New Business Opportunity

Digital imaging company Canon India decides to set up six outlets across the country over the next few months. These outlets named […]

After Germany’s Metro and US-based Wal-Mart, UK’s largest Cash & Carry player Booker Group Plc has set up its first shop in Mumbai. Booker India, a unit of Booker Group, spent nearly Rs 8 crore in setting up the 35,000 sq ft Cash and Carry store in Kandivali suburb of Mumbai and planned to roll out similar ones in other parts of the country. Metros and smaller towns can take different sized stores in the country and the company sees how the Mumbai store operates and stabilises. And there is the fact that the new Cash & Carry stores will lend a new business opportunity to signage companies, particularly in-store media companies and signage players.

Ducati Motor Holding, the world’s leading producer of Racing inspired motorcycles has opened its first showroom in India. Partnered with Precision Motor India Private Limited to provide opportunities for growth and further establishment of the Ducati Brand, the company has chosen Mumbai as its location for the first flagship showroom. The Ducati brand which symbolises racing success, innovative technology and the highest quality standards is a perfect fit for Precision Motor India and the opening of the new high-end store will race up opportunity for signage players, such as signage suppliers as well as in-store media companies.       

German premium fashion and lifestyle brand s. Oliver has planned to invest around Rs 47 crore by 2012 to have

Reliance Footprint, a branded retail chain of footwear stores from Reliance Retail Ltd, has opened its first store in Nashik.

MobileStore, the Esaar Group’s mobile phone retail chain, has announced thier acquisition of the operation of Impact Retail Pvt Ltd. The

With plan to open 100 more shop-in-shop outlets across the country, home furnishing and lifestyle retail chain Rosebys Interiors India

Apparel retailer Indus League Clothing is sewing recovery plans as consumer spending picks up during the festive season. The Future

Latent Images Private Limited, which currently operates five ‘IIIrd i’ digital camera retail stores in Hyderabad, is planning to open three more gadget retail concept stores under the ‘NowGadget’ brand. The new stores will be unveiled in three cities—one each in Chennai, Bangalore and Kochi—in the next six months. No doubt, such high-end stores will offer an unmatched opportunity to every signage supplier as well as in-store media company in the region.

Fastrack, a fashion accessories brand from Titan Industries Ltd, is mulling to take the number of its exclusive stores to

Kolkata-based conglomerate ITC Ltd plans to launch its rural hypermarkets, known as Choupal Saagars, in a smaller format as it seeks to boost its presence in the remote towns. The company already has 24 hypermarkets, each spread across 10,000 sq ft, offering multiple products and services, ranging from clothing and electronics to soil testing, under one roof. Now, the company plans to set up stores just half the size of the existing ones and this is also a delivery of an unmatched opportunity for the signage players to explore new landscape in the Indian retail segment.

Footwear leader Relaxo announces its plans to more than double its outlets in the country in the next two and

Reliance Retail plans to open 85 stores of its jewellery retailing business Reliance Jewels across the country over the next

Mumbai-based Suvidhaa Infoserve Pvt Ltd, a pioneer of the Services Commerce (S-Commerce) revolution in India, has crossed a mark of 15,000

Italian modular kitchen company Cucine Lube announces its plans to strengthen its retail presence in India by opening nine more

As part of its expansion plan, Mochi-branded retail chain of footwear stores, is aiming to open 22 new stores across India by March 2012. The company just opened its first store in Nashik. With this new store, Mochi now has 28 stores in 18 major cities across the country, including nine in Maharashtra (six stores in Mumba, and two in Pune and the recent one in Nashik). Mochi caters to a young, cosmopolitan crowd, offering fusion wear along with some legendary classics for the season. This cozy Gen X shopping den is the right spot to strike for in-store media companies and signage suppliers.

The retail business of RPG group, which runs supermarkets under the Spencer brand, has launched its first flagship café at

Gitanjali Lifestyle, a unit of Gitanjali Gems, is going to add 40 multi-format stores under its ‘Maya’ brand in the next three years and expects revenue of 10 billion rupees from multi-format stores. The company would spend 700-800 million rupees annually for retail expansion under the ‘Maya’ brand. The multi-format stores acquired by Gitanjali Lifestyle after it took a 76 percent stake in apparel firm Salasar Ltd will be a new landscape to explore for signage players, such as in-store media companies

Having been joined hands with Germany-based Mustang Jeans for selling Mustang fashion branded jeans, Shoppers’ Stop sets to open 35

Retail apparel firm Koutons India plans to open 100 new stores and expects revenue to grow by 35 per cent