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ABRL
Category: Retailers
Brand Offered
More: Aditya Birla Retail Ltd. (ABRL) forayed in the food and grocery retail business in May 2007 under the chain of supermarkets named More. The first More retail outlet was launched in Pune. At present, More has 600 conveniently located neighbourhood supermarket formats having minimum size of 2,000 sq ft. In the food category there are four own brands: More, Feasters, Kitchens Promise and Best of India.
ABRL also operates two hypermarket formats under the brand name More Megastore in Mysore and Vadodra, on an average spread of over 75,000 sq ft each. Besides offerings of over 60,000 products across fruits & vegetables, groceries, FMCG products, the hypermarket emphasises on other general merchandise, apparels etc.
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Bharti Del Monte India Private Limited
Category: Retailers
Brand Offered
FieldFresh, Del Monte
Bharti Del Monte India Private Limited incorporated in September 2004, is a joint venture between Bharti Enterprises and DMPL India Ltd., which offers fresh fruits & vegetables and processed foods and beverages in the domestic as well as international markets. Bharti Del Monte India Pvt Ltd., in the `fresh` foods category is the largest Indian exporter of Babycorn and is also engaged in providing `safe`, fresh and hygienic fruits and vegetables in `convenient` formats to food service and modern retail segments in the domestic market under the FieldFresh brand. The company has recently entered in the `processed` foods category by launching Del Monte brand in India with a promise to offer the consumers innovative products in foods and beverages - combining great taste and goodness of health.
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Bharti Enterprises
Category: Retailers
Brand Offered
Easy Day, Bharti Wal-Mart Private Ltd (a joint venture between Bharti Enterprises and Wal-Mart for wholesale cash-and-carry and back-end supply chain management operations in India)
EASY DAY: Bharti Enterprises, one of India’s leading business groups has recently forayed into the retail sector with its wholly owned subsidiary, Bharti Retail Pvt Ltd. Food & Grocery and fresh produce is a prime component of the product offerings at Easy Day.
The company has launched neighbourhood stores in Punjab called Easy Day and is expanding the chain with multiple consumer friendly format stores in India. These stores are 100 per cent owned and operated by Bharti.
The retail space area covered by Easy Day is 2,500 to 4,500 sq ft and currently there are seven operational stores in Ludhiana, Jallandhar and Patiala. These stores offer a wide assortment of products such as personal care products, stationery, household articles, hosiery items, food and grocery and fresh produce. A private label –‘Great Value’ has also
been introduced in the grocery section. The company also plans to open supermarkets of size 30,000 - 50,000 sq ft and hypermarkets of size 70,000 - 75,000 sq ft in the near future.
Bharti Wal-Mart Private Ltd is a business-to-business (B2B) joint venture between Bharti Enterprises and Wal-Mart for wholesale cash-and-carry and back-end supply chain management operations in India to serve small retailers, manufacturers and farmers. The joint venture (JV) has already set up a distribution centre in Punjab which will partly service the merchandise needs of the JV’s cash-and-carry stores as well as retail stores around the area, including Bharti Retail’s wholly owned Easy Day stores.
The JV is scheduled to launch its first B2B wholesale cash and carry store in Northern India in the first quarter of 2009. A typical cash-and carry store will stand between 50,000 and 100,000 sq ft and sell a wide range of fruits and vegetables, groceries, footwear, clothing and other general merchandise items .
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Express Retail Services Pvt Ltd
Category: Retailers
Brand Offered
Big Apple
Big Apple is a unit of Express Retail Services Pvt Ltd and is Delhi’s first ever company owned Fruit, Vegetable and Grocery retail chain. Big Apple currently owns 65 stores spread all over Delhi. Today, Big Apple is an INR 125 crore company having its direct tie-up with farmers in Haryana, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. Big Apple plans to invest INR 45 crore to increase its retail presence to 140 by the end of 2008-09.
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Food Express Store India Limited.
Category: Retailers
Brand Offered
Monday to Sunday convenience store & supermarkets.
