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India’s Retail Sector Witnesses Rising Demand for Private Labels

admin — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 12:52:22 +0000

Entrepreneur India Oct 23, 2025 Indian consumers are increasingly opting for private labels and in-house brands over established ones, and retailers are taking note. According to EY’s ‘Future Consumer Index 2025’, more than half of India’s consumers are now choosing in-house brands over legacy labels. The report highlights that 52 per cent of Indian consumers […]

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SuperK has a playbook for solving India’s small-town retail problem

admin — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 12:48:00 +0000

Hiral Goyal, The Morning Context 18 August 2025 A trend that has been playing out through big and small changes over the last two decades is that in urban India the kirana store is easily replaceable. When it comes to buying groceries, urban Indians have a number of options. They can visit a fancy supermarket […]

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Flipkart Minutes eyes 10-min drug delivery to outpace its rivals

admin — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 07:14:00 +0000

Writankar Mukherjee, Economic Times 3 December 2024 Flipkart is set to shortly start delivering medicines within 10 minutes, likely becoming the first quick commerce service to do so, intensifying competition in this red-hot market. The Walmart-owned company’s Flipkart Minutes service has started enlisting local chemists in the metros from where the products will be sold […]

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India’s e-commerce battlefield gets ready for bloody wars

admin — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 07:06:00 +0000

Economic Times 14 November 2024 The Swiggy IPO is making news for being the most successful in a decade in its category. The food and grocery delivery firm yesterday listed at a 5.6% premium to its IPO price of Rs 390, making it the first company with an issue size of over Rs 10,000 crore […]

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Reliance readies to disrupt the FMCG space. What it means for HUL, ITC, Dabur, et al.

admin — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 17:48:00 +0000

Reliance Retail has been slowly and steadily developing a distributor ecosystem to take on the FMCG giants. Its strategy is to get deeper into distribution, work with kiranas, develop private labels, and acquire national and regional brands. Are incumbents prepared for this war?

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Where is the Love? In the Brand.

Devangshu Dutta — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:59:24 +0000

As we move downstream towards final consumption, the economic value captured as a price premium also increases dramatically. An aspect that is often forgotten in discussions about "value-addition".

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Carrying and Being Carried

Devangshu Dutta — Mon, 31 May 2010 07:50:34 +0000

So as we go about our day, launching and growing brands, opening new stores, creating new products, I offer you this thought to reflect upon: are we carrying, or being carried? [More...]

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Numbers and Stories

Devangshu Dutta — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:06:05 +0000

Apparently a letter to the editor of the National Observer (London) as far back as 1891 complained: “there are three kinds of falsehood: the first is a 'fib,' the second is a downright lie, and the third and most aggravated is statistics.” (Mark Twain famously paraphrased this in his autobiography as “lies, damned lies and statistics”.) Here is my definition of research and its output, and how it can be useful...

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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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Less Could Be More

Devangshu Dutta — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:30:20 +0000

Remember “I can’t get no satisfaction”? That’s what Mick Jagger and his mates in the Rolling Stones hit the world in the face with in 1965, allegedly in response to the rampant commercialism they had seen in the US. After 43 years – at least judging by the modern supermarket shelves – apparently we still ain’t getting no satisfaction. But what if...

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