Udhay Vir Singh Mrs. Reenu Batish Deepanshu Garg Acknowledgement
Lack of words stand in my way to express
myself sub-charged with great pleasure and deepest sense of gratitude to Mrs. Reenu Batish for the great immeasurable contribution of encouragement, patience and understanding through out this study period. I also acknowledge my deepest appreciation to my advisor, my teacher for the completion of this project work in the partial fulfillment of X1 commerce 2013-2014. What What are are Departmental Departmental Stores? Stores? A department store is a retail establishment which specializes in satisfying a wide range of the consumer’s personal and residential durable goods product needs, and at same time offering the consumer a choice multiple merchandise lines, at variable price points, in different product categories. What does it deal in?
Department stores usually sell products
including apparel, furniture, home appliance, electronics, and additionally select other lines of products such as paint, hardware, cosmetics, photographic equipment, jewellery, toys, and sporting goods. Easyday is an Indian retail brand that runs chains of consumer retail department stores. The brand is wholly owned by Bharti Enterprises Limited and is operated by its subsidiary,Bharti Retail Limited, which is headquartered in New Delhi. Easyday presently has 220 stores across 13 states. The real estate, design and construction services to Easyday are provided by Cedar Support Services, an Indian retail company majority-owned by Bharti Enterprises, which also provides similar services to Bharti Walmart Private Limited. First Store
On April 16, 2008, Bharti Retail made their
first official entry in the retail business with the inauguration of three Easyday stores in Ludhiana, Punjab, which is the hometown of Sunil Bharti Mittal, the chairman of Bharti Enterprises. Expansion
The company made plans to expand zone-wise,
starting with the northern part of India. By November 2008, the company had 12 stores operational and in the next month, Easyday opened its first medium sized retail store, labelled Easyday Market, in Ludhiana, Punjab. In May 2009, Easyday opened its first store in Delhi NCR. Easyday had its retail operations running in 70 stores by May 2010 in the states of Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, among others. Presence Easyday currently operates in 13 states - Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh in over 110 towns and cities. The number of stores functional is 228 across three different formats catering to about 76,000 customers everyday. Easyday has aggressive plans for expansion and is aiming to have 332 stores by December 2013 and later 638 stores by December 2018. Merchandise Easyday sells items and products of various brands keeping in mind the requirements of the local and regional needs. A typical Easyday store sells groceries including fresh produce inclusive of fruits, vegetables & milk; cereals, meat, poultry, dairy and baked products, canned goods, soups, grains, snacks, cookies, chips, condiments, beverages, sauces, spices, and candy; beauty products like toiletries, fragrances, makeup, shaving and skincare items; health care items; apparel, hosiery, shoes & accessories; books and stationary; toys; gifts; kitchen ware; home improvement products including tools, lighting, & electronic accessories; and items related to religion. Facility • Easyday has also partnered with Moneygram International that provides customers the facility of money transfer at their stores. This facility was initially launched at 121 stores in May 2011 Private Labels Though Easyday sells merchandise manufactured by several different companies, it also strategically sells Bharti Walmart's own private brands. Bharti Walmart said in an interview, "Customers have begun to like private labels due to better quality, high food safety standards, international look and feel of products, customized packaging created after customer feedback and the credibility of the retailer." Bharti Walmart's private brands • Great Value • Easy Choice • Mainstays • Equate • George • Astiva • Simply Basic • Home Trends • Kid Connection • Faded Glory • Athletic Works Great Value The brand Great Value is Walmart's international brand, and it locally sells a range of everyday-use products like flour, staples, cereals, spices, tea, cold beverages, sodas, jams, ketchups, dry fruits, corn flakes, Indian snacks, dish-wash bars, detergents, toilet cleaners, and floor & glass cleaners. These products are typically sold at a lower price because of minimal marketing and advertising expense. As a house or generic brand, the Great Value line does not consist of goods produced by Bharti Walmart, but is a labeling system for items manufactured and packaged by a number of agricultural and food corporations. Mainstays It is Walmart's another international brand for basic home essentials, catering to kitchen & bathroom accessories, bed linen, cushion covers, towels, plastics, lighting solutions, and stationary Kid Connection It is a specialized brand dealing with toys, children's clothing and other items for children. Easy Choice The brand Easy Choice operates on the same lines as Great Value, also catering to the FMCG range, sourcing products from Bharti Walmart, but the items are usually a further little cheaper as compared to Great Value products. Equate This global Walmart brand sells personal care products, including cosmetics, deodorants, bar & liquid soaps, oral & dental care range, nail- cutters, and baby care products. George • George is a western apparel brand that began as British supermarket chain, Asda Stores Limited's, private clothing range, and later moved to Walmart's US and Canadian stores Home Trends Thisbrand caters to home furnishings & decor,kitchen tools, crockery, cookware, table ware and glassware Bibliography www.google.com www.wikipedia.com Bharti Retail.in