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...
The Black Friday phenomenon—A shopping spree that beats all binges
Upon hearing her friends’ last year’s experience of Black Friday sales in which they availed great discounts, the 21-year-old pharmacy student from...
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...
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’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...
Taazo- the new biryani kid on the block
Former head of the Digital Business Unit for a Middle Eastern telecom company and previously Managing Director for the Middle East region...
From a hole in the wall to market leader
Lifting its shutters for the first time in 1974 as a modest enterprise in the famed Bano Bazar of Anarkali – a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Clicks instead of bricks
E-grocery, commonly phrased as online grocery is expected to grow 9.5 percent worldwide to become a $9.4 billion industry this year. In...
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,...