John Players news and archive

Reliance Retail’s Q4 profits grows 77 per cent

For the fourth quarter Reliance Retail’s profit before depreciation, interest and taxes (PBDIT) rose 77 per cent. PBDIT for the financial year 2019 grew by 145.2 per cent year-on-year as against the previous year. Reliance Retail has become the first Indian retailer to cross more than 10,000 stores. It currently operates 10,415 retail stores in...

Business

Reliance Industries acquires ITC’s brand John Players

Reliance Industries has acquired ITC’s brand John Players. This includes the brand and distribution rights through 750 stores, including 65 exclusive franchise outlets. The acquisition will help Reliance Industries bolster its own-brand apparel business, which will be an important element of its upcoming e-commerce business. It will strengthen...

Fashion

John Players looks for 'Coolest gang of India'

John Players is going into the third season of its youth centric campaign to discover the 'Coolest gang of India'. In collaboration with Zoom TV, John Players is providing an opportunity to every young at heart to register on #Buddiez Season 3 with their group of friends for a fun filled activity to win a chance to shoot an exclusive music video...

Retail

John Players ups the style quotient with denim this winter

This winter John Players has distressed and ripped denims with extensive patchwork and boro stitches. Hand paint strokes, bleach splatter and innovative bleaching/tie and dye techniques take fashion to a new level. Innovative knits, dobbies, coatings as well as next generation knits are culled from various sustainable techniques and use of...

Retail

Patterns and colors symbolize John Players this A/W

John Players is synonymous with men’s fashion. It has been offering trendy fashion to youth for generations. Unconventional, cool, stylish and full of life, this season’s John Players collection is all about patterns and colors. The collection emphasizes the core qualities of millennials: cool yet urbane. Colors are coral orange, sour green,...

Retail

Wills Lifestyle, John Players widens retail spread

ITC has established a nationwide retail presence through Wills Lifestyle and John Players. Launched in 2000, Wills Lifestyle stands for the core values of elegance, sophistication and exclusivity. Wills Lifestyle has made great advances in bringing the best of fashion delivered through top notch craftsmanship to customers over the years, be it...

Retail

ITC jumps onto online world for lifestyle business growth

ITC Group has jumped onto the online marketplace bandwagon to push its lifestyle retail business especially its apparel brand John Players, which it plans to expand into newer categories. The group is planning to introduce the brand in categories such as footwear, eyewear, backpacks and bags which will be sold through the online marketplace. The...

Apparel

John Players’ hip and happening range

ITC’s Lifestyle Retail division introduced John Players some years ago as a trendy and cool menswear brand that offered a complete and vibrant wardrobe. To boost its popularity among the hip and happening young crowd, the brand also signed on a new brand ambassador, the young Bollywood star Ranbir Kapoor. And now, the brand has lined up a fresh...

Apparel

ITC bets on small towns

ITC Lifestyle, the lifestyle and retail arm of ITC, is targeting consumers in smaller towns of India to boost sales of its various brands such as John Players and Wills Lifestyle to cash in on the prosperity of the booming middle class. The company is also planning to expand the women’s range in Wills Lifestyle that now contributes more than 30...

Fashion

Ranbir Kapoor and John Players forge a new partnership

John Players, the youth fashion brand for men from ITC, has embarked on a journey with Ranbir Kapoor. It announced the launch of its new ad campaign with a ramp show. Kapoor walked the ramp and presented the exquisitely designed John Players’ Spring Summer Collection 2010. The platform was also used to launch the new brand logo, which wears a...

Apparel

Ranbir is John Players brand ambassador

John Players, the trendy apparel brand for men from ITC has signed Hindi film star Ranbir Kapoor as its new brand ambassador. The aim is to connect with the youth across the country. The move will add a punch of freshness, dynamism and energy to the brand. According to Atul Chand, Divisional Chief Executive, ITC’s Lifestyle Retailing Business,...