Blog: Old Wine Brewing in New Bottle
As wine consumption in India goes up, one notices an increasing use of ‘Old wine in New Bottle’ to describe an old or existing strategy or plan- repackaged to make it look like a new idea, which does not make any sense, just as the use of ‘brewing’ wine may not is not the correct way of describing the process of wine making. When is  |
Delhi Excise extends Annual License
In what could perhaps be an unprecedented step, the Delhi government has decided to extend the annual excise license for 15 days to give time for importers to continue making the year-end shipments and apply for the fresh license in the meantime, to avoid the usual annual disruption of business for a month or more. There have bee |
French Wines Rendezvous in Delhi n Mumbai
The air in Delhi and Mumbai smells of French wine with the French Trade Commissions of the two cities joining hands with UbiFrance, the French business development agency to have wine trade professionals taste the products of ten visiting companies, at the French Embassy in Delhi and Hotel Novotel Mumbai. Organised |
Beer Baron Bullish on Wine Business
Beer Baron of India and Chairman of the UB Group, Vijay Mallya says he is bullish about its wine business in India and though admitting they were late entrants, it was because they were studying the market potential earlier. Having entered the market with the entry level Zinzi wines, followed by the flagship label Fours Seasons, he |
Hotel Expansion Flavour of Season Again
After lying low for almost a year, Indian hotel industry seems to be again on the verge of massive expansion plans with existing and new entrants jostling to announce their dream schemes that may or may not fructify but seem to be a healthy PR exercise of brand building. Till, the recession and terrorist attack hit Mumbai, the industry see |
Retailers back to Bigger Stores
Several big Indian retail companies including Aditya Birla Retail, Spencer’s, Pantaloon and Bharti Retail plan to add bigger stores with an area of 30,000 to 100,000 sq. ft. to their portfolio this year. In the past, modern retailers opened small grocery stores to achieve economies of scale. However, last year’s slowdown forced many of them |
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