Reliance Trends news and archive

Walt Disney’s Frozen collection launched in India

Pantaloon has launched a special Frozen collection for toddler and junior girls which includes printed joggers, leggings, sweatshirts and sweater dresses with interactive prints, fancy sequins and appliques and footwear featuring the film’s characters. Its new range for toddler and junior girls captures the movie’s essence and allows the little...

Retail

Reliance Industries ready for big bang online foray

Reliance Industries is set to launch its own business-to-consumer marketplace that will sell everything from food to fashion. The hybrid online-to-offline venture will take advantage of the synergies between Reliance Jio Infocomm and Reliance Retail’s stores. Reliance Retail is planning a business-to-business marketplace as part of its...

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...

Retail

Reliance Trends to enter more Tier III, IV cities with new stores

Reliance Trends is aiming to have 2,500 stores across India over the next five years. As of now, there are 557 stores. The expansion plan will allow Reliance Trends, which sells accessories as well as clothing, to rapidly grow its private labels. Integrating private labels with its e-commerce venture, and penetrating deeper into Tier III and IV...

Retail

Now Reliance Industries to enter eretailing space

As per media reports, Reliance Industries will soon launch an e-commerce platform. To begin with, it will empower shopkeepers in Gujarat. Reliance has as many as 50 brand new warehouses specifically for e-commerce operations, three million small merchants hooked to cloud-based services, a new set of small format fashion stores called Trend...

Business

Reliance Retail Q1 profits up 65.8 per cent

For the first quarter Reliance Industries’ led Reliance Retail posted a 65.8 per cent increase in profit before depreciation, interest and taxes (PBDIT) to Rs 398 crores, for the first quarter ended June 30, 2017 of financial year 2017-18. The company had posted PBDIT of Rs 240 crores during the corresponding period last fiscal. Q1 revenues for...

Retail

Reliance Trends new concept store launched in Jaipur

Reliance Trends launched its ‘concept’ store in Jaipur. The store at GT Central Mall is inspired by the runways of London, Paris and New York. It has a modern and trendy look just like any international lifestyle stores. It makes innovative use of technology and houses an exciting range of latest high fashion merchandise. The store has been...

Retail

Reliance Trends increases focus on women’s category

Reliance Trends, the clothing chain from Reliance Retail will now focus on expanding its women’s wear range. The reason: growing demand and positive consumer response. The company operates around 210 stores across the country, which witness 41 percent of revenue from men’s wear, and about 35 percent from women’s wear category. The company is...

Retail

Cherokee to launch kids’ brand in India

Cherokee Global Brands, already having Mossimo, Sideout, Cherokee and Carole Little brands under its fold is set to launch a new children's wear brand in India this August. Called Point Cove - California Clothing Company, Cherokee will display brand’s latest offerings at Licensing Expo in Las Vegas this month. The brand has been developed by...

Apparel

Lulla creates SS'14 collection for Reliance Trends

Reliance Trends, a specialty format of Reliance Retail, and acclaimed designer Neeta Lulla joined hands to present the latter’s new designs during the recent edition of Lakme Fashion Week. Her collection was inspired by carnival and tropical themes, which is also the guiding trends for Spring/Summer 2014 range of Reliance Trends. Showstoppers...

Apparel

FBB ropes in Shikhar Dhawan, will focus on smaller stores

With the aim of boosting its fashion business, Fashion Big Bazaar (FBB) has signed cricketing sensation Shikhar Dhawan for a new campaign. The campaign under Kishore Biyani's flagship clothing brand will replace the earlier, ‘Desh badla, bhesh badlo’ (new attire for a new nation) campaign featuring cricketer M S Dhoni and actor Asin. The new...

Apparel

Brands scouting for low rentals to beat the slowdown blues

Though western countries are showing early signs of recovery, apparel retailers and brands in India continue to reel under pressure. To beat the slowdown impact, they are now opting for areas with low rentals, while giving up their existing high-street localities. With key destinations like Mumbai's Linking Road, Delhi's South Extension and...