UK'S BOOTS TIES UP WITH RELIANCE RETAIL

World’s leading pharma and beauty retailer, Boots Company, has signed a Bharti-Wal-Mart type agreement with Reliance Retail (RRL) to enter India’s health and wellness market. The two have decided to get into an equal joint venture for wholesale business and plan to operate front-end stores through a franchisee agreement.

The Economic Times

Planet Retail to bring in Carter’s, OshKosh B’Gosh

Indian kidswear market, dominated largely by unorganised players, may soon see major international play. Two over-a-century old American iconic brands, Carter’s and OshKosh B’Gosh, are entering India in licensing partnership with Planet Retail, which is already the Indian franchisees of brands such as Body Shop, Debenhams, Next, Guess and 14 stores of Marks & Spencer, which has now moved into the Reliance Retail fold. Carter’s and OshKosh B’Gosh will be initially sold through shop-in-shop format in department store Debenhams, which is scheduled to open its second store in Mumbai next month. The kidswear brands will later have their exclusive stores.

The Economic Times
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‘The biggest opportunities we see are in India’

When British retailer Marks and Spencer Group Plc. started looking outside the UK to expand, it saw its biggest opportunity in India, ahead of China. The firm decided it had to go beyond having franchisee stores in India, and inked a £29 million (Rs230 crore) joint venture with Reliance Retail Ltd on 18 April to set up 50 stores in the country over the next five years.

Mint
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