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...

Globus, the leading fashion retail chain recently launched its new store in Seawoods Grand Central Mall, Navi Mumbai, taking the number of its outlets to 38 with presence in 20 cities. With this store Globus has departed from its existing look an...

European fashion retail giant, BESTSELLER recently opened its doors to India’s first ever luxury menswear brand SELECTED HOMME in Mumbai. Sprawling over 1,200 sq. ft. this exclusive brand outlet is located on the second floor of Palladium mall...

From a small kiosk to a multi chain QSR, Wow! Momo has been growing rapidly. As part of its recent expansion spree, Wow! Momo opened two new outlets – one at Sector 5 in Kolkata and the other at New Bela in Bengaluru. The Kolkata outlet is ...

Marks & Spencer (M&S) continues to ​expand its footprint in Lucknow with the launch of the first standalone Lingerie & Beauty store in the city at One Awadh Mall. The new 1,520 square foot Lingerie & Beauty store is the sixth of its kind in...

LKS Fashion House now forays into the domain of women and kids fashion by opening its first store on 2ndavenue in Anna Nagar - a popular retail destination of Chennai. S. A. Sarfaraz, CEO and Founder of LKS Fashion House says, “The vision of th...

Celio Future Fashion Pvt. Ltd. India has chosen Satyen P. Momaya as the new CEO. A seasoned professional, Momaya holds over 20 years of experience working across retail, telecom and consumer durables industries. He has a successful track record in bu...

Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) officially recognises the prior learning (skills and knowledge) of an individual so that s/he can enter or re-enter formal training institutions thus enhancing employment opportunities. The program is supported ...

Homegrown retail chain Toonz Retail launched its second store in Belgaum. The new store on Civil Hospital Road is spread over an area of 1450 sq ft. and is stocked with Toonz’s flagship brands WOWMOM, SUPERYOUNG and SUPERYOUNG CELEBRATIONS & c...

H&M, the Swedish international retailer will open doors to its first store in Pune on Saturday, 15 October 2016, 11AM at Phoenix Market City. The 33,000 sq. ft store will be H&M's 10th store location since its debut in the country last year. We ar...

Future Group, India’s leading multi-format retailer has entered into a strategic tie-up with Paytm, the mobile payment and commerce platform. The partnership will enable users to shop for Big Bazaar merchandise on Paytm marketplace and get del...

VR Bengaluru, the integrated community lifestyle centre in Whitefield, welcomed The Irish House, promising a warm Irish experience in the neighbourhood with an extensive variety of domestic and international beers paired with signature Brit & Irish f...

Tanishq, the reputed jewellery brand from the house of Tatas, inaugurated five retail outlets in Mumbai, taking the total number of outlets in the city to 17. The brand has achieved a significant milestone by launching over 19,600 square feet of new ...

Wet Blue-New York, a leading brand of women’s fashion footwear in India, opened yet another Exclusive Brand Outlet (EBO) at the newly launched Seawoods Grand Central Mall in Navi Mumbai. The 350 sq ft boutique store entails one the widest and ...

Relaxo, India's leading footwear brand, recently launched its 250th store at Sector 3, Rohini in Delhi. Spread over 1119 sq ft., the new Relaxo outlet offers popular Relaxo brands like Flite, Bahamas, Sparx, Schoolmate, Hawaii, Maryjane, Boston and K...

SSIPL, a well-known name in the footwear manufacturing and retailing industry, launched Sports Station, a chain of multi-brand sports stores. Sports Station endeavours to bring a plethora of international sports brands in sports shoes, accessories an...

Brand Factory, India’s leading fashion discount chain, a part of Future Lifestyle Fashion Limited, now opens at six locations in Mumbai — Haji Ali, Mira Road, Kandivali, Vikhroli, Thane and Vasai. Fashion labels for men, women and k...

shazé has been awarded “Asia’s Most Promising Brands” in the lifestyle – Gems and Jewellery category by World Consulting & Research Corporation. The function was held during the 3rd Asian Brand and Leadership Summit 2016 ...

On Women’s Day 2016, Inglot, the world’s leading manufacturers in colour cosmetics and its exclusive Indian Franchise Partner, Major Brands India achieved a Guinness World Records Title for “Most people painting their fingernails ...

Lifestyle International Pvt. Ltd has been recognized as one of the Best Workplaces in Asia (500+ Employees) by Great Places to Work® Institute. The award ceremony was held at Sydney, Australia. The retail giant was chosen for its work place cul...

Benetton Group announced the appointment of Sundeep Chugh as Chief Executive Officer of Benetton India. Chugh has been Commercial Director of Benetton India since 2011, contributing to the growth of the United Colors of Benetton, Sisley and Undercolo...

