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latest and best of Indian retail articles :: Pantaloon Retail's net up 21.11 pc to Rs 43.8 cr in Q1 Indian retail industry report Battle For the Wallets of 500 million Indian Consumers Localization is key to enter Indian market Pantaloon Retail shifts focus to profitable growth Good times are back for retailers Strong Indian Diwali sales wipe off last year`s gloom Big Retailers Still Struggle in India ( not an original post compiled from the web )

365 days fast forward >>from last diwali ( 365 + ) and things are not looking gloomy as it was last diwali , what say ?...looks like the economy is back on trak , now that's a complicated statement to make ,by a set of layman :) however looking at our set of indicators we have reasons to state this ,here is why ... Sensex ..there is no stopping the sensex , 9k last diwali to 17k plus this diwali , looks like people who had the guts to get in at 9k wud have made tons of money by now , 365 days for doubling or trebling their money is not bad at all . Looks like 17k is just the pit stop , before this speeds on to a new heights . Gold rush : Indian fascination with gold still continues , in spite of gold prices , most retailers have reported a 25 to 30 % jump in retail sales during dhante raas ,in spite of a price hike ,maybe these figures needs to be normalised for the price hike ,but it goes on to show how Indians cant do without gold m whatever the prices be . Car sales ::A

Come diwali and there is one brand along with others that wud have its hands full this festival season ie Titan .. over years Titan has built its Segments , thru a great degree of thought and have been built on trust ,retail , marketing and design ..all the segments have been led by the undercurrent to redfine the market Redefining the market in fact is pretty much core to Titan's success since its inception in 1987. At that time, the watch market comprised primarily mechanical watches, and the government-owned Hindustan Machine Tools (HMT) was the only significant branded player. HMT's watches stood for accuracy and robustness -- and for the consumer, the sturdy watch was just a functional time-keeping device. Titan entered the market with two key differentiators: One, it brought in quartz watches, which it promoted aggressively, and two, it introduced the element of style -- which until then was missing in this segment. There were other firsts, too, that Titan introduced in

The latest & best news/articles on Indian Retail ... Future Group, Carrefour tie up likely Pantaloon Retail shifts focus to profitable growth Future Group's Mythological Marketing 'Sanity has returned to retail' Indian retailers woo shoppers Arvind Singhal: The challenge of commoditisation Getting future smart What are people buying now? The Nature of the Bottom-of-the-Pyramid Market ( not an original post , compiled from the web )