IndiaRetailBiz

We are glad to begin a series on the world’s most imteresting shopping destinations. Our first entry in the series is: The Dubai Mall, which when completed will be the world’s biggest. While the series is based on the selection of retail destinations made by Business Week, the content has been aggregated from various […]

European markets have a long-standing practice of private labellings which has seen continuous growth. The perfect example is Marks & Spencer that has been there for almost a century.
In India, success has been seen in Westside, a department store, which only sells private labels and in Pantaloons, which has mixed brands.
– Jean-Christophe Goarin

Shiv Jatia, the owner of Asian Hotels, which manages Hyatt Regency chain of luxury hotels in Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata, has tied up with Singapore based Coffee “The Bean & Tea Leaf” through its master franchisee UAE based Abbasi Group, to set up a chain of retail coffee shops in India. The coffee shops will […]

The Rs 288 crore, Ram Chandra Agrawal owned, Vishal Mega Mart, which currently has 46 stores in 34 cities operating mostly in northern and western parts of India, has decided to expand its network by adding 80 new hypermarkets, 15 of which will come up southern Indian cities including Chennai, Coimbatore, Madurai, Thiruvananthapuram, and […]

Mr Vinod Sawhny, Joint President, Enterprise Services, Bharti Airtel Ltd, who commenced his career with Bharati more than four years ago, will be heading the operations of Bharati Retail (P) Limited. Vinod began his career as the Chief Executive Officer of Bharati’s mobile operations in the Northern Region.
“We are delighted at the appointment of Vinod […]

Zurich based, Swiss firm Nuance Group, which is dedicated to the concept of Innovation in all its forms- exciting shop concepts, range of products and pioneering collaborations, has obtained permission to bring in Rs 25 crore as FDI investment in the country. Nuance Group, which plans to set up duty-free shops at airports in India, […]

Carbon Accessories, which began opening retail stores early this year, wants every Carbon store to be seen as a fashion accessories destination, according to its brand head Utsav Malhotra. Carbon Accessories, depending on construction of malls in selected towns, wants to set up at least 20 stores within a period of one year.
All Carbon Accessories […]

Kolkata based, Rs 131-crore strong, Khadim India Ltd, which owns the well known Khadim’s footwear and leather accessories brand, announced the opening of its 250th retail showroom in Ahmedabad. Khadim’s is also embarking on a Rs. 72 crore expansion plan in the next two years.
Since its having been founded 54 years ago, Khadim’s has […]

Amul, the country’s biggest food retail brand is launching a fruit flavoured yoghurt to be called Yogi, reports Business Standard. The product to be targetted at the youth and health consciousin will be made available in three flavours: strawberry, mango and pineapple, in early 2007.
GCCMF, the Rs. 3,774 crore food behemoth, which owns Amul brand, […]

Reliance Retail, Pantaloon, RPG and Sunil Mittal owned Bharati, which recently signed a partnership agreement with the world’s biggest retailer Walmart, are some of the top business houses that are vying to exploit the 44,000 hectares of surplus Railway land for retail, reports PTI. This land under the control of the Rail Ministry is lying […]