Retail Mantra

Raymond’s Color Plus seems to be fading with high operating costs, salaries and low margins to the company itself. Additionally the company opened 3 new Color Plus stores and 10 new (more…)

Cerruti launched limited Hitman edition of watches to celebrate its 50th anniversary. Only 1881 pieces of these exclusive watches are available (more…)

Buoyed by the tremendous response and successful implementation of refilling printer / multifunction device [MFD] cartridges, Australian retailer Cartridge World is all set to expand its footprint in India now.

We were the first one (more…)

India’s retail Entrepreneur, Ms Hemu Ramaiah ended her Dream Run yesterday when she sold her 24% stake in Landmark [Books, Music, Gifts and Toys] retail to the Tata’s controlled (more…)

If there is one company that is aggressive in the retail space and likely to take Nita Ambani head on is, Rajesh Exports, promoters of Shubh and Laabh Jewelery Retail Stores in India.

We decided to compare both the stores and their offerings and here is the outcome of our field study.

• Shubh for Value conscious while Laabh is for the Fashion conscious.
• Shubh – Targeted at Tier I, II and III cities while Laabh is targeted at Metros, Tier I and II (more…)

Our retail Analyst has once again done an impeccable job in researching about the Great Indian Consumerism.

India, today is the fourth largest and second fastest growing economy in the world. The Indian working class base is getting wider with deeper pay pockets as well. As income grows, propensity to save drops – USA a case in point.

Indian consumer always thought that Debt was a burden. (more…)

RPG group promoted Spencers Retail is setting its foot into the virgin territory of building private labels in the Consumer Electronics [CE] vertical. Spencers has announced that it will very soon launch CRT TVs under the brand name (more…)

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…)