IndiaRetailBiz

@Home stores, the home furnishing retail chain of India’s largest, Rs 1,000 crore. moulded furniture manufacturer, Nilkamal Ltd, is planning aggressive expansion of its retail network from 15 stores to 65 stores in the next three years (2012-13). @Home retail chain was set up by the company two years ago.
Currently, @Home stores are located in [...]

Vishal Retail, the Delhi-based value-based retailer, which operates around 170 mega-stores, across the country, has begun to succeed in tackling some of its financial problems. These problems, among others, have contributed towards the company recording heavy losses during Q4 (ended 31st March, 2009) of the financial year 2008-09 (Rs 114.73 crore) and Q4 (ended [...]

‘Green Design Studio,’ a brand shop that aims to cater to all interior surfacing needs of customers, recently opened its second exclusive retail store in Delhi.
Green Design Studio, which had opened its first outlet at Bangalore in April this year, is a one-stop shop for a wide array of over 500 designs of laminate [...]

“Home Town,” the “first of its kind home improvement format” in India, owned by Home Solutions (India) Ltd, a wholly owned home retail subsidiary of Pantaloon Retail India, is all set to open its largest store in Kolkata.

The new 200,000 sq ft ”Home Town”  store of the group is located in Bengal Shrachi’s “Block by Block” [...]

IKEA, the iconic Scandavian retailers of modern style functional, flat-pack, budget furniture and home furnishing accessories, which sold products worth € 22.5 billion ($32 billion, or Rs 1,50,000 crore) in 2008, through a network of 296 stores across 36 countries (as of March, 2009), has postponed its decision to invest $1 billion by [...]

Vishal Retail, Delhi-based cash-starved value retailer, which for quite some time has been facing cash crunch on account of falling footfalls and reduced consumer spending following economic slowdown, has shelved its earlier plan of entering into restaurant business.
“We are focusing on consolidation of our retail business and bring higher operational efficiency before [...]

Westside, the flagship department store format, lifestyle retail chain of Noel N Tata-led Trent Ltd, one of the two retail arms of Tata group, which currently operates 36 stores, recently opened its new store at Nashik in Maharashtra. The new store occupying a retail space of 24,000 sq ft is located in the [...]

Sanjay Dalmia, Chairman of the contry’s leading soda ash manufacturing company, GHCL, is working on an ambitious retail plan to become one of the top retailers in the world.
Unperturbed by the global economic slowdown and consequent effect on retail business, Sanjay Dalmia, is going ahead with a plan to expand his UK-based home textiles retail chain Rosebys [...]

Reliance Retail, a wholly owned subsidiary of Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries, though it may come as somewhat of a surprise, is slowly but steadily growing its retail network.
Despite media reports reporting closure of around 30 under performing stores, the company has more than doubled its stores count from 465 to 950 stores in [...]