Fashion & Retail
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Opportunity India Desk Jan 17, 2019 - 3 min readIncreased awareness to stay fit among millennials has largely impacted the Indian swimwear market. Fitness has become an integral part of their daily lives but many of them find the everyday gym routine to be very monotonous. Health conscious consumers are thus turning sport-oriented to keep up with their fitness goals. There’s an overall awareness ...
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Opportunity India Desk Jan 02, 2019 - 3 min readWith the New Year here, new beginnings are being forecasted in the business world. However, the FDI policy has left many e-commerce players confused, with some unhappy and some happy faces. The new policy says that "an entity having equity participation by e-commerce marketplace entity or its group companies, or having control on its inventory ...
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Opportunity India Desk Dec 12, 2018 - 3 min readAthleisure has become a trend globally because people do not want shoes to play a sport but to live a sporty life, which is why many global brands have adapted this athleisure category rather than confining themselves to sports category alone. According to industry estimates, athleisure wear as a category is growing at a rate ...
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Opportunity India Desk Dec 07, 2018 - 3 min readIn a casual chat with Franchise India, AyushiGudwani, CEO, FableStreet, shared her experience about how she quit her job and became a successful entrepreneur. When asked about what prompted her decision to quit the corporate world, AyushiGudwani, said, “When I was working with a corporate firm, I never had the choice of wearing something fashionable ...
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Opportunity India Desk Dec 06, 2018 - 2 min readPeople are valuing health and wellness more than any other materialistic objects currently. The ever-changing expectations of people could be the reason behind the evolvement of the wellness and health definition. Wellness, nowadays, can be well referred to a more holistic state of being, where one’s mental, physical, and emotional health is synchronized. And in ...
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Opportunity India Desk Dec 04, 2018 - 2 min readIf you are looking to invest in the wellness industry, then it might be best for you to focus on the growing holistic wellness industry. Expanding drastically from the last couple of years, the industry is now caliber in offering various services. Investing in the holistic home-based business has low startup costs which are being ...
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Opportunity India Desk Nov 22, 2018 - 2 min readSituated at the Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal, Chennai is among the biggest cultural, economical, and educational hubs present in India. Quoting the 2015 Indian census, Chennai is the 6th most popular and 4th most populous urban center of South India. Being one of the most visited cities by foreign tourists, Indian businessmen/women ...
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Opportunity India Desk Oct 30, 2018 - 2 min readThe increasing population of busy and hectic people in India is allowing wellness franchisors to come with numerous business ideas, catering to eliminate stress from their life. This busy schedule leads to many body related issues which needs to be treated accordingly, in order to lead a stress-free life. That’s where the acupuncture business segment ...
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Opportunity India Desk Oct 25, 2018 - 4 min read“Today’s retail is much different from what it was 5-6 years back.” said Ms Ritu Marya, Editor-in-Chief, Franchise India Group at the Opportunity Summit 2018. Retail stores have been very asset heavy, high investment and extremely big. Nowadays, everything is getting reversed with stores becoming much smaller in size, inventories in the stores are becoming ...
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Opportunity India Desk Oct 18, 2018 - 2 min readResearch shows that employees who are mentally and physically fit are more productive as compared to others. With the productivity directly reflecting on a company’s sale, franchisors are incorporating workplace wellness programs for enhancing their employees’ performance. What is a workplace wellness program? Workplace wellness program is a basic investment done by franchisors to their ...