Month: April 2008

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…)

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…)