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Shilpa Gupta, Head Retail, FMCG, Gems & Jewellery Division, FICCI introduces Rod Young, Chairman, DC Strategy, who talks about the franchise model importance in India and the best practices that can be implemented. As every retailer is using the Omni-channel route, Gaurav Mahajan, President, Raymond Group discusses about how franchisees are taking the route and are they trained enough to do so. Sandeep Ahuja, CEO, VLCC explains how the brand is looking at fast and safe delivery.

Anjali Raina , Executive Director of the Harvard Business School India Research Centre holds an MBA from the IIM, Calcutta. Under Anjali's leadership, the HBS IRC has facilitated the writing of over 171case studies on Indian Business Practice and supported 69research projects. She has co-authored several case studies such as Aadhaar: India's 'Unique Identification' System, TeamLease: Putting India to Work (II) Legally and many more. She is a Director on the Board of Harvard Business Publishing, India, the Regional President (Western Region) of NHRDN, Trustee to LIFE Trust, an Advisory Member on the Board of HBS Club of India.

In conversation with Franchise India, she highlighted the scenario of higher education in India and how HBS is imparting high quality education to our young generation.

Mohit sharma has great interest in mobile solutions, analytics and big data, business intelligence, decision support system. He is heading R&D of Romio, which has recently developed Android POS on cloud technology. His vision is to provide customised solutions to restaurant chains which can solve their day to day problem and increases their revenue. Talking at Indian Restaurant Congress 2015, he talks about ‘how technology is changing the dining experience’.

Hemant Rupani leads the multi category Sales function for Britannia Industries Limited spanning over Biscuits, Cakes, Rusk and Dairy. While Britannia has been well known for its brands, under Hemant’s leadership, the company has done some cutting edge work on distribution models, sales information systems and performance management. In his time spent with Britannia the company has delivered growths ahead of industry, gained market leadership, scaled up direct distribution by over 60 per cent, reduced spends by over a third and done all this with lesser manning. Talking to Restaurant India, he shares the “Growth Rate of Britannia”.

India has a nascent yet promising licensing market with a worth of around $1 billion. The rising middle class, more disposable income and increasing aspirations are fueling the market thus making a lucrative market for retailers and manufacturers, says Martin Brochstein, SVP Industry Relations and Information, LIMA Worldwide while speaking at Brand Licensing Conference 2015.