Year: 2008

It is monsoon here in India and it is Retailers across India are raining discounts. Some ran the best discounts to mark the celebration of Indian independence last weekend. However, our team was busy analyzing the retail discount and freebie mode visiting store after store. [Localized way of running promotions in India]
Several arrangements were made for crowd management and that proved to be helpful. Lifestyle retailing also had similar deals to offer and managed to pull in good crowds.

In nearly all the hypermarkets and departmental stores, apparels were being sold at 20%-50% (more…)

Last month we saw series of Luxury brand launches from global retailers. Today, we have Madura Garments Lifestyle, 100% arm of Aditya Birla Nuvo planning to launch luxury lifestyle products for the urban Indian man to look par with his global counterpart under the brand name – The Collective. (more…)

Earlier this year we had reported about Future Brands venturing into building its own private labels and were wondering if it will have big FMCG subsidiaries. The company (more…)

The Tata group’s retail arm Trent has announced the launch of new apparel format. Trent is planning to launch its first store in Kalyan, (more…)

Titan Industries promotes watches in India to every segment from the Super Rich Limited Edition brands [Nebula Zeus] to Aam AAdmi brands [Sonata, Sonata SF]. Titan is expected to face fierce competition with the influx of poor quality Chinese watches in the entry level segment. To fend off (more…)

It looks like Reliance has changed its Retail strategy [or probably forced to change due to lack of business experience ?] instead of going solo, the company is now forging partnerships mostly with European majors – Marks (more…)

Krauter group owned Tenderils brand which is mainly into manufacturing and marketing of herbal baby products is now expanding its portfolio to include maternity care and baby wear. Currently, Tenderil (more…)

Kishore Biyani promoted Pantaloon Retail’s expansion has continued relentlessly even in the difficult macro environment that has griped the Indian economy.

The company opened its 100th KB’s Fair Price store within 10 months of launch. KB’s FairPrice retail (more…)