...INTRODUCTION. Department: Interior Design Dissertation topic: retail outlets QUESTION: Why are international brand outlets not localized? And how successful are they by not adapting to the local environment? "A Brand is not a product or a promise or a feeling. It's the sum of all the experiences you have with a company", this is said by Amir Kassaei, who is known as one of the top chief creative officer DDB worldwide. The brand is not all about the product; its success depends majorly on the environment and the way it is presented. What is retail design? Retail design encompasses an understanding of what will work aesthetically in a retail environment, including tangible (i.e. fixed, material) as well as intangible (i.e. immaterial or atmospheric) design elements. Retail design requires a designer to fully understand all aspects related to the concrete development of a store concept, including how the store will perform functionally and commercially. The design of a retail outlet plays a major role in the success of a retailing business. This question was inspired by the fact that when a food outlet is introduced in a locality, its menu is also changed to cater the localized flavor, like Pizza Hut introduced special flavors according to Pakistani taste, but the question is, does the interior design change as well? In my dissertation I will be discussing the retail brand outlets and will compare them with national brand outlets as well. The initial...
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...Retail Pricing of Pandora * Warranty All Pandora products are covered by a 1-year warranty covering manufacturing defects. * Sales Pandora corporate headquarters dictates the prices and they have a Recommended Retail Price (RRP), most retailers are prohibited from undercutting their prices so the cost is consistent throughout a market/country. The only exception is Denmark because of the countries’ laws prohibiting a company from dictating the price of products. * Pandora prices differ throughout the world Many things go into the Recommended Retail Price for the country, chief among them the cost of the materials, mainly gold used to make the Pandora product which fluctuates a lot. Also, the currency exchange is taken into consideration, and another important factor is taxes – the European Union or United Kingdom charges value added tax, which can make the charms more expensive for these countries than say Singapore. While the retailer is not allowed to discount prices, Pandora can decide to offer gifts with products or promotions that are carried by the individual stores. Because the stores are franchises, they can independently decide whether they will offer the promo or not and also at what price point. This is also different by country because the local office or goverment for the country will determine which GWPs or promos will be offered. * Pricing Strategy Working towards Pandora’s long term vision to become the world’s most recognised jewellery...
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...INTERNSHIP REPORT ON Retail Banking Activities of City Bank Ltd Gulshan Branch of the year 2009, Dhaka 1 INTERNSHIP REPORT ON Retail Banking Activities of City Bank Ltd Submitted to: Syeda Shaharbanu Shahbazi Ahmed Senior lecturer, BRAC Business School BRAC University, Dhaka Submitted by: Md.Mozahidul Islam ID: 05304077 Date of submission: 20th December, 2009 2 Letter of Transmittal December 20, 2009 Syeda Shaharbanu Shahbazi Ahmed Senior Lecturer BRAC Business School BRAC University, Dhaka Dear Madam, I am glad to submit my report on the topic as you have assigned me to prepare an internship report on retail banking activities of City Bank limited of Gulshan Branch as a partial requirement of the course Bus 400. Now I am looking forward for your kind appraisal regarding internship report. You would be glad to hear that I have given my best effort to prepare the report with relevant information that I have collected from City Bank Limited, Gulshan Branch and from other relevant sources during my internship program. I have the great pleasure to have the opportunity to study on “retail banking activities” of City Bank Ltd. It is meaningful to mention that the knowledge I have gathered during the internship period, will help me in practical field of professions. In spite of various inadequacies I have tried to cover all the relevant affairs. It is quite worthy to mention that without your kind hearted guidance and cooperation it would not be possible for...
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...Retail Advertising and Marketing Association Gen/200 Retail Advertising and Marketing Association "Consumers know precisely what's wrong with advertising. Be it TV or print or whatever, they know that advertising is never creative enough ... never as witty, inspiring, sophisticated, entertaining and downright likable as they would like it to be” (Phil Dussonberry, former BBDO advertising executive). In the world of retail things are ever changing there is a constant need for new advertising or marketing to grab the consumers attention. Without these tools a retailers profits can quickly dwindle leaving them in the dust. One great tool for retailers is the Retail Advertising and Marketing Association(RAMA). This paper will explain what RAMA is, how it can increase my professional knowledge and abilities, and how perfecting my knowledge and abilities can affect my career success. The Retail Advertising & Marketing Association (RAMA) is a trade association of retail marketing and advertising professionals, plus their counterparts on the agency, media and service-provider sides of the business. RAMA is a division of the National Retail Federation, the world’s largest retail trade association (National Retail Federation, 2011). RAMA also is the producer of the annual Racie Awards Competition, the industry’s most prestigious creative contest for retail broadcast, web and print advertising (National Retail Federation, 2011). RAMA is an innovative association that connects retailers...
