Retail Mantra

Visibilia has launched the Bluemarine eyewear in India. The glasses come in design contracts with luminous, rhinestons and enamels.

Femme (more…)

In an exclusive survey carried out by Morgan Stanley at Pantaloon Retail’s various store formats in quest of top 25 brands, it has been found that the number of food brands dominate the list [14 vs 12 last year]. Here (more…)

FitnessOne, India’s leading chain of Gym and Fitness Equipment company has decided to venture into Large Format Gyms / Sports Complex in association with one of the large south Indian business house. The significance of this complex is that it will house all sports facilities in a minimum of 20,000 sft area. (more…)

Pantaloon Retail had launched its own Cola under the brand name Tasty Treat. This private label cola has been accepted well by consumers and Future group officials are quick to state that Tasty Treat Cola is a big success.

Mr. Damodar of Future Group (more…)

In continuing our coverage on comparing how Pantaloon, Vishal, Shoppers Stop, Spencers and Trent stack up against each other, we are presenting to you in this article about the Staff Costs and Advertising and Marketing (more…)

Just to give a brief summary on how various stores stack up in the Trent’s Retail Business Model.

Westside: Lifestyle Store with a carpet area of around 20,000 sf. Consistent with the strategy, the Company has desisted from shrinking the format unless the location on offer was seen to be (more…)

Lifestyle luggage retailer Samsonite is turning its focus on other needs of the trendy travelers, such as Shoes, Watches, EyeWear and hence become a complete lifestyle retailer. Last year the company has launched shoes.

Samsonite Watches and (more…)

In an exclusive coverage, we are presenting to you the road map charted for growing Pantaloon Retail‘s various business verticals as told by Mr. Kishore Biyani to Industry Analysts.

Key Business Verticals:

• Food
• Fashion
• Home
• Financial Services and
• Health, beauty & wellness

Food Business:
The company will target the food space with three formats Food Bazaar, KB Fair Price Shops and recently acquired Adhaar stores from Godrej. Food Bazaar could reach around 95-100 towns, KB Fair Price Shops will be only focused on urban poor and hence the reach will be limited to the top 11 towns and Adhaar will be extended to the 900 smaller towns to (more…)