Koutons Retail to open 80 more outlets by March 2009
on February 2nd, 2009 at 2:29 pmIndia: Apparel retailer Koutons Retail in order to strengthen its retail presence in India, plans to increase the number of its stores from 1.420 to about 1,500 by March 2009. Speaking to IndiaRetailing, Balwinder Singh Ahluwalia, president, Koutons Retail said, “As a part of our expansion plan, we plan to open to launch 80 more stores by the end of FY ’09.”
However, the company plans to keep 90 per cent these stores on franchised model and the remaining 10 per cent as company-owned showrooms, informed Ahluwalia.
Further, the company plans to expand its retail space by taking basements and first floors of the buildings on lease. “Rentals drop by 30 to 50 per cent if we open our stores in basements or first floors”, added Ahluwalia. The average space of the retail stores would extend from 900 to 3,000 square feet.
Meanwhile Ahluwalia accepted that the Rs 7.93 billion Koutons retail may fall short of its revenue target for current fiscal. “Economic slump effect is on the entire country. It has affected the retail sectors as well,” concluded Aluwalia.
Source : IndiaRetailing
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Koutons has to review its model since this qtr sales per store has dropped inspite of festive season and winter sales.
Interest cost is a way too high at 9% of the sales. Garment retailing does not permit such extravagant int costs. The profit shown by the mgmt, I believe is suspected to be manipulated.
Why have they still not utilised Rs. 20 cr out of IPO funds. Sept 2007 to Feb 2009 is a great deal of time. Unsold stocks are piled up and would harm the company’s bottom line
I love Koutons’ products in respect to cost, quality and updation. Please give an opportunity to utilise me.
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