Year: 2007

America’s leading jeans company, Levi Strauss is determined to compete with Indian denim retailers in the Value segment. Levis has roped in upcoming Bollywood actress Deepika (more…)

Festive sales of Pantaloon Retail India Ltd was not exciting enough. Our retail analyst on demand from readers, has filed this exclusive coverage.

Value Retail same store sales (SSS) growth rebounded in Nov’07 to 40% after a 25% decline in Oct’07, due to late (more…)

Reliance Retail has launched Reliance TimeOut store, the eighth format from its Retail stable. Below Biju Kurien, President Reliance Lifestyle at the opening of Reliance TimeOut store on Cunningham Road in (more…)

We had first reported about HyperCity Argos’ plans for Catalog retailing in August. It has finally gone live in Thane, suburb of Mumbai. Mr. Andrew Levermore, CEO HyperCity Retail (more…)

Global Lifestyle retailer Nautica is trying to bump up its sales with a new Price Point marketing gimmick. No this doesn’t mean lowering of prices, but just a sales gimmick. The company has now introduced Rs 1895 price (more…)

Department stores retailer from North India[Chandigarh, Noida, Amritsar, Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Faridabad and New Delhi] – Ebony retail is planning to open home adornment format as a part of its foray into speciality retailing.

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Last November we had reported about Future Group [Pantaloon Retail] and Staples Inc forming a joint venture to retail office supplies in India. Their first store is now open for business (more…)

In March-2007, we had reported that Bangalore based, Rajesh Exports would launch Designer jewelery in the Indian market. The company has completed the design and manufacture of nine brands of diamond studded jewellery. The company will be launching all these nine brands in the third week of December. These nine brands of diamond jewellery have been designed by internationally acclaimed designers and the in-house (more…)