Year: 2009

In an Analyst meet, the Sr. Executives of Pantaloon Retail India Ltd including founder Chairman and Pioneer of Indian Retail Kishore Biyani sounded positive about the business. Here is an excerpt from the same.

• Consumer demand has picked up sharply in the last two weeks, and the company has various alternate (more…)

Early 2007, executives at Aditya Birla Nuvo restructured the company’s retail operations with focus on Middle Class and higher. However, with the slowdown, they have now decided to include the Value Format which forms the bulk of modern organized retail in India. Peter England Fashions will start a separate division which will look into the Value Fashion Format. (more…)

Shoppers Stop has a range of Private Labels across Men’s casual wear to formals to Women’s wear. Private Labels contribute a mere 20% to its Total (more…)

Diamond and jewellery maker, Gitanjali Gems’ wholly owned subsidiary – Gitanjali Lifestyle – has decided to set up a joint venture company in India in collaboration (more…)

Spencer’s Retail Limited, one of India’s largest foods first multi-format retailer, has been in a strategic consolidation mode for last few months.

Strategic Measures:

• As part of its consolidation drive, Spencer`s has recently closed 150 unviable small format stores on a Pan India basis. The immediate loss in the trading area has been compensated with the opening of large format stores. It has also completely exited few markets like Ahmedabad, Nasik, Kanpur, a few cities in Kerala, Ranchi and Mangalore.
• Spencer’s (more…)

Trent’s hypermarket, Star Bazaar, is nearing the conclusion of supply-chain integration with world’s third-largest retailer – Tesco. Trent is the retail arm of the Tata Group.

Tesco plans to develop a wholesale cash-and-carry business (more…)

Bharti Wal-mart’s Wholesale Cash and Carry Format chain – BestPrice Modern Wholesale is all set to go live for business in Amritsar from next week. Call it a coincidence of the Congress led government in Delhi that was always for pushing FDI reforms in Retail (more…)

There is one thing I like about the Indian retailers is their willingness to experiment and improve to give what the ultimate King [consumer] needs. Pioneers like Kishore Biyani from Future Group, Shoppers’ Stop, Vishal Retail, Spencers’ etc are chanting a new mantra – Rightsizing – which involves trimming the store size and getting (more…)