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...There are four main factors retailers consider when setting a retail price. The four factors are (1) the price sensitivity, (2) the cost of the merchandise and services, (3) competition and (4) legal restrictions. Some retailers also often use high/low pricing strategy. High/low pricing is a type of pricing strategy that usually small to medium size retailer firms’ use. Mostly firms will charge you at a high price and after the demand for the item has decreased, the firm will then lower the cost and sell it to customers at a discount price. The high/low pricing has some benefits. The advantages are that this strategy increases profits because high/low pricing lets retailers charge a higher price to customers who are willing to pay and lower the price for price-sensitive customers who are waiting for the sale price. It also creates excitement, sales and promotions are always something to look forward too. Moreover the merchandise sells. Sales allow retailers to get rid of slow-selling merchandise. (Levy & Weitz,2012, p.373). Another strategy that retailers use is the “Everyday Low Pricing” (EDLP) strategy. “Many retailers, like supermarkets, home improvement centers, and discount stores use EDLP. This strategy emphasizes the continuity of retail prices at a level somewhere between the regular non sale price and the deep-discount sale price of high/low retailers.” (Levy & Weitz, 2012, p.372). Some advantages of the EDLP are that it assures customers of low prices, it...
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...| Retail Management Final Assignment | Objective: Retail store research | | Rajiv Tanwar, 215114014 | | Store evaluation for the final assignment. | Store Evaluation – EasyDay, Bhiwani, Haryana Store layout, design, visual merchandising and space management techniques implemented by this store are very effective Store layout- Grid type. Design and Visual Merchandising- Grid type layout with proper places for signage & graphics and they have properly used- 1. Freestanding Display- to attract people. 2. End Cap- for high margin products 3. Promotional Aisle- for seasonal and sale items. 4. Cash wraps – near cash counters 5. Walls used for ads Space Management- Space allocation is done in a great way. There are mainly three important things- 1. How much space to a merchandising type 2. Where to place a merchandising 3. Merchandising location within a category And full store is divided into three zones – 1. Decompression zone 2. Strike zone 3. Heavily trafficked and viewed zone. Let us now take objectives of the store- Increase sales- Sale is going very fine for this store as compare to its competitors because techniques formulated by this store are easily visible to the customers and they are influenced to buy. Build customer’s loyalty- Customers are given number one preference in this store and what they like is available in the store in any condition. So, customers love this store and...
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...Indian retail magnate Kishore Biyani about a youngman sitting with him in a Mumbai hotel meeting room inearly December. "I see that he is wearing Colour Plustrousers. I know his waist size ... I know everything about him. We are a company of observers, andeverybody is trained to observe customers," says Biyani, who is CEO of the Future Group and managingdirector of its flagship Pantaloon retail chain that last year had revenues of Rs. 2,018 crore ($450million) and expects to become a $1 billion company by mid 2007. Biyani often spends Sundays hanging about unobtrusively and watching shoppers at his company's 200clothing stores in 32 Indian cities. The home-grown retailer's obsession for observing the average Indianconsumer also at public places like temples and movie halls underscores what could be Wal-Mart'sbiggest challenge as it sets up shop in India in partnership with Bharti, a leading telecom servicesprovider. "India is a very diverse country -we have 6,000 castes and sub-castes in 28 states, and everycommunity has its own tastes; every state has its own nuances," says Biyani. "To manage the diversityand the heterogeneity will be one of the biggest challenges for anybody who comes to this market." Enigmatic India and its challenges in transportation, warehousing and distribution infrastructure haven'tdeterred the world's biggest organized retailers that have lobbied -unsuccessfully so far -- with theIndian government to permit foreign direct investment in the retail industry...
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... Financial analysis Of Pantaloons (India) retail limited Pantaloon Retail (India) Limited is a multi-format retailer which operates retail stores across India. The company offers a wide range of food, fashion, home and electronics, telecom and IT, general merchandise, leisure and entertainment, wellness and beauty, and books and music products. The year 2010 marked a significant milestone for pantaloons (India) retail limited as it opened its 100th Big Bazaar store within a record time of seven years. As on June 30, the Company operated 116 Big Bazaars, 148 Food Bazaars, 45 Pantaloons and 9 Centrals, that covered 9.7 million square feet of retail space and attracted footfalls of 185 million customers. This data is only of Pantaloons Retail (India) Limited and does not include that of its subsidiaries. So it is quite apparent from the above mentioned data that the company has maximized the retail boom in India over the last 10 years by trying to cater to maximum number of consumers. That is why they have expanded their retail chain which has also reflected in its profit loss accounts which has shown steady increase in PAT over the last 10 years. This aggressive expansion plan in the recent years might also stead from the fact that they are anticipating the change of rule in the FDI in multi brand retail which could usher in players such as Wal-Mart, Tesco in the Indian market. So they are...
