New Business Opportunity

Tata Group's Tanishq jewellery brand plans to enter the lucrative regional ornaments segment as a new strategy to cater to the diverse requirements of brides from different communities around India.…

UK-based The Body Shop has announced that it would ramp up its presence in India by over four-fold in the next three years to tap the subcontinent’s market. The global skin care solutions company, which sells products such as facewash, body lotions, lipstick and many others, had already cut the prices of over 200 products in the last 12 months. India is considered to be the pillar for the company's future in coming years as the country has potential to continue its growth. The increase of The Body Shop retail outlets in India is indeed a golden chance for signage companies in which in-store media majors as well as sign suppliers across the country could find a new room to exploit.

Italian sportswear maker Lotto Sports Italia, which shares the fifth position among international brands in the Indian sportswear market after Reebok, Adidas, Nike and Puma, has plans to invest US$3.5…

After a phase of consolidation, Micky Jagtiani-owned Max Hypermarkets, which operate Spar-branded superstores, to expand presence to new geographies and open 25 hypermarkets by 2012. This will result in a 10-fold increase in the company’s retail space—from 120,000 sq ft currently to 1.2 million sq ft.  The company, currently, operates three large-format stores—two in Bangalore and one in Hyderabad—and is set to open its flagship property, a 90,000 sq ft store, in Bangalore soon. Such introduction of new Max Hypermarkets in major cities is an unmatched opportunity for  signage companies like in-store media majors, sign suppliers and print providers.

Giovani, a leading lifestyle brand, has launched its flagship store in the city of Chandigarh. The brand name Giovani was launched in the year 2001 by Dhir Group. Now, Giovani retails its merchandise from New Delhi, Noida, Gurgaon, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Jaipur, Ludhiana, Ahmadabad and Faridabad. Dhir Group is a leading manufacturer and exporter of high fashion men’s and women's apparels to some of the bestowed brands in the world. The brand retails from nearing 200 multi-branded stores and has 11 exclusive stores of its own with each being around 2000 sq ft. The increase of Giovani stores around major cities and towns across the country has signaled a new prospect in the signage industry where in-store signage companies could boost their business.

Reliance , the 50-50 JV between Reliance Retail and Pearle Europe is planing to expand its base nationally to tap the existing potential of the Indian eyewear industry. The company is…

Leading footwear firm Liberty shoes plans to open 50 more outlets across the country this fiscal. The company is unveiling the new outlets pan India, particularly in Tier II destinations which will…

Zoomin, an online digital photo printing company, is planning to open 25 retail stores across India by the end of 2010. The venture-funded company will also partner with Crossword Bookstores for six shop-in-shops across five metros soon. To begin with, the company will open eight retail stores by the end of this fiscal. The company has one standalone Zoomin Photo Studio, a franchise owned store, in Mumbai which opened recently. And it has been planning to open six shop-in-shops across five metros. Also aimed is the opening of 25 ZoomIn Stores by the end of this year. The company will open its photo studios at Crossword in Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Mumbai, Kolkata and Pune. The new Zoomin stores will provide a new opportunity to in-store signage media companies across the country.

Destination Maternity Corp, a leading maternity apparel retailer, has announced the opening of two more Motherhood Maternity shop-in-shops in India. Motherhood's trendy, affordable maternity fashions are now available for the…

Bharti-Walmart Private Limited is planning to add five more cash and carry wholesale B2B stores across India in the next financial year. The company rolled out its B2B model in Amritsar last year. The new stores would be opened at Zirakpur (near Chandigarh), Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Patila, Ghaziabad and Jaipur. This new development at Bharti-Walmart will be a golden business opportunity for signage players, particularly in-store media companies, located in north India.

Gitanjali Gems Ltd, India’s biggest jewellery retailer that owns brands such as Asmi, Ddamas, Nakshatra and Gili, plans to double its reach in a year’s time to cover two million sq ft of retail space as it rolls out new stores in smaller towns, railway stations and cinema theatres. The jewellery firm more than trebled in size in four years from Rs 1621 crore in sales in 2005-06 and is slated to end this fiscal with a growth of at least 35 percent in net sales. Opening of new Gitanjali stores is indeed an unmatched opportunity for in-store signage companies as well as print providers and sign suppliers as well.

The Four Fountains Spa (TFFS) is expanding to cities like Mumbai, Delhi and NCR, Bangalore and Chennai amongst other tier-I and tier II cities with a plan of 300 spas…