Written By Arnika Thakur The transition happened almost overnight — how people took to ‘10-minute delivery’, despite reservation. Today the digital equivalent of getting someone to run to the nearest convenient store for a carton of milk or a bag of groceries, thanks to quick commerce or roughly 10-45 minute delivery apps like Dunzo, Zepto, Blinkit and others, is not only attracting lakhs of consumers across major cities, but has also caught the fancy of investors alike. The trend was, of course, fuelled by the pandemic when the fear of being out of stock during shelter at home restrictions led…
Written By Christina Moniz Prashanth Aluru, a former Facebook and Bain hand, will be behind the steering wheel for this venture The Aditya Birla Group has just announced the launch of its ‘house of brands’ business entity, TMRW, to support digital fashion and lifestyle brands. TMRW, which will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of Aditya Birla Fashion & Retail (ABFRL), aims to build and buy over 30 brands in the next three years, the company said in a statement. With this move, the company expects to make its entry into the D2C market, which is expected to be reach…
Written By Mukherjee, ET Bureau Top listed retail chains such as Aditya Birla Fashion & Retail, Avenue Supermarts and Tata-owned Trent are going to lead store additions through the next financial year, as they double down on expansion after the pandemic, company executives and analysts said. As per a recent report by ICICI Securities, 16.7 million square feet of retail space would be added by eight large, listed retail chains between FY21 and FY24 as compared to 8 million square feet added in the preceding four years of FY18-21. These companies also include Titan, Bata, V-Mart, TCNS and Shoppers Stop.…
Devika Singh, Moneycontrol June 10, 2022 As the threat of a plastic straw ban looms, dairy products giant Amul has written to the Prime Minister’s Office, urging a delay of its implementation by up to one year. Amul makes products such as flavoured milk, lassi and spiced butter milk that come in small cartons packed with plastic straws for on-the-go consumption. The letter to the PMO, sent ahead of the proposed July 1 start of the ban on single-use plastic products, said the move may have a “negative impact” on farmers and milk consumption. “We agree it is a positive…
Written By Seetharaman G, Aayush Agarwal If you need to know how hard it is to run a wholesale-grocery chain in India, look no further than the topline of the German company that introduced the concept to the country in 2003. Metro Cash & Carry’s revenue in the year ended March 2021 was just Rs 6,500 crore (~US$835 million). For context, DMart, the Indian supermarket chain that began its journey around the same time as Metro Source: the-ken
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