Future Group bought the lone India franchisee store of Shoprite Holdings Ltd, South Africa’s biggest grocery chain. Located at Mulund in Mumbai, Shoprite store will be used to unveil Future Group’s new brand…
Domino's Pizza announces that the market in India will be amongst the top five global markets for the company in the next three years. In its attempt to achieve the…
Cartier is looking to expand its distribution network in growing luxury market. Having set up its first store, in October 2008 at the Emporio Mall in New Delhi, in partnership with Navratna Bharat Retail, Cartier is offering India’s well-heeled its ‘Inde Mysterieuse’ jewellery collection that has been engraved, ribbed and cut in the Jaipur style. The company is making further presence of its stores in the country. The high-end jewellery store is certainly a new destination for the country’s signage segment, giving new opportunity to in-store media companies as well as signage suppliers.
Bombay Swadeshi Store, the gift and home retail chain, which sells under the brand of ‘The Bombay Store’, is planning to set up 16 stores by FY 2012. It is looking at upcoming new airports in the country for locating some of the new stores. The company currently has 11 stores in the country and is looking to set up outlets in Mumbai, Bangalore, Aurangabad, Pune, Hyderabad, Chennai, Indore, Chandigarh and Udaipur. A majority of its clientele consists of those who purchase Indian artefact and home accessories as gifts. Signage companies looking for new room to exploit will find Bombay Swadheshi Store a right spot for new business.
Micro Star International (MSI) has announced that they will further enhance their retail reach to make their range of consumer notebooks easily available to a wider customer base. In a…
Sears Knit that makes jackets for Arrow and Raymonds recently opened the first retail outlet of its own titled ‘Lure’ brand at the God Souk Grande mall in Ludhiana. So did 42 other local brands including better-known ones such as Octave, Monte Carlo, Bluemount and Madame as traditional contract manufacturers from the century-old hosiery and knitwear hub have come together to build a common platform for brand Ludhiana. The company will open its Delhi chapter next month at Wedding Souk at Pitam Pura with 25,000 square feet of retail space, to be followed by a 15,000 sq ft unit in Jaipur. Its Ludhiana outlet is spread across 40,000 sq ft. The expansion move of Sears Knit will be a golden opportunity for signage companies, particularly in-store media majors and sign suppliers to find a new room to exploit.
Titan Industries Ltd launched North India’s largest showroom in Lucknow. The exclusive outlet spreading over 2,600 sq ft has a display capacity of 1,900 watches, including Titan products featuring Titan, Raga, Xylys, Fastrack and Sonata brands. Lucknow is a big market for us and people across North India visit the city for shopping. The company also has the license to market Tommy Hilfiger and Hugo Boss watches in the country. Currently Titan has 289 World of Titan stores pan India and almost 100 more would be added by the end of 2010-11 and it would surely be a big business opportunity for signage players like in-store media companies, print providers and sign suppliers.
Aditya Birla Retail is roping in a financial investor to fund its expansion plans. Given the rate at which Aditya Birla Retail is expanding, funding will be an important factor…
Somany Ceramics inaugurated an exclusive imported tiles and sanitaryware showroom ‘Somany Global’ in Greater Kailash II, New Delhi. The showroom is a complete tiling solution showroom, exhibiting one of the…
InterfaceFLOR India Pvt Ltd, a global leader in modular commercial flooring, opens a new combined office and showroom in Mumbai. Located in the Prabhadevi Industrial Estate, this new office cum showroom will cater to the growing demand for the company’s innovative and sustainable carpet tiles. Spreading over 1350 sq ft, the new combined outlet has an open layout for optimal space utilisation and the use of uniform colour schemes ensuring that the central focus of the showroom is the fabulous designs. In other aspect, the new showroom would bring in a new business for the signage segment, giving new room to capture to in-store media comanies, print providers and others.
Aditya Birla Retail Limited (ABRL) aims to be an US$ 2.5-billion entity by 2017-18 with the opening of new stores, launching private labels and closing unviable stores, among other initiatives. The company will be opening 12 hypermarket stores every year at an investment of nearly Rs 18-crore per store, spreading across 55,000-75,000 sq ft. This year, the company’s stores will come up in cities like Delhi, Hyderabad, Surat, Pune and Nashik. Besides, it has also been planned to open 70-100 supermarket stores every year at an investment of nearly Rs 50-60-lakh per store of sizes 2,500-2,800 sq ft pan-India. Such mega expansion plan of the company will be a golden opportunity for in-store signage companies as well as sign suppliers all over India.
Footwear and apparel firm Woodland is giving a big push to the kids-wear segment with plans to launch range of shoes for children by the middle of this year and…