Aditya Birla Retail Ltd (ABRL), a retail arm of Aditya Birla Group, is planning to open 10 new hypermarkets and 150 new supermarkets at select locations across India by March 2012, with an investment of around Rs 200 crores. The company now has 10 hypermarkets and 565 supermarkets spread across 140 cities in 12 states in the country. The company’s hypermarkets are located at Mysore, Vadodara, Aurangabad, Indore, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Vashi and Thane. ABRL’s big plan to open hypermarkets will bring in a new business opportunity for the signage companies involving deeply with in-store signs and displays in this sector.
