Two-Day Franchise India 2023 Starts On July 15

Franchise India is going to organise its 19^th International Franchise and Retail Show. This event will witness the participation of more than 500 indigenous brands and over 100 global brands along with over 40 thousand business buyers and over 10,000 High Net worth (HNI) investors.

The two-day event will start from July 15 to 16 in New Delhi’s Pragati Maidan, comprising more than 70 business pavilions and over 50 business leaders will attend the function. The function will be inaugurated by Ms. Mercy Epao, Joint Secretary, MSME.

This long awaited event will be attended by the speakers from various industries including Dr Yogesh Bhatia, MD & CEO, LML Emotion, Stuart Harley, Managing Director, ComputerXplorers, Anshu Gupta, Managing Director, Sarvodaya Healthcare, TK Arunachalam, Regional Director, Cambridge Learning Centre, Harry Bajaj, Founder, Mobec Innovation Pvt ltd, Tyag Dharmik, Director, Chhabi Electricals Pvt ltd, Neeraj Raina – Loan Against Property, Zonal Sales Manager, Tata Capital, Rahul Jaiswal - Business Loan, Regional Sales Manager, Tata Capital, Tanveer Bakshi, Head - Strategy and Business Development, Microgravity, Sanjeev Kumar Jha, Editor, Opportunity India – Moderator.

The pavilions are: Franchise Pavilion, Food & Restaurant Pavilion, India EV & Auto Pavilion, Dealer India Pavilion, India EV & Auto Pavilion, E-Commerce & D2C, Retail and Real Estate Pavilion, International pavilion.

Major Highlights Of The Franchise India Show 2022

Franchise India 2023 is bound to enable new businesses to take to the next level. A number of initiatives are planned to help businesses and individuals to make uniform decisions about your business.

Start-Up Summit –Day 1

From A Business To A Brand

In this session, Speakers and Business leaders will discuss the How to plan systematic development of the brand in alignment with a business strategy.

New Bharat : How MSMES Are Changing For India

In this session, key highlights will include Salient features of a sector whose contribution to the GDP has approached around historic mark of a trillion dollar, How to provide adequate financial support to the sector, How to support the sector with adequate skilled manpower, How can MSME play the lead role in making India an export oriented economy, How to address biggest challenges before MSME sector in India like lack of easy fund inflow, higher cost of raw material, ineffective marketing among others, Way ahead for MSME sector in journey of another trillion dollar contribution in economy.

Opportunity India: Mobility: Making Ev For Everyone

 The topics which will be discussed include Opportunity for EV Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEMs) on how can the transition towards electric passenger vehicles be delivered, at pace, and deliver on net-zero goals and how rolling out charging infrastructure, at pace, is a key successful corporate collaboration strategy is the tipping point of accelerated EV adoption.

Empowering Your Brand, Building A Community: Your Partners And Teams Will Predict Your Profitability

This session will include How to use data optimally in your Franchise Development process and for hiring, management, and developing of your team, How to Attract Multi-Unit Franchisees to your Brand? Factoring natural evolution of a brand from "new" development to "resale" development, Integrating Philanthropy into Your Partner and community DNA.

Day 2

Session 1: New Shoppers, New Rules -- Retail MegaTrends In The New Normal

Session’s highlights will include how are Brands betting big on Omnichannel and Physical integrations -The Workings of the Digital Store, the omnichannel way forward for a brand that delivers value for its employees, consumers, communities, partners and investors, The Rejig of Brick-and-mortar Formats: What works and how, how Shoppers spend: Understanding the mindset of the new breed of consumer among others.

Session 2: How Malls Are Rebuilding For Relevance To The New Age Consumer

During this session the speakers will discuss the strategies to attract customers with a New flavour of Tenants, which categories do consumers favour now and how their preferences have changed, how malls & Brands have built bonds to meet consumer expectations, redesigning - brand allocation strategy, neighbourhood malls: Giving New Sheen to Retail Real estate, Can malls become co-working spaces in the future?, what steps Cinema Brands are taking to match the changing consumer expectations.

Session 3: Re-Defining Next-Gen Food Service

This session will be around the future of eating out E- How Brands are thinking Convenience, experience, and customer delight. The discussion will be on Food and Entertainment and how has it changed, in presence of Rajat Agrawal, CEO, Barista, Manish Guptaa, Marketing Director, Pizza Hut India, Nishant Tyagi, Senior Manager, Chai Garam, Dheeraj Gupta, MD, Jumboking, Amit Juneja, Founding Partner and CEO, Dixy India, Sameer P Dave, Director, Conical Gaufres, Jared Mazzis, CEO - Business Development, Barcelos, Paul Pius, Master Franchisee, Smoothie Factory

Session 4: Tapping Into The D2C Opportunity

Why are brands going D2C: Strategies, challenges, and opportunities, the booming e-commerce industry, how brands can open up new revenue streams using D2C strategies and gain customer loyalty much more quickly and efficiently, benefits of onboarding the D2C model, bridging the gap between online and offline and leveraging data to influence consumer decision-making – from personalising the user journey to achieve a single view of the customer will be discussed during the event.

Meanwhile Ritu Marya, Editor-in-Chief, Entrepreneur & Indian Retailer will moderate the session in presence of Ayush Baid, Founder, ellementry, Rakhi Rana, Sales Director: International Business, E-Commerce & Modern Trade, Pet Food – Drools, Bhuman Dani, Co-Founder, Wicked Gud, Udita Bansal, Founder, trueBrowns Lifestyle , Manik Bhola, Founder, ORNAZ.

Session 5: Beauty Retail -Changing Dynamics

In this session, the centre of discussion will be how beauty brands are understanding consumer needs differently, how salons are rethinking business in new normal, how brands are successfully building a service and retail business and building consumer awareness and expanding the market with Influencers.

Session 6: Raising Capital for Consumer Brands

With discussion on what is driving the shift in investment behaviour of VCs, Why investors and VCs are keen on funding more into the D2C sector, Potential ROI for investors from consumer brands and how the brands are deploying the funds post-investment, the event will conclude.