IndiaRetailBiz

“With the opening of The Dubai Mall, we have the largest number of retailers together-ever for the first time in a mall opening. Malls, now, are not just destinations for shopping - they need to offer a complete experience, and with The Dubai Mall’s integrated offer of retail, leisure and entertainment, The […]

Tara Ultimo, a jewellery maker and retailer of repute, after spreading its wings in New York, Germany, Australia, Japan, China, UK and Los Angeles, has decided to consolidate its position in India’s retail market by setting up 50 retail outlets across India in the next two years.
The company after having made its debut […]

‘Ethnicity’– the newest kid on the block from Future group stable– went on stream this Thursday at Ahmedabad.
The new store format that has been billed as ‘everything Indian, seeks to promote ethnic brands, as opposed to national brands, of apparel, jewllery, handicrafts, home decor, beauty products, accessories, gifts, and other lifestyle products, was launched by […]

Wills Lifestyle, the lifestyle fashion brand of cigarattes to hospitality major ITC, is expanding its retail network nearly two-fold to 100 stores in the next two years.Wills Lifestyle is presently operating 55 Wills Lifestyle stores, across the country.ITC is also doubling its stores from two to four, while opening new stores at Guwahati […]

Big Bazaar, the value hypermarket format of Kishore Biyani-led Future Group, part of India’s largest listed retailer Pantaloon India, after opening three hypermarket stores on a single day at Pune (Kalyani Nagar), Cuttack (Darga Bazaar) and Delhi (Rajouri Garden) is ready to now open its 102nd store today in Mysore (Karnataka).
Big […]

4Ps — politics, people, property, and products — according to Steve Gilman, chairman, Big Idea, UK, are major issues that affect progress of modern retail in India. Gilman was speaking on the second day of the IRF Meet being held in Mumbai.Gilman, who has worked extensively in the Chinese retail market, […]

Cooling down of property rents across a large number of cities in the country appears to have come as a welcome relief to most large retailers, who in the face of mounting operating costs, were forced to put their expansion plans on back burner.This was revealed during participation of top retail honchos in the […]

India Retail Forum (IRF), an intellectual and information exchange forum of business leaders who are engaged in organised retail sector of India, is holding its three day annual convention in Mumbai from 16 September, 2008.
The convention started its proceedings under the chairmanship of its new Chairman R Subramanian, Managing Director of Subhiksha.
Participating in the discussion on […]

R.Subramanian, Founder, Promoter, and Managing Director of India’s largest (in terms of number of stores), no-frills, small format, discount retail chains that among others are selling food, grocery, pharmaceuticals and mobile phones, is a harried person, who is presently in the eye of many storms.
While, Subramanian is single-handedly and simultaneously fighting a number […]

Indiabulls Retail (erstwhile known as Pyramid), after having been acquired a few months ago from Piramals by financial services and real estate major Indiabulls, was until recently one of the fastest growing retail chain operating two formats called Indiabulls Megastore — a lifestyle format– and Indiabulls Mart– a supermarket format. Indiabulls also operates […]