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“Ultimately, big retailers may not have a choice when it comes to choosing to invest in either country. There are very few fast-growing markets with so much potential as these two. No one can really afford to choose one over the other. You could wait and watch, perhaps, but you can’t stay out.” Anil Rajpal, […]

The Ahmedabad-based, Rs. 1,844 crore, textiles major, Arvind is betting big on retail. It will invest Rs. 400 cores to set up 200 Megamart stores and 30 Megamat Outlet Centres to garner $1 billion in sales by 2012. Arvind is currently having 80 apparel brands in its portfolio. While, it owns local brands […]

Reliance Retail, in the face stiff opposition from small traders and street vendors, which many a times turned violent, appears to have applied brakes on further rollout of its ‘Fresh’ neighbourhood convenience format and begin focusing on ’speciality’ formats.
After launching ‘Digital’ and ‘Trends’ speciality format stores respectively for consumer durable/ […]

Delhi-based Vishal Retail, which recently mopped up over Rs. 110 crore through a very successful IPO, is moving fast into new businesses and formats. The Delhi-based Rs. 602 crore group currently operates around 65 megastores, spread over 1.5 million sq.ft. of space, in about 45 cities across the country. Vishal is […]

Fitness is a big business, now. Its on the top of every one’s agenda.
Delhi-based Gymnasium chain Power House Sports, which operates six gymnasiums in the New Delhi-NCR region, is now looking at expanding over 15-folds by opening 100 gynasiums in the next five years. Power House has chosen to adopt hybrid model for its […]

We are all very proud of this moment of reviving the Vimal brand which I am sure will once again regain the market leadership it enjoyed and top-of-the-mind recall : Nita Ambani
Vimal, the first brand of the Mukesh Ambani owned Reliance group, originally launched and popularised almost thirty years ago by Late […]

Himalaya Drug, herbal healthcare major, specialising in pharmaceutical and consumer products, with a range of personal care (hair, skin, and oral, among others) products, has decided to increase the number of its retail outlets in the country from 150 to 300, in the next two years by 2009. Himalaya, founded 77 […]

Increasing fuel cost in the west is driving consumers to increasingly make purchases “online.” While, this behavioural shift has been studied and quantified in the U.S., India with spreading network of internet should not take long to catch up with the west. In fact, fuel cost in India as a percentage of total spending is […]

“Our mission is to change the way people shop. We will give them more.” — Kumar Mangalam Birla, Chairman, Aditya Birla Group.
Aditya Birla Retail, the retail arm of Kumar Mangalam Birla owned Aditya Vikram Birla group, which began rolling out retail stores of its retail chain “More” from Pune in June, 2007, and […]

McDonald’s the world’s biggest quick service food chain, which has already established its presence in the North/ East and the West with a chain of 123 restaurants, is now ready to spread its footprint in the South beginning with Bangalore and Hyderabad. According to agency reports, it will enter Chennai by the […]