IndiaRetailBiz

With Reliance Retail’s food and and grocery chain which runs Reliance ‘Fresh’ neighbourhood, convenience stores having already been hived off as a separate company called ‘Ranger Farm,’ Reliance, in a big restructuring exercise, according to an Economic Times report, is mulling over splitting its retail business, in a phased manner, into […]

Thanks to spectacular gains recorded in the past few days by the shares of big companies in general and of Reliance group companies in particular, Mukesh Ambani, became richest person of the world, on Monday, the 29th. Mukesh Ambani’s flagship Reliance group is among the world’s largest players in oil exploration […]

‘Croma’ the pan-India retail brand of Tatas for consumer electronics and durables, which on Thursday signed an agreement with Microsoft to set up home networking software shop-in-shops in its stores, launched its 10th mega store in Navi Mumbai on Saturday, the 27th October, 2007.
The new store was inaugurated by RK Krishna Kumar, […]

Medicine Shoppe International Inc., owned by Dublin-based Cardinal Health, is the largest franchiser of independent community pharmacies, operating nearly 1,000 pharmacies under Medicine Shoppe and Medicaps trade names, in the U.S.
Medicine Shoppee also operates over 400 franchised pharmacies in six countries including India. Its Indian operations are managed by its master […]

Shopper’s Stop Ltd (SSL), the country’s second largest listed retailer, owned by construction major K. Raheja group, has planned to roll out 320 stores by 2011. The group has been delayed in realising its expansion plans by a year or so due to construction delays. The group has planned to establish its […]

There is a sudden rush of customers for personal and home electronic products in India. Close on heels of the Reliance’s recent tie-up with Apple, the maker of iconic iPods and iPhones, for setting up exclusive Apple stores in India, Tatas have joined hands with ‘Microsoft,’ the world’s biggest software maker, to set up […]

Luxury retailing, though dominated by grey market, is growing at a fast pace in India. With economy (GDP) growing at second highest rate, more Indians are having increasing disposable income in their hands. According to en estimate, there were 100,015 dollar designated millionaires in India, in 2006. Luxury products market in the country is currently […]

Organised retailing, though booming is still nascent and evolving in India. Beset with skyrocketing real estate prices and extreme shortage of skilled manpower, not to talk of razor thin margins, it could look at catalogue showroom retailing as a retailing format that can not only be set up fast at low cost […]

Pantaloons, the country’s biggest listed retailer, a part of the Kishore Biyani owned Future Group, has roped in a Chennai-based human resources consulting firm - AVTAR, to employ women professionals and first time career seeking homemakers, to work part time in its stores in different cities across the country. AVTAR has […]

Be: the prêt-a-porter (ready to wear) designer brand from the house of Raymond, which currently operates 13 stores across eight cities, has shut down its stores in Mumbai and Delhi. This has been done with a view to relaunch the brand after repositioning it.
Be: currently offers a large collection of designer apparel […]