ISLAMABAD: The Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) is at loggerheads with a group of 13 leading oil marketing companies (OMCs) over massive storage capacity shortfalls and the expansion of retail networks...
On January 12, Ogra announced that it stopped the 13 OMCs from expanding their retail outlet networks because of their failure to develop proportionate storage capacity required under the government policy...
Pakistan's first real estate investment trust’s initial public offering by the Arif Habib Group in partnership with the Dolmen Group is expected to bring the so far capital-intensive real estate investments within the reach of retail investors...
In the absence of a totally transparent and retail investor-friendly capital market, real estate investments have traditionally been quite popular in Pakistan...
LAHORE: With a line-up of 16 designers and seven textile houses and high street brands, and evolving corporate synergies, the Pakistan Fashion Design Council (PFDC) commenced its eighth consecutive showcase, the PFDC Sunsilk Fashion Week, on Saturday at the Expo Centre...
On the opening day, Fahad Hussayn had a story to tell in print and embroidery with florals, a smattering of heavily embellished beige outfits, kaleidoscopic and...
Another big difference is how Indian e-commerce companies generate revenue...
THE retail sector is booming in Punjab on the back of rapid urbanisation and rising consumer spending that is fuelling significant investment in this sector across the province...
The growth in retail business is not restricted to a few large cities; it is thriving even in smaller urban centres and towns...
The commissioner said all the stakeholders, including dairy farmers, wholesalers and retail shop owners, had not only assured the administration but had also given written commitments to the city administration that they would follow the decision taken in the meeting and the people would be provided milk at Rs80 per litre at retail shops throughout the city...
But there is nothing for hard-pressed retail customers...
However, in the retail markets, cement dealers are charging Rs520-550 per 50kg bag of various companies...
GOVERNMENTS and local bodies in many parts of the world often tend to over-regulate the retail trade...
But with the retail trade facing a major onslaught from e-tailers, governments are realising that thousands of brick-and-mortar retailers are facing an existential crisis, which could lead to large job losses...
ISTANBUL: Turkish police searched the offices of a nationwide retail chain and a healthcare and technology company on Tuesday, arresting dozens of people in some of the biggest raids on private businesses since last month’s failed coup...
Some 36,000 people work for his companies...
”The soon-to-open store is located right next to the very ‘it’ Mews Café on the happening E-Street in Karachi, varnished, minimalistic and with all the makings of a designer retail haven, if the samples are anything to go by...
For Feeha is something of an anomaly, having taken the longest time to venture into retail, at a time when a growing milieu of local designers have been quick to set up stores of their own...
Retail foreign exchange trading has grown rapidly in recent years, but the image has been of a lone trader in front of a computer screen...
”In 2013, the Bank for International Settlements estimated the value of retail currency trading at about $185 billion a day, or 3...
There are signs that many factory owners in Punjab are taking money out of their textile business and investing in the fast growing retail markets to cash in on the booming consumption: real estate, education, entertainment, ready-to-wear garments, etc...
“The textile manufacturers are expanding into retail markets because textile manufacturing and exports have become unviable owing to a steep rise in the cost of doing business...
In January 2015, the retail price of gram pulse was Rs75-80 per kg, while white and black grams were selling at Rs115 and Rs88 a kg, respectively...
Naim Anwar, Chief Executive Officer Crescent Star Insurance (CSIC), told this writer last Wednesday that in addition to the conventional cover they have offered for decades to corporations in the marine, motor and fire sectors, many insurance companies were now diversifying to cater to the needs of individuals...
CSICL had also reached out to individuals and retail clients through various company schemes such as ‘Seehat Aasaan’, ‘Car...
Globally, retail investors account for nearly 40pc of the investments in financial markets...
Keeping in view the potential for retail investment in Pakistan, the share of retail investers in capital and money market remains abnormally low...