Globe & Mail - March 19, 2008
How a Canadian design firm found happiness in an Indian supermarket aisle

Chris Lund had just about had it with Asia. The chief executive officer of Toronto retail design firm Perennial Inc. had worked for three years in China, helping a restaurant chain with the look of its outlets and a cosmetics company with its packaging. He hadn't made a dime; in fact, he thinks he probably lost money. His clients' attitude about contractual obligations was, let's say, flexible.

Then he got a phone call. Nandini Sethuraman, the former marketing head for IKEA in Canada, had relocated to India. She told him that she liked Perennial's work for Loblaw stores, one of its leading Canadian clients. Would he be interested in coming to India to work with Spencer's, a top grocery chain?...More