retail business
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Franchise India Bureau Jan 11 2019 - 1 min readAs part of its portfolio expansion plan, Singapore-based Ascendas-Singbridge group is on the lookout to acquire greenfield land in India. The company, which has built about 16 million square feet, is planning to double developmental activities in the next three to four years. The group has developed 11 to 12 parks in the country so ...
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Franchise India Bureau Dec 29 2018 - 1 min readThe University Grants Commission (UGC) has pushed ahead with the strategy of offering autonomous status to India's better-performing colleges. The move is an attempt to boost the quality of teaching and learning in the country’s higher education institutions. The regulator of the higher education sector has given the autonomous status to 37 colleges so far. ...
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Nibedita Mohanta Dec 21 2018 - 3 min readAs we inch towards the year 2019, we realize that while everything else – including product prices and the number of players in the market – is seeing an upward trajectory of growth, the retail shop floors are facing a massive space crunch. The high-end luxury brands are the most hard-pressed in this regard to ...
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Nibedita Mohanta Dec 21 2018 - 4 min readThe Retail Industry has morphed into a new and modernized version of its former self in the recent past. Digitization, the introduction of different schemes and up-gradation of technology has seen the evolution of this space from unorganized trade to organized retail. This has been made further possible by Demonetisation and the introduction of Goods ...
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Franchise India Bureau Sep 15 2018 - 1 min readIKEA Group, the owner of most IKEA stores worldwide, will be using electric vehicles or other zero-emission means to make home deliveries in the inner cities of Amsterdam, Los Angeles, New York, Paris and Shanghai by 2020. This means that 25% of the company’s home deliveries would be zero-emission by 2020. The world's biggest furniture retailer is ...