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Despite profit growth, Trent Limited stock drops on underlying sales weakness

Trent Ltd., the fashion and lifestyle retailer from the Tata Group, saw its stock price drop over 6 percent on Monday—hitting a 16-month low—as analysts reacted to underlying softness in key sales metrics for the second quarter of fiscal year 2026. Despite reporting a strong 11.3 percent rise in consolidated net profit to 376.86 crore on a 15.9...

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Trent Ltd. share price falls as revenue growth moderates

Indian clothing retailer Trent Ltd., the owner of the Westside and Zudio brands, reported its second-quarter standalone revenue rose by 17 percent on Monday. This growth marks its slowest increase since the March 2021 quarter and fell short of the company's near-term target of 25 percent. Following the business update, Trent's share price fell...

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Trent’s revenue and profit accelerate in the third quarter

Third quarter revenues at Tata Group company Trent Limited reached 3,521 crores, increase of 58 percent, while pre-tax profit of 447 crores jumped 113 percent compared to the same quarter last year. The company reported 39 percent increase in revenues and 47 percent increase in pre-tax profit over the third quarter of 2020. Overall, the company...

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Trent’s Q3 net profit grows 38 per cent

For the third quarter Trent’s standalone net profit grew 38 per cent. Revenue from operations jumped 32.5 per cent. There was a 13 per cent growth in ebitda and ten per cent same-store sales growth. Trent a Tata Group company is witnessing positive traction for its lifestyle retail concepts and consequently pursuing a substantially accelerated...

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Trent operated retail chain Westside opens new Hyderabad store

Westside, India’s preferred fashion destination from Trent, Tata's retail arm, has opened a new store in Rajahmundry, Hyderabad. Redefining shopping experiences in the area, the new store offers a wide range of contemporary and exclusively designed apparel for women. Be it the 9 to 9 collection of Wardrobe, the casual and confident LOV, the...

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Tata Trent to build its own trend-focused apparel chain like Zara

Tata Group has been Inditex SAs partner for Zara in India. Now, the country’s largest conglomerate is building its own apparel empire as trend-focused as Zara -- but at half the price. Trent, the retail arm of the Tata Group is building its own apparel chain. The target audience is the trend-conscious and globalised consumer but whose low...

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Westside opens fourth store in Kolkata

Tata Trent’s department store chain Westside has launched its 126th store in India and its 4th in Kolkata. Spread over 27,000 sq. ft. the outlet offers a comprehensive range of contemporary apparel, footwear, cosmetics and much more all under one roof. The store also features Studio West, offering an exclusive range of beauty products for the...

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Westside to expand retail spread with more new stores

Tata's retail arm Trent which operates Westside will open 30 new Westside stores this fiscal. At present there are 125 Westside stores. The plan is to double the number in three to five years. Around half of the new stores will be set up through the franchisee mode while the others will be company-owned. Westside, set up in 1998, has a range of...

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Trent’s profit up 37 per cent in Q2

Tata Group’s retail arm Trent’s net profit has gone up 37 per cent to reach Rs 29 crore for Q2 of current fiscal compared to Rs 21 crore in the same quarter in the last fiscal. In Q1, Trent had posted a profit of Rs 38 crore boosted by pre GST sales in the month of June. The slowdown in July and transition into the GST regime have impacted the...

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Westside crosses 100 store mark

Westside one of India’s largest and fastest growing retail chains now has crossed the 100 store mark spread across 54 cities. It offers a range of contemporary and exclusively designed clothes for men, women and children. Also on offer are footwear, cosmetics, perfumes, handbags, household furniture, accessories, lingerie, and gifts. However,...

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Westside reaches a landmark, opens 100th store

Westside has just opened its 100th store in India. While competitor Shoppers Stop has around 83 stores and Lifestyle has 56 stores in the country. Westside, established in 1998, is the flagship store of the Tata Group’s retail arm Trent. Westside has 1.86 million square feet retail space in the country with net sales of Rs 8,623 per square feet....

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Physical stores record growth as discount schemes vanish from e-tailing

Brick and mortar retail stores are witnessing record growth as discount schemes seem to vanish from the online fashion portals. With the lure of discount offers fading away from the online fashion portals, the sales growth is back in the physical stores. Future Group’s Central and Brand Factory, Aditya Birla backed Pantaloons and Trent’s West...