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...inesquecíveis, coisas inexplicáveis e pessoas incomparáveis" como vocês! Obrigado por tudo, Filipe Abstract The Retail Banking Industry has been severely affected by fraud over the past few years. Indeed, despite all the research and systems available, fraudsters have been able to outsmart and deceive the banks and their customers. With this in mind, we intend to introduce a novel and multi-purpose technology known as Stream Computing, as the basis for a Fraud Detection solution. Indeed, we believe that this architecture will stimulate research, and more importantly organizations, to invest in Analytics and Statistical Fraud-Scoring to be used in conjunction with the already in-place preventive techniques. Therefore, in this research we explore different strategies to build a Streambased Fraud Detection solution, using advanced Data Mining Algorithms and Statistical Analysis, and show how they lead to increased accuracy in the detection of fraud by at least 78% in our reference dataset. We also discuss how a combination of these strategies can be embedded in a Stream-based application to detect fraud in real-time. From this perspective, our experiments lead to an average processing time of 111,702ms per transaction, while strategies to further improve the performance are discussed. Keywords: Fraud Detection, Stream Computing, Real-Time Analysis, Fraud, Data Mining, Retail Banking Industry, Data Preprocessing, Data Classification, Behavior-based Models, Supervised Analysis, Semi-supervised...
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...1. Title of the paper “Impact of Multi Brand Foreign Direct Investment in Retail Sector in India (Before the approval)” 2. Author Name – Prof. Nikhil Polke 3. Theme – Retail 4. Institute Name & Address Tirpude Institute of Management Education 1, Balasaheb Tirpude Marg, Civil Lines, Sadar, NAGPUR – 440 001 5. Email – n.polke@tirpude.edu.in 6. Contact number - +91 99233 80707 Abstract India has been placed at first position in the category of countries with the best opportunity for investment in the Retail Sector by a survey of A.T. Kearney’s 2005 on Global Retail Development. The increasing disposable incomes among the Indian middle class and increasing young population have been cited as the main reasons for such attractive optimism. This positive opinion of the experts has also encouraged the intense lobbying by certain sections for opening Foreign Direct Investment in this sector. Foreign investors are also very enthusiastic to invest in India’s Retail Sector. At present India does not allow FDI in multi-brand retail but permits upto 51 percent in single brand retail and 100 percent in cash and carry wholesale trading. There is a ban on FDI in big multi-brand retail stores but there is no restriction on companies accessing the foreign equity market through the American and Global Depository Receipts. The Government of India opened up FDI in ‘Single Brand Retailing’ in the year 2006. This was done with a primary motive of giving a boost...
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...Chain in Retail With this growth in retail, not only front end but the entire network of activities leading to a culmination of a successful retail transaction has undergone a significant development. Supply Chain is no different. In the course of this retail evolution in India, the supply chain has also seen significant activity. After all, Supply chain forms a major part of the sustenance of any retail venture. For the retail venture to flourish successfully, it should have an efficient and well established supply chain. In the modern format, when all the other aspects of retailing have been discarded as being a differentiating factor, the role of supply chain has become even more important. Importance of an efficient supply chain for a retail chain may be assesses from the gamut of areas in which it helps the chain such as sourcing of material for Private Label, supplying of SKUs to the distant tier II and III cities, more and more retailers entering into Food & Grocery segment resulting in need for transportation of perishable items requiring cold supply chain, etc. hence it is deemed that from being just a part of the operations of a network, supply chain is soon going to become the source of competitive advantage for some firms. If we look at the global scenario, we already have the example of retail mammoth, Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart is said to have the best supply chain which enables it to pursue the EDLP (Every Day Low Pricing) strategy. The Indian retail is yet to...
