My Retail Journey

Have been on a pan-India tour for the past few weeks, visiting our stores, interacting with my colleagues, our valued franchise partners, ma...

Whose fault is it, I wondered, when I entered this iconic location last weekend. The Mall was nearly empty on a sunny Saturday afterno...

Restaurant business is damn exciting. While people don’t shop for clothes and mobiles every weekend, most people drop over for a good meal f...

I recently happened to meet Rahul Singh, Founder and CEO of “The Beer Café”, an upcoming chain in Delhi NCR, based out of Gurgaon. Rahul com...

I came across two special offers by India’s leading café chains Café Coffee Day and Barista today. One was through a email campaign – Buy On...

Even before I was part of the exciting world of Airports (in 2006), I have always been a big fan of the commercial opportunities at transit ...

I was recently at Forum Vijaya Mall (Chennai), one of the newest in town. It was a Sunday and I was there for lunch, but the upper level of ...

The Hotel Industry in India is facing tough times ever since the global recession occurred a couple of years ago. In my current role at Roya...

  On Monday, 29th April 2013, The Tamil Nadu Hotels Association (TNHA) observed a one-day strike to protest against the Central Government...

Recently, the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu launched a populist move in Chennai to commemorate her birthday – a Government funded canteen tha...

A year after Borders Group collapsed, a survey by Colliers International shows that one-third of 205 bookstores shut down by the company a...

I asked him, “are there people in your store who have had a love-failure"??” and obviously he was confused. He called for his supervis...