Retailing Perspective: Challenges and Opportunities Author: Dr. Deepanjana Varshney Designation: Professor Mail id: dvfaculty@rediffmail.com Retailing has been defined as business activities involved in selling goods and services to consumers for their personal‚ family or household use (Berman and Evans‚ 2001). The emergence of new formats and the evolution of modern retail in India has attracted attention in recent years. The business press in India has carried several articles and news
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Sam Walton‚ Wal-Mart has grown to be the largest discount retail chain in the world. Wal-Mart currently has over 6‚500 thousand stores in 14 different countries‚ 1.8 million plus associates and nets sales this last quarter of over 85 billion dollars‚ an increase of 8.3 percent (walmart.com). The only other corporation larger than Wal-Mart to date is Exxon Mobile. So how does Wal-Mart keep their competitive advantage and sustain their position in discount retailing?Historically Wal-Mart main competitive
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Old Navy etc. it is expected that the new retail facilities will increase retail square footage by 30 percent. Also Target’s introduction has also increased the economic development of the city. The city’s expanding roads‚ and the conversion of a K-mart‚ a new 14-screen movie theater and a new Best Buy have all contributed to the increased retail development of Hattiesburg. Hattiesburg has a sound economic base and a young population. It has the state’s largest university with a population of 15
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Case Study: Wal-Mart ??????? Management and Strategy Webster University May 15‚ 2013 Table of Contents Introduction Every business organization in the contemporary world continues to face serious challenges and turbulences. Such challenges and turbulences have called on to business enterprises to re-structure and re-engineer their strategic plan in order to establish effective strategic initiatives. Dynamisms and increased competition are some of the challenges that business
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Hypermarket‚ Convenience Store‚ Retailing‚ Malls‚ Shoppers Introduction India has witnessed a frenetic pace of retail development over the past five years. Goldman Sachs has estimated that the Indian Economic growth could actually exceed that of China by 2015. It is believed that the Country has potential to deliver the faster growth over the next 50 years. (1) As we all know that India has been a nation of Dukandars‚ having – approximately 12 million retailers. Obviously retailing is in our blood – either
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Chapter 01 Introduction to the World of Retailing Multiple Choice Questions 1. (p. 6) What is retailing? A. It is the merchandising component of the retail mix. B. It is the set of business activities that adds value to the products and services sold to consumers for their personal use. C. It is the strategy retailers and vendors use to get products into the stores. D. It is the process of offering products in smaller quantities for consumer consumption patterns. E. It is the
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Media Management Music Retailing in India Submitted By 10-VC-101 Deepak Chand S INDEX * Introduction * Organized Retailing * Unorganized Retailing * Companies controlling the market * India’s Largest Music Retail Chain * Promoting the Outlets Introduction The music industry or music business consists of the companies and individuals that make money by creating and selling music. Among the many individuals and organizations that operate within the industry are: the musicians who
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Rural Retailing in India-The Road Ahead Shikhar Das Srivastava* ABSTRACT The decision to liberalize the Indian Economy in 1991 had far reaching consequences‚ which is still continued into the new millennium also. On the marketing front‚ there was the arrival of many well-known Multi National Companies especially FMCG product dealers. In the initial years the focus was on the easily accessible well developed urban markets but soon it got saturated because of proliferation of brands and intense
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Written Analysis of Case – Wal*Mart Stores‚ Inc 1. To what extent can Wal-Mart’s performance be explained in terms of industry structure‚ and to what extent in terms of its competitive position? In assessing industry structure I have focussed primarily on Wal*Mart’s core business of the US discount store industry. Relevant aspects of Wal*Mart’s diversification into wholesale clubs and supercentres are also considered – although it could be argued that the dynamics of both (particularly the
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Wal-Mart Stores: Every Day Low Prices in China Key Issues Wal-Mart is currently facing a change to their business in China. Over the past few years China’s retail industry and its distribution and logistical infrastructure have opened up significantly with decreased government regulation. For Wal-Mart this will mean a large change in its business strategy and it will now look to profitably expand with China’s booming economy. In order to set a new strategy Wal-Mart will need to identify
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