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Did you know that 9 out of 10 stand alone restaurants shut down within 18 months of opening?An expert in the restaurant business, Ajay Bansal, points this out in the India Retail Report 2009. “The flow through impact of...

Gurgaon-based real estate developer JMD Ltd has recently tied up with Asia’s largest health and fitness spa ‘Celebrity Fitness’ for its upcoming mall JMD Regent Arcade, Gurgaon. Spread over an area of around 38,000 square feet, this will be the...

Activists from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) yesterday wore skeleton costumes and staged a demonstration outside American fast-food outlet Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) in Chennai against the alleged abusive treatment of birds.PETA activists stood outside KFC...

To acknowledge the vision and the efforts of the food-and-beverage retailers in India, Coca-Cola India in association with Images Group presented ‘Coca-Cola Golden Spoon Awards 2008 – Images awards for excellence in food retailing’, at Food Forum India (FFI),...

The Walt Disney Company is planning to open 150 stores in India by next three years.Roshini Bakshi, regional director, Disney Consumer Products, said in an issued statement, “India is a high-priority market for us, and we plan to open...

Tony Hunt, the training expert from Grasmere, UK, will discuss the finer points on ‘Where is the Next Change Coming From?’ in all areas of business, at India Fashion Forum (IFF) 2008, to be held in Mumbai on January...

Even as anti-organised retail protesters chalk out plans to converge at Mumbai’s Azad Maidan on October 10, to demand that big corporations quit retail business, the government appears to be undeterred by it.The protest being organized by two-year old...

Samir Kuckreja, CEO and managing director, Nirula’s, will be on the expert jury at the India Food Forum launch session at India Retail Forum (IRF), on September 4, 2007. Even as the discussion unleashes around the topic ‘Food: The...

Cooperate, innovate, upgrade and keep offering new products to survive and meet up to the levels of big retail giants, Anuj Puri of JLL Meghraj suggested to the unorganised retailers, while addressing the session on “fearless retailing” at The...