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 INDIA FRANCHISE
NEWS ARCHIVE
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: : Jan-Jun 2005
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Eros plans 65 more showrooms. Eros
Jewellery plans to go in for an expansion in a big way. The company
plans to open 65 more showrooms in the country within a year. ....
[more]
30 Jun, 2005
UPS' retail franchise plans face roadblock. The US-based
$30-billion United Parcel Services (UPS), which plans to set up a
network of retail franchise shops in the country under the brand name
UPS Stores, may find the going tough. .... [more]
28 Jun, 2005
International fast food chain reaction. Eastern India’s
maiden KFC outlet was unveiled with fanfare at City Centre in Calcutta
on Wednesday, with the promise of more mouth-watering fare in the
offing. .... [more]
23 Jun, 2005
Zee to take Kidzee overseas. Zee Interactive Learning
Systems (ZILS) is planning to take its ‘Kidzee’ brand of
play group, nursery and activity center abroad. .... [more]
22 Jun, 2005
Apollo Health plans 8 clinics in Gujarat. Apollo Health
and Lifestyle has announced plans to set up eight more franchise clinics
in Gujarat. .... [more]
21 Jun, 2005
Pizza Corner to set up first foreign outlet. Pizza Corner
India expects to go international by setting up its first outlet in
Bangkok next month with an investment of Rs 3 million. .... [more]
15 Jun, 2005
Franchise careers picking up in India. The franchise
business is unorganised in India, but recent statistics from the Indian
Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM) show that the Industry
has grown by two percent. .... [more]
13 Jun, 2005
CDX plans 19 more kiosks in Hyderabad. Coffee Day Xpress
(CDX), a retail chain of food and beverage kiosks, plans to increase
the allotment of kiosks in Hyderabad from the present 31 to 50 by
the end of March 2006. .... [more]
10 Jun, 2005
BreadTalk Group ties up with Crustums. Singapore-listed
baker chain, BreadTalk Group Ltd, has signed a franchisee agreement
with Hyderabad-based Crustums Products to open its outlets in Hyderabad,
Bangalore and New Delhi next year. .... [more]
2 Jun, 2005
Pizza Hut to focus on smaller towns. Pizza Hut plans
to increase the number of outlets to 135 from the current 98, and
expand its presence in smaller towns, Pankaj Batra, Director (Marketing),
Yum! Restaurants International, said. .... [more]
31 May, 2005
GFA to invest $3m in Coffee World expansion. Global
Franchise Architects (GFA) is planning to invest $3 million in expanding
the premium coffee lounge bar, Coffee World, in India. .... [more]
29 May, 2005
Planet Hollywood meets Bollywood. A company from India
has become the largest franchiser of Planet Hollywood restaurants
in the world with the successful development of a master franchise
agreement between Arch Millennium Corp. and Planet Hollywood International
Inc. .... [more]
24 May, 2005
Apollo Health to open 35 clinics. Apollo Health and
Lifestyle, a fully owned subsidiary of the Apollo Hospital Group,
on Tuesday said it would open 35 clinics this fiscal in non-metro
towns as part of its strategy to focus beyond metros. .... [more]
24 May, 2005
Planet Sports to bring in Athlete`s Foot store to city.
Planet Sports, sports lifestyle retailing company, plans to open its
first The Athlete’s Foot store in Bangalore in July, followed
by a second store in Mumbai later in the year. .... [more]
20 May, 2005
Hasbro to add 10 more stores in South. Hasbro, a 35
crore menswear company, expects to add 10 more stores in south India
during the current financial year on the heels of growing demand for
readymades in the domestic market. .... [more]
19 May, 2005
Essar Oil to set up 5,000 fuel outlets by 2008. Essar
Oil Ltd, part of the multi-diversified Essar Group that has forayed
into petroleum retailing a year back, is now targeting to open 5,000
petrol pumps by 2008. .... [more]
18 May, 2005
US pizza chain Papa John’s moves into India. US
pizza chain Papa John’s has announced plans to move into India,
initially with outlets in the north of the country. .... [more]
9 May, 2005
RIM to go slow on casting its WebWorld wide. Reliance
Infocomm has decided to go slow on setting up Reliance WebWorld, a
chain of retail stores for digital entertainment and communication
and a one-stop-shop for its products and services. .... [more]
6 May, 2005
Yum! on expansion spree. YUM! Restaurants International
is on an expansion drive. Nine years after setting foot in India,
Yum! plans to add 36 outlets this year. .... [more]
20 Apr, 2005
Reebok Plans 60 New Stores. Major sports brand Reebok
says it plans to open another 60 stores in the Indian market and push
its revenue there up to INR3.75 billion. .... [more]
19 Apr, 2005
Yo! China plans to set up 100 outlets. Moods Hospitality,
the company behind quick service Chinese food chain, Yo! China, plans
to expand its footprint across major markets. .... [more]
18 Apr, 2005
TCL India plans 100 brand showrooms thru franchisee route.