Food Express Store India Limited, which operates Monday to Sunday convenience store and super markets, also runs hypermarkets in Bengaluru. The Hypermarket has been built with an investment of Rs 15 crore and is a 1.40 lakh sq. ft. facility of modern food and grocery shopping including apparels, sports goods, bed and linen. The store is known not only for its range of products but also the discounts which vary between 5 to 50 per cent. Presently, the Bengaluru-based venture Monday to Sunday which belongs to the Bhartia Group generates 30 per cent growth annually.
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FOODWORLD SUPERMARKETS LIMITED
Category: Retailers
Brand Offered
Foodworld Supermarkets Ltd chain of stores operates over 67 supermarket stores across Bangalore,Chennai and Hyderabad with a store size of 3,000-5,000 sq ft. The retail chain currently operates four formats – Supermarket, Super store, Express store and Gourmet store covering F&G vertical and plans to expand its footprint upto 200 stores in the country with formats covering hypermarkets, supermarkets, express stores and concept sales by 2009.
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Godrej Agrovet
Category: Retailers
Brand Offered
Nature’s Basket
NATURE’S BASKET: Godrej Agrovet was set up as a separate company with focus on the agri-sector. Godrej Agrovet’s operated, Nature’s Basket, is the first-of-its-kind store selling a wide range of vegetables, fruits and herbs, both local and exotic.
The first Nature’s Basket outlet was opened at Bhulabhai Desai Road, Mumbai. Today the company owns ten such outlets, spreading across the retail area of 18,500 square feet and two more properties are under development. The company plans to operate 15 stores by 2010 in four different cities, expanding across 30,000 square feet of retail space.
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Heritage Group
Category: Retailers,Milk Products
Brand Offered
Fresh@ (retail venture)
In house product brands: Farmer’s Pride, Oven@Fresh.
The Heritage Group, founded in 1992, is one of the fastest growing Private Sector Enterprises in India, with three-business divisions viz., Dairy, Retail and Agri under its flagship Company Heritage Foods (India) Limited (HFIL), one infrastructure subsidiary - Heritage Infra Developers Limited and other associate Companies.
Presently Heritage’s milk products have market presence in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Maharastra and its retail stores across Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad. Integrated agri operations are in Chittoor and Medak Districts and these are backbone to retail operations.
They market several products ranging from flavoured milk, to paneer, butter, lassi, curd etc.
The retail venture is operated under the brand Fresh @, where they retail ‘Farmer’s pride, a house brand under which a full range of staples (rice, pulses, spices & dry fruits) sourced from the best growing areas in the country is offered. The other in house bakery brand “Oven @ Fresh”, includes an extensive range of breads, cakes, pastries, savories, chocolates, cookies, sandwiches and salads.
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Jubilant Group
Category: Retailers
Brand Offered
Total
Total hypermarket & mall is the retail venture of the jubilant group. Launched in November 2006, Total has three stores in Bengaluru, at Madiwala, Mysore Road and now at Sarjapur Road. The hypermarket offers the best variety and value on products such as Apparel & footwear, Consumer electronics & IT products, Fresh Fruits & Vegetables, Fresh Fish, Meat & Poultry, Staples & Groceries, Baker’s Factory - Fresh Bakery, Garma Garam - Fresh Home Made Food , FMCG - Processed Foods & Non Foods, Furniture, Home furnishings etc. Each Total store has a brand mall which offers shoppers a wide variety of brands to choose from.
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Landmark Group.
Category: Retailers
Brand Offered
SPAR: Founded in 1973, Landmark Group is one of the largest retail conglomerates in the Middle East and entered India in 1998. The group forayed into the hypermarket business with the opening of SPAR hypermarkets in India. The USD 37-billion Dutch retail giant SPAR International, tied up with the Landmark Group’s Max Hypermarkets India Pvt. Ltd. for its hypermarket/supermarket foray in
India.
SPAR rolled out its first Hypermarket in India, spread across 75,000 sq ft in Bangalore in September 2007, followed by a second – a supermarket format expanding across 30,000 sq ft area in January 2008. SPAR plans to operate seven stores by the end of 2009.
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