Abstract :

The Indian retail industry is a growing segment and there are several players in entire India. Some of the big names are Reliance Retail, Future Retail, Spar, Spencer’s, Ratandeep, and many more. They are present in different states of India and catering a huge urban population. In any retail store, category plays a vital role and its management is very important. Sales of any retail chain is dependent on better and effective management of different categories. For every category, there are some of the main brands which lead the category sales. Category captains may play important roles in driving the overall retail chain business. Category captains can formulate the strategy for different product categories and can suggest the retail chain for implementing the same. However, the final decision is taken by retail chains only.

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Keywords :

Category Captains, Category Management, Grocery Retail Chain, profitability, Space allocation, Suppliers

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