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...Forum TCS - Retail Journal July 2015 | Issue 6 Omni-Channel Supply Chain: From Backend to Forefront Foreword Pratik Pal President & Global Head Retail, CPG, Travel, Transportation & Hospitality Welcome to the sixth edition of Forum, the TCS Retail Thought Leadership journal. In this issue, we present our perspective on the changes shaping the supply chain of tomorrow. Retailers all over the world are making the transition from multichannel to omni-channel. The key to delivering the ‘order anywhere, fulfill anywhere’ promise is the supply chain. Supply chain is poised to become the key influencer of the interconnected customer experience. Based on my interactions with leading retailers across the world, it is my view that the battle for omni-channel supremacy will be fought and won on the grounds of supply chain. Retailers across the world are focused on re-architecting and recalibrating their supply chains while maintaining the delicate balance between customer experience and profitability. While earlier, significant investments were directed toward digital customer engagement, in the times ahead, investments will predominantly focus on supply chain re-imagination. In this edition, we discuss the prominent challenges and the response needed across key areas spanning the entire value chain as well as the building blocks for enabling omni-channel supply chain. The ‘plan-buy-make–move–sell’ value chain is no more linear. While the ’sell’ component of...
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...Retail Marketing In today's CRM landscape the old analogy comparing the rifle and shotgun approaches to message and / or offer delivery is perhaps more appropriate than ever, as more retail organizations struggle to achieve one-to-one marketing-communications with customers and prospects. Targeting allows a retail enterprise to channel its marketing budget where there is the greatest (and fastest) possibility of Return On Investment (ROI). In terms of overall business strategy, your ability to identify and understand consumers helps you make accurate estimates about the potential for your products and services in a given market, as well as support and direct merchandise development strategies to both new and existing customers. Whether your target is current customers or new prospects, in markets known or unknown, an effective targeting model reduces the risk of any new venture. Blending Demographic, Behavioral, Expenditure and Media Preference data with retailer-specific data and applying data mining technologies produces Zip+4 and postal code level data assets that consistently outperform all other direct marketing techniques. In addition, methodology that should be used must be dynamic to allow the sights to be reset frequently to keep targets in focus consistently. Today's retail marketing managers must: Understand the connections between the lifestyle and expenditure characteristics of customers, their propensity to purchase one product or brand over another, and...
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...What Affects Pricing? Consumer Factors Mfrs., Wholesalers, Suppliers Competition Strategy Variables Govt. Factors – FTC • Target audience • Profits Retail Pricing Strategies • Supply/Demand • Price Elasticity of Demand Sensitivity of buyers to price changes Pricing Strategies Demand-oriented Cost-oriented Competition-oriented Demand-Oriented Estimate how much customers will buy at various price levels • Set prices to achieve sales goals Determine prices acceptable to target market • Demand ceiling • Demand floor Psychological Pricing • Price/quality relationship • Odd pricing Zone Pricing: “Refining companies actually map out areas and charge dealers different wholesale prices based on secret formulas that often factor in location, the area’s affluence or simply what the market will bear.” Cost-Oriented Takes into account the cost of merchandise, retail operating expenses, and desired profits Markup covers operating expenses and profits $1.20 1.35 Wholesale Prices: Ct.: Berlin Greenwich NY: Albany NYC $0.95 1.01 $0.98 1.12 Palo Alto Northern CA: Pleasanton • Markup = Selling price (retail price) – Cost of Goods Entrée Economics Pinot Bistro, Los Angeles 300% solution: Many independently owned restaurants aim for an overall food markup of 300% or 4X the cost of the raw ingredients But, you might see a 500% markup on a grilled vegetable plate (and pay $9) and only a 200% markup on a tenderloin meal (and pay $25) Grilled Pork...
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...Multi Brand Retail 1. Overview of the industry: Retailing in India is one of the pillars of its economy and accounts for 14 to 15 percent of its GDP. The Indian retail market is estimated to be US$ 500 billion and one of the top five retail markets in the world by economic value. Comprising of organized and unorganized sectors, Indian retail industry is one of the fastest growing industries in India. The organised retail trade accounts for merely 8-10% of the total retail. According to the 10th Annual Global Retail Development Index (GRDI) of A.T. Kearney, India is having a very strong growth fundamental base. India's retail market is expected to grow at 7% over the next 10 years, reaching a size of US$ 850 billion by 2020. Traditional retail is expected to grow at 5% and reach a size of US$ 650 billion (76%), while organized retail is expected to grow at 25% and reach a size of US$ 200 billion by 2020. The Government of India had been considering opening up the Multi Brand Retail Trade (MBRT) sector to FDI for some time. They had released a discussion paper in 2010 on the topic and had extensively gathered public, academic and industry views on the issue. In November 2011, the Government came out with its proposal for the new FDI policy. However, unable to achieve political consensus on the issue, they had to shelve their plans for the enactment of the policy. Finally the Government decided to pass the new FDI policy on MBRT in September 2012. 2. Growth over last few...
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