IndiaRetailBiz

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Reliance Autozone, one of Reliance Retail’s speciality formats, launched its sixth store at Toli Chowki in Hyderabad on Friday, the 9th October, 2009. Apart from its new store at Hyderabad, the retailer niche retailer is operating five more standalone stores at Gurgaon, Jaipur, Ghaziabad, Jamnagar, Mumbai. Reliance Autozone is also operating three shop-in-shop format retail [...]

Reliance Retail, a retail initiative of Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries, which in the past has faced many political hurdles in West Bengal, may afterall revive its retail business in the state “in a
major way” according to Tarun Jhunjhunwala, President of Reliance Industries, who was speaking to reporters in Barasat (WB).
“We are currently working on how [...]

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 [...]

Bhartia’s owned “Jubilant FoodWorks Limited,” — the master franchisee of world renowned QSR (Quick Service Restaurants) pizza brand “Domino’s Pizza” in the South asia (except Pakistan)– according to media reports is looking at an IPO so as to enable one of its private equity (PE) investor JPMorgan Chase & Co, a JP Morgan Partners affiliate, [...]