Amazon’s dominance hasn’t knelt a death-blow to retail stores
NEW YORK: Just in time for the Black Friday kick-off to holiday season shopping, stock market investors have been handed tools to...
Nestle to reinvigorate its infant nutrition business
LONDON: Nestle, the world’s largest packaged food company, said on Wednesday it would reorganize its infant nutrition business to try to improve...
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’s biggest state run retail chain inching towards privatisation
ISLAMABAD:Â Pakistan's biggest state-run retail chain, Utility Stores Corporation (USC)- which is currently facing a decrease in sales, closure of large number outlets...
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
Wearing ‘Made of Pakistan’ on its sleeve
Established as a manufacturing and retailing unit some 32 years ago, in 1985 to be precise, Sefam started with embroidered fabrics made...
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...
For retail to grow, banks need to lend more. But they won’t!
If you are a small fashion retailer and have now grown big enough to want to open up a store in one...
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...
Tesco plans $6.6bn shareholder return from Asia disposals
LONDON/BANGKOK: Tesco (TSCO.L) plans to return $6.6 billion to shareholders after agreeing to sell its supermarket businesses in Thailand and Malaysia to...
A not so meaty affair
In what is so far the highest difference between floor price and strike price (Rs52) in the last five years, AlShaheer Corporation...
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.
Shopkeepers’ scam adds fizz to profits
Retail prices of Coke and Pepsi remain unnoticed while retailers overcharge consumers day in, day out by as much as 40 percent – making millions over the top, apparently unnoticed
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?
Losing to loose milk
On a Wednesday evening in one of Karachi’s oldest areas, Lea Market, Samir Rajput is working the phone, trying to seal a...