Fashion & Retail
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 1 min readHyderabad is going to wallow in luxury with the opening of the flagship store of Sweden-based Hästen in July 27, 2008. This luxury bed-maker is going to retail beds with bed frames in the price range of Rs.2.5 lakh and Rs.35 lakh. As a part of making foray in the Asian market, Hästen has chosen ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 1 min readReliance Retail has signed up a franchise deal with the UK-based world`s largest toy shop, Hamleys. The toy shop chain is planning to open four stand-alone stores in the first 24 months. The Hamleys` store will be the one of its kind toy shop in India for its sheer size. The store will have 25000 ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 1 min readM&B footwear join hands with US based Wolverine World Wide Inc to introduce Merrell shoes in India. Merrell has its presence in 127 countries and is a flagship brand of the Wolverine World Wide. “We have taken the distributorship of Merrell shoes for entire India”, informs an official of M&B Footwear. “Its international appeal, strong ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 1 min readThe Japanese electronics brand Panasonic is going to revamp its manufacturing and marketing set up by pumping in $ 200 million (ie over Rs.850 crore), informs Aso Hidenori, Chairman, Panasonic Sales and Services in India. The company is going to spur the growth at the rate of 20-25% this fiscal year, and to increase the ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 1 min readIndo Rama Retail Holdings Pvt. Ltd., the retail arm of the promoter of Indo Rama Synthetics India, has entered the market of South India for the first time with the launching of a franchised store of Office1Superstore, a US brand for retailing stationery and furniture, in Chennai and Puducherry. Indo Rama Retail is the exclusive ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 1 min readOSIM India, a distributor, supplier and dealer of lifestyle products and a division of Delhi-based Paramount Surgimed Ltd, is going to pump in Rs.50 crore over the next three years on expansion of its showrooms. The company is planning to open 50 exclusive showrooms by 2010 and scale it up to 100 exclusive outlets by ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 2 min readJumbo King has been one of the most successful modern day franchise stories. In a recent development, the brand has now decided not to appoint any more individual franchisees and go in for master franchisees instead. Confirming this the MD Dheeraj Gupta said, "we have seen that our franchisees who are operating multiple stores are ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 1 min readTo earn half of the revenues from overseas and have an expansion in global footprint, Anil Ambani`s Group Reliance Money has recently announced its foray into Nigeria through a partnership with Chellarams Plc., a Lagos-based industrial house. Nigeria is the first country where R-Money will start operating in this year to tap the overseas market. ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 1 min readThe well-known logistics service provider, Safexpress, plans to attain a turnover of Rs.1000 cr by 2009-10. It will be just the double of the present turnover of Rs.500 cr. The company works for the big brands like Adidas, Levi’s, Raymond and Reebok and as a part of its expansion plan it is looking forward to ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 1 min readEntering into India in 2005, the German footwear brand Vi-Ga is set for its pan India expansion in a big way. At present, Vi=Ga has 15 outlets in northern Indian states and has planned to open 50 more by 2009. Mr Vinayak Mahtani, COO of 20-crore Mahtani Fashion Pvt Ltd informed Retailer that “We are ...