Category: News & Views

With the Government allowing foreign participation in retail, this opens up opportunities for local companies to access cheaper foreign capital which will allow them to simultaneously build front end retail space as well as back end infrastructure. While the proposal is cleared now, it will (more…)

Titan has signed a binding agreement with Spain’s Valfamily S.L. and Switzerland’s Maison Favre Leuba, S.A. for the acquisition for Favre Leuba for ~INR138mn with no royalty charges. The transaction will give Titan the global rights to trademarks (more…)

Bharti-Walmart operating in India in the Cash & Carry Segment opened Best Price Modern Wholesale Store in Sushant Golf City, Lucknow.

This is Bharti-Walmart’s first cash and carry store in Uttar (more…)

Govind Shirkhande-Customer care associate and MD of Shoppers Stop addressed a conference call on the state of its Retail Business at the end of Sept-2011. Here is an excerpt from the same for your Case Study / Information.

The company has operated in more than 3.93 million sq ft area across 20 cities as on (more…)

As Coffee Shops have evolved into from just being Coffee Shops offering Wi-Fi and the Best Infrastructure for Work / Pleasure, consumers are increasingly using them to finish off their sales report, customer meetings, etc. In the context of Youth they have been a good place for Dating. Here are some (more…)

K Raheja promoted Shoppers Stop has planned Phased growth for its Lifestyle Stores. The Flagship Departmental Store will add 1.5mn sq ft of retail space (~25 stores) over FY11-14. In addition it intends to open 15 Hypercity stores (~1mn sqft) over the same period. Specialty formats like Crosswords (more…)

The Indian Retail industry will be among the top 10 in the world and every entrepreneur wants to carve his name in this niche like Sam Walton or Kishore Biyani. Today we introduce to you Mr. Vijay Singh, CEO of Aaramshop a Delhi / NCR based startup who is toying with the new idea of involving Consumers (more…)

Future Group, currently present in the food retailing space through Food Bazaar, KB’s FairPrice and Foodrite, is going up in terms of positioning with its latest venture, Foodhall.

Why Foodhall ?
Godrej’s Nature’s Basket saw (more…)