Reefland flagship store opens at Model Town Link Road
LAHORE:Â Reefland relaunched its flagship store at Model Town Link Road on January 19.
The mega launch event started with a ribbon-cutting ceremony by...
CPI Index shows 4.57pc increase in December
KARACHI: The Consumer Price Index (CPI), during December 2017 witnessed an increase of 4.57 per cent as compared to the same month...
‘Exhausted’ Toys ‘R’ Us suppliers weigh options as huge retailer shuts
NEW YORK: When Toys ‘R’ Us secured a $3.1 billion bankruptcy loan in September, toy makers were reassured they would be paid...
Pakistan’s most successful designer brand is in trouble. But why?
With Élan looking for investors to come in and inject equity, we look back at how Khadijah Shah made and possibly broke her fashion empire
Alibaba plots move to extend dominance in brick & mortar retail push
HANGZHOU: In a small village shop near the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou, store owner Lu Qiwei uses his smartphone to place...
Competition in the dishwashing segment remains non-existent. How did Lemon Max manage it?
Despite a challenge from Unilever, Colgate-Palmolive’s Max Bar dominates the dishwashing market, taking 68.3% of the market share.
Retail slowdown still a drag on Image’s growth prospects
The Pakistani consumer continues to struggle in the aftermath of the bout of high inflation from 2022 through 2025
Maria B’s international sales surge by 71pc thanks to Facebook
LAHORE: Maria B has officially become the second Pakistani brand, after Yayvo.com, to be studied by Facebook Business. In a case study...
In Pakistan’s high-end hairstyling business, a not-so-new player makes a move
For 16 years, the Lebanese hairstylist Michael Kanaan has been running a small, secretive, super-selective, luxury salon. Why is he expanding to Lahore now?
It’s a deal, it’s a steal
‘In business you don’t have to acquire a huge number of clients to be successful,’ this is the simple philosophy of Secret...
Value of e-banking transactions registers quarterly growth of 28pc
KARACHI: Digital banking channels processed 186.7 million transactions worth Rs11.7 trillion in Oct-December 2017, according to data released by the State Bank...
Profit: The year that was
The great land theft
By Farooq Tirmizi
If there is a single place that can be thought of as the foremost cathedral to free-market...
Fan industry holding its own despite setbacks
A research study by Lahore University of Management Sciences under its SME Cluster Survey Project of State Bank of Pakistan in 2011...
Pakistan can’t have a digital payments revolution in retail. Because the government and the banks quell it!
Let’s start with a kicker. For the first three quarters of fiscal year 2021-22 ending March 31, 2022, Rs 502.7 billion worth...
FBR files FIR against designer Nomi Ansari for massive sales tax evasion
FBR accuses fashion designer of Rs1.2bn tax fraud; raids reveal undeclared unit