A retail start-up Hello Ten Brands, a venture promoted Liberty Group, is planning to open its first 25 stores in Karnataka in the April-June quarter of FY 2016-17. The 500-800 sq ft franchisee stores set up at a cost of Rs 35 lakh per store, excluding the cost of store rentals, will offer bestselling merchandise across 10 product categories, including footwear, apparel, leather bags, wellness & personal care, watches & eye wear, electronics, and so on, from national and international brands for men, women and children.Seventy five per cent of the merchandise in Hello Ten stores will consist of footwear from brands such as Clarks, Puma, Adidas Carlton, Catwalk, Lee Cooper, Crocs and Liberty. This is indeed a fresh development for signage companies whose tasks involved in in-shop branding and designs.
