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Brands risk missing India’s next growth phase without smarter strategies for under-30s rooted in culture, access and community.
Although it is just one arm of the Ambani family’s $225 billion oil-to-telecoms empire, Reliance has become India’s largest retailer by offering everything from low-cost essentials to luxury goods from Armani to Zegna across multiple formats.
The country’s third-largest e-commerce player is set to go public this year after bringing order to the unorganised retail sector and connecting micro fashion enterprises to small-town shoppers nationwide.
Arnika Thakur is a contributing writer at The Business of Fashion. Based in New Delhi, India, she is an independent journalist and writer who covers a range of topics including luxury, fashion, beauty, finance and hospitality.
The Colaba boutique that helped introduce global luxury brands to Indian shoppers is set to become the first concept store in Burgundy Brand Collective’s fashion portfolio.
This week’s round-up of global markets fashion business news also features Chinese casualwear giants, Turkey’s modest fashion expo and Brazilian retailers’ bet on Uruguay.
This week’s round-up of global markets fashion business news also features Dubai malls, Mexican designers and China’s social commerce giant.
Mid-market global brands like Gap, Zara, and Uniqlo are successfully winning back Chinese consumers who previously favoured domestic labels.
The proxy battle at Lululemon continues as founder and ousted former CEO Chip Wilson pushes investors to vote for his preferred candidates in the company’s annual shareholder meeting.
Beauty brand Coty is facing a lawsuit from DB Ventures, the company behind former football star David Beckham’s eponymous fragrance, for what the lawsuit describes as flagrant material breaches of the license agreement, court documents show.
Double-digit growth in the conglomerate’s perfume division helped offset a lack of growth in its other units as the company continues its years-long turnaround strategy.
Heather Fisher, former chief marketing officer of Fenty Beauty, has joined the Australian body care brand.
