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‘Future’ will continue to dominate ‘retail’ sector with 2½ times growth in 4 years; expansion will require Rs 4,000 Cr investment, says Biyani

September 16th, 2009 · No Comments

Future group, the country’s largest multi-format, multi-segment, multi-products retailer, according to its Chief Executive Officer Kishore Biyani, is ready to more than double its business and retail carpet area in the next four years. Biyani was talking about his future plans with PTI.
The retail carpet area will go up from 12 million sq ft at [...]

Tags: Capital/ PE/ IPO · E-tailing/ Online retailing · Expansion/ New Investment · Indian Owned · Kishore Biyani (Future Group) · Lifestyle Segment · Multi-format · Multi-product Categories · Value Segment

Tatas to enter new age retailing; start an e-mall for group’s products in two months

May 26th, 2009 · No Comments

Tatas are taking yet another plunge in retail, though with a difference!
The new retail initiative of the ’steel to software’ conglomerate is not based on the usual brick and mortar business model, but it’s a mouse and click project that proposes to sell the products manufactured by various group companies via internet.
Tatas, according to a top official [...]

Tags: Brands/ Strategy · E-tailing/ Online retailing · Indian Owned · Lifestyle Segment · New Ventures/ New Launch/ Expansion/ Investment · Tatas (Westside/Croma/Landmark/Teisco/Other) · Value Segment

Arvind Retail may add e-commerce portal to sell garment brands

February 9th, 2009 · No Comments

Arvind Retail, part of Lalbhai-led Arvind Mills group, and a leading garments retailer, which currentlt sells a small proprtion of its apparel through third party e-commerce websites like rediff and indiaplaza, may soon begin to offer the same online through its own websites.
Eventually the well known textiles major, according to an HBL report, may foray into e-commerce [...]

Tags: Accessories · Advertising, Promotions, Pricing, PR · Apparel · Brands/ Strategy · E-tailing/ Online retailing · Indian Owned

Anil Ambani’s BIGflix joins hands with Kishore Biyani’s Future group for promoting BIGflix products

January 7th, 2009 · No Comments

BIGFlix, India’s largest online and offline movie rental service, which is a part of Anil Ambani-led Reliance BIG Entertainment, has joined hands with Kishore Biyani-led Future Group.
The alliance with Future Group provides for marketing of promotions and schemes to all customers of Big Bazaar, Food Bazaar, Central, Depot, HomeTown and e-Zone across 9 cities [...]

Tags: Advertising, Promotions, Pricing, PR · Anil Ambani (ADAG) · Brands/ Strategy · Consumer Services · E-tailing/ Online retailing · Indian Owned · Kishore Biyani (Future Group)

ADAG forays into e-tailing; targets top e-commerce slot in just one year

November 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Reliance Money, part of Anil Ambani-led ADAG (Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group), which specialises in distribution of financial products, has forayed into online (electronic) retailing of entire spectrum of consumer products including apparel, accessories, books, magazines, CDs, DVDs, home appliances, and flowers.
The e- commerce web portal, called RelianceMoneyMall, according to Sudip Bandyopadhyay, [...]

Tags: Anil Ambani (ADAG) · E-tailing/ Online retailing · Indian Owned · Multi-product Categories · New Ventures/ New Launch/ Expansion/ Investment

Prestigeous ‘Emerging Market Retailer’ award for 2008 conferred on ‘The MobileStore’

June 9th, 2008 · No Comments

“We are honoured to receive this esteemed award at such a competitive forum, the team has worked hard to make The MobileStore the most loved and preferred brand in the telecom retail space. The award establishes the supremacy of The MobileStore brand in the telecom retail space not just in India but [...]

Tags: Awards/ Felicitations · E-tailing/ Online retailing · Events/ Happenings · Indian Owned · MBO (Multi Brand Outlet) · Mobiles/ Telecom

India’s largest lingerie store goes online

February 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment

There is no need any more to feel embarrassed about going to a shop and ask for those sexy looking undergarments that in any case would be kept and used in private. The help is now available on hand through Shopimagine.in (www.shopimagine.in), the largest online luxury lingerie portal of the country. The [...]

Tags: Apparel · E-tailing/ Online retailing

“Cyber Monday” draws record 4.6 million ‘online’ shoppers every minute

November 28th, 2007 · 1 Comment

“This shopping season in the U.S. is off to a robust start as consumers shrug off worries about high fuel prices and weak housing.”
Close on heels of maddening rush of American shoppers in deep discount retail stores on “Black Friday,” comes the news of a record “online” spend of $733 million (21% [...]

Tags: E-tailing/ Online retailing · Research/ Analysis/ Stats/ Trends · Results (Sales/ Financial) · Retail Research · Retail Trends

Higher fuel price and convenience are driving consumers to buy ‘online’

October 20th, 2007 · No Comments

Increasing fuel cost in the west is driving consumers to increasingly make purchases “online.” While, this behavioural shift has been studied and quantified in the U.S., India with spreading network of internet should not take long to catch up with the west. In fact, fuel cost in India as a percentage of total spending is [...]

Tags: Consumers/ Behaviour · E-tailing/ Online retailing · Research/ Analysis/ Stats/ Trends

Globus undertakes all round expansion; plans multi-fold rise in stores, space and sales, over next 5 years

August 28th, 2007 · No Comments

Globus, the Rajan Raheja group owned fashion apparel retail chain, which was busy building its sourcing and designing backbone, is now ready to expand front-end retail operations, reports Business Standard.
In the next five years, it will set up 130 to 135 new stores in 70 cities across the country. While, [...]

Tags: Apparel & Fashion · E-tailing/ Online retailing · New Ventures/ New Launch/ Expansion/ Investment · Supermarkets/ Megastores

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