IndiaRetailBiz

Futurebrands, India’s first Brand IPR company with a portfolio of 20 brands across apparels, FMCG and home durables categories, is launching Mohena- a new brand in the lingerie and nightwear category. Futurebrands is a subsidiary of Pantaloon Retail ( India) Limited — a Kishore Biyani-led Future group company.
Mohena– the lingerie and nightwear brand– which has [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

DHL Life Sciences and Healthcare, a division of the world’s leading logistic services player, is likely to soon set up a supply chain infrastructure for providing logistic services to deliver drugs and related healthcare products that are sourced from foreign manufacturers to retailers in India. This, while ensuring quick supply of lifesaving products, will eliminate [...]

Pollo Campero, the Latin American chicken restaurants quick service (QSR ) retail chain with close to 60 stores in the US, is getting ready for a festive season launch into India’s multi-billion-dollar fast food market.
The world’s largest $450 million Latin American chicken quick service restaurant chain, founded in 1971 in Guetmalan, offers “Flavor You Can’t [...]

Kishore Biyani-led Future group, which for the two years has been tinkering with the idea of entering high growth telecom retailing big time, is expected to buy air time (mobile talk time) in bulk from large telecom service providers and sell the same to customers by offering SIM cards and recharge vouchers, across the country.
While, [...]

“The Indian franchise market has recorded a steady annual growth of 30-35 per cent in the last five years. The annual turnover of the Indian franchise industry is $3.3 billion, and is projected to grow further in the years to come,” said Aileen Crowe Nandi, Principal Commercial Officer, US Consulate-General, Chennai, quoting published reports. She [...]

Yum! Brands, the US-based world’s largest network of system restaurants with nearly 36,000 restaurants in over 110 countries/ territories, employing over 1.4 million persons, has decided to go aggressively on expanding the network of its restaurants in India.
According to Niren Chaudhary, Managing Director of its Indian subsidiary Yum! Restaurants India, the company will expand its [...]

Pondicherry-based Hidesign, which specialises in making premium leather accessory products, across the world, given current recessionary trends following global financial meltdown, is looking at focusing on India and other emerging markets for growth of its business in coming months.
Hidesign, which has earlier entere into an agreement with Kishore Biyani-led Future group for launching a range [...]

Spencer’s Retail, among the country’s oldest and leading retailers, unveiled a new Shop-In-Shop (SIS) format Gourmet store in Kolkata on Thursday.
“In India there is a propensity for good food. It may not be a volume market but would be a niche market, which is expected to grow with time. This store would cater to a [...]