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HomeSukh: Smartest Marketplace For Home Decor

Pune has earned a reputation of being a hot spot for residential real estate. This in itself is reason enough for home furnishing and decor brands to have their presence in the city. One of the earliest concept malls in India - Ishanya recently opened doors to a spectacular 20,000 sq.ft. store called HomeSukh.

V-Mart Retail to Continue Growing At 25 Pc CAGR; Eyes Warehouse Expansion

V-Mart caters to the fashion needs of the entire family. While apparel is the centerpiece of the product portfolio, the brand is also a preferred one-stop destination for footwear, home furnishings, toys, accessories and grocery.

Bata Bets Big On Youth Appeal To Achieve Double Digit Growth

As a brand, Bata has continuously evolved over the years and has shown strong growth. It has come a long way since its foray into India and has today, grown into one of the largest footwear retailers with approximately 1,400 outlets across the country…

Van Heusen Innerwear: Built On Fashion And Innovation

Van Heusen intends to take over a large share of the innerwear market in India in the years to come since product acceptability has been phenomenal in all the brand’s markets and the management is buoyed by the success…

Nykaa Aims At 100% Growth This Fiscal, To Open 200 Stores By 2020

Nykaa reported a revenue of 570 crore in 2017-18. The brand has been EBITDA positive for two quarters in a row. The retailer is on a path to 100 percent revenue growth in the current financial year

Samir Modi To Open 10,000 24Seven Stores in 5 Years; Tests Cashier-Less Check Out

Some of the tech-based innovations the brand is introducing in keeping with its revamped image include LCD screens, bar-code reading screens, digital bar-codes, self-service and food vending machines

DN Regalia Mall Aims At Unique Retail Experience With A Focus On Exclusivity

Spread across 2,50,000 sq. ft. with two levels of dedicated fashion, lifestyle shops, restaurants and cafs along with a reputed hypermarket, the mall will be a complete shopping experience for both locals as well as tourists

Junction Mall To Set Up Of Interactive Mediums Of E-portals

The young generation is shopping and demanding both fashion and quality along with value for money. Junction Mall is an excellent effort to meet these expectations and demands of consumers

The Future Of Retail Is Phy-Gital

Phy-gital refers to a retail environment in which physical and digital experiences merge together seamlessly and complement each other in order to offer the consumer a single, positive, integrated experience…

Raymond To Expand Ethnix And Next Look; Introduce Khadi-specific Brand

Given that the VUCA environment is intensifying and given Raymond’s commitment to providing growth opportunities for internal talent, the company has reshuffled its top brass, and has decided to push forward some of its promising sub-brands…

Dyson Launches Demo Store At DLF Promenade

Dyson has brought its latest problem solving technology to India, including its cord-free vacuum cleaners (Dyson V7 & V8 range), revolutionary hairdryer (Dyson Supersonic) and its range in intelligent air purifiers (Dyson Pure Cool Link)

Kazo To Open 500 PoS With ₹100 Crore Investment Over Three Years

Kazo Fashion Limited, one of India’s premium apparel and accessories womenswear brands aims to give exclusivity to the buyers both on corporate and party wear outfits

'Ombre Lane Was Launched After Months Of Careful Research On The Indian Working Woman's Body Type'

The apparel brand focuses on providing customers with a superior product design, quality and fit along with a well-categorised website experience with quality customer experience…

Indian Retail Sector Focusses On Online Services, Phygital Experiences

H&M, Landmark and Raymond Group make major inroads in expanding their presence in the Indian retail market. Here’s a look at some of the major activities in the sector in the last one month...

Foodforumis Committed to Offer Unique Food Zone Experiences

Good food has an undeniable appeal and increasingly, shopping centre developers are experimenting with tastes and cuisines to woo consumers.

Sold-Out 2018 International Home + Housewares Show Brims With Innovation

The Show’s special preview events attracted nearly 700 buyer and media attendees, increasing attendance over last year. Trending Today spotlighted “A Marketplace for Hydration” and hosted 60 new and current exhibitors of hydration and hydration-related products.

