rai conducted a conference on Modern Food Retailing at Hyderabad recently. This conference coincided with the exhibition of World of Food India 2004, held at HITEX, Hyderabad on 10th December 2004. Given the tremendous potential for expansion of food retail business in India, this seminar was very well attended.

The sessions covered at the above workshop were:-
- Strategic Food Retailing: Winning Customers' Baskets!
R Subramanian, Managing Director, Subhiksha Trading Services Pvt. Ltd. Chennai

-Ensuring Category & Merchandising Efficiencies in Food Retailing
Andrew Levermore, Head Merchandising - Food Division, Shoppers' Stop, Mumbai

- Meeting Supply Chain Challenges In Modern Food Retailing
Susil Dungarwal, CEO Lakewood Malls Pvt. Ltd. Mumbai

- Successful Café Retailing: The café Coffee Day Way
Sudipta Sen Gupta, Head - Marketing Café Coffee Day, Bangalore

- Organized Food Retailing: Raring to Get Set and Grow!
Subhankar Sen, Manager, In & Out, BPCL, Mumbai