IndiaRetailBiz

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 [...]

Pantaloon Retail India Limited (PRIL), India’s largest listed multi-product, multi-segment, multi-format retailer, for want of clarity on certain legal issues, has put plan of restructuring its businesses on hold.
“The realignment is not happening right now. There are some legal issues. We are waiting for feedback from our legal team on this,” said Kishore Biyani, founder [...]

Pantaloon Retail, the country’s largest muli-format, multi-products, listed retailer, part of Kishore Biyani-led Future group, has decided to severe its commercial ties (joint ventures) with Planet Retail Holdings and Blue Foods.
Planet Retail Holdings Pvt. Ltd., a joint venture between Kishore Biyani  (49 per cent) and V N Sharma (an Indonesian resident of Indian [...]

Mothercare, the iconic UK-based, retailer, which operates 21 retail stores (8 standalone and 13 shop-in-shop format outlets) for kids and expecting mothers in India, according to an ET report, may be looking for severing its ties with Shoppers’ Stop.
The Rahejas-led Shoppers’ Stop is among the country’s pioneering and leading listed retailers. It operates a [...]

Kishore Biyani promoted and led Future group moved a step closer towards the goal of restructuring its businesses when shareholders of the group’s flagship company Pantaloon Retail India accorded their approval for creation of three separate entities. These entities will cater to FMCG, fashion, and retail businesses of the group. The group has also been rechristened as Future [...]

Turtle Ltd, Kolkata-based fashion apparel maker that specialises in sale of ‘mass premium’ menswear and accessories, under ‘Turtle’ brand, is close to completing the process of  strategic stake transfer to Kishore Biyani-led Future group within one month. The apparel company, owned by Landasaria family, has for quite sometime been in talks with Future group for strategic [...]

Pantaloon Retail (India), the country’s largest multi-product, multi-format, listed retailer, part of Kishore Biyani-led Future Group, is going in for a complete revamp of its operations.
Among the slew of measures approved by its Board on Monday, the company is not only re-christening itself as “Future Markets and Consumer Goods Limited (FMCG),” [...]

Pantaloon Retail, India’s largest listed retailer, part of the Kishore Biyani promoted Future Group, has called a meeting of its Board of Directors today (13th April) to approve revamp operations of the retailer by demerging it into three entitie, one each for consumer products (FMCG & Durables), retail, and fashion, according to [...]

The Mobile Store, the mobile retail arm of Ruias’ led Essar group, which currently operates around 1,400 stores across the country, is going for an aggressive expansion of its retail network over the next three years, by 2012. The retailer is also planning this year to launch low-priced mobile phones under private label.
The [...]

Kishore Biyani-led Future Group, which currently mainly operates multi-product, multi-format retail chains in value, lifestyle, and home retail segments under its listed company Pantaloon Retail (India), is looking at restructing its retail and other business in consumption space by creating four operating companies, says a CNBC TV-18 report.
Apart from Pantaloon Retail, which [...]