As Coffee Shops have evolved into from just being Coffee Shops offering Wi-Fi and the Best Infrastructure for Work / Pleasure, consumers are increasingly using them to finish off their sales report, customer meetings, etc. In the context of Youth they have been a good place for Dating. Here are some (more…)
Year: 2011
Shoppers Stop – Expansion + Store Growth [Sales]
K Raheja promoted Shoppers Stop has planned Phased growth for its Lifestyle Stores. The Flagship Departmental Store will add 1.5mn sq ft of retail space (~25 stores) over FY11-14. In addition it intends to open 15 Hypercity stores (~1mn sqft) over the same period. Specialty formats like Crosswords (more…)
Online meets Local Kiranas + Brand Building = Aaramshop
The Indian Retail industry will be among the top 10 in the world and every entrepreneur wants to carve his name in this niche like Sam Walton or Kishore Biyani. Today we introduce to you Mr. Vijay Singh, CEO of Aaramshop a Delhi / NCR based startup who is toying with the new idea of involving Consumers (more…)
Foodhall – Competes Nature’s Basket + Gourmet West
Future Group, currently present in the food retailing space through Food Bazaar, KB’s FairPrice and Foodrite, is going up in terms of positioning with its latest venture, Foodhall.
Why Foodhall ?
Godrej’s Nature’s Basket saw (more…)
Titan – Tanishq + Jewellery is 75% of Business – Expands in Tier- I Cities
Tanhisq Jewellery now contributes 75% of the Topline for Titan Industries Ltd. Despite the pan-India presence and market leadership, Tanishq as a premium jewellery brand has been unable to occupy a dominant position in Tier-I cities. Thus transition to large format stores are a means to improve visibility and reach in key gold consuming regions.
From an average store size of 2,000 (more…)
Pantaloon / Future Group Expansion in Q1-2011
We all know that Pantaloon Retail is the largest organized retailer in India, with a retail space of more than 14msf under its belt. It has presence in multiple categories through different formats like department stores (Pantaloon), hypermarkets (Big Bazaar), seamless (more…)
City Mall – 36 Raipur – Review
The City Mall-36, is located at G.E. Road (NH-6), Raipur. The capital of Chhattisgarh state, Raipur has a population of approx 3.3 Mn, and is surrounded by giant industries like Bhilai Steel Plant, SECL, BALCO, NTPC, Jindal Steel etc.
City Mall 36 is the pioneer mall in the area, and offers complete family entertainment (more…)
Subhiksha Rise & Fall – Case Study
We present to you the brief excerpts of the Case Study of Subhiksha’s Rise & Fall in the Indian Retail Space.
Subhiksha, once the blue eyed boy of Indian retail, R Subramaniam in 1997 pioneered the value retailing concept in India and has now become a case study on what not to do in the industry.
Subhikasha had a go to market strategy, they started off in Chennai by (more…)