Retailers Association of India(rai) is the unified voice of in India retailers. rai working with all the stakeholders for creating the right environment for the growth of the modern retail industry in India. rai is the body that encourages, develops, facilitates and supports retailers to become modern and adopt best practices that will delight customers. rai has a three charter aim of Retail Development, Facilitation and Propagation.
Retailers Association of India (rai) always strives to bring best practices to the retail industry and it's stakeholders. rai's efforts center around advocacy and government representations, bringing best practices to the industry, fostering retail learning and training, creating a reservoir of information through retail research, disseminating communication through magazines, newsletter, website, etc. for the benefit of it's members and the industry.
The country's key retailers have been spearheading the growth of rai.rai's Governing Board comprises the following people who led the retail revolution in our country - Mr Kishore Biyani of Pantaloons, Mr B S Nagesh of Shoppers' Stop, Mr Noel Tata of Trent Ltd, Mr Vinay Nadkarni of Globus Stores, Mr. T. Shantakumar of Kirtilal Kalidas Jewellers Pvt. Ltd., Mr Sumantra Banerjee of RPG Retail, Mr B A Kodandarama Setty of Viveks Mr Vikram Bakshi of McDonalds India (North & East); Mr Ajit Joshi of Infiniti Retail Ltd; Mr Rajiv Agarwal of The MobileStore Ltd; Mr R C Agarwal of Vishal Retail Ltd, Mr Gibson G Vedamani of Kirtilal Kalidas Jewellery Pvt. Ltd. and Mr. Kumar Rajagopalan, CEO, rai.
