Amazon Fashion India is making certain leadership changes within the company. The e-tailer has appointed Saurabh Srivastava as its new head as its current head Arun Sirdeshmukh has quit the company.

Similarly, the e-commerce major has transferred Puneet Gupta, Category Leader-Men, Women and Kids apparels to another position within the company. Since long, it has been trying to catch up with Flipkart and Myntra in the fashion vertical, one of the biggest categories leading the e-commerce charge in India.

Currently, Amazon Fashion offers stylish clothes, shoes, and accessories for men and women. It offers everything from kid’s backpacks to snow boots, plus everyday essentials for baby.

Analyst Bain & Co expects India’s e-retail business to increase by 30 per cent annually over the next five years to touch $100-120 billion. According to them, fashion will play an important role in this growth and chart similar trajectories in China and the US.

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As per a Business Standard report, Tata Westside will open its maiden store at the Galaxy Blue Sapphire Plaza (GBS) in Greater Noida. With the addition of Westside, a fashion retail outlet.The store will cater to the increasing populace of Greater Noida West that had to move out to nearby areas for their apparel needs. The store will be spread over an area of around 21,000 sq. ft. GBS by Galaxy & Sawasdee Group of Companies is an elite commercial project comprising of approximately 1.2 million sq. ft, and 7 lakh sqft retail area.

Other brands present at GBS include KFC, Pizza Hut, Hira Sweets, ACE Ankur (electronics), US Cinemas, Royal Oak (furniture) etc. This luxurious commercial project offers all the top-notch recreational amenities including a 10 screen cinema with four premium screens and six normal. Surrounded by huge population base of Noida Extension, GBS also features exquisitely crafted service apartments and a four-star hotel. The project has stunning interiors inspired by contemporary architecture and mesmerizing glass facade. The main USP of the project is its proximity to NH-24, KalindiKunj, FNG Expressway, Noida City Centre and proposed Metro Station. The retail units are situated up to 6 floors, whereas 7th to 21st floors feature premium commercial office spaces.

MohitDhanjal has been appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of the Sephora brand at Arvind Ltd.

Dhanjal was earlier the business head at Raymond. An experienced business leader with over 25 years of work experience in multi-sectoral industries, he has been instrumental in crafting retail strategies, developing concepts and implementing operational tools.

Dhanjal has also held leadership roles in various organisations such as Unilever, TATA Teleservices, ITC, Color Plus and Taj Group of Hotels.

Dhanjal completed his graduation from the Institute of Hotel Management (IHM) in Hyderabad and has completed his Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, Political Science and Public Administration from Osmania University. He has also completed various courses in Retailing and Retailing Operations from Happiness University (Hamburg) and Purpose Driven Leadership Program from Cornell SC Johnson College of Business (NY).

Dhanjal has been honoured and recognised as ‘100 Most Influential Leaders in India’, ‘Franchisor of the Year’, ‘Retail Professional of the Year’ and WCRC’s ‘BreakThroughLeaders2018’.

India’s largest hypermarket chain Big Bazaar plans to open 16 more stores across the country to take its total store count to 300. The Future Retail-owned retail chain will expand into Tier-II cities in India. It currently operates 284 stores in over 100 cities.

Future Group-owned Future Retail is still on the path to recovery. It has not fully recovered to its normal state as there are some behavior changes on part of consumers also. Chains such as Big Bazaar have adopted digital modes, using shopping apps, WhatsApp, and even phones to get orders and get them delivered to the doorsteps.

The company has also adopted concepts as 'pick up at stores'. Last week, it opened its seventh store in Lucknow.

The hypermarket chain operates multiple stores in several Tier-II cities. It operates six stores in Bhubaneswar, five in Patna, four in Nagpur and Jaipur, and three stores each in cities such as Baroda, and Ranchi Nasik.

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Myntrahas launched an impactful and engaging media campaign to promote the 13th edition of its flagship, End of Reason Sale (EORS), scheduled to be held between December 20-24, 2020. Post a very successful, ‘Big Fashion Festival’, Myntra is now geared up for EORS, which brings with it the largest collection of domestic and international brands at the best prices and value offers imaginable, to bid farewell to the year on a cheerful note and enable shoppers to look forward to a positive and truly happy new year.

