Finance

The rising demand for food and groceries on e-commerce platforms will fuel the growth in the cold storage business, property consultant CBRE has said, and estimated that the total storage capacity as well as the real estate space in this segment will double by 2023. In its report on the cold storage segment, the consultant said that the overall cold storage real estate stock stood at 750800 million square feet in 2018 and is expected to rise to 1,4001,500 million sq ft by 2023. The overall cold storage capacity in 2018 stood at 3739…

October 16, 2020 6 min readOpinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Any business book or LinkedIn coach will tell you that you need a great product, supply chain, and distribution strategy for your e-commerce business. That’s all true, but oftentimes direct to consumer brands miss one big strategic focus — community development. Companies like Glossier treat their customers as influencers. BestBuy has an exclusive network of “Tech Insiders.” Curology has a community strategy directly embedded into their business model and Sephora has their #SephoraSquad that redefines what an influencer is to a modern brand. All of these…

This year has brought unprecedented upheaval to American parents. With kids at home as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, sick loved ones needing care, and rising unemployment, mothers and fathers have been under tremendous strain. The American Psychological Association’s survey on Stress in America 2020, published in July, found that “parents are, on average, feeling significantly higher levels of stress than adults without children.” On a 10-point scale, the parents surveyed put their stress at 6.7 on average, with nearly half saying it’s between 8 and 10. When I asked the APA for a breakdown by gender, they informed…

A top-performing emerging-market bond fund is avoiding investments in Russia, China, and Saudi Arabia as the three countries score too low in its ratings for environmental, social, and governance risks. The $1.5-billion Candriam SRI Bond Emerging Markets Fund has outperformed almost 90 per cent of peers in the past three years and screens for ESG factors. The bottom 25 per cent of countries on the fund’s ranking get blacklisted, no matter how big a role they play in the bond world. This approach could be a harbinger of the challenges facing…

October 15, 2020 5 min readDisclosure: Our goal is to feature products and services that we think you’ll find interesting and useful. If you purchase them, Entrepreneur may get a small share of the revenue from the sale from our commerce partners. When it comes to marketing a small business, the days when you could rely solely on things like foot traffic and word of mouth are long gone. Today, if you want your small business to succeed, you have to help people to find your brand online, which means you have to engage in online marketing. The only…

Insurers need to expand the ambit of health insurance to include outpatient care as part of the health insurance system to get Young India into buying insurance. It is time for insurers to move on to primary and secondary care, and preventive care as they have been focused on tertiary care and hospitalisation for long, said Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India Chairman Subhash Chandra Khuntia. More often than not, health insurance kicks in when the patient is hospitalised. Outpatient department (OPD) treatment refers to diagnosis done on the advice of a medical practitioner or…

The Association of Mutual Funds in India (Amfi), an industry body, said on Thursday that it has not sent any proposal to the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) for launching a new benchmark index or placing a cap on any stock. It added that the industry would continue adhering to Sebi’s guidance regarding capping of a single stock. Referring to a report in a section of the media about Amfi/asset management companies (AMCs) proposing to Sebi the launch of a new benchmark index, the industry body in a statement…

October 14, 2020 12 min readOpinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. We all want more exposure because that is the lifeblood of a successful business.  Unfortunately, most people don’t earn anywhere near the exposure they want because they don’t know how and they don’t have a documented process to produce it consistently. They’ll dabble a little here and there, and when they don’t get the results they’re looking for, most will simply throw their hands up in exasperation and exclaim, “I guess this doesn’t work!”  Today, I have both good news and bad news for you on…