Articles by Sujata Sachdeva
Clarks India to increase its store count to 150 in five years
British brand Clarks is planning to more than double its store number over the next five years. At the moment, it has 60 outlets and hopes to take it up to 150 within five years. The brand hopes to achieve this through a mix of company-owned and franchise stores. For Clarks, India is a strategic market and it looks at expanding here by opening...
Retail12 Jan 2016
Missguided enters India through Jabong
Jabong has added leading UK fashion brand Missguided to its long list of brands. Fashion conscious young India will be able to shop for this youth brand’s extensive apparel, shoes, lingerie and accessories collection on jabong’s platform. Missguided is an empowering, bold and forward thinking online fashion brand, inspired by real life. It...
Retail22 Dec 2015
Mothercare to bring its Dark Stores in India
UK-based mother and baby care retailer, Mothercare plans to bring its Dark Stores to India. Dark Stores are usually a large warehouse that can either be used to facilitate a ‘click-and-collect’ service whereby a customer collects an item they have ordered online. The company aims to follow an omni-channel retail model in the country. The company...
Retail24 Nov 2015
UK’s Metail partners with abof.com
UK-based online fashion retailer Metail has inked a two-year contract with Aditya Birla Group, which recently launched its online fashion portal abof.com. The Metail Experience will enable abof.com to use customer data that has not been tapped previously in order to use the data to deliver customized offerings to customers. Abof.com intends to...
Retail6 Nov 2015
Adidas gets DIPP nod to open fully-owned stores
German sports major Adidas has got a green signal from the Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion (DIPP) to open its first fully owned outlet in India in the second half of fiscal 2016. The company had filed an application with DIPP in July. The company expects that the combination of its own retail outlets, online platform coupled with...
Retail4 Nov 2015
Global luxury labels re-entering India with fresh perspective
Mumbai - Global luxury brands, who earlier failed to understand the preferences of Indian consumers and the domestic market, are returning with fresh strategies and perspective. The list include lingerie label La Perla, who has partnered with Vikas Jain, Co-founder of Micromax, British luxury menswear and accessories brand Alfred Dunhill, which...
RetailFeatured26 Aug 2015
UK’s Karen Millen to enter India
UK’s clothing, shoes and accessories brand Karen Millen is ready to step into India. The company is said to have asked Franchise India Holdings to look for a master franchisee for the Indian market. The brand aims to open around 10 stores in India over the next three years in the bridge to luxury segment. Karen Millen has stores in over 65...
Retail10 Jul 2015
Arvind shuts Debenhams stores in India
Arvind Lifestyle Brands, which has the franchise rights of British retail chain Debenhams in India, has pulled the shutters of the department stores to work on a new strategy to turn around its business in the country. The plan is to bring down prices and explore third party e-commerce route to establish presence of Debenhams in the country....
BusinessMember12 Mar 2015