Coconut water has arrived in American in a tetrapak all the way from Brazil. I hope somebody in India has seen this tetrapak and take a leaf out of the savvy Brazilian’s marketing techniques. Coconut is supposed to be native to South Asia (Wikipedia).
It was strange to drink coconut water from a tetrapak. I grew […]
Kamla's Blog posts on ‘Retail Industry’
By Kamla Bhatt • Apr 26th, 2008 • Category: Americas, Ideas, India - Latin America, Life, Retail Industry
By Kamla Bhatt • Mar 16th, 2008 • Category: Americas, Business, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, New York, Retail Industry, Social Media, TechLife - Financial Express, Technology, Web 2.0
In this week’s Sunday Column in Financial Express I look at corporate blogging in the USA. Why USA you ask? That is where corporate blogging has found quite a bit of traction in the past five years. I turned to David Berkowitz of Inside the Marketer’s Studio and Steve Rubel of Micro Persuasion to find […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Dec 17th, 2007 • Category: Bangalore, Business, Diaspora, Electronic gadgets, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Internet and Telecom India, Retail Industry, Start-ups, TechLife - Financial Express
In this Sunday’s TechLife column in Financial Express (Dec 16, 2007) my attempt was to look back at 2007 and identify new areas of growth in the mobile value-added systems in India.
Here is the article.
WhenI read the monthly phone subscriber numbers published by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, it sometimes feels like tracking the […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Aug 28th, 2007 • Category: Bombay/Mumbai, Business, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, India, Retail Industry, Technology
The fight for retail rupees and dollars is on in India in a serious way, especially through the Foreign Direct (FDI) Investment route. There is still a lot of resistance to allow FDI and according to the current rules and regulation only 51 percent of FDI is allowed and that too only for single-brand retailing. (Listen to Shardul Shroff […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jun 28th, 2007 • Category: Business, Diaspora, Ideas, India, Retail Industry, Technology
Starbucks in India: Starbucks India plans needs to be tweaked. The Government of India has asked Seattle-based Starbucks to refile its application to do busyness in India. Starbucks was looking to enter India via the franchise route by teaming up with Kishore Biyani of the Future Group and others. The Economic Times is reporting that […]
By Kamla Bhatt • May 2nd, 2007 • Category: Internet and Telecom, Internet and Telecom India, New Delhi, New York, Podcast, Retail Industry, Venture Capital
In part two of our podcast conversation with Shardul Shroff, we discuss foreign direct investment in the retail and telecom sectors of India. These two sectors have seen some huge growth, and along with it there have been some significant legal changes in these two areas. Mr. Shroff and his company have been involved with […]
Kamla Bhatt is the host and producer of an Internet Radio show where listeners can find stories about the new and emerging India and the global Indian community. As a pioneer of 'internet radio' format in India Kamla started her first show News about India, followed by TalkNewsIndia in 2005. In 2006 she premiered her new show: The Kamla Bhatt Show: Life, People and Ideas. 
