Spencer’s bets big on Tamil Nadu

Spencer's Retail one of the fastest growing retail stores owned by the RPG Group,

is now focusing on big format stores. And Tamil Nadu is where Spencer’s Retail plans large scale expansions to establish a dominant presence in the state. The plan is to have more and bigger outlets in the 13 cities that Spencer’s Retail is present in with about 40,000 sq. ft. in each of these cities. The company had started big format stores in Tiruchi and Coimbatore and will shortly inaugurate one in Chennai.

In Coimbatore, the store is spread across 10,000 sq. ft. at Indus Tower. It plans to add another 10,000 sq. ft. of trading area in Coimbatore in the next 12 months. Apart from the big format store, it has two more stores in the city.

Spencer’s Retail has 200 stores with one million sq. ft. of trading area in different parts of the country. Of these, 30 are big format stores. The big format stores are positioned as destination stores where a customer would find different varieties of food products, apparel, fashion, electronics, lifestyle products, music and books under one roof and in a customer friendly display. Established in 1996, Spencer’s is one of the more popular destinations for shoppers in India with supermarkets, hypermarkets and dailies spread all over India. The well known apparel brands it retails are: Ladybird, Ecko ultd and Beverly Hills Polo Club.