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Adani Group The Adani Group entered into the retailing business by taking over Ahmedabad's 'Ravji Supermarket' as a business model in 2000. With Vahid Ravji as CEO of B2C India Limited (Adani's Hypermarket/ Supermarket) the company began operations with three stores and at present operates in...

Vishal Retail Group Vishal Mega Mart, a Delhi-based retailer started with selling primarily clothing and accessories. Today, it operates 32 large stores and clocked sales of INR 2.88 billion last year. Vishal's ambitious retail plans by year 2010 include an IPO, pumping in investments close to...

Trinethra Trinethra, the Andhra Pradesh-based grocery chain, operates 83 stores in Andhra Pradesh, 26 in Bangalore and 15 outlets in Chennai, has drawn up an aggressive growth strategy for the South targeting 220 stores with a turnover of over INR 3 billion by March 2007 having registered a...

Subhiksha Subhiksha, a leading Chennai-based supermarket and pharmacy discount chain, operates on a low-cost, low-capital investment model. Its large number of stores help Subhiksha leverage the high volume of purchases and deliver discounts to consumers. It has taken several cost-cutting...

Nilgiri's Nilgiri's, the supermarket chain (established 1905) from South India, headquartered in Bangalore, is possibly the only retailer to generate a large part of its sales from its own produce. With 36 outlets it expects to gross sales of over INR 3 billion in the current calendar year...

Piramyd Retail Ltd. In September 1999, Piramal Enterprises made its foray into retail with the launch of three retail concepts: India's first true shopping mall of international standards, called Crossroads; a lifestyle department store called Piramyd Megastore; and a family entertainment...

Lifestyle International Pvt. Ltd. The Dubai-based Landmark Group operates nine Lifestyle stores in six cities with an average store size of 46,000 sq.ft., the largest of them at Chennai with an area of 75,000 sq.ft. The turnover of the group crossed INR 3.5 billion in FY 04-05. Lifestyle...

K Raheja Corp. The Mumbai-based K Raheja Corp Group, which has interests in property development, retailing and hospitality, the department store format Shoppers' Stop and books & music retailer Crossword, recently launched its first home solutions store 'Home Stop' in Bangalore. The Group...

Pantaloon Retail India Ltd. India's leading retailer with a turnover close to INR 11 billion (US$242 million) for the financial year ended June 2005, Pantaloon Retail (India) Limited has presence across multiple segments including food, fashion and footwear, home solutions and consumer...

The Tata Group The Tata Group, with interests in various consumer product categories has different companies to retail its brands. While in automobiles it operates through its distributor and dealer network, for fashion and lifestyle, it operates through its retail arm Trent (established in...

RPG Retail The RPG Group was the first to get into the organised retailing business in India and expand beyond the south, the only region where organised retail flourished with retailers like Nilgiri's, Subhiksha, Viveks etc. RPG Retail was also the first to venture into different formats and...

The Top Retail Sellers- India: By R S Roy It's wonderful what even a faint whiff of competition can do for a business. Reliance Retail is yet to deliver a major physical manifestation of its super-ambitious projections, and the current incumbents of India Retail Inc. are already...

Retail sector to offer two million jobs in two years The retail sector in the country will require an additional 2 million professionals in two years.The Retail Association of India (RAI), which represents the country's Rs 90,000 crore organised retail sector, estimates that the current...

Combating retail shrinkage with RFID Retail shrinkage is the difference between book stock and actual stock. It is the unaccounted loss of retail goods. Its main causes are theft by employees, administrative errors, shoplifting by customers or vendor fraud. Rakesh Biyani, Director...

WAL-MART: Will It Lose In Translation By Nupur Capila Are global food retail heavyweights hitting the right nerves in international markets with the "one size fits all" – knock down prices, warehouse-style superstructures – approach? Appealing to discount-hooked customers may garner...

Minding the Store: Retail Business Intelligence "How an Integrated Business Intelligence Solution Can Help Retailers Optimize the Return on their Technology Investments" Within a week of the end of a somewhat disappointing holiday shopping season, venerable retailer Montgomery Ward shut...

Quotes and confessions of important people " As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two... " :- Sir Norman Wisdom " One of the most difficult things in the world is to convince a woman that even a bargain costs money. " :-...

Seeds of Excellence · Remember names and people. · Be a comfortable company. · Avoid egotism. · Develop an interest in others. · Continually refine and polish. · Heal misunderstandings. · Award achievement. · Regret disappointment. · Give before getting. · Feed your staff needs. ·...

Excellence Is a Standard: I contend that God and His business standards are the best. They are the standards by which we can measure success. Why not strive to be like the One who is a shining example of perfection for us in our personal and business lives? So, let's get to the nitty-gritty. If...

Excellence Is a Process Excellence can be attained, but it takes a long time to get there, and once there you will find more places that need an excellence overhaul. The search for excellence never stops.