The Make in India initiative launched by the Indian Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi on 25th September 2014. The major objective behind the initiative is to focus on 25 sectors of the economy for job creation and skill enhancement. The sectors include leather, automobiles, textiles, ports, aviation, railways, mining, IT, chemicals, renewable energy, tourism and hospitality and wellness to name a few. It also aims at accelerating the GDP growth and tax revenue. This initiative also hopes to attract capital and technological investment in India. This initiative has helped create a positive vibe in the business environment. Businesses are now eager to take their investments forward and are looking for locations for local manufacture. With …show more content…
A myth eluding the luxury brand market for years has been that customers with their discriminating preferences and choices would not buy expensive goods online. They would opt for the personalized customer service and tactile shopping experience provided by the mono-brand brick and mortar stores. A major shift in this behavior of the customer had opened up doors for the luxury brands to capture a larger market share through e-commerce. Customers are not only willing to buy luxury goods online but are also comfortable with the undiscounted rates.
India offers a vibrant e- commerce market with around 300 Internet users making it the second largest market after China. The growth rate has also led experts to believe that it may mature sooner than other economies. The emerging trend is the growth of the Internet retailing as a distribution channel in the luxury-retailing sector. Many designers are willing to compromise their exclusivity and enter the multi brand retail outlets for enhanced visibility and demand. The luxury brand giant Jimmy Choo has also started partnering with Jabong.com and Myntra.com to bring the overall shopping experience to the customer with the ease of a mouse click from the comfort of home. The other premium brands included in the section of jabong.com include French Connection, ALDO, HiDesign, Mango, Tommy Hilfiger, GAS, GANT, Nautica, River Island and Steve Madden. The rising trend in Internet
According to Luxury Activist (2016), luxury goods purchase in physical stores has been growing by 3% since 2013, online sales have a solid 20% growth reaching 6.7 billion pounds. Indeed, luxury sales online have reached 12.5 billion pounds in 2014, doubled it from the previous year. McKinsey forecasts all luxury brands would embrace the online market by 2025 (75% was digitally influenced until 2014), the online luxury sales may go up to 62.5 billion pounds (Remy, Catena and Durand-Servoingt, 2015). The online share of total online luxury sales was expected to double from 6% (in 2015) to 12% by
Luxury fashion items can be acquired via several different avenues, as well as at several different price points in today’s market. Previously, the only options consumers had for the acquisition of luxury fashion goods was to purchase directly from the retail store; however, now there are an enormous amount of resources for consumers to opt for a used product at a much lower price by shopping on websites like eBay, or by purchasing from the growing amount of high-end consignment stores. Another option that luxury fashion consumers can easily utilize is to buy the item new and at a cheaper price by shopping at outlet stores or discount department stores like Nordstrom Rack and T.J. Maxx. Finally, these consumers have the option to borrow. Websites like BagBorrowOrSteal.com have created hugely profitable businesses by making the latest luxury accessory available to be rented at a cost that is a fraction of what the item would cost if purchased new from the retailer. These options have granted a much larger array of people the opportunity to experience aspects of the luxury lifestyle and the luxury image than ever before.
At the apex of the market was haute couture with it very high-end “custom” product offering that catered to the extremely wealthy. Luxury goods manufacturers believed diffusion brand’s lower profit margins were offset by the opportunity for increased sales volume and the growing size of the accessible luxury market and protected margins on such products by sourcing production to low-wage countries. Eye-catching utilization of their products by prominent figures in society leads to increasing demands for luxury good items and it is a growing industry with the global luxury goods market growing 9% per year. These consumers buy their products for satisfaction and to boost their self-esteem rather than for ease or comfort. All these components blend in the context of a successful business of the luxury goods.
This behavior brings competitive advantages to the European luxury brands. Moreover, customers in different countries have different purchase behaviors. For instance, some countries’ customers are willing to move away from common recognized brand, because they want to purchase more exclusive products. Furthermore, because of the increasing speed of globalization, people are more likely willing to travel between different countries. These travelers will buy luxury good during their trips. In fact, Chinese tourists contributed over one third of sales in Europe. The luxury goods industry should notice to adjust the actual demand between local people and tourists in Europe
Although neither region experienced tremendous stability, the early states of China and modern-day India consistently followed their own styles of state-building practices. These powerful states in East and South Asia, respectively, used quite different methods of state-building, with their techniques greatly mirroring their different levels of desired interaction with outsiders. While the Chinese focused on state-building from within, the empires of modern-day India were more open to outsiders and their potential contributions to Indian society.
