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Vol. 2 Issue 12 - Dec. 2007
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Consumer Durables
The consumer durables section was more known for manufacturers’ brands. Consumers too bought from company-owned stores or local dealers. Today, there are several store chains which are building their brand and image as reliable sellers of leading consumer durable brands.
Chillibreeze Research Team
 Croma opens in Bangalore
Croma opens in south India
Next Retail looks to buy regional brands
e-Commerce
Move aside greeting cards and small gift items, this year saw a marked change in online buying behaviour with a sizable number of consumer electronics sales – iPods and mobile handsets were quite a rage.
Chillibreeze Research Team
Mobiles, MP3 players top online Diwali sales
Cleartrip launches ‘flights + hotel search’ feature
Lifestyle & Luxury
DLF Emporia, India’s first super luxury mall is set to house brands like Armani, Versace, Hugo Boss, Louis Vuitton, Cartier and more.
Chillibreeze Research Team
DLF’s luxury mall to have 130 brands
International
DLF plans to purchase a luxury brand fanchise. Carrefour is firming up plans to enter the cash and carry business even as it identified three potential JV partners for its front-end retailing business.
Chillibreeze Research Team
DLF to purchase Ferragamo franchise
Tommy Hilfiger makes expansion plans
Carrefour identifies 3 names for JV in India
Carrefour to open cash-and-carry business in 2009
Rothschild considering retail foray in India
Mattel asks India to open up retail sector
Marks & Spencer plans to invest big in India |
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Editorial
Given barely any time for the post-Diwali blues to set in, retailers are back with a bang to usher in Christmas and the New Year. Brands and gifts categories have changed – with better disposable incomes and greater awareness, customers are opting for higher end products like consumer electronics and branded apparel.
Food and Grocery retailers are treading carefully, but still growing. Protests notwithstanding, this segment shows the most promise for growth, and they are not letting it all go just yet. Reliance Fresh which bore the brunt of protests and political manoeuvres, wisely chose to go with the specialty formats in the states that seemed to stir up a storm. Others are focusing on the cash and carry format, avoiding front-end retailing for now.
As the New Year unfolds, we are sure to some of these plans fructify, and enjoy the new found retail freedom it brings to us as customers.
From the Business Research Team at Chillibreeze, here is wishing every one of you Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year.
 Chillibreeze Research Team
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Big players - Plans and Investments |
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Lots of plans unfolding – Metro is growing its cash and carry business in India, but has indicated that it was not interested in entering front end retail. ITc plans to reach 10 million farmers through 20,000 e-choupal outlets by 2010. Relaince is looking to focus on specialty formats in states where it has faced protests.
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Big Players...
 Metro to open stores in Mumbai and Kolkata
Dabur aims Rs 1000 crore turnover from lifestyle retail biz by 2010
Reliance Retail likely to shift to specialty stores
NTC and Pantaloon in joint venture Reliance Retail’s dilemma
ITC to open 20,000 e-Choupals
Cash and Carry format sees entry of local companies
Reliance Retail to use its Fresh outlets in UP for specialty products
Future Retail to build another Central mall
Reliance Fresh store attacked in Bhopal
Reliance Retail plans $5.5 billion investment
Reliance Retail opens its jewelry outlet
Big Bazaar launches initiative to serve poor children
ITC keen on store-in-store concept
Reliance kicks off ‘Footprint’
Future Group and Planet Retail Holdings to part ways
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Apparel & Footwear |
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Espirit and Lee draw up plans to increase their share-of-mind with concept stores and large format stores in malls. Closer home, Hakoba and Arvind Mills aim to leverage their existing brand image.
Chillibreeze Research Team
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Apparel & Footwear...
Hakoba plans Rs. 250 crore expansion
Arvind Mills considers bringing its businesses under Megamart label
FootMart to invest Rs 80 cr to quadruple outlets
Lee heads towards ‘concept stores’
Esprit to open large stores in malls
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Food & Grocery |
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As we mentioned earlier, food retail continues to be a very attractive segment in retail – one group that has been riding the wave is Subhiksha, which plans to treble its stores by 2010.
Chillibreeze Research Team |
Food & Grocery...
Big Bazaar faces food adulteration, double swiping charges
Subhiksha to treble stores by 2010
Feedback
We continue inching forward; always learning more about the sector that has India interested and excited. Our Retail Newsletter, is being downloaded nearly through the month.more importantly, we have an increasing number of readers posting a query on our site India Reports (www.india-reports.com). This is feedback of another kind; it keeps us on the roll, thinking and analyzing as we answer these queries, and prepares us to move on to the next level with new reports and analysis.
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General Trends & Information |
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Protests notwithstanding, food retail remains an attractive segment in retailing. Shortage of skilled manpower and spiralling real estate costs pull the sector down. Losses on account of shrinkage are considerable too.
Chillibreeze Research Team |
General Trends & Information...
Food retail set to double by 2020
Malls become inventive at attracting customers
High cost of manpower and retail space dragging down retail industry
India is the 16th most expensive retail destination
Shrinkage costs Indian retailers Rs. 9,691 crore
Diwali brings in big business for retailers
Malls gain at the cost of Kirana stores
High rental prices put specialty retail in a bind
India on it’s way to become a luxury retail destination
 Buy our just published reports on the Cheese and Wine Industry in India.
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Support Industries |
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Malls are attracting more than footfalls – with a Singapore based firm setting up a fund to invest in retail mall development projects.
Chillibreeze Research Team |
Support Industries...
Singapore based CapitaLand to establish fund to invest in Indian malls
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Regional Trends |
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Real estate development has kept pace with the hectic retail activity. And in cities like Bangalore, with 12 malls under construction, retail space is increasingly in short supply.
Chillibreeze Research Team |
Regional Trends...
Chandigarh based Strand chain of stores plan to expand in north India
Bangalore retail space drying up
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About Luxury Retailing Report: Indian consumers are a happy lot, with so much activity on to woo them. Companies are vying to design, develop and deliver the products and services their consumers want. One segment that has suddenly come into focus is luxury and lifestyle retail. View it against a backdrop of traditional Indian thrift, and you will see why the interest it is garnering is grabbing more eyeballs than other retail segments. This report looks at the industry, key concerns and what luxury marketers need to do to leverage this huge opportunity. |
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