The incentive in going green
Either hot or very cold, mostly in the extreme, the weather is hardly ever temperate. One’s neighbourhood is hit by water scarcity,...
Are an active NAB and FBR in Pakistan’s best economic interest?
On March 15, former intelligence officer and defence analyst Asad Munir, a retired brigadier in the Pakistan Army, committed suicide by hanging...
How investor cash is changing the face of Pakistan’s diagnostic labs
From global private equity to domestic healthcare companies, laboratories in Pakistan are attracting investment and getting technological upgrades
Chundrigar Catastrophe: How economic indicators made the PSX crash
The stock market might not be an indicator of the economy, but the economy has a long, invisible, hand.
Twitter isn’t real and exporting economists – this week in Pakistan’s business and economics twitterverse
There was a bit of a scuffle on Twitter this week when in a major boomer moment, an executive tweeted about job...
Does growing off-season crops in tunnels makes for a good business?
It's the first thing they teach you in economics class, demand and supply. The higher the demand for a product and the...
Why do advertisers in Pakistan ignore Twitter?
Has an elitist user base and audience hurt the potential growth for the American microblogging and social networking service? Profit investigates.
Fuel strike, supply chain disruptions, and rising demand
When it rains it pours, on top of a supply chain disruption, pumps want to go on strike while people demand more fuel
Inside the stealth online grocery distribution unit by Unilever Pakistan
Having experimented with online marketplaces and e-tailers for a number of years and seen the growth of e-commerce, including the growing pains for doing so, Unilever Pakistan has set aside a $1 million investment to launch its own owned e-commerce site for all its products, across the B2B and B2C product portfolio. Profit has the exclusive.
Too little, too late
Classified ads were providing a fairly substantial and a steadily growing revenue stream to Pakistan's two leading newspapers, Jang and Dawn. Other...
Can Careem crack the super-app code?
Pakistan’s largest tech company has gotten people used to the idea of paying for rides online. Will it now succeed in creating its own online ecosystem?
What does it mean to ‘Reimagine’ Pakistan?
The ideas behind the platform are neither new nor radical. But they are still important
Maymar Holdings to buy Haji Mohammad Ismail Mills in bid to become publicly listed
Real estate developer plans to buy the practically defunct textile mill turned consumer goods distributor to achieve public listing without the underwriting process
Rafay Baloch: The Digital Exterminator
While surfing his social media account in 2008 on the now-defunct Orkut, Rafay Baloch, then 16, came across a software application meant...
As the year of consolidation comes to an end, is Pakistan entering a phase of expansion?
The country has just wrapped up another year filled with uncertainty and instability, as economic, political, and security challenges continue to persist