Retail Mantra

After merging group company Reliance Petroleum with flagship Reliance Industries, Chairman Mukesh Ambani has now set his eyes on making it big in the Retail. Over the past 28 months, after opening the first Reliance Retail Store – Reliance Fresh, the company has done in-depth market research (more…)

Kishore Biyani’s brain child Future Brands is all set to take it private labels – John Miller, DJ&C, Bare and Dreamline out of the group stores and license to other competitors. This means, these brands which are primarily sold through Pantaloon, Central (more…)

We would like to present a comparison between China and India in the Departmental Store Business. This study concludes Retail as an unviable proposition but that is a fact and we have already seen what is happening in the Retail space. Here is the excerpt of the study.

All figures are in USD in the following analysis.

• Capex (fixed assets only) / square foot – $20 for china where as it is $23 in India. (more…)

Today we are presenting to you some of the unwritten Business Strategies at Koutons Retail which is helping the company beat the slowdown blues. Koutons Retail India Ltd (KRIL) is a domestic apparel retailer in the “value segment” with a franchise retailer model in the organized market. The company has two main brands – Koutons ( menswear age between 23-45) and Charlie Outlaw (youngsters between (more…)

Gloria Jean’s Coffee Chain is operating in India through a master Franchisee – Landmark Group company, CityMax. In order to help CityMax expand Gloria Jean’s presence, the latter is setting up a Bean Roasting unit near Bangalore to avoid the 112% import duty on coffee beans and thus able to help its franchisee compete with (more…)

HiDesign the affordable Luxury Brand with its state of the art Leather Line from Accessories to Corporate Gifts has decided to join hands with Pioneer of Indian Retail Mr. Kishore Biyani’s Future Group. HiDesign is an Indian brand with global (more…)

After the rejig in Aditya Birla Nuvo / Madura Garments, Peter England People was positioned as a mid-priced family department store catering to the fashion needs of the entire family. The chain has five large format stores, around 15,000-20,000 sq (more…)

This is our findings on the Strength and Weakness of Running a Traditional Kirana or similar Mom-Pop store.

Strengths of Running a Traditional Store over a Retail Chain:

• Capital requirement is low due to smaller scale of operations, resulting
  in low rents and overheads
• Traditional stores are incumbents in prime residential areas and may already own the premises in high-cost locations
• In some cases, they cater (more…)