Marks & Spencer Reliance India Opens Its New Store in Chennai
Chennai, June 17, 2010– Marks & Spencer India, Marks & Spencer Reliance India today opened its brand-new store at Express Avenue Mall, Chennai. The opening of this bigger store is a step further in expanding the presence of Marks & Spencer in India.
Spread over 20,000 sq. feet and covering two floors, the latest Marks & Spencer store will offer an international shopping experience with an extensive range of apparel across womenswear, menswear, kidswear and lingerie, as well as beauty products, footwear, books and toys. The store also features a range of high-quality home products all offering great value.
Speaking on the occasion, Martin Jones CEO, Marks & Spencer Reliance India said: 'It is a pleasure to launch our new bigger store in Chennai. We will now be able to offer our customers the full range of clothing and home products at great prices. He further added, “Marks & Spencer has an unrivalled reputation for offering quality products at great prices, including a growing number of products sourced from local Indian suppliers.”
The store showcases the latest Spring Summer’10 collection comprising menswear, womenswear, lingerie, and Kidswear, using fabrics that are synonymous with style and comfort. The women’s range features both ultra feminine and military trends with multiple styles to choose from. You can create your look with a mix of womenswear and Lingerie to be totally up-to-date with current trends. Hot new items that are destined to become wardrobe essentials include pretty layering camisoles; stylish slip bandeau bras; and modern shaping big knickers and bodies. Vintage lingerie looks provide the inspiration, but the modern twist comes from new technologies and comfortable, lightweight fabrics. A wide range of lingerie includes shapewear, maternity & sports bras, angel bras and memory foam bras.
The new store also showcases the newly launched Indigo collection for young women. Indigo will group together co-ordinated casual wear pieces, along with the existing Limited & Per Una collections, making it easier to shop for different looks.
Menswear focuses on luxurious essentials and unique designs to combine casual and formal pieces at great prices. The Autograph collection for men is characterized by a modern attitude to dressing, offering a choice of contemporary looks across formal and casual wear.
The Blue Harbour collection offers accessible casual t-shirts, jeans, linen shirts, trousers for the cool comfortable look.
Notes to editors
Marks & Spencer Reliance India pvt Ltd is the joint venture formed in April 2008 between Marks & Spencer and Reliance Retail. Marks & Spencer Reliance India operates 17 stores in India including the new store at Express Avenue Mall, Chennai.
Marks & Spencer (M&S) is one of the UK’s leading retailers, offering high quality, great value clothing, as well as home products and outstanding quality food. M&S employs over 75,000 people and has over 600 stores in the UK over 341 stores in 41 territories around the world.
Reliance Retail Limited (RRL), a subsidiary of Reliance Industries Limited opened its first retail store in November 2006 and today operates more than 1,000 stores in over 86 cities, spanning 14 states with over 4.2 million sq ft of trading space.
Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) is India’s largest private sector company on all major financial parameters with a turnover of Rs. 1, 46, 328 crore (US$ 28.85 billion), cash profit of Rs 22,365 crore (US$ 4.41 billion), net profit (excluding exceptional income) of Rs. 15,637 crore (US$ 3.02 billion) and net worth of Rs 126,373 crore (US$ 24.92 billion) as of March 31, 2009.
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