Shoppers Stop Experimenting With Smart Mirrors, Interactive Kiosks

The brand is investing in IOT and location technology to better understand the customers’ path to purchase and dwell time through heat-maps. The management will then use these insights take business decisions on various aspects of customer experience… 

Raiser: The POS Ecosystem That Is About Better ROI, Performance & Efficiency

AS Retail & Hospitality Pvt Ltd’s Make in India’ push has propelled it to be selected as the best-of-the-best, offering a product-line that works best for the end-consumer…

Retail Guru Michael Yacobian On Converting A Selling Environment Into A Buying Environment ​​​​​​​

Today’s Omni-shoppers are quick to shun the face-to-face interaction and dislike the feeling of being ‘sold to’. Instead, they enjoy being ‘helped to buy’, a behavior that Michael Yacobian has grasped and developed solutions for…

At MFB, We Want To Bring In Brands Which Have Potential In India

Myntra and Jabong combined now account for a little over 1 percent of India’s $100 billion fashion and apparel industry with more than $1.2 billion in gross merchandise value (GMV) growing at over 50 percent in the last fiscal year…

Technology The Greatest Differentiator in the Retail Industry

Retailers and brands are embracing technology in a big way to drive a seamless user experience in an effort to blend in with the increasingly digital world and provide convenience and benefits to the consumer. Indian Retail Industry’s top CIOs and CTOs, the visionaries responsible for the technological direction any organisation takes, share their thoughts on the future of retail technology, their focus points as well as the challenges they face while implementing them...

The Impact of Technology on Purchase Lifecycles

New-age technology along with existing knowledge of consumer psychology is being leveraged effectively by brands across the globe, in highly innovative and engaging ways…

Technology: Changing The Future Of Indian Retail

Going forward, technology like ‘AI’ will be further used to get an integrated view of consumer behaviour. Preferences obtained from store and non-store-based sales and marketing channels will allow retailers to offer personalised and consistent experiences and will facilitate the seamless switch between channels.

Spectrum@Metro: The Consumer's Path To An International Lifestyle

India is ranked third in the Global Retail Development Index, expected to rise by 60 percent to reach US$ 1.1 trillion by 2020. The retail sector of India is going through a fresh period of growth which is backed by strong economic fundamentals, something Spectrum@Metro Noida is hoping to tap into…

Plan To Take Sachin Tendulkar's 'True Blue' Global

Arvind is scaling up brands like Aeropostale, Ed Hardy, Gant and Nautica and has also entered the footwear segment in a big way with the introduction of US Polo footwear, Flying Machine footwear, and Aero footwear...

Design-led Lifestyle Brand Chumbak Targets 50 Stores By Fy19

Chumbak– with a USP of product assortment entirely created on fun and colorful design philosophy–retails over 100 categories through 22 stores, pan India. It also retails successfully through its web store, which has evolved into a highly interactive and fast-growing online business...

A Progressive Brand Needs To Be Where Its Customers Are

Now, at the top of its game, Chaayos is revolutionising the way Indians drink chai. With over 12,000 customisation options, the brand gives Indians a chance to order their favourites while personalising their brew, all the while luring and retaining consumers…

Felicity Mall, A One-Stop Shopping Destination For Nellore

The mall encompasses a variety of retail of retail outlets featuring different brands, apparel, food court, games and movies…

Online To Offline: Pure Play E-Commerce Firms Go Physical To Woo Consumers

While international online giants such as Amazon, Warby Parker, Zappos and Bonobos have been opening stores for some time now, the shift towards physical has become more noticeable over the last few years – in the world and in India…

Going Omnichannel Way!

Multi-channel shopping interfaces: physical stores, malls, e-commerce platforms, social-enabled shopping experiences, and smartphone app based services; the consumer is exposed to all. This article delves into facts on how retailers are trying hands on creating an omni channel experience.