Category: News & Views

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…)

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…)

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…)

The Indian Lingerie industry is witnessing a robust growth on the back of Strong Brand introductions and choices for the consumer, especially the Indian Women.

In volume terms, men’s innerwear market constitutes 48% of the total innerwear market in India while the women lingerie segment holds a 52% share. In value terms, women lingerie segment enjoys 66% share of the total lingerie market, thereby enjoying a higher Average Selling Price (more…)

We would liek to quickly share some Insights into the operating metrics of Hypermarkets and Departmental Stores in India compared to the rest of the world.

Margins for retailers in India tend to be in the region of 8-10%. The notable thing is that there is not much difference between margins of hypermarkets and department stores. In the Western World, hypermarket margins (more…)

The last few months have been extremely busy for all our analysts. However, before we end the year, we would like to report the status of the Indian Retail Industry after the Boom, 2009 Bust and Stabilization cycle of 2010.

India is the fifth largest retail market globally, with a size of US$500bn., and has been growing at 7% per annum. Retail (more…)

Some of the interesting anecdotes from the India retail summit by distinguished speakers are as follows. Do let us know what you think of the same.

1. 8 in (more…)

In the Retail Forum 2010, Bindu Sethi, Chief Strategy Planning Officer, Grey Asia Pacific offered a glimpse of Consumer Minds while Shopping, which is particularly applicable to South Asia and India.

1. Retail is a school not a store: (more…)