As part of the campaign, Myntra has launched a short but striking montage ad-film, to deliver one unifying message – ‘EORS is the BIGGEST’. Celebrities HrithikRoshan, KiaraAdvani, Samantha Akkineni, Naga Chaitanya and Bhuvan Bam appear in this short film, which has also been spun into 5 parallel films.

The ad-films will be aired across all leading national and regional channels, including digital and social media platforms. Apart from this, EORS-13 will also witness the biggest celebrity influencer activation, with 25 national and regional influencers, who are leading Bollywood and television stars, in addition to associations with over 75 other diverse influencers for stronger engagement.

Ethhnic wear and accessories retailer Biba recently opened its first brick-and-mortar store in Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh.

The Biba store launched with the brand’s winter festive collection, featuring knitted kurtas, fusion style lounge wear, floral printed sets, and mix and match separates, among others. The store interior is designed in Biba’s signature modern and simple style with bright lighting, white flooring, and dark-hued wooden fixtures.

After reopening its stores across India in summer after the pan-India lockdown, Biba has begun to restart its brick-and-mortar store expansion. Last month, the brand opened a store in Thrissur, Kerala and plans to continue to expand across India.

Alongside its pan-India network of stores, Biba also retails from its dedicated e-commerce store, which includes sections for other product categories including sleepwear and a collaborative line with womenswear design AnjuModi. The brand, launched in Mumbai in 1988, specialises in kurtas and recently expanded into more loungewear and work-from-home wear styles, in response to evolving consumer tastes due to the pandemic.

Exclusive licensee of Jockey International Inc, Page Industries has recertified its manufacturing Unit-3 at Bengaluru India. The unit was audited by Worldwide Responsible Accredited Production (WRAP) as per standard procedures in October 2020. It is standard for every WRAP-certified facility to go through such an audit process when seeking re-certification. WRAP has re-certified the facility to be socially compliant. In keeping with its standard procedures,

As a Jockey licensee, Page Industries has since its inception, required facilities to be WRAP-certified.  The company worked transparently with WRAP to conduct the audit and maintain certification for Unit-3. The unit was re-certified by WRAP for its long-standing reputation and upholding the highest standard of principles as a responsible, ethical leader in the apparel manufacturing business, providing an employee friendly atmosphere.

The audit showed that the Unit-3 continues to maintain socially compliant systems and allegations made Council on Ethics for the Norges Bank are not substantiated by the findings of the audit.

The India Fashion Awards will host its second edition on February 20, 2021. 2020. The event is organized by Talent Factory every year. It is expected to witness diverse award categories- Emerging Fashion Designer of the Year, Online Fashion Destination of the Year, Trendsetter of the Year, Torch Bearer of Beauty Industry, etc.

The initiative by IFA is to appreciate and felicitate the fashion entrepreneurs who have done best in their field and award them for their great contribution to the fashion industry. The purpose of the event is also to recognize those notable personalities and present them with a prestigious award.

The jury and the advisory board of India Fashion Awards comprises many appointed bodies which oversee the platform are Member Of Parliament Maneka Gandhi, Minister of Labor and Employment Santosh Kumar Gangwar, Chairman RJ Corp Ravi Jaipuria, Social Activist VagishPathak, Ace Fashion Designers Rocky S & Leena Singh, Director Lubna Adam, Indian Supermodel Lakshmi Rana, Bollywood Actor Rahul Dev, Fashion Photographer AshishChawla and Hemant J Khandelwal.

Noida based lingerie brand Clovia has raised a pre-Series C round funding led by a clutch of investors including Golden Birch Investments and SheCapital Venture Fund. The $4 million raised will continue to fuel its growth in the coming year.

The brand also appointed Anisha Singh, Founder, SheCapital Venture Fund, to its board of directors. Singh will bolster Clovia's customer focused strategy at its board level.

The fresh capital will be used for growth in all key business segments of the firm. Clovia has witnessed a spike in business, amid the pandemic. There has been a 6X increase in sales of sleepwear & loungewear, 3X scale in maternity lingerie, and feeding nightwear. Clovia ships close to 2 million units in a quarter.