Retail Mantra

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…)

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…)

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 unveiled its Sastoria collection La Habana which consists of shirts, ties, suits and accessories like shoes, jackets and (more…)

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…)

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…)

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…)

India’s leading retailer Big Bazaar has just a while ago unveiled its plans to move up the value chain to become a Value Retailer. A new company has been floated under the brand name Future Hypermarket which will be the Discount retailing face of the group. It is not yet known how much stake Pantaloon Retail India will (more…)