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Vicarious Pleasures of Awards
We didn’t get an award, but got the chance to give one away — the Coca Cola Golden Spoon Award 2011 for the “Most Admired Foodservice Retailer of the Year: Cafés & Juice Bars” to Costa Coffee...
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Succeeding In The Indian Market
In most conversations we have had with international brands in the last 2-3 years, India consistently appears on list of the top-5 markets in which to expand into. The second most populous country in...
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Where is the Love? In the Brand.
A few months ago, when asked to speak about value-addition at a food industry seminar, I decided, in a deviation from the usual discussion, to dissect the meaning of “value”. Most people in industry...
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The Year That Could Be
The transition between calendar years offers a pause. We can use it to evaluate what passed in the previous year, chalk out our journey for the next one. The first response of most people to the...
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Global QSRs Dissecting the Indian fast food pie
Global quick-service restaurant brands are expanding their footprint in the quickly evolving Indian market. But some are also falling by the wayside. Here are some perspectives from the industry (ET...
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Retail’s Elves
(Published in “BusinessWorld SME Handbook 2012-13″, released on Oct. 29, 2012 in New Delhi, and “Indian Management”, the journal of the All India Management Association in January 2013, published by...
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Multichannel for Multifold Growth – Panel Discussion at the Delhi Retail...
Organised by the Retailers Association of India the Delhi Retail Summit this year (10 May 2013) focussed on multi-fold growth for retailers utilising multiple channels to the consumer, with panel...
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Wal-Mart brakes, Indian JV hits the wall
[This article appeared in Daily News & Analysis (DNA) on 10 October 2013, under the headline "Without Wal-Mart, can Bharti play it alone?"] A year ago, Wal-Mart had called Bharti its natural...
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Tesco in India: Will every little help?
[This article appeared in the February 2014 print issue of Retailer, under the headline "Implications of the Tata-Tesco JV"] India is a civilisation that has borne fruit from thousands of year of...
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Leveraging Opportunities in Food & Beverage Sector
“Ingredients for Speed & Innovation” Conference 2014 gathered together senior delegates (CEOs/ CXOs) of the food & beverage Industry, on 7 May 2014 in Delhi. The event was organised by Third...
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New perspectives needed for food and agricultural growth
These are thoughts shared in an emailed interview with the AgriBusiness and Food Industry magazine (published in the November 2014 issue.) A Perspective on the Indian market: Our first word of advice...
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Opportunities & Challenges for Dutch (Semi-)Processed Food Companies in India
A seminar was organised on the 12th of May in Zeist (the Netherlands) on “the Opportunities & Challenges for Dutch (Semi-) Processed Food Companies in India”. Highlights of a report and other...
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The Next New Thing: A Retail Store
Much has been written recently, with more than a touch of surprise, about ecommerce companies opening physical retail stores. Whether it is Amazon, Birchbox and Bonobos in the US, Spartoo in France,...
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From yogasan to ayurved to noodles, the Patanjali Group’s growing momentum
The Patanjali Group has created an Indian FMCG giant in a very short span of time on the back of a three-pronged strategy: The enormous brand awareness that can be attributed to the very high...
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Hyperlocals, Aggregators: Developing the Ecosystem
Aggregator models and hyperlocal delivery, in theory, have some significant advantages over existing business models. Unlike an inventory-based model, aggregation is asset-light, allowing rapid...
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Café Coffee Day – steaming or sputtering?
(Published in the Financial Express, 10 May 2016) In about 20 years, Café Coffee Day (CCD) has grown from one ‘cyber café’ in Bengaluru to the leading chain of cafés in the country by far. In its...
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Patanjali – from Yoga to Noodles
Third Eyesight’s CEO, Devangshu Dutta recently participated in a discussion about the phenomenal growth of the Patanjali brand, from yoga lessons to a food and FMCG conglomerate taking well-established...
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Heat Spots in the Cold Chain
The cold chain sector is expanding quickly due to increased investments from Indian and international organisations going towards both modernisation of the existing facilities and establishment of new...
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Packaging – Uncovering Personality
Packaging of products is, undoubtedly, an extremely strong means of conveying the essence of the brand, its ethos and its personality. Packaging is not only a vehicle to endorse the identity of a...
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India Opening Up to Commercial Greenhouse Farming
Horticulture production in India has been surpassing the production of food grains for many years. In 2014-15, the total production of horticultural produce was estimated by the Department of...
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