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Recovery tracker: Traffic up, workplace visits peak since national lockdown

Power generation and freight growth slow down

Flipkart Wholesale helps 600 brands from small cities expand across India

The firm is playing a key role in the success of many local and small brands by helping bridge the gap between them and Kiranas and retailers that sell to the masses.

Retail sales touch 72 pc of pre-pandemic levels in July: RAI

Retail sales across the country continued to recover in July

Recovery tracker: Retail, recreation visits hit pre-lockdown levels

Power generation also registers a surge; 20% higher than in 2019

Recovery tracker: Workplace visits rise to April-end levels as curbs ease

Retail & recreation visits at nearly 60% of normal times

Reliance Retail revenue up 25% in March quarter on strong recovery

Profit for the quarter also surged on the back of strong operational performance

Retail sector sees revival in hiring as second Covid wave haunts India

Retail sector, which was severely impacted by the first wave of pandemic, has seen robust revival in hiring that saw an uptick of more than 15 per cent in March

Top headlines: Ruia out of Air India sale race, India to appeal Cairn award

IndiGo, the country's largest airline, is in talks with Airbus to finalise a deal to acquire up to five A321 converted freighters amid a burgeoning air cargo market

India retail sector to add 25 million new jobs by 2030: Report

A lion's share will be the offline+online model, the report said

Jeff Bezos versus Mukesh Ambani isn't the only fight in India's retail

Away from this high-profile fight for the ordinary Indian's wallet, a different contest is shaping up for control of what goes on shop shelves

Amazon, Directorate General Resettlement sign MoU for hiring ex-servicemen

Plan is in alignment with Amazon's global vision of hiring 25,000 military veterans by 2025

RIL deal: Amazon urges NCLT not to allow Future Group shareholders meet

Amazon had last week filed the application before the Mumbai-bench of the NCLT

From the brink to recovery, India's retail sector pins hope on 2021

India's nearly trillion-dollar retail market is hoping to touch 85 per cent of the pre-Covid business in the first half of the new year

Myntra onboards 200 fashion brands to help them tackle coronavirus impact

Walmart-owned firm integrated 1,200 physical stores during pandemic, is taking brands like Mango, Puma, Movado and ELLE jewellery across the country including tier-2 and tier-3 towns

New national retail policy: Licence rationalisation among five focus areas

The five areas that would be addressed in the policy are ease of doing business, rationalisation of the licence process, digitisation of retail, focus on reforms and open network for digital commerce

Online grocery segment to touch $3 billion by year-end: Report

COVID-19 induced tailwinds, coupled with participation from large conglomerates like Reliance are expected to drive growth in the online grocery segment in India

Retail experts call for digital integration of supply chain amid Covid-19

With the COVID-19 pandemic disrupting the retail supply chain, the industry needs to adopt digitisation and connect with rural and urban population digitally, say experts.

Traffic, power generation and others weekly economic indicator insights

Although numbers are better than June, traffic growth is now stagnating in major cities and electricity generation is slipping even as pollution in the capital showed signs of falling again

Retail trade suffered Rs 15.5 trillion business loss due to Covid-19: CAIT

CAIT Secretary General Praveen Khandelwal said the domestic trade is passing through its worst period in the current century

India's retail and SME loans to deteriorate as well, says Moody's

Moody's Investors Service has said that policymaking institutions face increasing challenges from lower growth, weaker fiscal conditions and rising financial sector stress.