India Store Openings MonitorOctober 2026
- 381–14 so far; all of September: 59
- 17
- 21
- 1
One opening = one report of a new location; a report of several stores counts once.
What moved
- Exit on record: 7-Eleven shuts all 31 India stores, ending five-year Reliance Retail partnership.
- Mumbai led cities with 6 openings, then Chennai, Delhi and Gurugram (3 each).
- F&B led by category (10 of 36 categorised), ahead of Fashion (8) and Jewellery & watches (7).
- Largest additions in this month’s reports: V-Mart (23 stores), Crocs (20 India stores) and DMart (18 stores), as each report states it (periods vary).
- First stores in a new city: Ben's Cookies in Mumbai, EZE Perfumes in Guwahati and Cosmos Diamonds in Hyderabad, and 7 more.
- Largest plans announced: Renault (500 showrooms), Bellona Hospitality (100 restaurants by FY30) and CJ Foods (100 outlets by June 2027).
Openings · May 2026 to October 2026 (Oct to date)
- 33May
- 49Jun
- 62Jul
- 47Aug
- 59Sept
- 38 so farOct
Largest additions in this month’s reports
The store count each report’s headline states, over the period it names.
- V-Mart 23 storesV-Mart Q2FY27 revenue rises 18% to Rs 953 crore as it adds 23 stores
- Crocs 20 India storesCrocs adds 20 India stores this year, pushing into Tier-2 and Tier-3 markets with Metro and Apparel Group
- DMart 18 storesDMart adds 18 stores in H1FY27 vs 17 a year ago; CLSA calls expansion muted
- mr. blue 12 storesmr. blue adds 12 stores, with network expected to reach 175+ outlets across 50+ cities
- Mayavé five Delhi NCR storesMayavé opens five Delhi NCR stores in 45 days, scaling its lab-grown diamond jewellery footprint
- Sai Silks Kalamandir 4 storesSai Silks Q2 FY27 turnover slips 2.25% to Rs 434 Cr even as it adds 4 stores
What to watch: largest plans announced
Announced, not yet open. Never added to the openings.
- Renault 500 showroomsEV registrations hit record 35,948 in September as Hyundai eyes 500,000-unit third plant, Renault targets ~500 showrooms
- Bellona Hospitality 100 restaurants by FY30Bellona Hospitality targets 100 restaurants and Rs 600-650 crore revenue by FY30
- CJ Foods 100 outlets by June 2027CJ Foods enters India with Bibigo Bapsang via GTGO, which targets 100 outlets by June 2027 and Rs 100 crore revenue
- Forevermark 100 stores by 2030De Beers plans 100 Forevermark stores in India by 2030, up from 10 today
- Swiss Military 50 EBOs by March 2027Swiss Military targets 50 EBOs by March 2027, ₹1,000 crore turnover in three years
- Ajay's Cafe 30 Maharashtra storesAjay's Cafe launches Rs 70 Barbeque Fries across its 286-outlet chain as it targets 30 Maharashtra stores
- IKEA India 30 storesIKEA India targets 4x revenue by 2030, eyes 30 stores on Rs 21,000 crore investment
- Lush 30 India storesLush targets 30 India stores in about five years, half the 10 years it originally planned
Malls that got openings
9 of 38 openings name a mall; the rest are high-street, standalone or unnamed.
New to India, new to a city
- Ben's Cookies Ben's Cookies opens seventh India store at Mumbai's Kala Ghoda, its first in South Mumbai
- EZE Perfumes EZE Perfumes enters Northeast India with Guwahati outlet at City Center Mall
- Cosmos Diamonds Cosmos Diamonds opens first Hyderabad store in Jubilee Hills with 100% buyback and exchange policy
- Comet COMET opens first Chennai store at Express Avenue, adding a sixth city to its sneaker and streetwear footprint
- Bengaluru Cafe Bengaluru Cafe opens first Mumbai outlet on Juhu's Gul Mohar Road after eight years in its home city
- Supplyco Supplyco opens first 24-hour Supplyco Go store in Kochi, plans Sabari brand stalls at Pampa and Nilakkal
- Common Time Common Time opens fourth Delhi café in Hauz Khas, just over a year after its Lodhi Colony debut
- THERAPY THERAPY opens Powai outlet in Mumbai, taking its network to five since its 2020 Versova debut
Exits and closures on record
Every opening behind these figures
All 38 openings, 1–14 October 2026, each with its report
Also on the tracker’s October 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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