Abhishek Bansal

India has finally left behind the nascent stages of retailing, crossing over into a veritable shopper's paradise. Malls are no longer simply shopping destinations. They are retail stops, entertainment zones and food hubs all rolled into one. And they are sprouting everywhere. But how...

Competition between online and brick-and-mortar retailers has blurred, with e-tailers opening physical stores and their competition adopting e-commerce. The new destination for retail is Omnichannel and malls have to adopt it too, in order to stay relevant in this...

Pacific Mall, a part of Pacific India – one of India’s reputed business groups with presence in real estate, hospitality and education sectors – is positioned as a premium, shopping, entertainment and leisure destination. The mall is home to...

Digital. That’s the word that has quietly and sure-footedly crept into our lives. Everything around us is ‘digital’. The speedometer in our car, the weighing scale and even the wall clock! Digitization is taking over everything that’s traditional in...

Pacific Mall, Tagore Garden, one of Delhi’s premium shopping, entertainment and leisure destinations, has introduced over a dozen new retail brands and restaurants in the mall. As part of the new brand outlook and strategy, the group also unveiled its new...

Even as garments above Rs 1,000 per piece will attract a 12 per cent tax rate once the Goods and Services Tax (GST) is rolled out from July 1, shoppers need not fret as, in the long run, there...

Even as garments above Rs 1,000 per piece will attract a 12 per cent tax rate once the Goods and Services Tax (GST) is rolled out from July 1, shoppers need not fret as, in the long run, there...

The tug of war between online and offline retail is approaching a draw, and it’s time malls and shopping centres pulled up their socks and became anchors to both. In the times that we live in, where online players...

Executive Director, Pacific Malls, Abhishek Bansal,on how malls - which are tuned to adaptability - will grow in the coming four to five years

The Goods and Services Tax (GST) is on schedule for implementation from July 1. Hailed as the biggest tax reform since India’s independence, GST will replace an array of central and state levies with a national sales tax, thereby...