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Online marketplace ShopClues is entering the unboxed and refurbished electronic gadgets category and targets doubling its gross merchandise value with a customer count of 9 million by the end of this fiscal year. The company aims to organise the mostly unstructured category of used and unboxed electronics. “With a focus on the “re-new” gadgets category, ShopClues is […]

Chinese mobile-maker Huawei, which also owns online brand Honor, has initiated measures to ramp up its offline presence in India. Recently, its rivals Xiaomi & Lenovo-owned Motorola had launched fully owned brick & mortar stores – Mi Home & Moto Hubin top Indian cities. Unlike its rivals who have invested in metros, Huawei plans to set

Aditya Birla Fashion & Retail is in an advanced stage of talks with American Eagle Outfitters to open standalone outlets of the US fashion brand popular with the youth. The retail arm of the Aditya Birla Group is looking for the rights to sell the brand both offline and online in India. Interestingly, in 2015, the US firm

Mars International India Pvt Ltd, the local arm of American chocolate maker Mars Inc to bring M&M’s candies to India. It is the sixth chocolate brand that the maker is bringing to India. M&M is known for a rich brand heritage with unique flavours. It is a $1 billion brand globally. Galaxy was the last

Footwear maker Bata India Ltd will expand in smaller towns & rural markets through franchisees. Bata is looking to scale up its franchisee network from 50 to 400 within five years mainly in Tier III & IV markets. Currently, the footwear maker has 50 such stores. It is looking to start 100 new stores of

Malaysian fashion & lifestyle concept retail chain Kioda is planning to enter India. It will be a joint venture with franchise solutions company Franchise India Holdings Ltd, where both the companies will be investing about $10 million over the next three to four years. The company is planning to open 200-300 concept stores in India

H&M, the Swedish fashion & lifestyle brand is spreading its distribution channel and reaching out to more cities in India. The brand has planned to set up eight new stores in next six months, targeting tier 2 cities along with its presence in tier 1 cities and making its count to 24 stores. It is

SapientRazorfish in partnership with Salesforce has come up with a report on “Future of shopping”. In this research, behavioural patterns of shoppers were studied to help companies leverage by creating customer centric business. “To stay competitive in this fast-moving and connected world, brands need to offer shoppers more personalised and engaging experiences on any channel

Amazon is planning to open 12 physical stores in Bengaluru, NCR and Mumbai to promote its fashion sale. Due to GST, sellers want to clear the stock as soon as possible. Arun Sirdeshmukh, head of Amazon’s fashion business said, “We have tied up with the biggest tech parks in the country and these will act

Several of India’s brick-and-mortar retailers are striking back at online giants Amazon and Flipkart with their own mini sales, which are being held over weekends or whenever the e-commerce sites offer  Hardly a day has gone by when one or the other brand was not on sale since demonetization, retail experts said. The sector was hit by demonetization,