The core value unit that luxury retailers designed their businesses around isn't a car anymore - it is seamlessness, convenience, speed and quality of personal service. In both short-run and long-run, the great amount of inputs for luxury-feeling grabs martial, human and time resources from the core of cars industry, technologies development.
With concern to 26 to 45 years old consumers, we believe that a personal shopper service and made to order service might be useful solutions in order to have their loyalty giving them specific services that only luxury brands do. In fact, that way they can get the most out of their luxury buying experience. To finish, we also suggest the creation of events during which the can purchase new collections in advance, generally the day before the collections are officially out in stores.
Due to the fast development of the Internet and the growing popularity of online shopping, some argue that the online shopping will substitute store shopping ultimately. For some products such as books and tickets, that might be true, however, for product like apparel - a kind of high-risk and hedonistic product, it is not the case. This essay demonstrates why it is less possible for online apparel shopping to substitute store apparel shopping and how it serves as a complement for store apparel shopping. Finally, some implications on how to make the online apparel shopping more appealing are given.
Luxury is uniqueness, attitude and ethnicity. Internet is purely a medium of communication for Luxury brands. The industry has been showing less dedication towards integrating complex technologies and its associated interactive and digital tools in marketing and overall commerce strategies. There is also a push to be present on the internet to evolve consumer needs and expectations. The initiation of internet as a universal supply channel provided an unparalleled medium by which to boost brand awareness and recover market share. This proposal provides an outline for exploratory research in sustaining the luxury brands online. The study overlaps research findings on internet marketing and consumer behavior for luxury brands.
The Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) was formed in 1895, with a purpose of creating a sustainable environment for growth and development of Indian industries. CII provides consulting services to the Indian government on various policy issues, increasing efficiency and accelerating economic growth to promote the aspirations of tomorrow’s India. Having partnered with diverse industries, CII has acquired an invaluable expertise which would help India emerge as a global power in the near future.
“Make in India” campaign is an initiative that attracts the industrialists to make India a manufacturing hub that helps to create jobs. India ranks 142nd in the ease of doing business and it is becoming increasingly difficult for both Indian and foreign businessmen to start a business in India. The infrastructure in India is not good enough to attract investors. There is a lack of proper connectivity between the cities in India. The other bottleneck are taxation, Government policies, labor laws, ease of obtaining licenses and land acquisition. India must also compete with its neighbor China as both the nations are seen as growing
In order to establish itself firmly as a superpower and a self-reliant nation, India needs to commit itself to the cause of Indian manufacturing. Like the initial few years after Independence, the current government has to focus heavily on improving the quality of Indian made goods to compete in a world which is becoming increasingly competitive. This is the right opportunity because it has been decades since a party with absolute majority has come to power.
The Indus was one of the world’s oldest civilisations dating back to 3000BC. Originating in the south of India, they built complex and mathematically planned cities. They introduced commerce and agriculture to the region, trading as far as Mesopotamia. India’s history is intricately tied to its geographical location as a gateway between the East and West. India’s first invaders arrived around 1500 BC. An invaders paradise, the Aryans invaded from the north in 1500BC, dispersing south over the next seven hundred years. The Aryans brought strong cultural traditions including the Caste system and the foundation for many Indian based religions.
In the year 2014, the Government of India launched an ambitious campaign called the “Make in India”. The campaign’s main aim is to build and further develop the country’s manufacturing industry by making the country attractive for FDI. As a result of the launch of the campaign, within merely 9 months, from 2014 October to 2015 June, there was a rise in FDI by almost 40%. (Kaur, J. 2016). Out of the numerous objectives that Make in India sets its eyes upon, the following are relevant for the scope of this paper:
Other supporting industries like the engineering and fabrication, foundry and castings, mineral processing, automobile, process industries and plethora of interrelated industries will be huge beneficiaries of these initiatives. All the initiatives are expected to bring in radical changes in the macroeconomic outlook of the country in next 5-10 years. The large pool of highly agile, young, technically skilled, elitist, and English perceptive engineers, scientists, managers, and artisans will play a crucial role in the economic transformation of India. The creation of the manufacturing corridors with requisite and ready to move infrastructures will definitely catalyze the growth of the manufacturing sectors. With these initiatives and confidence given by the government of the day, the prevailing perception of the overseas investors, especially from the western world is gradually changing in favour of India. According to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI, 2014), the FDI is expected to touch US $ 65-70 billion by the end of