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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Walmart Stores Inc, the world’s largest retailer, which operates a retail JV with India’s telecom behemoth Bharti Enterprises (Bharti Walmart Retail Limited), is satisfied with its results and is looking at expanding the footprint of its cash and carry stores in India. This was stated by Anand Sharma, Commerce & Industries minister of India, while [...]

Kishore Biyani, Founder and CEO, Future group, is quite fond of number 30 or similarly sounding 13. He has set the group target of Rs 30,000 crore ($6.5 billion) in sales, from 30 million sq ft by 2013. Biyani revealed the agenda for growth of his group, while delivering the keynote address on 22nd October, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Pantaloon Retail India, a Future group company, has grown at a much faster pace than some of its well known competitors. The credit for this in large measure goes to the vision of its founder and promoter Kishore Biyani, who is quick to acquire/ contract new space, and that too at lower rates, than its [...]

Crossword, the country’s leading leisure and entertainment products chain, which sells books, music, gifts, toys, and games, among others, has added two more stores.
With the opening of the two new stores– one each at Bangalore (franchisee) and Shopper’s Stop, Hyderabad (shop-in-shop), the tally of “Crossword” stores across the country has gone up from 53 to [...]