Titan Industries foray into Luxury and Premium watch segment has paid the company very handsomely. Tow of their main brands – Xylys and Nebula are doing extremely good. Xylys has classic, contemporary and sports collection targeted at the (more…)
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India Retail News & Views
Office Depot + RIL acquire eOfficePlanet
Reliance Retail has joined hands with American office supplies retailer Office Depot for a retail alliance in India. The JV has kicked off operations by taking over an existing office [Small & Medium Business] supplier operations eOfficePlanet.
eOfficePlanet (more…)
Bharti Wal-Mart Easy Day Review
The management of Bharti Wal-Mart may have suppressed the press from creating a big hype. However, our retail analyst [ Other bloggers didn’t stop, OmRetail has Exclusive Photographs of Easy Day Retail Supermarket ] couldn’t resist from visiting the store and filing this review.
Each store is about 2,500 to 4,500 sft in size and is projected as one stop shop for day-to-day family requirements (more…)
Bolld – Videocon’s Cash’n’Carry format
German retailer Metro introduced the concept of Cash’n’Carry or wholesale B2B Costco type retailing in India. Buoyed by its success, everybody wants a pie of that market.
Videocon group which bought the Next electronics and consumer durables retail chain last year has now announced its intention to setup Bolld – Wholesale (more…)
Ermenegildo Zenga + Omega 007 + Imperia Vodka hit the shelves
Ermenegildo Zenga unveiled its Sastoria collection La Habana which consists of shirts, ties, suits and accessories like shoes, jackets and (more…)
Marks & Spencer dump Planet Retail. JV with RIL
Marks & Spencer [M&S] has dumped its existing franchisee in India Planet Retail to join hands with Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Retail for further expansion.
Under this deal, a new company with an initial investment of Rs 230 crore is floated under the brand name Marks & Spencer (more…)
Mobile Accessories as Private Labels
Reliance Digital, the subsidiary of Reliance Retail is planning to launch private labels in accessories of mobile phones and electronic items such as USB Data Cables, Bluetooth dongles, Handsfree sets, (more…)
Crocs company store in Pune
Mid-American footwear retailer Crocs found it hard to resist from retailing in India and has opened its first company owned store in Pune and plans to open 14 more stores (more…)