Category: 3. Business

 

In an age where young Indians chase global corporate jobs and polished office titles, a surprising career pivot is quietly playing out on India’s retail shopfloors — even foreign-qualified graduates are choosing frontline retail training to get job-ready.

 

It’s not because they ran out of options. It’s because many are figuring out something early: degrees open doors, but don’t always prepare you for the moment when a customer is standing in front of you — impatient, uncertain, comparing brands, and expecting answers in seconds.

 

This shift is becoming visible in Samsung’s DOST Sales Programme, which has steadily grown into a structured route for young professionals to learn the business from the ground up. The 2026 cohort reflects that change clearly — with participants coming from diverse academic backgrounds, including graduates with international education, choosing hands-on retail experience as a foundation for long-term careers.

 

So, what exactly is DOST? Put simply, it is a structured retail skilling programme that trains youth for organised sales roles through a mix of classroom learning and on-ground store exposure. Participants learn customer handling, product understanding, communication, and the basics of retail operations — skills that often decide whether a fresher stays stuck at entry-level or grows.

 

India’s retail market today is no longer about simply “selling”. It’s about solving. Customers arrive with online reviews, price comparisons, and strong opinions. And the shopfloor executive isn’t just a salesperson anymore — they are a guide, problem-solver, and trust-builder in a fast-moving consumer environment.

 

 

For Quazi Faizan Afroz Akhlaque Uz Zama (27), an MBA graduate from Amravati University currently training in Amravati, the programme has been less about theory and more about learning real-time decision-making.

 

 

“Through training and hands-on exposure, I learned how to communicate with customers, manage situations, and make informed decisions in real time,” he said. “Understanding customer behaviour and product differentiation has helped me approach conversations with clarity and confidence.”

 

But the headline moments in this year’s cohort come from those with global exposure. Take Rashneet Kaur Chhabra (26) — a graduate of University College London (UCL) with a master’s degree in architecture focused on Bio-Integrated Design — now training in Pune.

 

It’s not a conventional move. But she says it’s a necessary one.

 

“The diversity of the programme — across age, background, and experience — helped me understand business from a very human perspective,” she said. “In India, retail is deeply rooted in relationships and cultural understanding. Building trust and personal connection with customers is central, and that’s a lesson I will carry into global markets.”

 

Her experience captures what many young professionals are discovering: real confidence is built on the shopfloor — not in a classroom. It comes from conversations you can’t script, objections you can’t predict, and pressure situations you can’t pause.

 

The international footprint of the cohort also includes participants like Tushar, a Mechanical Engineering graduate from the University of Technology, Sydney, underlining a growing view among youth — that frontline experience can be a serious career accelerator, not a temporary stop.

 

Beyond individual journeys, programmes like DOST Sales reflect a broader shift in what employability now means in India. While companies across sectors often speak about “future-ready talent”, the challenge is real: many graduates are qualified but not fully prepared for high-pressure customer environments, performance-driven roles, and rapid on-the-spot problem-solving.

 

That’s where structured retail skilling programmes can have a larger social impact — turning education into experience, and experience into opportunity. For many young Indians, especially first-generation professionals, the shopfloor is not just a workplace — it is where confidence is built, careers take shape, and ambition becomes practical.

 

“With its industry-first, five-month training framework, Samsung DOST is addressing a critical need for job-ready talent in the retail ecosystem. The sharp rise in enrolments this year, including candidates with global education exposure, reflects the growing relevance of the programme. At a time when digital transformation is reshaping retail, DOST is helping build a skilled workforce equipped for the future,” said Shubham Mukherjee, Head, CSR & Corporate Communications, Samsung Southwest Asia.

 

As India’s organised retail economy expands, the demand for professionals who can combine product knowledge with customer trust-building is only rising. And for an increasing number of globally educated young Indians, starting at the ground level is no longer seen as “small”.

 

It’s seen as smart. Because in today’s economy, the fastest way to learn isn’t always through a job title.

 

Sometimes, it begins by proving yourself — one customer at a time.

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The proposed hybrid LTESA would sit alongside the existing Generation LTESA designed for stand-alone generation projects, offering long-term contracts for renewable energy, firming and storage projects in NSW.

ASL, NSW’s consumer trustee for the state’s electricity infrastructure roadmap, is tasked with ensuring the long-term financial interests of consumers by improving affordability, reliability, security and the sustainability of electricity supply. Recognising that hybrid projects have an important role in meeting ASL’s stretch target of 16 GW of new generation by 2030, the new hybrid LTESA seeks to ensure hybrid wind and solar renewable projects are both commercially viable and are ultimately delivered to the market.

