IndiaRetailBiz

Indiabulls Retail (erstwhile known as Pyramid), after having been acquired a few months ago from Piramals by financial services and real estate major Indiabulls, was until recently one of the fastest growing retail chain operating two formats called Indiabulls Megastore — a lifestyle format– and Indiabulls Mart– a supermarket format. Indiabulls also operates […]

Big Bazaar, one of the country’s biggest hypermarket, value chain of Kishore Biyani-led Future Group, is investing around Rs 1,500 crore to set up 15 more Big Bazaar stores in three months.This will take the number of Big Bazaar stores in the country to 112 by November, 2008 against a target of 145 stores by […]

Big Bazaar, the value hypermarket chain of Kishore Biyani owned Future Group, has created a sub-brand called ‘Fashion @ Big Bazaar’ to focus on selling apparel in fashion segment.
M S. Dhoni, India’s cricket captain for T20 and ODI formats, has also been roped in by Big Bazaar to promote its fashion business. In fact, he […]

UNIQLO, among the top ten speciality apparel retailers of casualwear in the world, owned by Fast Retailing of Japan is looking at foraying into India.
Uniqlo brand, which has often been called the Gap of Japan, operates over 760 stores worldwide and is a household name in Japan.
All of Uniqlo clothes from T-shirts and sweaters to […]

After establishing Megamart (hypermarket) stores format, most of which occupy over 20,000 sqft of space each, Delhi-based Vishal Retail is now foraying into a new small franchisee-based store format, each store of which will occupy   1,000 to 3,000 sqft of space.
The group has planned to set up about 2,000 such small format stores […]

“We will focus on retail expansion and building the brand over the next few years with the objective of delighting the consumer and providing him easy access to the brand.” — Subhinder Singh Prem, Managing Director, Reebok India.
Reebok, the global sports footwear and apparel major, which commands around 51% of the country’s […]

“We would be covering all the tier II and III cities and all the stores would be company owned.” — Trent Official.

While, Birlas are getting into super-premium, luxury fashion apparel and accessorie segment through a new retail venture under “The Collective” brand name, Trent Ltd, one of the two retailing arms […]

Madura Garments, a part of Kumar Mangalam Birla-led AV Birla Nuvo, which has established several apparel brands across value to lifestyle segments like Peter England, SF Jeans, Van Huesen, and Allen Solly, is now foraying into luxury fashion segment.
Madura Garments Lifestyle Retail Company, a wholly owned subsidiary, is looking at setting up a retail chain of luxury […]

Koutons Retail, among the country’s largest garment and fashion retailer retailer, has decided to go in for a massive expansion of its retail business. The Gurgaon-based Koutons Retail has been growing quite rapidly since it raised capital through IPO in September, 2007.
In the next 18 months, stores count of Koutons’ brands after expansion will more than double from current […]

TSG International, part of Delhi-based Sachdev group, which currently operates a designer boutique at Taj Mahal Palace and Tower in Mumbai, has opened four boutiques at Bangalore. These boutique stores will sell designer, luxury, garment and accessories for men and women. The Bangalore stores come after a gap of three years. Product offerings at TSG stores, […]