Category: Retail

Quick answer: Nike has no parent company. It’s a publicly traded company (NYSE: NKE) with no single owner, but co-founder Phil Knight and his family effectively control it. Through a dual-class share structure, the Knight family holds roughly 20% of total shares but commands about 97% of the voting power that elects most of the […]

Introduction: What is Inditex? Inditex — formally Industria de Diseño Textil, S.A. — is one of the world’s largest fashion retail groups and the company behind some of the most recognisable clothing brands on the high street. Headquartered in Arteixo, a small town near A Coruña in the north-west of Spain, the group operates eight […]

ITC Limited is one of India’s foremost private sector conglomerates — a company that has, over more than a century, reinvented itself from a single-product tobacco business into one of the most diversified and admired corporate groups in Asia. Founded in 1910 as the Imperial Tobacco Company of India Limited and headquartered in Kolkata, ITC […]

Burger King has been stirring the fast-food pot since 1953 — flame-grilling its burgers when McDonald’s was frying, crowning customers as royalty when competitors pushed brand mascots, and confessing its own failures on national television at the 2026 Oscars. In an industry defined by conformity, Burger King has consistently chosen provocation over politeness, and it […]

Every time a diner orders a Caesar salad, a grilled salmon, or a simple cup of soup at a restaurant in the United States — or in France, the United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland, or six other countries — there is a roughly one-in-six chance that every ingredient on that plate was delivered by Sysco Corporation. […]

Mahashian Di Hatti Private Limited, infamously known as MDH is the second-largest player in the spices industry with a 12% market share next only to Everest. MDH currently operates 15 factories that together produce and sell 64 different kinds of spices. In the year 2020, the company reported a net income of Rs 420 crore. […]

“Sparking Optimism in Everyone, Everyday”, With this mission in mind, Colgate Palmolive, through its persistence efforts positioned itself in such a manner that the people in India started calling toothpaste Colgate. That is indeed the power of Marketing! More than 200 years old, the company Colgate-Palmolive, focussed in the Personal Care business, has its Oral […]

The first Wendy’s restaurant was started in 1969, in Columbus, Ohio. By the 1980s, it had become the nation’s third-largest hamburger restaurant chain, following only McDonald’s and Burger King. The founder of the company was Dave Thomas, who would become as well known as a philanthropist as he was as a businessman. Thomas got his […]

India’s food & grocery market doubled from $300 billion in 2013 to $600 billion in 2019. In this period, growth was driven by traditional retailers – popular local corner shops that offer an assortment of products. In the lead up to 2024, researchers from RedSeer Consulting and BigBasket Brand Intelligence expect another ~$200 billion jump […]

Founded in 1976, Costco Wholesale Corporation operates as a wholesale retail club with a distinctive annual membership model which sets it apart from other traditional retailers such as JC Penney and Target. Deriving its revenues from annual membership fees, Costco has been able to compete aggressively on price and has become known for providing a […]

IKEA was founded in 1943 by a 17-year-old Swedish boy named Ingvar Kamprad. Initially, he was selling Christmas greeting cards, seeds, and pens from Kamprad’s family farm. From his childhood, he had entrepreneurial instincts. As he identified people’s needs, he attempted to satisfy them by selling low price products which ultimately gave growth to Kamprad […]