Indian-Retailer

As industries in the region, and the Indian retailing industry in particular, tackles new challenges and confronts rapid transitions brought on by the onslaught of globalization, the Indian Retailer needs to keep pace with strategies and technologies successfully implemented in other parts of the retail world. In this demanding milieu, Indian-Retailer.com is among the region’s leading source of industry-related information on topics of interest to retailers and others in the industry.

Indian Retailer focuses on the key sectors of Indian retailing like FMCG(Fast Moving Consumer Goods); food products; apparel and accessories including fashion, fabrics and everyday clothing; computers and electronics as well as malls, shopping and other consumer-related retail activities. Various aspects of retail trade including retail management, retail jobs, merchandizing, warehousing, retail rentals and space availability and analysis are also presented on Indian-Retailer.

A new feature that will be of interest to the Indian Retailer is the retail events calendar, which includes dates and venues of retail shows, seminars, exhibitions and meetings aimed at augmenting Indian Retailing and taking place locally, regionally and on international levels.

Pages on Indian Retailer cover all aspects of Indian Retailing as well as ancillary support industries and structures. In-depth articles and analysis by retail specialists as well as all the latest Indian Retailing news, trends and focused case-studies of winning trade strategies are covered here. In addition to profiles and interviews with eminent industry personalities and objective reviews of the latest cutting-edge trade technologies, Indian Retailer also carries regularly updated international and regional events, trade statistics, classifieds, and, coming shortly, job opportunities in the industry.

Indian Retailing Industry

The Indian retailing industry like its counterparts in other parts of the world is among the most dynamic and fastest growing industries. A look at the list of Fortune 500 companies reveals that ten percent or 50 of the companies are Retail Organizations - Wal-Mart (The Retail Giant) remains the first among the fortune 500 companies. Again, 25 of the Asian Top 200 companies are retailing companies.

In India,the Retailing Sector currently employs around 8 percent of the labor, this is six times bigger than in Thailand and five times larger than South Korea and Taiwan. Retail is second largest employment provider in India (agriculture is the largest) and the total domestic retail market, estimated to be around Rs.9,300 billion in 2003-04, has shown a steady annual growth rate of around 4 to 6 per cent. PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has placed India among the six most attractive world destinations in retailing alongside China, Turkey, Thailand, Malaysia and Hungary.

Read more on the Indian Retail industry here on Indian Retail Scenario

Indian Retailer Blog

In addition to retail news, strategies and events, Indian Retailer also provides an interactive venue for sharing views and technical insights with peers and experts in the retail industry. The Blog pages on Indian Retailer will be a meeting place of minds – a place for peers, a place that provides a setting for people in the local retail community to air their views on industry related topical issues. The blog at 'The Retail Diary' while being a source for the latest retail news will also be a venue to brainstorm new strategies and review latest technologies as they emerge in the retail world.

Visit the Indian Retailer Blog page to login and post your comments.

E-magazine

Indian Retailer is also now out in a new format. Readers can peruse our monthly state-of-the-art flippable e-magazine, directly from this page. With the look and feel of a newsstand magazine, the e-magazine, with its flippable pages, its zoom-in and out as well as search features is bound to be popular even with die-hard paper mag fans. And, since the magazine can be directly emailed, there is no need to make print or photocopy pages for circulation. With a retail e-magazine, besides timely retail-related information and accessibility from anywhere in the world, there is also the 'feel-good' factor from knowing that no trees were axed to produce your favorite retail magazine. Click Indian Retailer e-magazine to read the latest electronic issue of Indian-Retailer.