India Store Openings MonitorAugust 2026
- 47vs 62 in July
- 18
- 37
- 1
One opening = one report of a new location; a report of several stores counts once.
What moved
- Exit on record: Trent winds down Utsa as standalone ethnicwear chain shrinks to four stores.
- Bengaluru led cities with 7 openings, then Gurugram (6) and Delhi (3).
- Fashion led by category (18 of 46 categorised), ahead of Footwear & accessories (6), Jewellery & watches (6) and Beauty & wellness (4).
- Largest additions in this month’s reports: Apollo Hospitals Enterprise (151 pharmacies), Wakefit (27 stores) and V2 Retail (24 stores), as each report states it (periods vary).
- New to India: Ben Sherman, Sweaty Betty and Wilson.
- Largest plans announced: PVR INOX (1,000 new screens), Congruence Holdings (300 South India outlets by 2028) and Just in Time (200 stores by FY27-end).
Openings · May 2026 to August 2026
- 33May
- 49Jun
- 62Jul
- 47Aug
Largest additions in this month’s reports
The store count each report’s headline states, over the period it names.
- Apollo Hospitals Enterprise 151 pharmaciesApollo HealthCo adds 151 pharmacies as Apollo Hospitals’ Q1 profit rises 38%
- Wakefit 27 storesWakefit adds 27 stores as June-quarter profit climbs 19%
- V2 Retail 24 storesV2 Retail adds 24 stores in August, taking network past 415 outlets
- Zudio 19 net storesTrent Q1 profit rises 26% to ₹532 crore as Zudio adds 19 net stores
- Keemti Jewels 11 storesKeemti Jewels opens 11 stores in four months, targets 88 by December 2026
- Apparel Group India eight storesApparel Group India opens eight stores in one day at H&S Mall, Greater Noida West
- Cantabil Retail India seven storesCantabil adds seven stores in August, taking network to 682
- Snitch five storesSNITCH adds five stores, taking its India network to 131
What to watch: largest plans announced
Announced, not yet open. Never added to the openings.
- PVR INOX 1,000 new screensPVR INOX targets 1,000 new screens in 300 cities with Smart Cinemas
- Congruence Holdings 300 South India outlets by 2028Congruence Holdings targets 300 South India outlets by 2028
- Just in Time 200 stores by FY27-endJust in Time targets 200 stores and ₹1,000 crore revenue by FY27-end
- Zappfresh 200 partner storesZappfresh targets ₹600 crore revenue by FY28, plans 200 partner stores
- TechnoSport 130 EBOs by FY27TechnoSport commits Rs 130 crore to expand Erode facility, targets 130 EBOs by FY27
- Angel & Rocket 100 India stores in five yearsAngel & Rocket targets 100 India stores and Rs 250 crore revenue in five years
- Banana Club 100 stores by 2028Banana Club targets 100 stores and Rs 500 crore revenue by 2028
- Neeman's 100 stores by 2027Neeman’s targets 100 stores by 2027 with franchise-led expansion
Malls that got openings
11 of 47 openings name a mall; the rest are high-street, standalone or unnamed.
- Phoenix Marketcity Levi’s, NEXT, Longines, bugatti
- H&S Mall Clog London, Inc.5
- Airia Mall FUAARK
- Ambience Mall Nykaa
- Inorbit Mall Lush
- Phoenix Mall of Asia Sweaty Betty
- RMZ Galleria Mall Odette
New to India, new to a city
- Ben Sherman Ben Sherman enters India’s physical retail market with four stores
- Sweaty Betty Sweaty Betty enters India with first store at Phoenix Mall of Asia in Bengaluru
- Wilson Wilson enters India with first official store in Gurugram
- Ben Sherman Ben Sherman enters India with first standalone store in Surat
- Lush LUSH opens first Mumbai store at Inorbit Mall, Malad
- FUAARK FUAARK enters North India with second exclusive store in Gurugram
- Regal Jewellers Regal Jewellers enters Tamil Nadu with first Chennai showroom in T. Nagar
- TechnoSport TechnoSport opens first Jharkhand EBO in Jamshedpur, takes network to 66 stores
Exits and closures on record
Every opening behind these figures
All 47 openings, August 2026, each with its report
Also on the tracker’s August 2026 page and in the CSV.
How the figures are made
Every figure counts rows of the RetailIntel store-openings tracker: one row per reported opening of a physical, consumer-facing location in India (stores, flagships, showrooms, experience centres, cafés and restaurants, dealerships, salons), read by fixed rules from the headline and summary of one dated, source-cited report. No model writes a number.
These are the openings we hold a report for, not every store opened in India. Several reports of one opening are one row. Announced plans are counted apart and never added to openings.
Month = the month the report states, else the month of the source report. A category comes from the report’s sector; an opening whose sector no rule reads has none. A mall is named only where the report names one.
Stated numbers (stores added, a plan’s target) are printed only where the report’s headline writes them, over the period it names. An exit is a headline in which a brand shuts or leaves stores in India; a regulator suspending a licence is not an exit.
The month in progress is an edition to date: its numbers are read every hour and grow as reports arrive. A closed month can still gain a late-filed report.
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