Food and Grocery

Modern grocery retailing has come a long way, registering a value growth of 17 per cent in 2016. This increment was stronger as compared to the 10 per cent growth for traditional grocery retailers. The jump in growth has...

Japan's consumer prices dropped for the first time in four years in 2016 by 0.3 per cent from a year earlier, the government said on Friday. It shows the country is still grappling with deflationary pressure despite the Bank of...

In the aftermath of the new initiatives by Government – demonetizing the Rs. 500, 1,000 notes – to flush out black money from the economy and check funding of terror activities and other evils, the much awaited achhey din...

For the new age digital consumer, grocery shopping is perhaps one of the most uninspiring chores. While innovations have kept happening across other retail sectors, grocery shopping hasn’t seen many advances on the technology front. Wandering aisle to aisle...

The Nielsen Global Brand-Origin Survey polled more than 30,000 online respondents in 61 countries to understand consumer sentiment about product origin across 40 categories, from consumables to durables. Here are some select findings from the report on fresh and...

Today, another round of technological possibilities are coming to the fro, enabling retailers to make fundamental changes to their operations. A lot of it involves a new approach based on technology The Indian retail industry has been struggling with a...

As India wastes 40 per cent of its produce before it reaches the shelf, the time is ripe for a revolution in food collection, storage and distribution in this country. To take advantage of it, downstream retail and CPG companies will need...

India is set to become the fastest-growing economy of the world, thus offering millions of business opportunities. All this is primarily on account of the fact that our growth opportunities are based on internal consumption demand, which is consistently...

FMCG marketers, in order to protect their share, need to find a strategy for online shopping that is as effective as their offline approaches have been in the past. But where do they look? It’s tempting to try to circumvent...

Excerpts from INDIA FOOD REPORT 2016: Among the seven broad components that make up the food basket, in 2014-15, one third of the total food market was occupied by protein food, followed by cereals that cover 19 per cent. On the other...