Category: News & Views

Mall rentals across all the Metros and Cosmos have nosedived in the past 12 months and vacancies have increased by 15%. Retailers are looking forward to different Revenue models – minimum guarantee and revenue sharing.

Ahmadabad Malls have seen the highest fall in rentals after a record run-up of 30-40% YoY in 2006 and 2007. Mall rentals on Sarkhej Gandhinagar (more…)

Analysts on the street are always on the hunt for the Best Brands and companies. Recent sales data obtained from Food Bazaar – Supermarket chain of 158+ stores, Morgan Stanley has analyzed the top performing brands. Here is an excerpt from the study.
The winners and Losers are decided by Top Sales Data.

Top 5 Food Brands in Food Bazaar are,
Britannia
Maggi – Nestle
Parle
Kellogs
Horlicks (more…)

The logistics arm of Pantaloon Retail Group – Future Logistics [a.k.a Fuure Supply Chain Solutions] has been valued by investment bankers at $116 mn and the company has roped in International Logistics major Li & (more…)

A sluggish economy coupled with a slowdown in consumer discretionary spending has resulted in muting retail industry growth. [Not all have turned around like Biyani’s Future Group]Retail cost structures and business models are going through the scanner. Some of the critical areas under purview are as follows.

Flaws in Business Model: Business Models for Modern Trade are weak being skewed towards low margin / high working capital which translates into their ROE’s being marginally above their cost of capital in good times and below their cost of capital in bad times. Retailers have incurred high expansion costs (more…)

Pantaloon Retail India’s Hypermart format Big Bazaar is rated amongst the Top 10 Most trusted brands in services sector in India competing with others like HDFC etc. Big Bazaar now boast of 116 stores across (more…)

World’s leading retailer – Wal_Mart is extremely serious about Indian venture as the company has clear directions to International Operations head – Doug McMillon that their will be no dearth of funds for expansion in India, the next Trillion Dollar Economy in the Making.

Wal-mart ins association (more…)

Koutons Retail introduced accessories and shoes in its stores during FY09. Accessories are available in all stores while shoes are available in approximately 200 stores. The share of Les Femme (more…)

Tata Croma, owned a by Infiniti Retail and a 100% subsidiary of Tata Sons, intends to augment its product portfolio under the private label category to 100 in the present fiscal. Presently, this electronics retain chain has portfolio (more…)