Spencer's Retail

Spencer's Retail Limited
Subsidiary
Industry Retail
Founded 1863 as Durrant & Spencer
Founders Charles Durrant & John William Spencer
Headquarters Kolkata, West Bengal,
India
Number of locations
 120 Across 35 Cities [1]
Number of employees
 5000+
Parent RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group
Website www.spencers.in/

Spencer's Retail is a chain of retail stores headquartered in Kolkata, West Bengal having presence in over 35 cities in India. 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 RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group.

About Spencer

Spencer's began operations as a retail chain in the early 1990s[2] in Southern India. Stores are largely set up in one of 2 formats.

In 2008, Spencer's opened its Largest Store in India in the eastern Indian metropolis of Kolkata. The store is spread over 72,000 square feet (6,700 m2) and is located in the famous South City Mall.

Key people

  • Shashwat Goenka
  • Vipin Bhandari - Deputy CEO
  • Arvind Vats - CFO
  • Rahul Nayak - Executive Director - Operation
  • Sandeep Gautam - Executive Director - Human Resource
  • Amit Ambekar - VP Marketing
  • Aniruddha Banerjee - - VP Supply Chain
  • Jawed Ahmed - Head of IT

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 freshners etc. Spencer's also has the 'Clean Home' range of home improvement products and 'Tasty Wonders' range of snacks and impulse food range. Apart from this Spencer's has very successfully launched its general merchandize products under the brand name of MAROON which includes Non Stick, Hard Anodized, Home Plastic and Foils.

Expansion

Retail chain Foodworld has been bought over by the RPG group. All stores have been re branded under the Spencer's banner once formalities are completed.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "RPG Spencers Profile".
  2. ↑ "Spencer's website".
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