Menswear brand Raymond Ltd embarked on the uphill task of opening 300 Mini The Raymond Stores (Mini TRS) in two years and managed to outdo themselves by opening 303 stores in 24 months. Their earlier store opening average was only 25 stores in a year...

Value fashion and lifestyle products retailer V-Mart Retail plans to invest Rs 115 crore by the end of March 2020 in expansion. V-Mart, which primarily operates in tier II, III and IV cities and follows a cluster-based model approach to expand, plans...

Total Sports & Fitness has won the prestigious award of being ‘The Most Admired Activewear & Sports Store’ for the fourth consecutive time at Viviana Mall - Thane. “We were winners, beating all major brands. In the final round, we ...

Hardcastle Restaurants Pvt. Ltd. (HRPL), the master franchisee of McDonald’s in the region, McDonald’s announced the launch of its 300th McDonald’s restaurant in West and South India. The milestone outlet will open at Churchgate,...

In an independent study of 2500 small traders and chains, GOFRUGAL, a Chennai based software product company found that 90% of businesses such as retailers and distributors face grave risk to their business due to improper data management. These b...

Leading denim brand Spykar launched its exclusive brand store in Kangra, its first store in Himachal Pradesh. “With the internet penetration growing, the fashion-loving consumers are getting more and more trend-conscious across India, this make...

Online grocery market BigBasket has launched its services in Kerala and will soon be opening a collection centre near Kochi. The centre will help bigbasket.com service the local market through by collecting fresh vegetables and fruits. With Kochi,...

The financial year 2018-2019 was a good one for Hardcastle as a slew of its initiatives paid off. This was evident from the audited financial results announced by Westlife Development Limited (WDL), owner of Hardcastle Restaurants Pvt Ltd (HRPL), the...

MUFTI, one of the leading clothing and fashion brands in the country added another feather to its cap by winning the Customer Loyalty Initiative of the Year Award at a recently held retail awards function. Mufti’s loyalty program “MuftiS...

Timezone, the leading chain of Family Entertainment Centres, opened at Logix City Centre Mall in Noida, marking its foray into the North Indian market. Timezone has over 30 centres in the country spread across South, West and East India.Timezone Noid...

Fabindia, one of India’s leading lifestyle retail brands announced its partnership with Star Sports, the official broadcaster of VIVO IPL 2019. As a style partner, Fabindia will style anchors, experts and commentators across all feeds on all m...

In a first, the Future Group has taken a huge step towards making shopping more convenient, Big Bazaar Inclusive shopping 4joyful and easy for all. Normally, organisations focus on creating an inclusive workforce. However, the Future Group has taken ...

India’s most widely celebrated footwear brand Relaxo Footwears Limited is foraying into the digital gift voucher and loyalty points redemption space with GyFTR (Vouchagram), the country’s leading online-to-offline (O2O) peer-to-peer gif...

Adidas, launched its first own retail store at Ambience Mall in Gurgaon in the presence of Indian cricketer Rishabh Pant.adidas Revamped store at Ambience Mall Gurugram 1 Through the store, adidas aims to offer its consumers an enhanced shopping expe...

1-India Family Mart, a leading value retail chain owned by Nysaa Retail Private Limited, has completed 90 stores across 82 cities of Eastern and Northern India generating revenue worth Rs420 crore. The value fashion retailer now aims to invest Rs 200...

Hardcastle Restaurants Pvt. Ltd. (HRPL), master franchisee of McDonald’s in West and South India, has launched the first McDonald’s restaurant in the city. The city’s first McDonald’s restaurant offers lively and modern i...

A Global Investors Meet is being planned in Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh, on 10th- 11th June 2019. A road show was SPARscheduled in Bengaluru on 30th Jan 2019, where senior leaders from varied industries were invited to be a part of the event. SPAR ...

Timezone, leading chain of family entertainment centres, has expanded its presence at Phoenix Market city Kurla with an additional store to complement the existing one. Spread over 14,000 sq. ft, the new Timezone has many new games and rides that kid...

Hardcastle Restaurants Pvt. Ltd., a subsidiary of Westlife Development Ltd. and master franchisee of McDonald’s restaurants in West and South India, has appointed Arvind R. P. as Director- Marketing & Communications. In his new role Arvind wil...

Future Consumer Limited (FCL) launches braille-friendly packaging for its body wash brand, ThinkSkin with Ajay Kumar Reddy, Captain of Indian Men’s Blind Cricket Team on World Braille Day. Priced at the rate of a soap, ThinkSkin is a contempor...

