Dell India Opens Retails Stores in Delhi & Coimbatore
15 oct 2008
Looking to buy Dell Notebooks or Dell Desktop Computers in India. Now you can walk into Dell retail stores in Delhi and try the model before making the purchase.
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Finally Tesco comes to India, partners with Tata Trent
12 aug 2008
UK’s biggest retailer has finally chosen its partner for Indian operations, to complement its strategy of growing overseas following its operations in countries like US, Korea and China. Tesco has chosen Tata Group’s retail arm, Trent Ltd to start its Indian operations.
Starbucks prepares itself for Indian entry – registers its name in Indian languages
16 may 2008
After its decision to put on hold its Indian entry, coffee chain Starbucks is preparing to enter India by doing all the back end work.
Starbucks has registered its brand name in 10 Indian languages which includes Tamil, Telugu, Punjabi, Bangla, Gujarati and Urdu.
Arvind Mills changes name, focus, strategy
13 may 2008
Textile major Arvind Mills which has been recently going through a bad patch owing to rising rupee, reducing exports and falling margins is undertaking a business transformation in a bid to become a billion dollar company.
First blueprint of Bharti Walmart retail store
26 feb 2008
Details of Bharti Wal-Mart’s first retail store in India, as per report of TV Channel CNBC-Awaaz.
First store to be opened in Ludhiana in April, 2008. Interestingly Ludhiana is the city where Sunil and Rajan Mittal were brought up.
Reliance Retail partnering Marks & Spencer – compulsion for both
25 feb 2008
The British iconic retail giant, Marks & Spencer which has been operating in India since 2001, is going for a makeover in a bid to widen its portfolio in India to include its food and cafe business.
Reliance Retail eyeing Shopper’s Stop – good synergies to drive with
19 feb 2008
Among the pioneers of organised retail in India, Shopper’s Stop may be up for sale if The Economic Times is to be believed. Though the management has dismissed the news as ‘baseless rumours’.
Indiabulls uses real estate backup to push hard into retail, buys out Piramyd Retail
09 dec 2007
India’s third largest property developer after DLF and Unitech, Indiabulls is using its zooming market capitalisation in financial services and real estate to venture into retail via its arm Indiabulls Real Estate Ltd.
Vijay Mallya targets the wealthy with his luxury mall
07 nov 2007
It is meant exclusively for the rich and famous. With India boasting of highest number of billionaires in Asia, the country would soon witness a mall that would be housing only luxury brands.
Videocon buy out Planet M retail stores
06 nov 2007
In a move that could help boost its retail presence, Videocon Industries through its retail chain, NEXT has acquired Planet M, the music and entertainment retail arm of media house Bennett, Coleman & Co.