Pakistan’s first fashion billionaire?
The year 2017 is the first time the Pakistani clothing market hit Rs1 trillion in consumer spending (according to an analysis conducted by Profit...
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 of payments...
Will Olpers’ cartoon ploy work?
Engro-Friesland might just be able to pull off a lot more with flavoured milk than Engro Foods’ attempt a decade ago
Malls and retailers were dying to open again. Now they’re regretting it
While retail stores and malls are open for business again, footfall has fallen drastically, and retailers are bleeding money. What will they ask of the government now?
METRO Cash & Carry, Careem to facilitate customers across Pakistan
LAHORE: METRO Cash & Carry Pakistan in a new initiative has joined hands with Careem, a ride-hailing app, to make the travelling experience 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 got publicly...
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 bet on...
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?
IMF reviews FBR’s plan to generate Rs250bn from retailers, enforce compliance framework
IMF is also assessing Pakistan’s tax penalty structure to design a General Anti-Avoidance Rule for improved compliance
The X Factor in Stationery
After opening a physical store and receiving a valuation of $1 million for his first startup AutoX – an online portal for automobile accessories...
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
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.
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 Waresa Group...
The unsustainable price tag of fast fashion
Those of you born in the 80s will remember your mothers buying material from Bareeze. The stores glittered with delicate, sparkling work on the...
Try Try Again
Mother of two teenaged boys, daughter of Anwar Moosajee (owner of the famous A. Moosajee and sons), a food and nutrition scientist, an entrepreneur...


















