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Editorial

	Strategy & Trends
	Regional Trends

	Big Players
	Unique Formats

	Home Furnishing
	Support Industries
	Feedback

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Home Furnishing

From the ubiquitous stores peddling unbranded bed linen, the Indian home furnishing market has come a long way. Originally set up as mills churning out standard fare, Indian textile manufacturers are focusing on branding their products and going global.
Chillibreeze Team

Bombay Dyeing to use a dual strategy for retail

S Kumars board to approve US textile firm acquisition

Thai home furnishings chain Index Living Mall plans to come to India

Support Industries

Even as you watch the Indian retail sector take off, also focus on the support industries that thrive in its wake. Be it training of retail professionals or software and technical support that aid the retailers deliver better, its all happening…and how!
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Spin-offs galore from the retail sector

Retail training skills

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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Editorial

Wal-Mart’s entry into India caused a flurry in the retail sector, although most were not surprised. The Indian retail sector is still closed to FDI but international players can enter the market with a franchise model. After many unsuccessful rounds of talks to get the Government change these rules, it was expected that the world’s biggest retailer would go the JV way.

The Wal-Mart joint venture with Bharti Enterprises, which was also in talks with Britain's Tesco Plc., will soon start opening stores in India – plans include “several hundred stores” in the next 4-5 years. Bharti will own these retail outlets, albeit under the Wal-Mart franchise.

Meanwhile, the rest of the retail India is pulling all stops this Christmas. Chugging along like sincere worker ants, retailers big and small get ready for another successful festive season.

Chillibreeze Team

Big Players...

Wal-Mart is coming to India

Future Group to invest $250 million in hospitality sector

Reliance Retail ties up with Dabur

Subhiksha to cross 500 stores this month

Shoprite firming plans to open in India

Unique Formats...

Godrej Aadhaar ties up with HPCL

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Strategy and Trends...

Experts predict a shakeout

Can the retail sector accommodate everyone?

Modern retail formats create new marketing strategy

HLL refashioning kirana stores

Regional Trends...

Tier III cities growing rapidly due to significant cost advantage

India’s new retail hotspot: Hyderabad

Bangalore shoppers still want more

RIL looks to Pune to establish agri hub

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