IndiaRetailBiz

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 [...]

DHL Life Sciences and Healthcare, a division of the world’s leading logistic services player, is likely to soon set up a supply chain infrastructure for providing logistic services to deliver drugs and related healthcare products that are sourced from foreign manufacturers to retailers in India. This, while ensuring quick supply of lifesaving products, will eliminate [...]

Although, current consumption of Neutraceuticals (dietary supplements) in India is a mere 0.9 per cent (Rs 4,400 crore or about $1 billion) of global consumption, market for the same, according to a joint FICCI and Ernst & Young study, is expected to increase two-fold to over Rs 9,500 crore (nearly $2 billion) in the next [...]

B S Nagesh, the public face of India’s leading department format retail chain and managing director of Shoppers Stop, who has been working with the company since its inception in 1991, is taking over as Vice Chairman of the company, from today.
Founded 19 years ago on the 27th October, 1991 with the unveiling of its [...]

Shoppers Stop, the country’s pioneering, department store format, listed, retail chain ptomoted by construction major K Raheja group, is seeking to increase the aggregate compensations of its top honchos B S Nagesh Managing Director and Govind Shrikhande, CEO.
The company has proposed to pay aggregate annual compensations of Rs 4 crore (around $800,000) [...]

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 [...]

Philips Electronics, the Dutch electronics giant known mostly for its consumer electronics portfolio in India, is embarking on an aggressive retail strategy with a view to increase both the sales and market share of its products in the country. Philips is among the oldest global consumer durable brands operating in India.
“There will be [...]

Anaanta, a wellness brand of Facets Lifestyle, has decided to set up a retail chain of 20 wellness stores beginning today.
The first wellness spa store to be called “Anantaa Wellness Spa” is slated to be launched today (19th April, 2009) in Ahmedabad, the commercial capital city of Gujarat. Faucet Lifestyle, managed by Sapna Begani, Director, is a division [...]

MedPlus Health Services, the Hyderabad-based pharmacy and wellness retain chain promoted by Dr Madhukar Gangadi, which was growing at a fast pace until recently, has decided to completely shutdown its operations in the state capitals of Gujarat (Ahmedabad) and Rajasthan (Jaipur).
While, according to media reports, the pharma retailer has closed down all [...]