Reliance Retail launches its own brands - Reliance Footprint

New Delhi, Reliance Retail Ltd. launched the 3rd outlet of its speciality store reliance Footprint?at Star City Mall, Mayur Vihar, New Delhi after the successful launch of 9 formats, supermarket format relaince Fresh? hypermarket format relaince Mart? Minimart format reliance Super?and 5 speciality stores Reliance Digital, Reliance Trendz, Reliance Wellness, Reliance Footprint, Reliance Jewels and Reliance Time-Out.

Spread over a luxurious 7,500 square feet dedicated to footwear, handbags and accessories, Reliance Footprint will provide the shoppers a never before experienced shopping delight. The speciality store will carry a range of over 25,000 products catering to the entire family. Shoppers will have the option to choose from a wide array of footwear in every category ranging from formals, casuals, ethnic, party wear and sports.

The launch of Reliance Footprint is a step forward to delight our customers with international standards of service, product range quality and shopping experience. Unparalleled in India it will be the Footwear destination store for the family with the widest array of international and national brands? Footprint has brought the best of the brands from various parts of the world under one roof thereby delivering fantastic choice to consumers. The choice is being offered in an environment which meets world-class standards of services, quality and display. The design of Footprint has been conceptualized by one of the best design house in the world, Pavlik from the USA, keeping in mind the taste and preferences of the Indian Consumer.

Integral to Footprint is the adherence to Product Quality which is one of the most stringent and based on International norms. Right from vendor selection to raw material testing to manufacturing process control and finished goods trials, quality is maintained so that the best quality is offered to the customer. Furthermore, the quality is coupled with our return/exchange policies thereby living up to our mission of grahak Devo Bhava?

Reliance Footprint offers renowned brands from Europe and America across various categories suited for the entire family? For men's there are Geox, Ecco, Josef Siebel, Rockport, Hush Puppies, Florsheim, Lee Cooper and Clarks to name a few. Women have the largest number of brands and assortments to choose from namely Azaleia, Lee Cooper, Clarks, Levis, Piccadilly, Dr. Scholl's and more. For Kids Crocs and Disney are showcased. The sports range showcases all the known brands in the country-Nike, Adidas, Puma and Kappa from Italy among others. Reliance Footprint has also invested in its own private labels which are offered across the value premium continuum namely, Mancini, Tosca & Viviana (Men, Women & Children) Pitter Patter - a wholesome offering for infants and Tom Sawyer-school footwear.

Reliance Footprint plans to have a pan India presence by opening over 15 such large speciality stores across metros and mini-metros within the next 12 months.

Reliance Retail Limited

Relaince Retail Limited, a 100% subsidiary of Reliance Industries Limited started rolling its stores in November last year and today operates over 460 stores in over 19 cities spanning 2.2 million Sq. ft. The formats that RPL operates in are Reliance Fresh, Reliance Digital for consumer durables and information technology, Reliance Mart, a Hyper Market, Reliance Trendz the apparel store, Reliance Wellness-offering wellness products, Reliance Footprint a footwear store, Reliance Jewels a jewelry store, Reliance Time-Out - books, music and gifts store and Reliance Super - a Minimart format

Reliance Industries Limited

Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) is India's largest private sector company on all major financial parameters with turnover of Rs1,18,354 crore (US$ 27.23 billion), cash profit of Rs17,678 crore (US$ 4.07 billion), net profit of Rs11,943 crore (US$ 2.75 billion) and net worth of Rs63, 967 crore (US$ 14.72 billion) as of March 31, 2007.

RIL is the first and only private sector company from India to feature in the Fortune Global 500 list of World's Largest Corporations?and ranks amongst the world's Top 200 companies in terms of profits. RIL is amongst the 25 fastest climbers ranked by Fortune. RIL also features in the Forbes Global list of world's 400 best big companies and in FT Global 500 list of world's largest companies