Satish Babu

In the early days, the Indian mobile phone retail industry was highly fragmented and unorganised. Mobile handsets were expensive, the grey market dominated and there were few showrooms around to showcase mobile products. It was...

Chennai-based large-format mobile retail chain UniverCell will pursue its expansion plans aggressively. Talking to IndiaRetailing, Satish Babu, founder, UniverCell said, “The ongoing economic slowdown has not affected the company’s plans at all. In fact, we feel that it has...

Multi-brand mobile phone retailer UniverCell is planning to launch its own brand of mobile phones. "The company would launch its own brand in a year and target the below Rs 3,000 segment as these account for over 60 per...

“With just around 10 per cent of the sales happening from organised retail currently, there is a definite opportunity for organised trade which is still to boom. There is a great scope for organised trade to grow especially during...