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Indian retailer Reliance Brands is to launch Spanish fashion label Balenciaga in India. The move comes shortly after Reliance signed a deal to bring US luxury jewelry brand Tiffany and Co to India last July, with the first store opening last month in New…
American grill bar & pancake chain Applebee’s will launch its first Indian location in Bengaluru this year. The brand will be established in the territory via a partnership with local operator Dine Brands International. “India is an important growth market…
Reliance Industries has entered India’s online grocery retailing market via a new e-commerce platform JioMart, which started pilot trials last month in Mumbai. Through JioMart, it is planning to offer more than 50,000 products and connect 30 million offline…
The first Tiffany India store has opened, located in New Delhi’s upmarket The Chanakya shopping center. The 2600sqft store was described as “an important milestone for our iconic brand” by Tiffany & Co CEO Alessandro Bogliolo. “As a global luxury jeweler with…
Proposed changes to India’s duty-free purchase limits may dent the country’s duty-free market growth prospects, says GlobalData. The country’s Commerce and Industry Ministry plans to limit duty-free alcohol sales to inbound travelers to one bottle or one…
DHL Express, the world’s leading international express service provider, has been named the Best Workplace in Asia for 2019 by Great Place to Work (GPTW), the global people analytics and consulting firm are known for its annual Best Workplaces list. “We are…
H&M has collaborated with Indian designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee to launch a new collection this year. The Sabyasachi x H&M collaboration themed “Wanderlust” will feature apparel for men and women, jewellery and accessories. “Taking cues from India’s rich…
Mercedes-Benz India has announced its line-up for the 2020 Auto Expo, for which the company has planned a range of products, services, and future technology. Among the product line-up at the pavilion, the Stuttgart-based carmaker will also have some of the…
Amazon India said that it will induct about 10,000 electric vehicles in its delivery fleet in the country. The e-commerce giant says that the idea is to reduce its carbon footprint in the country in accordance to the Climate Pledge that Amazon has signed. As…
Audi India kept Indian customers waiting for new models for quite some time. That said, the German carmaker now has a new plan in place and is gearing up to bring only new models or new generation models to our shores, and it has already started with the Audi…
Walmart India will let go around a third of its top executives at its Gurugram headquarters. The retailer has been struggling in the territory and is now responding by laying off more than 100 top-level executives, with more terminations expected to come…
Cricket is one of the most popular sports in countries like the United Kingdom, India, and Australia. However, most of the market share of this sport is taken by India considering how the country has such a large population. In fact, the largest event in the…
Global wholesales for JaguarLand Rover along stood at 50,001 vehicles, which included the 5,492 vehicles wholesaled by CJLR, the joint venture between JLR and Chery Automobiles. As for the total wholesales from the Jaguar brand alone, for the month, it stood…
AirAsia India has appointed Wunderman Thompson South Asia to manage creative duties following a pitch in 2019. The agency will be responsible for brand strategy and shaping the communications narrative in India, taking care of above-the-line and digital…
Low-cost carrier AirAsia Bhd has launched new flights to Chengdu, the capital city of Sichuan Province, China for travelers flying out of Malaysia’s northern hub Penang. These new three times weekly direct flights commencing 8 March 2020 will provide…
Indian tea retailer Chai Kings has secured US$1 million in funding from a group of angel investors, including The Chennai Angels, Hyderabad Angels and TiE India Angels. The Chennai-based tea retail chain aims to launch 100 stores over the next five years and…
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