The Impatient Consumer, iOT And The Food Of Everything

There is more to foods than meets the eye. There is technology. There is the consumer who is forever morphing. And there is the future. Let’s peep into it.

Clean Labels Will Become A Future Norm For Food Brands

Still, the lack of a common definition for “Clean Label” imposes a challenge for the manufacturers because consumer interpretation and expectation of a clean label varies with their requirements.

Why Don't Big Businesses ‘Get' It?

Consumer India is excited, ready and waiting for relevant, value-right supply of all manners of food and food service. They are hugely under served by big businesses even as street food and small eateries evolve and innovate. Instead of waiting for Consumer India to develop a taste for foreign food and celebrating small steps here, can we add value to customer preferences today?

Bento Is The New Brown Bag

As consumers shift to more fresh-focused, snack-style lunches, retailers are rethinking their marketing and merchandising strategies.

Unveiled! Breakthroughs In F&G Retail

Food Retail these days is an amazing industry with new markets and constant changes, resulting in new requirements and needs. New products – the lifeblood of retailing – are infusing verve into existing lines, creating completely new categories and filling unmet needs not previously on consumers’ — or retailers’ — radar.The changes being witnessed in product development tell a remarkable story of innovation rooted in a compelling value proposition. However, the harsh reality is that thousands of products launches collapse within the first year for any number of reasons. Hence, nailing innovation at just the right moment remains the trickiest and, arguably, the most essential, of all ingredients.

Optimizing Customer Digital Experiences With AI

With the advent of AI, brands have gathered a deeper understanding of customers. As AI deals with semantic meaning, meta-level knowledge, and answers which are either exact or optimal, it can easily come up with personalized interactions based on the preference of each customer. AI is able to decipher tendencies and predict future customer needs or create excellent recommendation engines.

Mindful Munching

The evolution of mealtime is fueling the trend toward new kinds of nibbles.

Kwality Gears Up For Its Next Phase Of Retail Growth After 20 Eventful Years

Progressive Grocer tracks down the eventful milestones in the brand’s corporate trajectory.

Independent Initiative

Smaller players are investing in big solutions to boost the shopper experience — and the bottom line.

How Online Meat Delivery Is Changing The Retailing Model In India

The online meat selling start-ups have changed the way India buys meat. These firms sell custom cut, marinated and ready-to-cook meat products and are a boon for people sitting at home and wanting to enjoy a non-vegetarian meal without the hassle of cutting and cleaning.

Change Or Die

Grocers of all sizes need to rethink their business strategy to meet the needs of today’s consumer.

A Success Story from Daman – Shree Food Corner

From a single 100 sq.ft store in 1973 in Daman to five stores as of date, Shree Food Corner presents an inspiring story of small town success in retail. Their journey offers an object lesson in facing off the early stage challenges – financial and manpower – that every budding entrepreneur and experienced retail companies alike can learn from. Progressive Grocer speaks to the founders to know of their business model and how they have kept the business ticking.

92 Years Of Grocery Retailing Excellence In Bangalore

Progressive Grocer spoke to KN Niyas, Partner, and a third generation member of the family that founded the MK Retail Company, which has held its own as a pioneering F&G retailer meeting the expectations and aspirations of generations of consumers over decades by providing quality, affordability and assortment in a modern supermarket setting.

How The Organic Category Is Shaping Up In India

The current certified and organized organic market is approximately INR 2,500 crore and has been growing at a CAGR of 20%. To ensure that this growth continues, the market needs to be scrutinized more and become more regulated.

Tryst With Destiny

India’s economic outlook over the next decade offers a promising period of faster growth, acquisition of new capabilities and the creation of more diverse and optimal tools of production. Bustling with energy and ideas, the country’s young and aspiring populace and its growing bulge of digitally savvy middle class is impatient for growth and change. India’s retail industry, which is amongst the fastest growing retail markets globally, is actively scouring for growth potential and new opportunities. Higher disposable income and an increase in consumer spending, an expanding base of mobile users and e-commerce penetration, positive regulatory environment and a burgeoning middle class present the retail sector in India with tremendous potential for growth and for tapping new opportunities.

Sri Sri Tattva To Launch Exclusive Franchise Stores With New Products Across Categories

The company has embarked on a major expansion drive across its personal care range, food, incense and fragrance and home care range.

Make It Better

With nutrition increasingly on the minds of shoppers, grocers need to up their game.

A $40-billion Pot That Retailers Can Encash Profitably

The gift-card industry in India has grown by leaps and bounds in the past years, with 10 million cards sold annually. The purchase of gift cards has risen exponentially, displaying a 41 per cent growth in 2016-17 over the previous fiscal. G-cards is a growing segment and a regular source of revenue generation for retailers and e-commerce portals.

Bakers Frozen

With clean ingredients all the rage, many breads and rolls rely on freezing to preserve freshness.

Retailing On Demand

As new technology impacts the way consumers shop, retailers must accommodate with changes to their supply chains.

Fresh Thinking

Smart merchandising can use the perimeter to boost center store.

Baked Goodness

In line with current demand, baking ingredients and even mixes are cleaner than ever.

We Are Market Leaders In Wafers Category

Ravinder Kumar Agarwal, Managing Director, Ravi Foods Pvt Ltd, which makes of a range of biscuits, wafers, chocolates and confectioneries under the Dukes brand, speaks to Progressive Grocer about the impressive growth of the brand and his vision to make it one of the leading household brands in the country with a global footprint.

We Are Looking At E-Retail Partnerships To Expand Our Consumer Reach

Neelima Burra, Chief Marketing Officer, Cargill Foods India, speaks to Progressive Grocer on the company’s pioneering innovations in different oil categories and about its plans to expand the products’ reach through the digital channel.

Ongoing Business Analysis Is A Must For Organised Retail

Today’s digital era has changed the traditional ways of running a business. Like other sectors impacted by this change, it is imperative for retail to modernize to stay relevant in this age.

Role Of Whole Genome Sequencing In Food Safety

Food safety is becoming a public health priority and governments are making efforts to develop policies and regulatory frameworks, establish and implement effective food safety systems to ensure that food producers and suppliers along the entire food chain operate responsibly and supply safe food to consumers.

How Retailers Can Go Cashless

For multi-chain retailers, managing day-to-day expenditure at the store-level is quite challenging. Everything from inventory levels, fixtures, and signage, to packaging, and point of sale service has to work in great tandem and it all comes down to the money used to run these interconnected processes. New- age expense management solutions can help you overcome these challenges.

Do's and Don'ts

Industry pros weigh in with tips for smarter logistics, warehouse efficiencies and more.

Harvest Market Connects The Dots

New concept links consumers back to food makers.

Our Vision Is To Be A National Retail Chain With ₹ 1,000 Crore Plus Turnover By 2020

With about 30 years in the food & grocery retail business, Hyderabad-based Ratnadeep Super Market has been able to carve a formidable reputation as a shopping destination that customers unfailingly identify with a rich and varied assortment of quality national and international products offered in a pleasant ambience and with customer friendly, reliable service.Progressive Grocer spoke to Sandeep Agarwal, Managing Director, and Manish Bhartiya, Director, Ratnadeep Super Market Pvt. Ltd. about how the retail chain is looking to leverage its strengths forexpanding its private label business, partnering with more brands in the food business and ramping up its footprint beyond Hyderabad to other regions in the country.