Business Desk
February 10, 2025
Since the strongly contested elections held on February 8 last year, Pakistan’s economy has faced its fair share of challenges. […]
HBL is Pakistan’s largest bank by almost every metric that matters: assets, branch network, international presence, and retail penetration. What it has historically struggled with is something that balance sheets cannot measure: emotional relevance. For most of its existence, HBL has communicated as a bank communicates products, rates, reach, and reliability. Competent positioning for an […]
Pakistan has no official Brand Loyalty Index. No YouGov BrandIndex. No Kantar BrandZ Pakistan edition. No nationally published, annually updated instrument that tells marketers which brands are actually winning repeat purchase, emotional attachment, and switching resistance across the country’s 240 million consumers. What exists instead is a fragmented picture assembled from a Nielsen consumer survey […]
As remittances approach $1tn annually, digital payment companies are expanding beyond transfers into cross-border financial ecosystems. Global remittances have quietly become one of the largest financial flows in the world. Each year, migrant workers send hundreds of billions of dollars to families and communities across developing economies. According to migration and financial market data, global […]
The Majority of Lahoris Express Satisfaction with the Punjab Government’s Safety Measures During Basant this year Most Lahore residents expressed satisfaction with the Punjab Government’s safety and security measures implemented during the Basant celebrations, held from 6th February to late into the night on 8th February. According to a telephonic survey conducted by PulseConsultant, around […]
Let’s stop calling Basant a “festival.” Calling it a festival puts it in the same category as a school funfair. Basant is not just a festival; it is a micro-economy. It is a tourism engine. And for an advertiser like me, it is perhaps the single most potent organic “Brand Pakistan” campaign we have, and […]
Which country will adopt the $440 billion per year business of making cheap products and sending them to America? The news suggests maybe it’ll be India, but it could also be Mexico or Vietnam. Ryan Peason is bullish on Vietnam, highlighting its internal river network as a cheap natural infrastructure advantage. He also mentioned India […]
