Spencer's Retail

Profile
Spencer's Retail Limited is one of India's largest and fastest growing multi-format retailer with
220 stores, including 30 large format stores across 35 cities in India. Spencer's focuses on
verticals like fresh fruit and vegetables, food and grocery, personal care, garments and fashion
accessories, home and office essentials, electrical and electronics. Established in 1996, Spencer's
has become a popular destination for shoppers in India with hypermarkets and convenient stores
catering to various shopping needs of its large consumer base.

Operations
Spencer's has retail footage of approximately 1 million square feet and over 220 Spencer's stores
in 35 cities. The company operates through the following formats:

 The Spencer's Hyper stores are destination stores, of more than 15,000 sq. ft in size. They
offer everything under one roof. The merchandise ranges from fruits & vegetables,
processed foods, groceries, meat, chicken, fish, bakery, chilled and frozen foods,
garments and fashion accessories, consumer electronics & electrical products, home
decor and needs, office stationeries, soft toys. On an average, a Spencer's hyper stocks
70,000 SKUs across 35,000 items.
 The Spencer's stores are neighborhood stores ranging from 1500 less than 15000 sq. ft.
These stores stock the necessary range and assortment in fruit and vegetables, FMCG
food and non-food, staples and frozen foods and cater to the daily and weekly top-up
shopping needs of the consumer. 

Au Bon Pain 
Spencer’s Retail Limited, has tied up with Au Bon Pain, the Boston-based fast casual dining and
bakery café chain with more than 200 outlets in the USA, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand. A
joint venture has been formed between Spencer’s Retail Limited and Varin Narula which would
be the Master Franchisee of Au Bon Pain in India. Varin is the Director & Promoter of Au Bon
Pain, Thailand. The outlets will offer the choicest of healthy and nutritious food, bakery products
and beverages in a relaxed and casual environment.

Beverly Hills Polo Club

Spencer’s, has signed an exclusive tie-up with the renowned apparel brand Beverly Hills Polo
Club. Beverly Hills Polo Club® evokes casual, relaxed yet affluent and elegant Southern
Californian lifestyle. It presents product categories in-tune with its image viz, T-Shirts, polo’s,
sweat shirt & sweat pants, causal shirt & trousers, denims, winterwear, eyewear and watches for
men and women. Formal shirts & trousers are an added category in the menswear segment. It is
strategically developed by Spencer’s for the Indian market with fine product attributes that
makes fashion, affordable.

Contact Us
Shakuntala Sarkar 
Spencer's Retail Limited 
7th Floor, 5 Clive Row,
Kolkata- 700 001 
Tel: + 91 33 6625 7893
Email: s_sarkar@spencersretail.com
Customer Feedback for Spencers: customercare@spencersretail.com

Web Site: www.spencersretail.com

Spencer's Retail
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Spencer's Retail Limited

Type Subsidiary

Industry Retail

Founded 1920

Kolkata, West Bengal,

Headquarters
 India

Number of locations 220 Across 35 Cities [1]

Employees 60,000+

Parent RPG Group

Website spencersretail.com

Spencer's Retail is one of India’s fastest growing retail stores.Spencer's is based on the 'Food
First' Format (it mainly offers fresh and packaged food). Many outlets though sport multiple
formats for retailing food, apparel, fashion, electronics, lifestyle products, music and books. It is
owned by the RPG Group, a major business house.

Established in 1996, Spencer’s is one of the popular destination for shoppers in India with
supermarkets, hypermarkets and dailies spread all over India.

Contents
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 1 Formats
 2 Key people
 3 Product categories
 4 Private Brands
o 4.1 Expansion
 5 See also
 6 References
 7 External links

[edit] Formats

Spencer's began operations as a retail chain in he early 90's[2] in Southern India. Stores are largely
setup in one of 2 formats.

 Convenience stores, called Spencer’s

 Hypermarkets, called Spencer’s hyper

In Late October 2009, Spencer's opened its Largest Store[2] in India in the southern Indian city of
Bangalore. The store is spread over 35,000 square feet (3,300 m2) is part of their current
expansion plan which involves the opening of 10 stores in the city (3 hypermarkets).

[edit] Key people

(as of Dec 2009)

 Vineet Kapila -President, Spencer’s Retail Limited.

 Samar Singh Sheikhawat - Vice President, Marketing.
 Sarang Kanade -Vice President, Operations (West and South 2).
 Atanu Batabyal -Vice President, Southern Operations of Spencer’s Retail Limited.

[edit] Product categories

 Food and grocery including Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) processed foods
 Fresh fruits, vegetables & exotic range
  Specialty and international foods
 Personal Care, cosmetics and fragrances
 Home and office essentials
 Electrical and Electronics
 Garments and fashion accessories for men, women and children
 Food-court / café

[edit] Private Brands

Spencer's boasts of a wide range of private brand products that encompasses both foods as well
as non-foods FMCG category. 'Spencer's smart choice' is the leading instore brand which has a
plethora of products ranging from juices, noodles, cookies,honey, Air freshner etc. Spencer's also
has the 'clean home' range of home improvement products and 'Tasty wonders' range of snacks
and impulse food range.

[edit] Expansion

Retail chain Foodworld has been bought over by the RPG group. All stores will be rebranded
under the Spencer's banner once formalities are completed.

[edit] See also

RPG Group
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RPG Enterprises

Type Private

Industry Conglomerate

Founded Mumbai, India (1979)

Founder(s) RP Goenka[1]

Headquarters Mumbai, India

RP Goenka (Chairman Emeritus) Harsh Goenka

Key people
(Chairman) Sanjeev Goenka (Vice Chairman)

Power
Transmission
Products Technology
Retail
Entertainment

Revenue 17,000 crore (US$ 3.86 billion) (2010)

Employees 58,034

Website RPGgroup.com

The RPG Group one of India's largest industrial conglomerate headquartered in Mumbai, India.
[2]
It was founded by RP Goenka in 1979,[3] and initially encompassed Phillips Carbon Black,
Asian Cables, Agarpara Jute and Murphy India. Currently, RP Goenka retains the title of
Chairman Emeritus, while the chairmanship and vice-chairmanship have been assumed by his
sons Harsh and Sanjeev Goenka, respectively.[4]
Today the RPG Group is involved in diverse sectors of business, including power generation,
power transmission, information technology, retail, and entertainment. The group recorded a
turnover of INR 11,500 crore (equivalent to INR 115 billion) for fiscal year 2007.

[edit] Group companies

The conglomerate's major companies, subsidiaries and affiliates are [5]

 Power

 CESC
 Noida Power Company Limited

 Tyres / Tires

 CEAT Limited
 CEAT Srilanka
 Phillips Carbon Black
 Harrisons Malayalam

 Transmission

 KEC International [6]

 RPG Transmission [7]
 Nitel

 Technology

 Zensar Technologies
 RPG Cables
 RPG Life Sciences
 Raychem RPG

 Retail

 Spencer's Retail
 Foodworld
 Music World
 Books and Beyond
 RPG Cellucom [8]

 Entertainment

 Saregama

 Other
  Spencer's Travel Services
 Spencer International Hotels

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[edit] References