With the sector expected to create at least 2mn direct jobs in 5 years, there is a rash of grooming courses. Mint (partner to the Wall Street Journal), New Delhi, August 30, 2007 When Shoppers’ Stop Ltd was planning to roll out its first department store in Mumbai in 1991, less than 10 candidates showed up for a job advertisement for a dozen openings. One of the front-end employees quit soon after as his fiancée’s family objected to their would be son-in-law being a store associate. “So he decided to change (jobs) because he wanted to marry the girl,” says…
REVIEW: DISCORDANT DEMOCRATS: ARUN MAIRA (Penguin Books India) As I read through Arun Maira's book, the month unfolded with a number of high-pitched disagreements around the world. In India, quotas and reservations were a hot topic, as was an apparent divergence between the Prime Minister and corporate chiefs on executive income and distribution of wealth. Self-appointed moral police disapproved the expressions of a student of art, while, elsewhere in the world, suicide bombers expressed disapproval of foreigners on their soil. We are surely not the first to wonder why, after millennia of physiological evolution, societies around the world are still…
FARM RETAIL The New Middle Man In recent weeks, Usha Tandon's routine has changed slightly. She has been walking an extra half kilometre to get her supply of fresh vegetables and fruits from a swank new retail outlet. Tandon, 50, is cook-cum-housekeeper to a busy professional couple in Delhi’s Saket locality, and it is part of her job to lay in the groceries. She has a tight schedule herself but Tandon doesn’t mind walking that extra stretch because she likes ‘the experience’ — an airconditioned store with attractively shelved wares and half a dozen uniformed assistants to attend on customers.…
OUTLOOK BUSINESS , 20 Jun 2007 Ranjana Kaushal Veering to the left of the Hero Honda roundabout in Manesar, Gurgoan is a nondescript road. A 100 meters down this path stands a building, which symbolises the rising global acceptance of India’s fashion design industry—the 3,50,000-square feet designing and manufacturing unit of Orient Craft, one of India’s largest export houses. On the ground floor of this Rs 750-crore company, in a glass cabin overlooking the work stations of 100 associates, 42-year-old Anoop Thatai, Joint Managing Director & CEO of the company, is busy discussing the new spring collection for a US…
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