India Store Openings MonitorSeptember 2026
- 59vs 47 in August
- 19
- 46
- 1
One opening = one report of a new location; a report of several stores counts once.
What moved
- Exit on record: Viveks closes, ending a 60-year Chennai consumer-durables retail run.
- Bengaluru and Delhi led cities with 7 openings each, then Mumbai (5), Ahmedabad (4) and Hyderabad (4).
- Fashion led by category (20 of 58 categorised), ahead of Jewellery & watches (9), F&B (7) and Grocery (6).
- F&B openings rose to 7 from 3 in August 2026.
- Largest additions in this month’s reports: Palmonas (26 stores), Ben Sherman (eight stores) and Cantabil Retail India (eight showrooms), as each report states it (periods vary).
- New to India: Fabletics, Carrefour, ANTA and Lindt & Sprüngli, and 1 more.
- Largest plans announced: Royaloak Furniture (1,000 stores in three years), Neeman's (500 stores within three years) and Third Wave Coffee (320 cafés by FY27).
Openings · May 2026 to September 2026
- 33May
- 49Jun
- 62Jul
- 47Aug
- 59Sept
Largest additions in this month’s reports
The store count each report’s headline states, over the period it names.
- Palmonas 26 storesPalmonas adds 26 stores in 60 days, crossing 100-outlet mark
- Ben Sherman eight storesApparel Group India opens eight Ben Sherman stores, targets rapid India rollout
- Cantabil Retail India eight showroomsCantabil adds eight showrooms in September, taking network to 690
- Jaipur Kurti 4 storesResurfacing a September move: Nandani Creation opened 4 Jaipur Kurti stores in a day, targets 50 by March 2027
- Michelin India four tyre retail outletsMichelin India adds four tyre retail outlets in Hyderabad
- DMart three storesAvenue Supermarts adds three stores, taking network to 518
- Pepe Jeans London three Bengaluru experience storesPepe Jeans London opens three Bengaluru experience stores
- DMart two storesDMart opens two stores, taking network to 512 outlets
What to watch: largest plans announced
Announced, not yet open. Never added to the openings.
- Royaloak Furniture 1,000 stores in three yearsRoyaloak targets 1,000 stores in three years, backs growth with Rs 100 crore Bengaluru plant
- Neeman's 500 stores within three yearsNeeman’s targets 500 stores and Rs 1,000 crore business within three years
- Third Wave Coffee 320 cafés by FY27Third Wave Coffee targets 320 cafés by FY27 after opening its 250th outlet
- Timex Group India 300 storesTimex targets 300 stores as Ethos takes premium watches into smaller Indian cities
- Casio India 200 stores by 2030Casio India targets 200 stores by 2030 as it pursues 2x growth in five years
- Citykart 200 storesCitykart targets 200 stores as Hindi-heartland value-fashion density accelerates
- Senco Gold 200 stores by DecemberSenco Gold targets 200 stores by December as festive demand builds
- V2 Retail 200 new storesV2 Retail targets 200 new stores this year as it eyes 500–550 cities
Malls that got openings
11 of 59 openings name a mall; the rest are high-street, standalone or unnamed.
- DLF Promenade Fabletics, Off-White
- Phoenix Marketcity Pepe Jeans London, Gap
- Ambience Mall COYU
- Express Avenue Tesla
- H&S Mall Carrefour
- Infiniti Mall NEXT
- Max Mall McCain Foods India
- Nexus Seawoods Malabar Gold & Diamonds
- TNR North City Mall SHREE
New to India, new to a city
- Fabletics Fabletics opens first India store at DLF Promenade
- Carrefour Carrefour re-enters India with Noida hypermarket, targets 50 stores
- ANTA ANTA enters India with first exclusive store in Gurugram
- Lindt & Sprüngli Lindt & Sprüngli opens first India boutique in New Delhi’s Aerocity
- The Curl Nation Kuwait’s The Curl Nation enters India with first Mumbai salon
- Third Wave Coffee Third Wave Coffee enters Kerala with two cafés in Kochi
- McCain Foods India McCain opens first Signature Café in Noida
- BlueStone BlueStone opens its first concept-format flagship in Kolkata
- G-Shock G-SHOCK opens first exclusive store in Indore
- Miss Jo Miss Jo opens 10th store at DLF Summit Plaza, enters Gurugram
- Charagh Din Charagh Din enters Kerala with first Kochi store
- KIKO Milano KIKO Milano opens first Gujarat store at Ahmedabad’s Phoenix Palladium
- TeaPost TeaPost crosses 300 outlets with Ahmedabad Airport store; enters Bengaluru
Exits and closures on record
Every opening behind these figures
All 59 openings, September 2026, each with its report
Also on the tracker’s September 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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