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Vol. 3 Issue 2 - Feb. 2008
In this Issue
Updated Report
Growth of Single Brand Stores in India – Updated Jan. 2008!
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Support Industries
Logistics was always a support industry to watch out for…read all about Wal-Mart/Bharti’s logistics partner and the Future Group’s plans in this area.
Chillibreeze Research Team
 Future Capital’s logistics fund slated for launch in March
Concor to handle logistcs for Bharti-Wal-Mart
e-Commerce
Greeting cards, valentine gifts, rachis move over. The net is emerging as the preferred mode to buy gadgets. A big plus is that these web buyers can also use the search engines and product review sites and blogs to compare and get the best.
Chillibreeze Research Team
Consumers favour Net research for gadget buys
Lifestyle & Luxury
Ever wondered what the “plus” was when your heart was set on “the” piece of furniture or home furnishing at a high end lifestyle store? After all, a table is a table, with the function of holding all that you heap on it. That is an opinion…but there is also something “plus” that customers get when they buy luxe brands. Read about what luxury brands tangibly offer that the regular brand does not.
Chillibreeze Research Team
Luxury Brands offer more than just a brand
International
Wal-Mart is all set for its foray into India with its cash & carry (wholesale) business. Others like US chain, Sears, and French retail giant Carrefour, are also eying the segment with serious intent, talking with potential partners and understanding the Indian retail landscape.
Chillibreeze Research Team
Wal-Mart poised for cash & carry foray
Esprit gearing up to launch new products
Sears eyes cash and carry format in India
Carrefour to enter cash-and-carry market in India
Reebok to expand lifestyle segment
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Editorial
There was a time when there was a considerable lull post New Year celebrations. This lull typically carried on until the next round of festivals that came around August. Retailers simply accepted it as part of the business cycle, and awaited the next round. Not anymore.
Over the last few years, retailers have found ways to keep the cash registers ringing and customers coming back for more. Look around you – every store in the local mall has stuff on sale, everyone you know and their second cousin is shopping and how! There are low rumbles on how year round discount sales are affecting the bottom line, but the customer is not complaining.
Another boom period and fun time for the retailers is here – St. Valentine’s Day is a biggie in terms of spends, with gifts and treats getting larger and merrier. Hop on to the retail bandwagon, enjoy the ride!
 Chillibreeze Research Team
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Big players - Plans and Investments |
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Specialty stores, large format stores, cash & carry, tie-ups with international brands and more – there is serious investment happening in the retail sector. Organized retailers are regrouping and consolidating the lead they have over new entrants.
Chillibreeze Research Team |
Big Players...
 Birla Retail in talks with farmers' co-ops for direct procurement
Trinethras become 'more'
Aditya Birla Retail to invest Rs10,000cr
Reliance to launch auto speciality stores
Arvind Brands to launch large format stores
Aditya Retail witnesses growth in South
Reliance Retail to tie up with international retail giants
Big Bazaar plans to become independent entity
Reliance to open 45 TimeOut stores in next 3 years
Arvind Mills to invest Rs. 400 crore in retail business
Videocon to make its foray in cash and carry retail
SPAR might launch chain of large kirana stores
Koutons Retail to acquire 51% of Upper Class
Future Group to invest Rs. 300 crore in Future Ventures
Future Group looks for fresh acquisitions
Reliance Retail to launch home solutions format store
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Unique Formats |
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The format discussed this month is catalogue shopping – an options retailers are willing to explore given spiralling real estate costs. It also makes sense for the busy buyer, so much quicker and no fighting through traffic or parking woes.
Chillibreeze Research Team
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Unique Formats...
Catalogue-shopping a hit in metros
High realty costs make catalogue-shopping a hit
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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 Franchising Opportunities in Retail
Luxury Retailing in India
Read weekly Perspectives and Business Trends.
Read Consumer Reports and Best of India series
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General Trends & Information |
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As organized retail takes root in India, the one big challenge they face is that of shrinkage – a euphemism for pilfering and inadvertent losses due to lapses in accounting etc. Also read the report on ITC’s Choupal Fresh to see the changes happening in supply chain.
Chillibreeze Research Team |
General Trends & Information...
Fresh approach: from farm to shop, old ways get a new twist
Checkpoint survey cautions against retail shrinkage
Retail biggies cash in on patriotic fever
Retail fraud adds up to a Rs. 9,000 crore loss annually
Brands on a high
Retailing to grow faster in India that in the US
Younger generation driving retail growth in India
Value for money is deciding factor for Indian grocery shoppers
Indian farmers & traders to take on Wal-Mart
College students use the Christmas break to earn some money in retail
 Buy our just published reports on the Cheese and Wine Industry in India.
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Government Policy |
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This time it’s the Orissa Govt. that is watching Reliance Fresh with a wary eye. In proactive step, the Govt has offered roadside vendors special zones where they could peddle their wares.
Chillibreeze Research Team |
Government Policy...
Reliance Fresh on Watch list by Orissa government
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Regional Trends |
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Malls are popular wherever they spring….for footfalls if not for actual sales. Here is one more success in Kolkata. Our other stories are about Reliance’s forays in Jamnagar and Gurgaon.
Chillibreeze Research Team |
Regional Trends...
South City shopping mall a big draw
Reliance Mart in Jamnagar
Reliance Super opens in Gurgaon
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Consumer Durables |
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Discounts are one way to move stock – finance is another. Consumer durables are seeing better sales because of easily available consumer finance, as they can buy today what they had put off for the next few months, thanks to these finance options.
Chillibreeze Research Team |
Consumer Durables...
Croma looking north
White goods sales increasing due to easy availability of finance
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Luxury Retailing - |
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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