The Retail Sector of the economy of India is presently going through a stage of remarkable change. This sector is classified into unorganized retail sector and organized retail sector. There are numerous companies that belong to either of these sectors. A list of a few of the firms that are of the retail sector is cited below.

Top companies in Retail Sector

AV Birla Group: This firm has established its presence in apparel retail. They own well liked products such as Allen Solly, Peter England and Van Heusen etc.

Westside (Trent): This is an auxiliary of the Tata group. They operate book and music,   consumer electronic and lifestyle retail chains etc.

Landmark Group: They have invested over 300 Crores to develop the Max chain and more than Rs 100 Crores on the 3 star hotels of the Citymax chain.

K Raheja Corp Group: This firm has a turnover of about Rs 6.75 billion. This is expected to go above US$100 million by the year 2010. The segments consist of books, entertainment, music and gifts.

Reliance: This firm has above three hundred Reliance Fresh stores. They are expected to cross Rs 90,000 Crores ($20 billion) by the year 2010 – 11.

Pantaloon (Big Bazaar): This retail has over 450 stores across India and revenue of above 20 billion. The segments comprise of Food & grocery, health & beauty care, services entertainment and home solutions. Other segments consist of books, consumer electronics, music & gifts.

List of other Retail Companies in India

There are countless other retail companies in our country. A few of them are mentioned below:

• Aditya Birla Retail Limited
• Archie’s Limited
• Arvind Limited
• Balaji Distilleries Limited
• Bannari Amman Sugars Limited
• Bata India Limited
• Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited
• Bombay Swadeshi Stores Limited
• Brandhouse Retails Limited
• Crossword Bookstores Limited
• Damas Goldfields Jewellery Private. Limited
• Ebony Retail Holdings Limited
• Garden Silk Mills Limited
• Gini Silk Mills Limited
• Givo Limited
• Globus Corporation Limited
• GR Thanga Maligai
• Guardian Lifecare Limited
• Heritage Foods (India) Limited
• ITC Limited – LRBD
• K. Raheja Corporate
• Kalanjali Arts and Crafts
• Kirtilal Kalidas & Company
• Koutons Retail India Limited
• Levi Strauss & Company
• Lifestyle
• Manipal Cure and Care Private Limited
• McDonald’s India
• NEXT Retail India Limited

A few other retail companies include Pantaloon Retail (India) Limited, Piramals ( Pyramid & Crosswords), Piramyd Retail Limited, Provogue (India) Limited, RayBan Sun Optics India Limited, Raymond Limited, Reliance Fresh, Reliance Petroleum Limited, Reliance World, RPG Retail (Foodworld, Musicworld), Sankalp Retail Value Stores Private. Limited, Shopper’s Stop Limited, Siyaram Silk Mills Limited, Spencer’s Retail, Store One Retail India Limited, The Chennai Silks Private Limited, Titan Industries Limited, Trent Limited, Unilever India Exports Limited, Vishal Retail Limited, Vivek Limited, Wadhawan Food Retail Private Limited, Wills Lifestyle, WITCO (India) Limited and Zodiac Clothing Company Limited.