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Global beauty firms look to carve up Indian market as ‘last bastion’ of growth

admin — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 08:48:00 +0000

Praveen Paramasivam, Reuters August 21, 2025 Summary India’s luxury beauty market is expected to quintuple to $4 billion by 2035 from $800 million in 2023, driven by its young, affluent, social-media savvy shoppers with rising disposable incomes, consulting firm Kearney and luxury beauty distributor LUXASIA said in a report. Luxury beauty makes up just 4% […]

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The Oneness of Retail

Devangshu Dutta — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 06:36:10 +0000

Retail seems to be having an identity crisis. Offline retailers are closing stores, while online retailers are acquiring or opening stores. What in the world is going on? The short answer: consumers want choice; and retailers have no choice.

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Retreating Retailers, Crumbling BRICs?

Devangshu Dutta — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:37:21 +0000

On the sourcing-end, large retailers have been comfortably operating beyond international borders for several decades even while the stores-end of their business was entirely domestic. It took the opening up of East European economies in the 1990s to really prime the pump for growth of international retail expansion. Are we seeing the reversal of retail globalization?

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Organic – Hope or Hype?

Devangshu Dutta — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 05:33:57 +0000

The organic movement has touched a variety of products, including clothing, cosmetics and home products. Possibly the most emotive area is organic food, because food products are directly taken into the body while other products have a limited and external contact...

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Thoughts from the Recession

Devangshu Dutta — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:09:32 +0000

What changes in consumer spending habits do you see as providing retailers and manufacturers with the most opportunity? Which habits do you think will stick around once the economy improves, and which won't? [More...]

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Exuberance and Despair

Devangshu Dutta — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:04:27 +0000

How can retail businesses be showing a decline in their top-lines? And is there a way out?

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The Politics of Organized Retail

Devangshu Dutta — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:08:03 +0000

Recently there was some discussion online about the so-called “politics of organized retailing” in India (on Retailwire). I believe these are no different from the politics of anything else. There are interest-groups and pressure-groups with different objectives, who pull-and-push economic and regulatory policy with varying degrees of success. In that, India is no different from […]

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Retail models are not global, and global certainly not inevitable

Devangshu Dutta — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:48:10 +0000

Many pundits have passed judgement on the inevitability of ‘organised retail’. Yet, around the world, independents continue to thrive. One may think that at least in difficult economic phases – such as the one facing economies around the world right now – large retailers are better equipped to survive. Yet, often it is the flexibility […]

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Brand Building – Context, Consistency and Constancy (Time) – LEGO® Turns 50

Devangshu Dutta — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:19:28 +0000

From a simple tower to human-sized figures of cartoon characters – we’ve seen a whole range of creative expression using a simple plastic brick. (Well, to be accurate, a wide variety of plastic bricks – but all developed around the same principle.) An icon in a child’s world, the LEGO ® brick has just turned […]

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