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 [...]

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 [...]

Allen Solly, the Rs 250 crore (2009 turnover) fashion apparel brand, which accounts for 28 to 30 per cent of Madura Garments’ turnover, is reinventing itself from the image of ’semi-formals’ and ‘casuals’ brand to a brand of fashion and personalcare lifestyle products. Madura Garments– a Kumar Mangalam Birla group company, is also retailing several [...]

Reeling under pressure of sharply declining operating margins and slow growth in sales, Mumbai-based, lifestyle, fashion retailer and mall developer Provogue, according to a BS report, has decided to recast its future business plans and strategies.
The company has registered a sharp decline of 500 basis points (bps) or 5 per cent in its operating margin [...]

Titan Eye +, the third major line of retail business owned by India’s largest organised watch maker Titan, a Tata group company, has launched “Switcher” spectacle frames catering to high-end consumers across the country. The switcher frames are priced in the range of Rs 3,200 to Rs 3,500. These frames are known for using a [...]

Kishore Biyani-led Future group, which operates several multi-format, multi-product retail chains across consumer segments, is looking at sports business segment as one of the potential categories that can help shape its ambitious future growth plans. The group, as may be recalled, has recently announced its goal of achieving Rs 250 billion (Rs 25,000 crore) in [...]

Tanishq, the country’s most prominent gold and precious jewellery of brand, which has deservedly been credited for pioneering and promoting the concept of branded jewellery in India, is expecting to make a big splash this festive season. Tanishq is currently operating a retail network of 117 exclusive boutiques across 78 cities of India.Tanishq is expecting [...]

Bharti Wal-Mart, which began its India operations with opening of cash and carry (B2B) wholesale store under the banner of “Best Price Modern Wholesale” in the holy city of Amritsar in Punjab, has also begun partenering with the government (PPP) as well as large multi-national private sector corporates to undertake projects of social importance.
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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 [...]

Although, Ram Chandra Agrawal-led Vishal Retail, which went public in July 2007, could succeed in bringing down its quarterly losses from Rs 115 crore in Q4 2009 (ending March, 2009) to Rs 90 crore in Q1 2010 (ending June, 2009), it is continuing to struggle hard to come out of the financially difficult situation.
While, the [...]