IndiaRetailBiz

Spencer’s Retail, among the country’s oldest organized retailers, currently operating as a wholly owned subsidiary of CESC, a part of the $ 3.5 billion RPG Group, will soon undertake a massive exercise to recruit manpower for its rapidly expanding retail network. This was revealed by Ramesh Menon, Senior Vice-President (Operations), of the company. He was […]

Wadhawan Food Retail, a part of the Delhi-based housing and housing finance major Wadhwan Group is planning to raise capital next year through IPO. Fresh capital will be used to expand retail business of the group.
Apart from operating flagship food & grocery retail chain “Spinach,” Wadhwans have focussed on inorganic expansion. Besides […]

MedPlus PathLabs, a fully-owned subsidiary of Madhukar Gangadi-led MedPlus Health Services Limited, is venturing out to set up diagnostic laboratories across the country. MedPlus already operates a Clinical Reference Laboratory (CRL) at Hyderabad.
MedPlus, will initially set up five regional investigation labs at Pune, Chennai, Bangalore, Vizag and Vijayawada. These, state […]

This is not the first incident of its kind at Wal-Mart. Eight more such incidents are reported to have taken place at Wal-Mart stores since 1987.
Megan Templeton, a 12-year-old girl shopper from Barboursville, had a harrowing time when she recently went shopping at a Wal-Mart store in West Virginia (US). She was stung […]

“Good retailing is like good story telling. When you control the entire chain, the destiny is in your control.” — Zeena Freeman, CEO, Peter England People.
Having already launched two large format Peter England People stores in Bangalore and Mumbai, the Kumar Mangalam Birla owned Aditya Birla Nuvo, launched its third family […]

“We believe that there is a huge business potential in Tier II and III markets. Consumers in these cities are well informed about the latest trends and are willing to spend… We aim to reach out to them and give them a world class shopping experience at affordable prices.” — Neeti Chopra, […]

Madura Garments, a part of the over Rs. 100,000 crore aluminium to textliles Aditya Birla group, which owns Louis Phillippe, Van Heusen, Allen Solly and Peter England menswear apparel brands in premium and value segments, recently opened “Peter England People” to sell clothes of popular value brand in suburban Mumbai, is […]

“All these years, we have been opening stores in northern and central India. But this year, we will focus on expanding our network in south and western India.” D.P.S. Kohli, Chairman, Koutons Retail India Limited.
Koutons, the largest apparel retail chain, which is currently operating 1,214 apparel stores across the country, launched its 15th retail outlet […]

Subhiksha’s, the Chennai-based no-frills, deep discount retail chain, which for about a decade since its inception was operating in traditional business verticals of fruits & vegetables, food, grocery, and pharmaceuticals, has done quite well for its new “mobile” vertical.
Subhiksha’s mobile vertical, though only a few months old, has already begun making […]

Café Coffee Day, the largest network of retail coffee shops across the country, in pursuance of its expansion plans, is looking at launching new formats, while focusing on tier-II and tier-III cities.
Café Coffee Day, which currently operates 590 coffee dispensing outlets, is present in various formats that include petrol pump shops, airport shops […]