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Retail chains like Reliance Retail, DMart go on store expansion spree as demand recovers

admin — Sat, 09 May 2026 06:19:00 +0000

Writankar Mukherjee, Economic Times Kolkata, 9 May 2026 India’s top retail chains including Reliance Retail, DMart, Trent, Titan Company, Jubilant FoodWorks, and V-Mart Retail opened the highest number of stores in three years in FY26, seeking to capitalise on a demand recovery and a clean-up of unviable outlets added during the post-Covid revenge-spending period. Entry […]

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Ikea India: Rewriting the Playbook

admin — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 12:58:00 +0000

Kartikay Kashyap, BrandWagon, Financial Express 18 February 2026 IKEA HAS BEEN around in India for about eight years, with another three years before that spent studying the market. It has developed a range that it deems “locally relevant-like the roti maker, the tava (pan), the belan (rolling pin), and the pressure cooker -which now constitute […]

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Beyond the noise – how D2C brands are reinventing retail [VIDEO]

admin — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 14:56:00 +0000

What does it actually take to build a fashion brand in India? This panel (“Beyond the Noise- How D2c Fashion Brands Are Reinventing Retail”) at the 25th Edition of India Fashion Forum focussed on some real answers, in a refreshing, down-to-earth conversation moderated by Devangshu Dutta (Founder, Third Eyesight), with the founders of DeMoza (Agnes […]

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Experts Say 2026 Will Reward Discipline, Not Scale, in India’s D2C Sector

admin — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 12:12:00 +0000

Saumyangi Yadav, Entrepreneur India Jan 6, 2026 After years of rapid growth and a sharp reset, India’s direct-to-consumer (D2C) sector is expected to settle into a more balanced phase. The period of easy funding, aggressive customer acquisition and scale-at-all-costs expansion is clearly over, experts suggest. Now, what lies ahead in 2026 is a shift towards […]

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Why Most Indian D2C Brands Fail to Cross INR 100 Crore Mark

admin — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 10:53:00 +0000

By Saumyangi Yadav, Entrepreneur India Dec 15, 2025 India’s D2C ecosystem has grown rapidly over the past five years, but scale remains elusive. While thousands of brands have launched and many have crossed early revenue milestones, only a small fraction manage to break past INR 100 crore in annual revenue. According to a new report […]

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Why Good Glamm Failed: Lessons in overexpansion and the House-of-Brands trap

admin — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 14:06:00 +0000

Naini Thaker, Forbes India Aug 06, 2025 It’s a known fact that of the thousands of startups founded each year, only a small fraction survive—and even fewer scale to become unicorns. Rarer still are those unicorns which, after reaching dizzying heights, come crashing down. The Good Glamm Group is one such cautionary tale. Once celebrated […]

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Depresso! Cafés go through the grinder

admin — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 00:03:00 +0000

Sagar Malviya, Economic Times 9 January 2025 Starbucks, Barista, Chaayos and Third Wave Coffee are among café chains facing the brunt of a slowdown in discretionary consumer spending. The impact is more severe for these retailers as they opened hundreds of new stores last fiscal year even as losses widened. To be sure, smaller chains […]

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Top sportswear companies’ growth run slows after Covid highs

admin — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 10:13:00 +0000

Sagar Malviya, Economic Times 4 December 2024 Demand for sportswear from running shoes to joggers and yoga mats slowed down for leading firms such as Puma, Adidas, Nike, Skechers and Asics, halting their sprint since the easing of the Covid-19 pandemic when they doubled their sales in two years. Sportswear firms have reported 1-25% year-on-year […]

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Consumption slowdown is forcing retailers to scale back & shut shop in unprofitable markets

admin — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 16:32:00 +0000

Top retail chains like Reliance Retail, Shoppers Stop, and Spencer's are closing underperforming stores due to prolonged consumption slowdown. Reliance closed 249 stores, Spencer's exited North and South India. Companies are focusing on rationalizing networks and controlling costs to sustain operations amid weak demand and external challenges like heatwaves and elections.

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Growth gets thinner for Zara as competition grows in size

admin — Mon, 20 May 2024 07:42:50 +0000

Zara has been a runaway success since its arrival in the country more than a decade ago but after initially doubling sales every two years, the brand's rate of expansion had come down in the past few years.

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