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Indian Terrain looks at sourcing from the Americas
Indian Terrain Fashions’ plans to launch a ‘Made in America’ jeans brand using denim from a US mill made into jeans in Guatemala, is a move that bucks trends for brands sold in India. The move is an...
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The e-tailing sunrise, finally?
Amazon went public in 1997, when there were a total of 50 million internet users in the world. I remember making my first purchase on Amazon in 1998, and being delighted at the experience of finding...
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The Year That Could Be
The transition between calendar years offers a pause. We can use it to evaluate what passed in the previous year, chalk out our journey for the next one. The first response of most people to the...
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Liberalised FDI – Not A Threat to Franchising
As the debate over FDI (even for single brand retail) continues, over 250 international brands in the food service and fashion and lifestyle sectors alone continue to service the Indian consumers....
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Luxu-Re: Back to the Roots
Luxury is dichotomous, conflicted and conflict-creating by its very nature. “Luxuria” is Latin for “Lust”, the first in the list of the Seven Deadly Sins. The British poet Edith Sitwell is quoted as...
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2012 – Will India Sizzle or Fizzle for International Fashion Brands?
Among consumer sectors, very few can match up to fashion in terms of its global nature. Despite food having led the way in global trade through spices, it is the fashion sector that led the global...
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International Shoes & Accessories Brands in India – The March Ahead in 2012
India’s economic growth may seem to have taken a dip last year with India’s GDP growth falling to 6.9% for 2011-12 from 8.4% the previous year. But that has not translated into a slower entry of...
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Entry Strategy of Global Brands – Impact of FDI
By Tarang Gautam Saxena & Devangshu Dutta Since the onset of reopening of India’s economy in the late 1980s, fashion is one consumer sector that has drawn the largest number of global brands and...
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India’s Luxury Love Affair: It’s Complicated!
Luxury is an ill-defined concept. There is no specific line or limit of price, quality or availability that separates the luxurious from all that is not. However, like other similarly intangible...
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India – A Growth Trajectory for Global Fashion Brands
2013 has been a mixed year for retail in the Indian market with multiple factors working in favour of and against the business prospects. Economic growth had slowed to 5% for 2012-13 (as per advance...
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Retail Integrated – the Best of Both Worlds
Retailers seem to be fighting a losing battle against the growth of ecommerce, and it is only the nature of the shopping activity, especially for fashion – interactive, social, and immersive as it is...
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Retail in Critical Care – The Impact of COVID-2019
Oil shocks, financial market crashes, localised wars and even medical emergencies like SARS pale when compared to the speed and the scale of the mayhem created by SARS-CoV-2. In recent decades the...
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