Leading department store chain V-Mart opened its 200th store in Mughalsarai, Uttar Pradesh. With this landmark achievement, the company has opened a total of 29 new stores in the current fiscal year so far. Earlier this month, the company launched it...

Lulu Group launched Y Mall, a new shopping centre at Triprayar Junction in Kerala. The Lulu Group Chairman and Managing Director, M.A. Yusuff Ali dedicated the newly opened Rs250 crore mall project to his home town. M.A.Yusuff Ali’s grandchild...

The bespoke clothing business in India had remained largely untouched by technology. Things are set to change with Bespocut, a techno-commercial business enablement platform. A B2B platform, Bespocut will enable the next stage of evolution in bespoke...

Luxury brand Shazé has been awarded the ‘Best Premium Lifestyle brand in Décor and Destination jewellery’ for the year 2018 by Economic Times. The award ceremony held at Abu Dhabi was organized as a part of the on-going efforts by ...

As part of its ambitious and aggressive expansion strategy in the Indian sub-continent, Crocs India opened its 100th store at Chennai, recently. Spread across 625 sq. ft. at the VR Mall, the new store is Crocs’ third in the city and fifth in t...

Leading global furniture chain IKEA aims to help tackle one of the largest, global environmental issues by launching its ‘Better Air Now’ initiative. Starting off in India, IKEA intends to turn rice straw into a new renewable material so...

The Sheth Developers & Realtors Limited owned, Viviana Mall has brought on board Manoj K. Agarwal as its new CEO. A seasoned professional from the Hospitality and Shopping Mall industry, Agarwal, who has over 30 years of leadership experience, previo...

Leading value retail department store chain V-Mart announced the appointment of Govind Shrikhande as an Independent Director of the Company, effective Nov 2, 2018. Known to the industry for his glowing track record at Shoppers Stop which he joined in...

One of Mumbai’s reputed shopping centres, Viviana Mall, has bagged its 6th consecutive trophy at the ICSC Asia Pacific Shopping centre awards 2018. The Gold award considered on par with the Oscars for the retail world was presented at RECon ...

AstorMueller, global maker of Bugatti shoes, appoints Iconic Fashion Retailing as exclusive India retail partner. Bugatti is one of the leading premium shoe brands in Europe, with over 4.5 million pairs sold annually, all designed and crafted by As...

Globus, one of India’s leading fashion retail chains, is accelerating its growth roadmap, by transforming operations with SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud. As a part of the association, Globus will harness the power of cloud to enhance retail process...

Spykar, one of India’s largest denim brands, announces the promotion of Sanjay Vakharia to the position of Chief Executive Officer. Sanjay co-founded the brand in 1992 and was the COO & Director since 2014. The announcement comes at the bac...

The Oberoi Mall recently hosted the launch of celebrated retail author Dr Gibson G. Vedamani’s book ‘Retail Beyond Detail’ in the presence of Rakesh Biyani, Joint- Managing Director, Future Retail Ltd. Sharing the extracts from ...

French menswear brand Celio has launched its Paris concept store at Jayanagar, Bengaluru. The store will also house the country’s first ‘Celio Club’ – a concept brand by Celio that offers a line of business and formal mensw...

High street fashion labels JACK & JONES, VERO MODA, ONLY celebrated completing 10 path-breaking years of fashion in India at a gala in Mumbai. The star-studded evening saw the unveiling of SELECTED HOMME, JUNAROSE and ONLY & SONS’ AW’18...

The fourth edition of Inorbit’s Pink Power initiative that empowers women entrepreneurs drew to an illustrious close recently. The season received close to 538 entries with business set-ups across various verticals like Food, Skin & Beauty, Ho...

Delhi-based Nysaa Retail Pvt. Ltd, which operates a chain of ‘Value Retail’ stores under the brand name ‘1-India Family Mart’ across Tier 2 & 3 cities in Eastern and Northern India will invest Rs 200 crore to open 100 stores...

Delhi-based Nysaa Retail Pvt. Ltd, which operates a chain of affordable fashion stores under the brand name ‘1-India Family Mart’ across Eastern and Northern parts of India, announced the launch of its first store in Raigarh, Chattisgarh...

Fashion retail chain V-Mart, which is known for taking organized retail to tier-II & III cities opened its first store in Jammu, the winter capital of J&K, taking the number of stores in the state to four. Spread over 9,300 sq ft, it promises to fulf...

Korum Mall, based in Thane, a suburb of Mumbai, has been awarded ‘The Golden Globe Tigers Award’ for ‘Excellence and Leadership’ in Shopping Mall Management in the Marketing & Consumer Promotions category. The Golden Globe T...

