Following a period of unprecedented change, the retail industry is facing an environment where margins are increasingly under pressure from rising costs, lower pricing power, and the need to invest in digital transformation. At the India Food Forum 2020, retailers, manufacturers, distributors, and supply chain experts were part of a round table discussion on meeting the challenges of higher profitability in Tier I, II & III cities.
The discussion was moderated by Dheeraj Arora VP- MT, Ecom and IB, Unilever and Kamaldeep Singh, President, Food LOB, Future Group. The other experts in the panel included:
Amitabh Singh, Head- Modern Trade & Enterprise Business, Dabur Arshdeep Singh, CEO & MD, Allied Natural Products
Dipti Gupta, Head-Organised Trade, Pepsico Foods
Harshita Gandhi, Director, Tree of Life
Kabir Gossain, Customer Director- Modern Trade, Unilever
Rohit Mehrotra, CEO, Organic Tattva
Saurabh Makhija, Head- Modern Trade, Nestle India
Avinash Joshi, VP & Business Head- F&V, Reliance Retail
Ganesh Mishra, Head- Non-Food, Product- Packaged Goods, Trent Hypermarket
Manan Gada, Director, Society Stores
Manu Bansal, Business Head- Staples, Reliance Retail
Rajiv Sharma, Group Head- Staples, Future Value Retail
Seshu Kumar, National Head – Buying and Merchandising, Big Basket
This story is from the March 2020 edition of Images Retail.
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