Franchise India is going to organise its 18th International Franchise and Retail Show under the umbrella of Franchise India 2022. This event will witness the participation of more than 500 indigenous brands and over 100 global brands along with over 40 thousand business buyers and over 10,000 High Net worth (HNI) investors.
The two-day event will start from August 20 to 21 in New Delhi’s Pragati Maidan, comprising more than 17 business pavilions while and over 50 business leaders will attend the function. The function will be inaugurated by Delhi Deputy Chief Minsiter Manish Sisodia.
This long awaited event will be attended by the speakers from various industries including T Koshy, MD, and Chief Executive Officer, ONDC, Varun Alagh, Co-Founder & CEO, Honasa Consumer Pvt Ltd, and Ghazal Alagh Co-Founder, Honasa Consumer Pvt Ltd. Dr. Vaibhav Kapoor, Co-Founder, Pristyn Care, Gautam Malhotra, Managing Director, FuelBuddy, Arunabh Sinha, Founder, UClean, Akash Gupta, CEO and Co-founder, Zypp Electric Yogesh Bhatia, MD and CEO, LML, Sunil Pathare, Chairman & MD, VIP Clothing Ltd., Vivek Shrivastava, Head Of Retail Business Development, ABFRL, Anupam Bansal, Director- Retail, Liberty Group and Saurabh Dayal, AVP, Paytm among other will also be present at the event.
The pavilions are: Food and Beverages Pavilion, Dealer India Pavilion, India EV Pavilion, Education and Service Pavilion, General Pavilion, Mega and Iconic Brands Pavilion International Pavilion, D2C, Retail and Licencing Pavilion, Tech and Innovation Pavilion, Health, Beauty, Wellness and Fitness Pavilion, Retail, Fashion and Jewellery Pavilion, Retail and Real Estate Pavilion, Start up Pavilion.
Major Highlights Of The Franchise India Show 2022
Franchise India 2022 is bound to enable new businesses to take to the next level. A number of initiatives are planned to help businesses and individuals to make uniform decisions about your business.
Start-Up Summit –Day 1
How Should brand innovate to reach their customers anywhere, everywhere?
In this session, Speakers and Business leaders will discuss the innovative ways to reach customers anywhere and everywhere.
From A Brand To Business
In this session, the key highlights will include how to humanise your brand from consistent customer experience, to channel journey mapping, to customer-centric leadership, how to plan systematic development of the brand in alignment with a business strategy.
Developing or refining your Brand identity and Online and Offline Brand Positioning Strategy will be discussed during the session. Shifting the organisational perspective from customer service to customer experience, understanding the psychology of the customer, and how to create loyalty and scaling channel without losing the personal touch will be major topics. These topics will be discussed in presence of Dr. Vaibhav Kapoor, Co-Founder, Pristyn Care, Gautam Malhotra, Managing Director, FuelBuddy, Arunabh Sinha, Founder, UClean, Ashutosh Giri , Founder & CEO , FreshRooms Hospitality Services Pvt. Ltd.
Opportunity INDIA: MOBILITY: Making EV For Everyone
The topics which will be discussed include Opportunity for EV Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEMs) on how can the transition towards electric passenger vehicles be delivered, at pace, and deliver on net-zero goals and how rolling out charging infrastructure, at pace, is a key successful corporate collaboration strategy is the tipping point of accelerated EV adoption.
Opportunity INDIA: Education & Edtech
The discussion will also be held around Education and Healthcare businesses including making education available to the next billion, the school story for growth in early and K12 education, Where does Ed-tech meet education, Upskilling & Reskilling: The need of the hour, Coaching: The hybrid world of Education and what works and what does not and the future of business of healthcare.
There will be a panel discussion on how to use data optimally in your Franchise Development process and for hiring, management, and developing of your team, How to Attract Multi-Unit Franchisees to your Brand, Factoring natural evolution of a brand from "new" development to "resale" development and Integrating Philanthropy into Your Partner and community DNA.
Investing In Profitable Business Partnerships
During the last session of Day, topic including What is the recipe for successful partnerships, What are the barriers and opportunities to partnering between innovative companies, How do you build trust and relationships when partnering, How to set shared objectives and principles: looking at conflicting requirements, risks, and mitigation and long-term strategy and looking beyond the person and key learnings and what the future looks like will be discussed.
Day 2
Session 1: New Shoppers, New Rules -- Retail MegaTrends In The New Normal
Session’s highlights will include how are Brands betting big on Omnichannel and Physical integrations -The Workings of the Digital Store, the omnichannel way forward for a brand that delivers value for its employees, consumers, communities, partners and investors, The Rejig of Brick-and-mortar Formats: What works and how, how Shoppers spend: Understanding the mindset of the new breed of consumer among others.
Session 2: How Malls Are Rebuilding For Relevance To The New Age Consumer
During this session the speakers will discuss the strategies to attract customers with a New flavour of Tenants, which categories do consumers favour now and how their preferences have changed, how malls & Brands have built bonds to meet consumer expectations, redesigning - brand allocation strategy, neighbourhood malls: Giving New Sheen to Retail Real estate, Can malls become co-working spaces in the future?, what steps Cinema Brands are taking to match the changing consumer expectations.
Session 3: Re-Defining Next-Gen Food Service
This session will be around the future of eating out E- How Brands are thinking Convenience, experience, and customer delight. The discussion will be on Food and Entertainment and how has it changed, in presence of Kabir Jeet Singh, CEO & Co-Founder, Burger Singh, Raghav Verma, Co-Founder, Chaayos, Vikrant Batra, Owner, Cafe Delhi Heights/Dhansoo, Avantika Sinha, Founder & MD, Kampai & Mai Bao, Bhavesh Chellani, MD & CEO, Santushti Group of Companies.
Session 4: Tapping Into The D2c Opportunity
Why are brands going D2C: Strategies, challenges, and opportunities, the booming e-commerce industry, how brands can open up new revenue streams using D2C strategies and gain customer loyalty much more quickly and efficiently, benefits of onboarding the D2C model, bridging the gap between online and offline and leveraging data to influence consumer decision-making – from personalising the user journey to achieve a single view of the customer will be discussed during the event.
Meanwhile Ritu Marya, Editor-in-Chief, Entrepreneur & Indian Retailer will have conversation with actor Kunal Kapoor on Business with purpose.
Session 5: Beauty Retail -Changing Dynamics
In this session, the centre of discussion will be how beauty brands are understanding consumer needs differently, how salons are rethinking business in new normal, how brands are successfully building a service and retail business and building consumer awareness and expanding the market with Influencers.
Session 6: From Digital First To Physical World
The major point of discussion will be the real reasons to go offline, the approaches that generate more wide-ranging, innovative, and integrated solutions and how to be more immersive, more seamless, and give more personal experience in the Digital World.
Session 7: Raising Capital for Consumer Brands
With discussion on what is driving the shift in investment behaviour of VCs, Why investors and VCs are keen on funding more into the D2C sector, Potential ROI for investors from consumer brands and how the brands are deploying the funds post-investment, the event will conclude.