The Seawoods Grand Central (SGC) Mall, located at Navi Mumbai, plans to unveil phase-II of SGC Mall by early 2019 and has set a target to increase its footfalls to 10 lakh per month by 2020. Under phase-II, which is being constructed above Seawood...

Mr J. Suresh, Managing Director and CEO, Arvind Lifestyle Brands Ltd., announced the launch of its private label ‘Arvind – Ready-to-Wear’ on April 4th in Mumbai. A balance between aesthetics, flexibility and functionality, the ...

Arvind Ltd, in collaboration with INVISTA (the makers of Lycra), showcased its exclusive new GRAVITY collection of next-generation denims in Mumbai. On display was a new line-up of IKAT DENIM, BOOMERANG 360, CHROME CORD and HYBRID CHINOS—among...

RAI member Silver Emporium has been awarded 'Best Silver articles / Jewellery Manufacturer for 2018' by India Bullion and Jewelry Association (IBJA), the apex body for bullion and jewellery business in India. AN ISO 9112 certified company based out ...

Leading European menswear fashion brand, JACK & JONES has launched its largest store in Asia recently. The sprawling JACK & JONES store is spread across an impressive 6,000 square feet area in Pune’s Phoenix Marketcity mall, offering latest in...

Women acid attack survivors stole the show at Viviana Mall’s third edition of ‘ExtraordiNAARI’ event. The mall invited women acid attack survivors to create awareness and campaign of stopping acid sale and acid attacks. Laxmi Agar...

Arvind Lifestyle Brands Limited, Gap’s franchisee in India, has announced the launch of 17 Gap shop-in-shops through multi-brand retailers. The expansion accelerates the availability of Gap products around the country, including several locati...

Total Sports, the multi-brand chain of sports and fitness stores has been felicitated with the Economic Times Champions of Fitness Award' at a glittering ceremony in Mumbai. ​"India's fitness industry is at a nascent stage and a select few ...

In line with our Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s initiative of Digital India and to promote less cash agenda, leading destination mall of Mumbai Metropolitan Region - Viviana Mall is driving a campaign to use electronic mode of payments among c...

Toonz Retail, one of the largest kids retail chains in India, launched its first brand campaign ideated and developed by Dentsu India, the full-service creative agency from Dentsu Aegis Network. Breaking away from the cookie cutter approach, the new ...

Inorbit Malls has won a Gold at the ICSC’s Asia Pacific Shopping Centre Awards 2017 held at Bangkok. Inorbit Mall won under the Cause Related category for their very popular initiative- PINK POWER. Suman Chakraborty from the Corporate Marketin...

Viviana Mall, leading destination mall in Mumbai Metropolitan Region is setting higher benchmarks in the Indian retail real estate industry. With only four years of operations, the mall has garnered five consecutive awards at the ICSC Asia Pacific Sh...

Godrej Nature’s Basket (GNB), India’s leading food chain, launched its transformation strategy aimed at redefining India’s freshest and finest food experience. The company’s transformation is centered on being the go-to pl...

Reliance Retail Ltd, became the first RAI member retailer to hire 15 students from the first batch of Bachelor in Vocation (BVoc) programme in retail from the Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD). The BVoc programme is a collaborative initiative between A...

Croma, the leading CDIT retail chain in India, has partnered with mobile technology company to start retailing Oneplus products at its retail stores. This is the first ever offline partnership of this kind for OnePlus anywhere in the world. Hitherto,...

Reliance Retail has hired 14 sales associates from an RAI affiliated agency Khalsha Consultancy Services Pvt through RAI’s business networking platform RAI – GlobalLinker. The ‘Hiring Tool’ is an important functionality mad...

KORUM Mall, ​the 7 year old Mall ​based in Thane,​ ​has bagged ‘The most Admired Marketing Campaign of the Year’ Award by CMO Asia Shopping Malls Excellence Awards, at an award ceremony held at Le Meridian Sin...

Sketchers recently inaugurated its 90th store at Ambience Mall in Gurugram. The design of this company-owned and company-operated store is inspired by a warehouse theme with rustic and exposed finish. The 1500 Sqft store was inaugurated by Bollywood ...

HyperCITY Retail (India) Ltd., has launched its third store in the Delhi-NCR, its second in Noida. With the launch of this store, HyperCITY now has a total of 19 operational stores across India. Spread over a sprawling 49,000 sq. ft. the store is...

Fashion retailer Bestseller India is back with its popular Super Saturday, which is one of the most awaited sales of the year. The promotion attracts people from all corners of the city, who throng the storefront from the previous night. This year...