RETAIL CONCEPT

Tempur’s bedtime stories arrive in India
Tempur, the Denmark-based brand for home improvement, has entered India with the launch of an exclusive brand outlet at Central Market, Lajpat Nagar in New Delhi. Spread across 1,800 square metres, the store retails products including mattresses, multi-adjustable beds, seat cushion and travel pillow...

Mother Earth – Back to Nature
Industree and the Future Group recently launched Mother Earth, an 11,000 square feet flagship store in the centre of Bangalore’s cosmopolitan residential areas Indiranagar and Koramangala Intermediate Ring Road. The store has a wide range of carefully selected merchandise that helps build environment and social...

Nolte - makes life live better!
Nolte Group, a 620 million Euro manufacturing company that has a heritage of 85 years is one of the largest and fastest growing furniture companies in the world. Nolte has the reputation for pioneering the production line technique in the manufacture of furniture, forever revolutionising the industry worldwide...

Nokia Concept Store - Selling a ‘World Class’ experience
Nokia started its India operations in the year 1995 and has expanded its official presence to New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Jaipur, Lucknow, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune and Ahmedabad. The Indian operations particularly focus on the handset business apart from R&D facilities located in Bangalore...

Selling luxury to tier II & III, affordably
With organised home décor and lifestyle products retailing growing at more than 30 per cent annually, according to industry estimates, there is a huge untapped market for the Rs 140 billion home improvement vertical in India. In recent years, along...

More than skin deep
India’s leading chain of skin care clinics Kaya Skin Care is all set to hit a century this year. Flexing its muscle, the wellness major will take its store count to 100 by the end of 2009, Rakesh Pandey, CEO, Kaya Skin Care told IndiaRetailing...

Buckingham Palace arrives in India
High end home decor solutions. Retails products from 82 design houses from across the world. Collection inspired by the greatest sculptors, painters and artists of the world, includes reproductions of XIV and XV century European masterpieces...

Vishal Retail: Predator to become prey?
With a humble beginning in 1986 from Kolkata, the conglomerate currently operates 178 retail stores across the country. However, experts say, like every other business houses, this retailer of aam aadmi is having its tough times. No prizes for guessing...

Coca-Cola: A journey over 120 years old
‘Little drops of joy’ as they call it, soft drink and beverages brand Coca-Cola came into existence in 1886 in Atlanta, New York, USA. From selling only nine glasses of drinks a day initially, after a successful stint of operation for over...

25 Big Bazaar stores in 2008; a stimulus for retail industry
What he thinks turns visionary, what he does becomes innovative and what he develops becomes an enterprise in itself. No prizes for guessing. IndiaRetailing is referring to India’s retail tycoon Kishore Biyani and his venture Future Group...

Even a century ago, organised retail existed
The Bombay Store, established in 1906 as part of an initiative to form a chain of co-operative stores across India, this brain-child of the then great Indian patriots and eminent businessmen like Shri Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Sir Ratanji Jamshedji Tata...

Revolutionary retail initiative: Reliance Retail
The organised retail sector in India is no longer a sunrise industry. Rather it may be termed as one of the fastest emerging sector with various leading Indian and International players paying serious attention to this budding opportunity...

» Coffee retail: More than just a sip
India has always been predominantly a tea drinking nation. Coffee had been only moderately popular in some southern states. However, there has been a sudden change in this trend with coffee becoming more and more popular in recent times...

» Ethnicity: Towards organising ethnic retail
Kishore Biyani-led Future Group, with a view to providing an organised retail platform for Indian ethnicwear products at par with western brands in the country, opened the first store of its newly launched retail chain 'Ethnicity' in Ahmedabad...

» Ram Das Mohan Lal Maheshwari: Crafting its niche identity
Notwithstanding the corporate retail chains or the exclusive ethnicwear outlets, the traditional dukandar of women's ethnicwear still contributes a significant share to the growth
of the country's ethnicwear market...

» Blue Foods Private Limited: Delivering desired delicacies
A thorough scan through two different menu charts of two different food joints would make you notice the difference in design, layout and, of course,the brand name. But hey! We are not here to experience...

» Select Citywalk : Walk through a select aisle
The bulge in the average middle-class Indian's pocket is visible; but, on what, how, and in which sort of environment will he shop, his shopping preferences, or his favourite type of centres for shopping to spend ...

» House of styles
It doesn't make high-profile ad campaigns, its owner does not entertain many interviews - and you'll never see a range designed by celebrities. Nonetheless, it offers everything that makes your house a home...

» Elvy: Selling by all means!
Starting as a catalogue for high-end home décor products in the Indian market just a year back, Elvy now has five retail outlets across Delhi/NCR region and 10 more are planned to be opened by 2008. Ranjan Kaplish caught up with Lovy Khosala, managing director, Elvy...

» Bed 'n' Bath, beyond expectations
From a 2,000-square-foot store to a chain of stores totalling more than 2.6 million square feet, within a few decades, Bed Bath & Beyond has grown beyond the imagination of its creators. Dheeraj Dogra, former member of the core team...

» The Garage Sale
Garage sale is an innovative retailing concept successfully practised in the West – albeit of secondhand fashion and lifestyle products. Shweta Iyer explores this upcoming retail option for the Indian market.

» Do Bhai from Panipat
From a ‘garments & general' store to a one-stop fashion and lifestyle shop, in a town more known for its historical battles than style, it has been lessons learnt in the art of retailing for a little less than four decades.

» The Bombay Store - A 100 Years of Preserving Traditions
Four walls and a roof – the idea was to promote all that was made in India. The first retail organisation to be listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), The Bombay Store has come a long way from its swadeshi origins to appeal to a more global customer.

» "We are happy to always think of the next big thing."
Duty Free had brought in the New Year by announcing record year-end sales that signal a new retailing milestone for the operation. Sales for 2006 reached over Dhs2.56 billion (US$712 million), representing a remarkable 20 per cent increase over the previous year.

» Akbarally's
A century of trust with loads of innovation added early on when the market for organised retail was not even conceived, the legacy of India's oldest department store that brought with it the idea of convenient shopping under one roof – Akbarally's.

» Make Global, Sell Local
One of the most promising modern economies in the world, India in recent years has been the focal point of continuous growth and development. The economy and the export market have been relatively stable, with a strong growth...

» Ishanya and Rimari: Art solutions for interior and exterior needs
Ishanya, India's first and largest international design centre and speciality mall for interior and exterior solutions, is fast spreading its wing to become a one-stop destination for all-around solutions for interior as well as exterior needs.

» Avani Heights Kolkata
Kolkata's retail scenario is expanding like never before. To accelerate this growth further, Planet Retail Holdings Pvt. Ltd has launched six new international brands at Avani Heights, the city's newest retail landmark at AJC Bose Road.

» V3S City Centre, New delhi
New Delhi, the V3S Group is on track to unveil the V3S City Centre shopping mall in the Capital's Rohini locality by the end of the first quarter in 2009. Strategically located in the heart of North Delhi...

» Pacific Doon, Dehradun
With successful operations of three projects in Ghaziabad , New Delhi and Agra, Bansal Corporation Ltd is extending its shopping centre development business to India 's tier II cities, targetting towns such as Jodhpur...

» Treasure Island, Raipur
After the successful launch of its first mall at Indore, Entertainment World Developers Pvt Ltd (EWDPL) has rolled another project – Treasure Island at Raipur. Scheduled to be operational by August 2008, the mall is located at the outskirts....