Category: News & Views

With the housing boom in India, Pantaloon Retail’s Home Solutions Retail Ltd is all set to clock big revenues for the company this year. According to some analyst estimates, this division maybe the largest contributing vertical.
We had (more…)

Here is a presentation from Reliance Industries Ltd [RIL] on Reliance Retail.

• Fully integrated business model to add tremendous value to the Indian consumer in multiple formats on a pan-India basis.
• Investment (more…)

Virat Crane Industries, subsidiary Durga Dairy is in final process of entering into marketing alliance with WAL-MART, for supplying their branded ghee to the retail stores (more…)

Titan Industries Ltd will launch new brand of watches in the next couple of weeks. These watches will be sold under the brand (more…)

Our associate reports that there have been massive protests against the entry of Reliance Fresh in the lawless and highly corrupt states of Uttar Pradesh and Orissa.
Reliance Retail, a subsidiary of (more…)

When it comes to Luxury Retailing in India, localities prefer home grown brands rather than Global brands. Having seen neighbors going out to France or Europe for shopping in 90s and early 2000, this comes (more…)

Future Brands, the fully owned subsidiary of Pantaloon Retail India Ltd is planning to convert its existing private label brands in Big Bazaar and other retail outlets into Big Retail Brands.
Mr. Desai, CMD of Future Brands said,

In the long term, the strategy is to move these private labels outside the company’s (more…)

In a different retailing strategy, MyDollarStore which tested leasing its brand to a Mall owner – Prateek Mall in Bangalore, is planning to take this idea further on PAN India basis. MyDollarStore would be supplying the required merchandise, retailers and mall owners would be operating its stores and (more…)