Fashion & Retail
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 1 min readReliance Industries on Friday re-launched its famous brand of fabrics, Vimal, along with the opening its first exclusive showroom in Ahmedabad, the city where the company and its first textile unit was born. According to Anand Parekh, President, Textile Business, 23 other such exclusive showrooms will be opened within a year besides having about 200 ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 1 min readAcademy Award-winning actor Russell Crowe and friend Peter Holmes are all set to buy a franchise in the newly launched Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket event. Crowe and Holmes, who own the South Rugby League Club, may well hire players like Australian captain Ricky Ponting and fiery paceman Brett Lee to play for the Rabittohs ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 2 min readCitymax India, an integrated hospitality company and part of the Dubai based Landmark Group, has obtained the master franchise rights of India’s leading Chef Sanjeev Kapoor for three of his restaurant brands, Khazana, The Yellow Chilli and Grain of Salt. As part of the Citymax-Sanjeev Kapoor partnership, the first The Yellow Chilli restaurant opened in ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 1 min readGlobal Franchise Architects (GFA) has confirmed its plans to bring a new chain of food outlets named The Donut Baker to India. The planned US$12 million investment has opened its first shop in Bangalore this month selling donuts and other bakery products. They have a plan to open 39 more across the country by 2012. ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 1 min readHenri Studio Inc. USA a division of Nelson LLC USA , has set up a manufacturing joint venture in Gurgaon, Haryana in the Name of Henri Studio India Pvt. Ltd. .. Henri Studio Inc. USA ,the largest designer and manufacturer of Cast Stone Statuary in the world, have entered India for the first time to ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 1 min readAmerica's most popular donut chain has an Indian recipe. At least 60 per cent of such restaurants are run by Indians and many of them are Gujaratis like Rinku and Keshav Patel. The Patels bought a Dunkin store by paying $50,000 as franchisee fee three years ago. Today, they own three in Rockford near Chicago ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 2 min readMAS Holdings, a $750 million Sri Lanka-based supplier of lingerie, active-wear and sports wear to various global companies with reputed brands, has signed an agreement with the Andhra Pradesh Government to set up a textile Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Nellore district. Ajay Amalean, Director, MAS Holdings, said that it would be an integrated fabric ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 2 min readChennai, October 04, 2007: Veta, Asia`s largest spoken English training academy with a successful footprint in India now plans to emulate the success by commencing its operations in Singapore by end of 2007. Veta also plans to diversify to other Asian countries subsequently. This would be the first time that an English Training Academy is ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 1 min readWyndham Hotel, a subsidiary of Wyndham Worldwide Corp. of Parsippany, N.J., has signed a seven-year deal with Gammon India Ltd., a leading Indian construction and engineering firm based in Mumbai, to develop Wyndham Hotel Group’s Days Inn and Super 8 brands in India. Gammon will own and manage the hotels, and Wyndham Hotel Group International ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 1 min readInter Continental Hotels Group today announced record company growth in the Asia/Pacific region this year, with 80 hotels signed in the past 12 months and brands entering several markets in which they previously had no presence. Of the 80 hotels signed in the last year, more than two-thirds will be in China, Japan and India, ...