A Microeconomic Analysis of Indian Retail Industry

India is one of the most desirable retail destinations in the world. India’s twin growth engines of economic growth and demographic

In this segment, the retailer J.C. Penney will be analyzed against the department store retail industry, with particular emphasis placed upon their competitors, Macy’s and Kohl’s. The major components to be discussed will include the general external environment (i.e. demographics, economics, politics, legal requirements, technologies and global expansion), the industry environment, the competitive environment, the driving forces and the key factors for success within the industry. In terms of the general external environment, the retail industry is a multi-trillion dollar business in the United States alone and maintains operations primarily due to consumer spending. Such purchases rely upon the disposable income of

The Australia retail sector is under huge pressures from many different forces. In the recent Lander & Rogers Briefing, Myer CEO Bernie Brooks referred to the current environment as ‘the third big revolution of the past 100 years’ for retail. This analysis will look at recent opinions and commentary on the Australian retail sector, with a focus on the potential consequences for the economic future for Myer. These commentaries will assist in highlighting the forces that are in play within the sector

As we all know, the retail industry is very crucial and is highly competitive. As this company

In the United States, department stores have existed as a very large segment of the retailing world. The industry is rolling towards change and challenge as external influences drive demand setting. Department Store sales have been steadily dropping and are projected to continue to decline at about 17% from the year 2011 to 2021. Mintel Academic predicts that sales in this industry are going to drop in 2017 to $54.3 billion, 8% less than the year 2016 (Mintel Academic). This industry is in the declining stage of its life cycle, with revenue steadily declining at a rate of 4% over the past five years until 2017.

Executive summary The purpose of this report is to have an overview of the opportunities and challenges in relation to the retail industry, specifically focusing on Myer as a department store. An analysis on the macro environment including a PESTLE analysis of the retail industry as well as porters five forces in relation to Myer. A VRIO analysis is also conducted to identify the organisations competitive advantage. The retail industry is constantly changing as it needs to be able to adapt to the wants and needs of society at hand, where technology has become a significant impact on shopping and completing everyday tasks.

For this purpose the retailers were interviewed. Visits were made to retailing stores in west Nagpur area. Lastly, an analysis of the competitors like Prestige and Hawkins was also carried out to find out about their activities in the retail direction.

India is standing on the threshold of a retail revolution and witnessing fast changing retail

•  India's $250 billion retail business is the eighth largest in the world and has the potential to grow 7 per cent by 2011. [McKinsey Report] For a company already dominating the world markets, this is an un-passable opportunity.

Market entry strategy involves the essential requirement for a company to get into international level. The need of involving other companies whereby two companies join together is referred to as joint venture entry. They get into a similar market and make the same production with the aim of sharing risk and at the same time they share the profit according to their terms of agreement (Kretzberg, 2007). Therefore, Lincoln Electric Company has a chance to join with other company to venture in the Indian market.

The media coverage of the expansion plan of Walmart in the India has focused mainly on the negative impact of the entry of such a retail giant on the small retail businesses. The retail business in India contributes to around 14 to 15 percent of the Indian GDP. A major portion of the Indian retail shopping takes place in small groceries and retail shops in open markets. In most of the cases, the seller is the owner. Continuous price bargaining is an

Doug Stephens’ The Retail Revival highlights the fundamental challenges that today’s executives and entrepreneurs must manage to not only succeed but to continue to exist as “the fat and lazy era in consumerism is giving way to a lean, creative and inspired age” (Stephens 228). As large companies, digital giants, and e-commerce businesses become larger and larger, one may come to think that the day and age for retail is over. However, Stephens strongly disagrees with this notion and instead holds the belief that retail is entering an even more exciting and honest era.

4b.The next article, “Their oyster, with grit included”, discuses cross border deals that India is involved in. Most Indian firms are aspiring to be multinationals, and succeeding. Some of the way these firms are achieving this is through vertical integration, acquisition and using a Greenfield approach. This is successful because Indian workers are already used to a very diverse workforce. Another approach that is gaining success is firms being pocket multinationals meaning that acquire small businesses abroad and use those small businesses to maintain a presence. A benefit of being a pocket multinational is having access to new technology, products and markets but merging to different very cultures of two different firms is always a challenge. Foreign firms in investing in India are not having the easiest time either. Most Indian

The retail industry is extremely competitive particularly during the current economic conditions when customers have limited spending power (Bloomberg, 2009). Therefore, it is crucial that the business owner assess all of the factors which determine the profitability of a store. Since the financial figures are unavailable for all of the different outlets, the success of the store will be assessed using the same physical factors which can be observed; location, client flow, employee cost, pricing, inventory levels, marketing strategy and customer service. To evaluate what makes a store’s performance good, two successful and two unsuccessful stores will be looked at and the same

It shows that between 2004 and 2007, total retail growth was only 4.6% while online retail was increased by 130% (The Times 100, NA) (Table 5). With no doubt, it seems more difficult for retail shops to survive, but Lindquist (2002) stated that shoppers prefer to integrate internet shopping with other forms of shopping (Lindquist et al., 2002). The supply chain of Topshop and its changes can help us to understand how retail shops nowadays adjust its position in the