Category: News & Views

Impulse Buying and Unplanned Shopping is something the retailers bank upon and after compiling the statistics, here is who did the most or at least have the highest probability 🙂

Young and Unmarried Adult shoppers with (more…)

Trent Ltd, the retail arm of the Tata Group has entered into a MOU with the Inditex Group to develop and promote Zara stores in India. Inditex is one of world’s biggest fashion retailer from Spain. As (more…)

We review the performance of Shoppers Stop departmental store chain. At the end of 2008, Shoppers Stop had presence in 12 Indian cities with the following store layout and count.

-Shoppers’ Stop 26
-Home Stop 4
-Mother Care 21 [12]
-Mac & Clinique 7
-Estee Lauder 1
-F&B Outlet 27 [14]
-Airport (more…)

The Cash and Carry business of Bharti Walmart will function under the brand name BestPrice Modern Wholesale [quite a long name]. The first store will open for business in Punjab and registration for store membership has already began. Mr. Raj Jain, MD of Bharti Wal-Mart Retail said,

After careful (more…)

If news reports are to be believed, then Gateway Multichannel Retail (India), a joint venture of Hypercity Retail (India) and Shopper’s Stop, is expected to wind up and discontinue its catalogue retail operations under the Hypercity-Argos brand.

Gateway Retail operates catalogue, stores and internet (more…)

Economic slowdown is always known to happen but the timing is always a surprise to managements of companies. Slowdown in the context of retailers means managements moving towards more sensible methods of acquiring customers.

Last Sunday we had reviewed (more…)

We bring to you the highlights of the performance of Kaya Life and Skin Clinic, subsidiaries of Marico.

In line with its plan to open new clinics in existing cities, Kaya Skin Clinic added 6 new clinics in Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad and Chennai during the quarter. As of December ’08 Kaya Skin Clinic offers its skin care (more…)