IndiaRetailBiz

Aditya Birla Retail, a retail initiative of Kumarmangalam Birla group, which is currently operating 300 retail stores and employing about 8,000 persons, according to Santrupt B Misra, its Director-HR and IT, is looking at increasing the total number of employees to 55,000 for its retail business. He was speaking at a seminar of the National […]

“Our mission is to change the way people shop. We will give them more.” - Kumar Mangalam Birla
Trinethra, the Andhra-base supermarkets retai chain, which earlier this year in January, 2007, was bought over by the Aditya Birla group, is being relaunched by the Aditya Birla Retail, the retailing arm of the Kumarmangalam Birla […]

“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 […]

Mukesh Ambani owned Reliance Retail and Kumarmangalam Birla owned Aditya Birla Retail, which are pumping Rs. 25,000 crore and Rs. 10,000 crore respectively on retail inititiaves, are not looking at adopting merger and acquisition route for growth, reports PTI. They would rather prefer to grow inorganically.
“There is a very high premium […]

Aditya Birla Group, which has begun rolling out food and grocery chain ‘More’ and which also runs recently acquired South-based Trinethra Supermarkets chain through its retail arm Aditya Birla Retail, has allowed another of its group company Aditya Birla Nuvo (ABN), to jump into the retail bandwagon.
Leveraging on the popularity of its mid-price menswear brand […]

The booming retail industry, which is still evolving, is soft target of one interested group or the other. While, some oppose it on ideological grounds, others find it an easy target on economic, social, cultural, or religious grounds.
While, ‘Fresh’ retailers, particularly Reliance ‘Fresh,’ have braved and are braving a number of demonstrations, effigy burnings, […]

The Kumarmangalam Birla owned, Aditya Birla Retail (ABRL), began roll out of its retail chain on Friday, the 1st June, 2007 with the launch of a ’supermarket’ store under the brand name of ‘More’ in Vimal Nagar area of Pune. This is first of the group’s Rs. 9,000 crore retail venture, announced a few […]

Close on heels of India’s GDP crossing US Dollars One Trillion on 26th April,2007, the market cap of equity stocks of companies listed on the Indian bourses also crossed the One Trillion mark on Monday, the 28th May, 2007.
What is most interesting, however, is the fact that the top five business houses […]

November, 2006, could easily go down in the history as momentous for the organised (modern) retail business in India. Although, six months is not a long time, the new wave of modern retail has brought about paradigm shift in the way people think about shopping in urban India.

It was 3rd November, 2006, when Mukesh […]

The US$ 24 billion Aditya Birla group, one of the top business conglomerates in the country, with major interests in metals, textiles, cement, and telecom, announced its roadmap for foraying into the fast growing retail segment on Friday, the 18th May, 2007.
Kumar Mangalam Birla had earlier in November, 2006 had announced his intentions of entering […]