Year: 2008

Little known company Liverpool Retail India Ltd of Ahmedabad has entered Limca book of records by opening 151 exclusive retail outlets simultaneously across 15 Indian states.

Liverpool retails (more…)

The pressure to look and feel good is shaping new attitudes and lifestyles. Morgan Stanley had conducted a survey on urban Indian consumers and here is excerpt from the same.

80% of urban (more…)

Limited Edition Retailing seems to be gaining lot of Traction in India. From Jewelery to Watches, you name it, retailers are considering its launch. In Feb-08, we saw Vijay Mallya’s Kingfisher Airlines launch edition watches in collaboration (more…)

Retailers in India don’t want to miss any channel to woo customers. FutureBazaar.Com which has got big money from Sherpalo and KPCB VC funds has struck yet another deal with Dubai based Aramex for Logistics handling. Aramex is one of the top-3 courier companies in Middle East will provide end-to-end solutions for FutureBazaar.Com including setting up a 66,000 sft logistics (more…)

Summer is the best time for people to do outdoor activities, really especially shopping at Malls and Megastores that have sprung up with the retail boom in India. However, this summer was disappointing to many retailers, blame it on IPL Cricket or Cheerleaders ;-).
An irresistible combo of (more…)

Reliance and Bharti Walmart maybe capturing the headlines of every major newspaper, but the reality is Pantaloon Retail continues to open stores aggressively and we are really surprised by the number of stores it opened last month.

Landmarks achieved by Pantaloon and Future Group in May are as follows,

• Opening of 7th Central in Oberoi Mall, Mumbai
• Big (more…)

Reliance Retail opened its specialty store “Reliance Jewels” in Ludhiana, the hometown of Bharti Walmart founder, Sunil Mittal.

This is the third Reliance Jewels store which is spread across (more…)

Subhiksha, the retailer with high footfall and highest sales per sft is all set for operation cleanup and makeover. Yes, finally you will see those neighborhood Subhiksha stores lot cleaner and with little bit of face lift too, which is expected (more…)