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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Consumers are returning to retail stores with a vengeance. Diwali, which this year was celebrated about a fortnight or so earlier than usual, brought cheer back to faces of harried retailers.
Compared to the boom year of 2007, which had seen a large number of serious and non-serious players entering the sector, the year 2008 turned [...]

Reliance Autozone, one of Reliance Retail’s speciality formats, launched its sixth store at Toli Chowki in Hyderabad on Friday, the 9th October, 2009. Apart from its new store at Hyderabad, the retailer niche retailer is operating five more standalone stores at Gurgaon, Jaipur, Ghaziabad, Jamnagar, Mumbai. Reliance Autozone is also operating three shop-in-shop format retail [...]

Reliance Retail, a retail initiative of Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries, which in the past has faced many political hurdles in West Bengal, may afterall revive its retail business in the state “in a
major way” according to Tarun Jhunjhunwala, President of Reliance Industries, who was speaking to reporters in Barasat (WB).
“We are currently working on how [...]

Reliance Retail Limited– part of Mukesh Ambani-led group’s flagship Reliance Industries Limited– though happy with growth of some of its niche formats and fall in commercial lease rentals to sensible levels, is yet not ready for aggressive expansion.
Reliance, among the largest retailers in India, occupying over 3.5 million sq ft of space and operating in [...]

The Akalis (Badals) ruled state government of Punjab has terminated “memorandum of understanding” (MOU) for setting up agricultural mega projects in the state with Reliance Retail. The agreement was signed three years ago during the erstwhile congress government of Capt Amrinder Singh
The MOU with the state government was an important part of ‘farm to fork’ [...]

Reliance Jewels, the specialty format of Reliance Retail, a Mukesh Ambani group company, recently unveiled its first fine jewellery store in Mumbai. The Mumbai store located at R-City Mall in Ghatkopar suburb of the city happens to be the 13th such store of the retail chain.
The retailer is already operating similar stores in Ahmedabad, Bangalore, [...]

Reliance Digital, the consumer durables and professional elecronics format of Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Retail, which also resells iconic Apple products through its standalone and shop-in-shop “iStore” retail format, is going in for a big expansion this year. It has prepared a blueprint to expand double the number of [...]