL accounts for more than 11% of Unilever's global sales and its second biggest market after the US in terms of revenue. The maker of Rin ...
13 Jan, 2024, 12.23 AM IST
HUL to help kiranas compete with bigger players via ONDCThe move is an extension of its internal ordering app Shikhar, which allows small neighbourhood stores to order directly from it. For HUL, ...
14 Nov, 2023, 12.00 AM IST
Mom-and-Pop Store Day: Why kiranas will survive the corporate blitzIn India, mom-and-pop stores are typically neighbourhood grocery stores. Apart from being social connectors for the local community, they a...
29 Mar, 2023, 05.16 PM IST
Infibeam's BillAvenue adds 1 million agents; targets reaching 5 million agents by 2025Vishal Mehta, Managing Director, Infibeam Avenues, said in the statement, "By 2025, we expect to scale enormously and add near to 5 million...
06 Mar, 2023, 06.08 PM IST
Reliance Retail to pick up Metro's India biz for ₹2,850 croreAs part of the deal, Reliance will get 31 large format stores in 21 cities as well as the realty portfolio that includes six store-occupied...
23 Dec, 2022, 06.20 AM IST
India needs to invest 50% education budget on skilling engineers in handling cyber threatsSpeaking to PTI on Saturday, an expert underlined his call, "Universities in India should now focus on producing cybersecurity engineers as...
05 Nov, 2022, 10.24 AM IST
How India's traditional FMCG distributor network is changingWhile traditional distributors have locked horns with FMCG companies over deep discounts to online B2B platforms,the future of distribution...
05 Mar, 2022, 11.01 PM IST
FMCG sales from kiranas grow amid pandemicWhile kiranas remained a strong channel for groceries, the pandemic accelerated the shift to online purchase of pricier items such as consu...
11 Feb, 2022, 09.28 PM IST
View: Adapt to the new kirana zamanaIn the last few years, kiranas have been very agile to adapt to the new digital, B2C tech-enabled world. These stores now have the convenie...
25 Jan, 2022, 11.49 PM IST
Banking on digital: Fintech faces strong barriers as it ventures out of manicured urban landscapesThe wavering internet connection, with frequent time-outs and pocket drops, doesn’t inspire a lot of faith and confidence amongst the consu...
22 Nov, 2021, 09.56 AM IST
Dukaan gets $11-million funding from 640 Oxford Ventures, othersDukaan, an online retail platform that helps businesses digitise operations, will use the fresh capital to expand its operations, hire web ...
06 Sep, 2021, 08.35 PM IST
Technology to play a key role in the success of MSMEs: Nitin GadkariLauding the global tech giant’s decision to announce a $250 million venture fund for India for investments in technology, startups and smal...
15 Apr, 2021, 05.05 PM IST
For FMCG firms, e-commerce is no longer an option. It's an imperativeIn the fifth edition of its FMCG forecast, researcher Nielsen said e-commerce contributes 3% to overall FMCG sales in India, but that the p...
03 Jan, 2021, 07.02 PM IST
Coming soon: E-commerce platform for small tradersCAIT secretary general Praveen Khandelwal said that the e-commerce national marketplace has already been conceived and designed and has pla...
24 Apr, 2020, 10.56 AM IST
Focused founders, improved funding: Indian start-up ecosystem 2.0 impresses Rajan AnandanThe Sequoia Capital MD is proud of the Indian start-up growth trajectory.
10 Feb, 2020, 05.25 PM IST
If 2017 was the year of the online, will 2018 be the year of the offline?The fear of the death of the brick-and-mortar model is premature for Indian retail. Ambani and Biyani are shrewd enough to notice that.
27 Dec, 2017, 12.42 PM IST