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Vol. 3 Issue 7 - Sept 2008
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Wine Industry in India
Cheese Industry in India
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Investors continue to bet on retail, with Cotton County being the latest recipient of funds. The focus on technology is stronger than ever before – Bharti announced a 10-year tie-up with IBM, while Reliance ties up with a tech start-up Blink for smart carts.
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 Sequoia Capital to invest Rs 120 cr in Cotton County
Bharti Retail and IBM Announce Strategic Collaboration
Best offers on shopping cart at Reliance Retail
Lifestyle & Luxury
Quality retail space continues to be a bugbear for luxury brands, the market is certainly looking up for these products though. Top Italian brands Ferragamo and Piquadro are set to enter India through the single-brand retailing window.
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Luxury brands prawling for High Street space
Ferragamo, Piquadro set for an entry
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Editorial
When prices go up, retail activity drops. Right? Not quite, it would seem. This time round, as inflation rocked the nation, retail offered up a palatable solution – discount retailing. Promotional sales are rubbing shoulders with year-round lower prices and coming up with mixed results. One thing is clear – the customer is delighted.
Retailer majors are going slow, learning from their experience and regrouping strategy. However, their march forward in terms of targeted number of stores and reach into India’s smaller towns continues unabated.
The festive season kicked off with Ganesh Chaturthi, and more action is to follow with Navrathi and Diwali round the corner. Hold on, the retail bandwagon is racing on.
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Big players - Plans and Investments |
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Retail majors had a twin agenda this month, it appears. Drive down costs and reach farther – so more announcements of new store launches coupled with reports on smaller formats, entry into smaller towns and so on. Many players continue to plan aggressive expansion in terms of stores, and the numbers are staggering. The retail story is not out, it is merely taking a breather.
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Big Players...
 Vishal Retail plans big push on small formats;2k stores by '10
Reliance's retail biz to focus on private labels
Titan to have 200 Eye Plus stores by 2010-11
Trent plans Rs 2,000 cr investment for Star Bazaar expansion
Reliance to push retail in countryside Reliance Retail goes on austerity mission
Birla plans big expansion of lifestyle retail chain
Trent to launch 16,000 sq ft value apparel format store this fiscal
Reliance Retail ties up with UK's Wincanton for back-end biz
Wal-Mart 'cash & carry' India rollout in Q1 2009
Tesco enters Indian retail with Tata Trent
Reliance Retail to bring UK's Hamleys toys to India
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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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General Trends & Information |
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Undoubtedly, this month saw the most news in the discount retailing sector, with the spotlight on inflation. Malls too, seem to have taken a beating, as the footfalls didn’t quite deliver in terms of revenue. Reports on how retailers are slowing down and rethinking strategy abound. Its still not dull in the retail arena, other formats like cash and carry are doing well, and expanding.
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Discount Retailing Report
Promotions, sales, price-offs, discounts the by-words of discount retailing have now become part of the Indian shopper’s vocabulary. With prices soaring, the thrifty Indian consumer out for a bargain, is looking at discount retailing in a big way to stretch her monthly budget. Giving added impetus to discount retailing, is the proliferation of discount retailers and the huge amounts of investments pouring into the sector. The report captures the trends of discount retailing in India, future plans of major discount retailers and latest news in this sector.
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General Trends & Information...
Slowdown is manna for discount chains
Retailers Take a Slower Road in India
Malls’ day yet to come
High rentals hit retail expansion plans
Shortened supply chain
Cash n’ carry business gets competitive
Retail giants focus on discounts to perk up sales
Indian retail sector fails consumer-friendly test
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Regional Trends |
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The East and the South of India saw a number of retail majors’ entry this month. Vimal, RIL’s flagship brand is being relaunched with much fanfare in Kolkata, while regional retailers are deepening their reach in the south.
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Read more about regional trends in our report: "Growth of Tier II and Tier III Cities in India"
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Regional Trends...
Vimal unveils first Premium Franchise retail store in Kolkata
Reliance Retail second hypermarket
Get ready to splurge on big brands
Cherma’s to add three stores in AP every year
Phoenix Mills to set up mall, IT park in Chennai
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Apparel & Accessories |
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Clothes, footwear and accessories are happening sub-categories in the Apparel segment. Inflation might have made its mark on daily purchases; it is yet to affect annual rituals like Diwali shopping. Several retailers are scrambling to increase their pan-India footprint to share in the bounty.
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Apparel & Accessories...
RIL wants to be sourcing partner to apparel giants
Koutons Retail India to launch footwear collection in October
Koutons launches its largest Family Store in Hyderabad
Reliance Footprint sets foot in Chennai
Reebok India plans 55 more Classic stores by year end
Reliance Brands may propel Adidas retail
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