IndiaRetailBiz

Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), the flagship company of Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance group, has identified retail as one of the five main areas of growth for future. Apart from retail, core areas of conventional energy and hydrocarbons as well as as rural transformation and innovations (like non-woven fibres for wallpaper and paper for currency), have also [...]

Shoppers Stop, leading lifestyle retailers of the country, is going to invest Rs 250 crore to expand its department store format, lifestyle, retail chain operating under the same brand name.
Founded in 19991 by K Raheja group, Shopper’s Stop, currently operates around 27 stores and occupies a total retail space of 1.88 million sq ft. It [...]

Reliance Dairy Foods, a subsidiary company of Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), which manufactures and markets milk and other dairy under ‘Dairy Pure’ brand, has begun expanding footprint of its dairy products by roping in retailers outside the group. Apart from state cooperatives which operate within their respective states/ regions, Amul, Nestle, Mother Dairy [...]

Walmart Stores Inc, the world’s largest retailer, which operates a retail JV with India’s telecom behemoth Bharti Enterprises (Bharti Walmart Retail Limited), is satisfied with its results and is looking at expanding the footprint of its cash and carry stores in India. This was stated by Anand Sharma, Commerce & Industries minister of India, while [...]

Reliance Autozone, one of the specialty retail chains of Reliance Retail, has joind hands with Garmin, to market Global Positioning (GPS) devices and systems across the country.
Apart from selling these products at Reliance Autozone’s specialty stores, Reliance will also set up shop-in-shop format retail outlets at Reliance Digital and some other group retail chains to [...]

Pantaloon Retail India, a Future group company, has grown at a much faster pace than some of its well known competitors. The credit for this in large measure goes to the vision of its founder and promoter Kishore Biyani, who is quick to acquire/ contract new space, and that too at lower rates, than its [...]

Crossword, the country’s leading leisure and entertainment products chain, which sells books, music, gifts, toys, and games, among others, has added two more stores.
With the opening of the two new stores– one each at Bangalore (franchisee) and Shopper’s Stop, Hyderabad (shop-in-shop), the tally of “Crossword” stores across the country has gone up from 53 to [...]

Liverpool Retail, an Ahmedabad-based fashion retailer, which presently operates a chain of exclusive menswear retail stores across India, UAE and Nepal, launched its first family store on Thursday, the 15th October, 2009, at its home base in Ahmedabad. Liverpool hold the distinction of launching 151 stores on a single day. The feat is now part [...]

Inorbit Malls (India), launched its Rs 300-crore, destination mall, in Cyberabad on Wednesday, the 14th October, 2009.
The new mall, located at Mindspace, is the third such mall property of Mumbai-based construction major K. Raheja Corporation. The other two In-orbit properties are located at Malad in Mumbai, and Vashi in Greater Mumbai.
The mall, as to be [...]

Allen Solly, the Rs 250 crore (2009 turnover) fashion apparel brand, which accounts for 28 to 30 per cent of Madura Garments’ turnover, is reinventing itself from the image of ’semi-formals’ and ‘casuals’ brand to a brand of fashion and personalcare lifestyle products. Madura Garments– a Kumar Mangalam Birla group company, is also retailing several [...]