IndiaRetailBiz

Founded over 160 years ago (1853) in San Fransisco (U.S.) by Levi Strauss, Levi Strauss & Co. is among the world’s largest brand-name apparel marketers, employing over 10,000 persons worldwide.
There is no other comparable global company in the jeans and casual pants markets.
Levi Strauss markets its apparel products under the Levi’s®, Dockers® and Levi Strauss […]

While retail sales in the U S and the U K are struggling hard to even match growth higher than the inflation, domestic sales in China has registered a record rise of 20.2% during the two month period of January-February, 2008.
According to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS)retail sales in the first two […]

Reliance Retail, which within 17 months of its launch, has rolled out ten general merchandise and speciality formats, is now looking at offering the facility of flexible financing products to its customers options for its customers.
The new service to be made available across the formats, to begin with to employees of Reliance […]

AdEx India, a division of TV monitoring and rating agency TAM, has analysed the trends of Adverting on TV by the Retail sector in 2007.
The key findings of the Agency, which are based on secondages consumed (as published by www.indiantelevision.com) are listed as under:

TV advertising for Retail sector in 2007, in terms secondages used, registered […]

Chiripal Group, the Ahmedabad-based leading player of textiles, is setting up retail outlets for its lifestyle apparel brand Connexions. Chiripals have so far been making garments for global brands.
Chiripals as a part of their thrust on retail have decided to set up a network of retail stores across the country. […]

“It has always been the endeavour of Reliance to provide consumers a wide range of high-quality products at competitive prices. Reliance Jewels is another milestone in our effort to bring a unique shopping experience with assured purity of gold and certification of diamonds.” — Bijou Kurien President and CE (Lifestyle), Reliance […]

Close on heels of the recent successful launch of exclusive ‘iStore’ at Hyderabad, Reliance Retail, a part of Mukesh Ambani group, has launched India’s biggest consumer durables and digital products store in Gurgaon (NCR). The first three ‘Digital’ stores are located in Gaziabad (UP-NCR), Mumbai and Bangalore.
Reliance Digital, a speciality retail […]

“We have ambitious growth plans. While we now have two megastores (hypermarkets), more are on the anvil.” — Kumarmangalam Birla, Chairman, A V Birla group.

Aditya Vikram Birla Retail, which entered the booming retail sector about a year ago with the mission of “to change the way India shops” according to Mr. […]

Bharti Retail Ltd, the retailing arm of telecom behemoth Bharti Enterprises Limited, is getting ready to roll out a chain of front-end retail stores from North India, beginning August, 2008. The first set of stores, like many other of its counterparts (Reliance, Aditya Birla, for example) will be in convenience format […]

“Apple is one of the iconic bands and offers most innovative products. We are the first company to offer these products in retail.”– Ajay Baijal, President and CEO (consumer durables, IT and Telecom), Reliance Retail.

Reliance Retail, a wholly owned subsidiary of Mukesh Ambani owned Reliance Industies, is looking at garnering 15% […]