Luxury gifts retailer shazé has been awarded the ‘World's Greatest Brand, 2015 – Asia and GCC’. The awards were held at the INDO-UAE Business Summit 2015 in association with IBPC – India Business & Professionals Council ...

HyperCITY Retail Ltd., one of the largest hypermarket chains in the country has entered the Delhi NCR market by launching its first store in Noida. HyperCITY’s expansion in Noida is the 17th addition to the retail chain in India. Spread over 3...

Metro Shoes has signed a retail partnership agreement with Crocs to help increase the global footwear company’s presence across the nation. As per the agreement, Metro Shoes will be opening Exclusive Brand Outlets (EBOs) of Crocs footwear acro...

Croma recently delivered Rose gold iPhone 6S to a customer who had pre-booked her new iphone on croma.com at Dibrugarh, the eastern-most pin code in Assam at midnight of the 15 Oct – just as the midnight launch got underway in major stores ac...

The Asian Leadership Award, 2015 awarded Ms. Darshana Shah, Sr. Vice President -Marketing and Visual Merchandising, HyperCITY Retail India with the “Retail Leadership Award”. HyperCITY was also felicitated with the certificate of merit as...

Aditya Birla Private Equity, through its Sunrise Fund, has invested for a minority stake in Creative Lifestyles Pvt Ltd, with a valuation of over Rs 300 crore.Creative Lifestyle is the owner of women's apparel brands, 109F, Fusion Beats and O2xygen. ...

Samsung India Electronics opened a Samsung Experience Store in Leh. Samsung is the only brand to have a direct distribution and service set up in the Leh-Ladakh region part of the state of Jammu & Kashmir. The Samsung Experience Store and Service Cen...

Leading women’s fashion apparel brands, 1090 F & Fusion Beats launched one of its finest dual stores in NewDelhi. Located in the trendy and upmarket shopping district at Rajouri Garden, the 1600 square feet store will house both 1090 F & Fusio...

Buying things is so easy these days, after the online shopping revolution that took over everyone’s minds and changed the way people shopped. It has become the rage now, what with people ordering everything from food to furniture from the cosy...

In the spirit of corporate philanthropy, BESTSELLER is arranging a world-wide charity day across all its brands and countries. ‘One day to unite and do good’ is what it’s all about. BESTSELLER India, which houses fashion brands...

Here’s some great news for all thali lovers in city! India’s largest vegetarian thali chain of restaurants - Khandani Rajdhani opens their 2nd unit in the beautiful city of Hyderabad! This is the Brand’s 28th unit that is located...

Infiniti Retail Ltd, the subsidiary of Tata Sons, which manages the consumer electronics retail business of the Tata group under the brand name “Croma”, has announced the appointment of Mr. Avijit Mitra as the Chief Executive Officer. ...

And Designs India Limited (ADIL), one of India’s best known fashion houses, has appointed Milind Sarwate as an Independent Director. Milind Sarwate, a 55-year old Corporate Professional, brings over 31 years of experience in Finance, HR, Strat...

Toonz Retail India Pvt. Ltd, the one-stop shop for all the needs and occasions of kids, from 0-12 years launched its new store in Anna Rao Patil Tower, Opp Sapna Lodge, Udgir Road, Bidar, Karnataka. Shri Bhagvanta Khumba, MP of Bidar, inaugurated the...

The MobileStore Ltd. becomes the only multi-chain mobile retail outlet in the country to offer Xiaomi Redmi Note 4G and Mi4 smartphones in India. Mr. Himanshu Chakrawarti, CEO – The MobileStore Ltd said, “With the launch of Xiaomi�...

Starting on May 30th, the first Gap store will open in New Delhi and offer a wide range of clothing and accessories from the Gap, GapKids and babyGap Summer 2015 collections. This will be the first of several stores to open within the first year. ...

McDonald’s India is transforming customer convenience through the launch of its first ‘Experience of the Future’ restaurant (EOTF) in Mumbai. The new concept restaurant, at CR2 Mall in Nariman Point, has customizable menu options,...

Japanese Designer lifestyle brand MINISO has forayed into the e-commerce space with its products going live on achhakart.com for bulk purchases and Snapdeal & Paytm mall for retail shopping in India. Miniso on achhacartCommenting on the collaboration...

Burger King India recently launched its 200th restaurant. The brand achieved this milestone in just five years. The burger chain had crossed the 100th restaurant mark in 2017 and the next 100 was accomplished in less than 22 months. BURGER KING Ch...

VR Bengaluru, the integrated community lifestyle centre in Whitefield is now home to the first outlet of Spa la Vie by L’Occitane & the Warren Tricomi Salon in the city. The centre hosts premium retail, wellness, dining and entertainment optio...