siliconindia | | May 20184A joint report by ASSOCHAM and MRSSIndia.com states that the Indian retail market is expected to grow over 60 percent to hit $1.1 trillion by 2020 from $672 billion in 2017. Lifestyle changes and rising income of middle class segments will be the major drivers of these numbers apart from changing demographic profile, increasing disposable incomes, urbanisation, changing consumer tastes & preferences and others. However, with the increasing market size and opportunities, the challenges are sure to surmount. From reaching out to the emerging tier-II and III cities to managing warehouses to showrooms, auditing the stock, ac-counts and compliances, and fixed assets, retail organizations need better assistance in solving these quandaries. Hence, retail distributors and consultants market are on constant rise, paral-lelly contributing significantly towards the smooth functioning of the retailers. While these consultants help find the most profit-able and viable locations to open new stores, they even frame strategies to grow these stores organically and inorganically. On the other hand, ensuring timely distribution and sourcing of sound products from enriched brands are another burning predicaments of the retailers. Helping them do so are the retail distributors who shuffle the entire globe to find the best products that their customers need. Bringing multiple brands under one roof, these distributors are a shy of relief for many. Understanding that such distributors and consultants are the two important wheels that drive the retail growth story, siliconindia brings you `10 Most Promising Retail Consultants - 2018' and `10 Most Promising Distributors in Retail - 2018'.Do let us know what you think! Anamika SahuManaging Editoreditor@siliconindia.comEditorialThe Enablers of `Retail' Growth Story siliconindia Vol 06 · Issue 10 - 1 · May, 2018 Publisher Alok Chaturvedi Managing Editor Anamika Sahu Associate Editor Susila Govindaraj Editorial Team Aiswarya Babu K Ananth.V Karthik Muralidhar Krupa P. Dave Shefali Mathur Sophia Rohtagi Sujith Vasudevan Srrayvinya OLM Trisha Pragya VP - Sales & Marketing Virupakshi Pattar Advertising Managers Editorial queries editor@siliconindia.com To subscribe Visit https://www.siliconindiamagazine.com/subscribe/ or send email to subscription@siliconindia.com Cover price is Rs.150 per issue. Printed and Published By Alok Chaturvedi on behalf of SiliconMedia Technologies Pvt Ltd and Printed at Precision Fototype Services at Sri Sabari Shopping Complex, 24 Residency Road Bangalore-560025 and Published At No. 124, 2nd Floor, Surya Chambers, Old Airport Road, Murugeshpalya, Bangalore-560017. Editor Alok ChaturvediCopyright © 2018 SiliconMedia Technologies Pvt Ltd, All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher.advertise@siliconindia.comVisualisers S Sivasankar Mohana KrishnanGroup Art DirectorAshok KumarNoidaAshu Sethi Garima Anand Circulation Manager Magendran PerumalAmeet Kumar Sahoo Nicky Kumari Samatha SP Sambit Satpathy Susnigdha Bhowmik
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