The Collective to open 20 stores in FY24
Mint Mumbai|March 23, 2023
Aditya Birla Group's decade-old, luxury multi-brand retail store, The Collective, among other brands, will add 20 new stores in the next one year. Of this, The Collective' will have 10 new stores, while the other outlets will be for mono-brand stores like Hackett, Fred Perry, Ted Baker, Polo Ralph Lauren and Ralph Lauren, said Amit Pande, brand head, The Collective & International Brands at Madura Fashion and Lifestyle said in an interview.
Varuni Khosla
The Collective to open 20 stores in FY24

The company operates 33 stores in India of which 14 are for The Collective brand. The entity housed under Madura Fashion and Lifestyle, is a division of Aditya Birla Nuvo Ltd.

Madura also owns and operates brands such as Louis Philippe, Van Heusen, Allen Solly, and Peter England with about 1,300 stores in India.

"Pre-covid, we were under a lot of competitive pressure since we had been investing across the board but were not profitable. But we decided to restrategise our businesses by listening more to what customers wanted and became available at the places they wanted to shop at," he said.

This story is from the March 23, 2023 edition of Mint Mumbai.

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