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...
Rumors of Amazon’s entry into online selling of medicines rattles drug retailers shares
New York City: Shares of drug retailers Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc, CVS Health Co and Rite Aid Corp tumbled on Friday after...
Why are fashion retailers all suddenly selling perfume?
The competition in the local perfume market is growing stronger. Who will emerge on top?
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...
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...
Systems Limited to help Khaadi expand its retail footprint
Lahore: In one of the leading ties-up in recent memory, Pakistan’s foremost IT company Systems Limited has entered into a partnership with...
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...
METRO Cash & Carry Pakistan’s first GFSI certified wholesale/retailer
METRO Cash & Carry Pakistan celebrated another milestone in the field of Sustainable Quality Assurance when its airport store was awarded “Food...
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...
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...
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
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...
Inside the battle for retail’s future
On the 6th of October this year, the high towering, glitzy Centaurus Mall in Islamabad was ablaze with fire and fumes. For...
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...
Alibaba almost broke the internet, sales exceed Pakistan’s total exports in a span of 24 hours
LAHORE: Alibaba Group broke all records at the Singles’ Day event on Saturday, generating record sales of $ 25.3 billion (168.2 billion...