The hybrid LTESA aims to fast track the development and bidding process for renewable generation, firming and long duration storage projects in New South Wales, in line with the upcoming NSW roadmap tenders for new projects.

Market stakeholders are being invited to submit their views by 16 February on two potential options for the hybrid generation LTESA.

The first, a fixed shape-fixed volume product, would mean developers bid a set volume of energy they’ll supply while the government sets the fixed shape for that energy. Developers will nominate an annual payment cap on how much they receive in a year.

The second, a generation-following with price risk sharing model, would have developers offering the government a settlement based on how much electricity is actually sent into the grid, minus what they draw from it, with each developer setting a maximum amount they can pay or receive each year. This model includes a price-risk sharing percentage, currently proposed at 50%, to ensure projects are operating in a revenue maximising way.

Nick Li, an expert in renewable energy at Pinsent Masons, said: “This consultation on a hybrid LTESA was launched because there has been a noticeable shift away from standalone solar projects to solar-hybrid projects in the development pipeline. We encourage developers and other stakeholders with NSW hybrid projects in development to review this new LTESA product and provide comments to ASL.”

23/01/2026

Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
President: Norio Nakajima

Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (President: Norio Nakajima; hereinafter, “Murata”) is pleased to announce that it has entered into a virtual PPA¹ (hereinafter, “this PPA”) with Cosmo Eco Power Co., Ltd. (President: Fumiaki Nokura; hereinafter, “Cosmo Eco Power”) effective January 14, 2026. 
^{1 Virtual PPA: A contractual arrangement whereby a consumer procures only the environmental value, not the actual electricity generated, from a renewable energy power plant installed off-site}

Through this PPA, Murata will receive environmental value with additionality² in the form of NFCs from Oita Wind Farm (started commercial operation in April 2023) and Chuki Wind Farm (started commercial operation in April 2021), both of which are operated by Cosmo Eco Power. This is expected to reduce CO₂ emissions by approximately 13,700 tons per year.
This will be Murata’s third virtual PPA, and the first time that we have procured environmental value from wind power generation.
^{2 Additionality: Creating new renewable energy for society as a whole and encouraging investment in new renewable energy facilities}

Murata has set the creation of a decarbonized society as one of its material issues, and we are working towards the goal of 100% renewable energy adoption by 2035.
In addition to endeavors to save energy in our production processes, Murata will reduce the environmental impact of its business operations and contribute to the realization of a sustainable global environment by installing in-house power generation facilities at its plants and expanding its renewable energy procurement portfolio through various types of PPA.

Conceptual Diagram of the Virtual PPA 

 

 

 

 

Exterior view of the Oita Wind Farm

Overview of the Power Plant

 

 

Exterior view of Chuki Wind Farm

Overview of the Power Plant

Power plant name	Chuki Wind Farm
Location	The ridgeline of the Shirama Mountain Range, which extends across the towns of Hirogawa, Hidakagawa, and Aridagawa in Wakayama Prefecture
Facility capacity	48.3MW

 

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Murata in Brief

Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. is a worldwide leader in the design, manufacture and sale of ceramic-based passive electronic components & solutions, communication modules and power supply modules. Murata is committed to the development of advanced electronic materials and leading edge, multi-functional, high-density modules. The company has employees and manufacturing facilities throughout the world.

For more information, visit Murata’s website

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NEW YORK, Jan. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (“BNY”) (NYSE: BK), a global financial services company, today announced that Dermot McDonogh, Chief Financial Officer, will speak at the BofA Securities Financial Services Conference in Miami, Florida at 12:10 p.m. ET on Wednesday, February 11, 2026. The discussion may include forward-looking statements and other material information.

A live webcast of the audio portion of the conference will be available on the BNY website (www.bny.com/investorrelations). An archived version of the audio portion will be available on the BNY website approximately 24 hours after the live webcast and will remain available until March 11, 2026. 

About BNY
BNY is a global financial services platforms company at the heart of the world’s capital markets. For more than 240 years BNY has partnered alongside clients, using its expertise and platforms to help them operate more efficiently and accelerate growth. Today BNY serves over 90% of Fortune 100 companies and nearly all the top 100 banks globally. BNY supports governments in funding local projects and works with over 90% of the top 100 pension plans to safeguard investments for millions of individuals. As of December 31, 2025, BNY oversees $59.3 trillion in assets under custody and/or administration and $2.2 trillion in assets under management.

BNY is the corporate brand of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (NYSE: BK). Headquartered in New York City, BNY has been named among Fortune’s World’s Most Admired Companies and Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators. Additional information is available on www.bny.com. Follow on LinkedIn or visit the BNY Newsroom for the latest company news.

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