Saturday, September 13, 2014

Sabatical of Different Kind

Well it's been a long time indeed since I embellished my Blog.
It's just a sign of a few things - one, busy? Nah! a Lame excuse. Lack of time is the worst of excuses to make for something you are passionate about, and retail is one such in my life. Its my only life and first Love.  Two - Re-Discovery of myself or as Kishore Biyani has tended to make it popular inside Future Group- Re-Imagine my own mind? Yes that seems the more plausible excuse.
In more than a year that I have not blogged, time was spent in seeing the Future Fresh Foods the F&V initiative under Future Group merged back into the group from being a separate company. This was a great disappointment for me, where it looked as if top management had little interest in developing F&V as a stand alone profitable business.
But added to my portfolio was KB's Fair Price stores. Small locality grocery stores. In a year from May 2013 to May 2014, it was almost a turn around story in all aspects of the business- category intelligence, replenishment, stock and cash arrangement, vendor terms etc. All parameters looked good.
But my own expiry date in Future group had reached. :)
Just as well.
FRESHKINS, was the result of my leaving. With Neeraj Gupta to set up the neighbourhood retail stores in franchise mode,  concept to roll out was a pleasure.
The new though now emerging - Online. It beckons.

I M back and I will blog !