TCL Holdings India, a subsidiary of Chinese major TCL Corporation,
is the crouching tiger of consumer electronics business. .... [more]
15 Apr, 2005
Hard Rock Cafe to enter India. Even as American coffee
retail chain Starbucks continues to drag its feet over its India plans,
another global cafecum-entertainment giant - the USD 426-million Hard
Rock International - has made the move to enter India. .... [more]
12 Apr, 2005
KFC enters Pune, more outlets planned. The entry of
KFC into Pune is a significant milestone in KFC's plans to extend
its presence across the country. .... [more]
11 Apr, 2005
No longer kids’ play. Barbie Clothing for Girls,
a company that is in India since last year, is now set to open seven
more exclusive Barbie outlets and to retail from over 100 multi brand
outlets in various parts of the country. .... [more]
9 Apr, 2005
World’s largest chain of gyms opening doors here in May.
Gold’s Gym, which is now the “world’s largest chain
of gyms”, is coming to Calcutta, after Mumbai and Chennai. ....
[more]
25 Mar, 2005
Pizza Corner plans expansion. Pizza Corner is expanding
to the Western and Eastern regions of the country, and is also considering
celebrity endorsements for Pizza Corner and Coffee World. .... [more]
18 Mar, 2005
Post offices may be franchised. The government on Wednesday
ruled out privatisation of postal services but said franchising post
office facilities was an option that the department will pursue in
future to expand the postal network. .... [more]
16 Mar, 2005
SBI term-loan to franchisees. State Bank of India is
offering term loans to franchisees of Apollo Hospitals to set up the
clinic model across the country. .... [more]
12 Mar, 2005
Lakme Salon having a bad hair day. Hindustan Lever Ltd’s
Lakme Beauty Salons business is still to turnaround almost four years
after it was promoted aggressively through the franchisee model in
2001. .... [more]
11 Mar, 2005
LG Stresses on Retail, to Unveil 100 Cyber Shops. To
offer more mileage to its IT business in upcountry markets, LG has
planned on opening of 100 exclusive cyber shops during this fiscal.
.... [more]
10 Mar, 2005
BSNL dials franchisees to market its products. Often
considered a public behemoth without marketing skills, the Bharat
Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is all set to appoint a network of franchisees
for the first time to aggressively push its range of telecom services.
.... [more]
10 Mar, 2005
Clara Int eyes India's beauty industry. Now that Indians
are taking more interest in how they look, many foreign companies
that sell beauty products are turning to this new demographic. ....
[more]
6 Mar, 2005
Tata Coffee plans to launch new variants of Mr Bean.
Tata Coffee Ltd is working on strengthening its umbrella brand Mr
Bean, by introducing more coffee variants and retail formats under
the brand. .... [more]
23 Feb, 2005
t’s Hello Hard Rock Cafe, Goodbye F Bar. In the
city of Delhi where restaurants seem to close as often as they open,
optimists will find it heartening that Hard Rock Cafe with its near-legendary
status in the global restaurant business, is planning to open a branch
here. .... [more]
20 Feb, 2005
Coffee World Docks In India. Global Franchise Architects,
promoters of Pizza Corner, will launch the second outlet of Bangkok-based
Coffee World in New Delhi shortly. .... [more]
19 Feb, 2005
Holiday Inn Express brand heads to India. The budget
hotel business in India is set to get a kick-start with the entry
of a global chain into the sector. .... [more]
14 Feb, 2005
Mocha Coffees to open first shop in Ahmedabad. Mocha
Coffees and Conversations, a chain of coffee-joints by Impresario
Entertainment and Hospitality Private Ltd, is all set to open its
first coffee shop in Ahmedabad on Sunday. .... [more]
12 Feb, 2005
Citizen in retail outlet expansion mode. Citizen opened
it's 16th exclusive franchisee outlet at Coimbatore this week. The
company also plans to take the tally up to 100 across the country
within the next five years. .... [more]
5 Feb, 2005
Pantaloon to buy 49% of Planet Sports. In a strategic
joint venture agreement, Pantaloon Retail (India) Ltd will pick up
a 49 per cent stake in Planet Sports for over Rs 14 crore. .... [more]
4 Feb, 2005
Reliance plans 2,000 retail outlets by '06. Reliance
Industries Ltd would set up about 2,000 outlets across the country
by 2006. .... [more]
27 Jan, 2005
Organised retail mkt to touch Rs160000cr. The organised
retail market in the country is expected to post over 300 per cent
growth in the next three years to touch Rs 1,60,000-crore from the
present level of Rs 5,000 crore. .... [more]
9 Jan, 2005
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