Skin whitening: A lucrative business indeed, but at what cost to the consumer?
Elaborate marketing campaigns and an unhealthy social obsession with lighter skin tones continues to generate sales and new customers
Amazon contemplating entering financial sector with a checking-account like product
NEW YORK: Amazon.com Inc, the world’s largest online retailer, is in talks to create a checking-account-like product with big banks such as...
Covid finally got Pakistanis to spend on fashion online… but businesses were caught off-guard
After the pandemic-induced lockdown, apparel businesses that depended on brick and mortar locations as a footfall and revenue source had to make a decision: adapt or die? Most chose to shift online, with serious teething problems in the transition.
Pakistan’s biggest state run retail chain inching towards privatisation
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's biggest state-run retail chain, Utility Stores Corporation (USC)- which is currently facing a decrease in sales, closure of large number outlets...
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
Covid-19: Amazon planning to build its own testing lab for staff
Retail giant Amazon says it will build its own coronavirus testing lab to monitor the health of its staff.
Cases of Covid-19 have...
Ministry of Commerce finalises e-commerce policy
ISLAMABAD: After an exercise of around two years, Ministry of Commerce (MoC) has finalised the policy framework for e-commerce and digital trade which...
Morinaga may be up for sale in Pakistan. The buyer? Morinaga
The business of infant formulas is a big one in Pakistan, and Morinaga is a big name in it
Reefland flagship store opens at Model Town Link Road
LAHORE: Reefland relaunched its flagship store at Model Town Link Road on January 19.
The mega launch event started with a ribbon-cutting ceremony by...
How Pakistan’s retail sector went from boom to bust? And what can be done now?
The glitzy new mall at Lahore, Packages Mall opened its gates earlier this year and all roads led to it. With all...
Cigarette manufacturer Philip Morris International decides to quit selling cigarettes
KARACHI: Global tobacco giant Philip Morris International (PMI) announced its new year's resolution to give up cigarette.
In an unusual move, the tobacco company...
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...
Pakistan is the world’s fastest growing retail market, says: Euromonitor
LAHORE: Euromonitor International has proclaimed Pakistan as the fastest growing retail market globally, with the market expected to grow by 8.2 percent...
PSO country’s fastest growing retail company: Report
KARACHI: The government-owned Pakistan State Oil (PSO) is reported to be the country’s fastest-growing retail company with three million consumers said to...