{"id":298,"date":"2009-12-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.franchisemart.in\/franchise\/?p=298"},"modified":"2012-07-27T07:18:04","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T07:18:04","slug":"gitanjali-lifestyle-plans-fine-dining-spa-foray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.franchisemart.in\/franchise\/gitanjali-lifestyle-plans-fine-dining-spa-foray\/","title":{"rendered":"Gitanjali Lifestyle plans fine dining &#038; spa foray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.franchisemart.in\/franchise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/gitanjali_logo.jpg\" alt=\"gitanjali_logo\" title=\"gitanjali_logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1266\" \/>Gitanjali Lifestyle planning to enter the spa business, specialty cosmetic and perfume stores, mini-theatres and a chain of fine dining restaurants. It is the retail arm of Rs 5,000 &#8211; crore branded jewellery major Gitanjali Group. For starters, Gitanjali is already in joint venture talks with two European spa operators. It&#8217;s also exploring acquisition opportunities in the fine dining space. <\/p>\n<p>Gitanjali Lifestyle operates 148 stores across India over some 0.5 million sq ft. This includes exclusive brand stores for its jewellery brands such as Gili, Asmi, D&#8217;damas and Nakshatra, Italian cutlery store Greggio, multi-brand luxury watch store Bezel, and departmental stores under Maya, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Gitanjali Lifestyle plans to roll out a chain of mini-theatres with the latest technology in satellite distribution. These theatres will have some 150-odd seats and only a few numbers of screens, even one screen in some cases, unlike a multiplex. <\/p>\n<p>The group is also planning to extend its frontline jewellery brands like Nakshatra and Gili into perfumes, bags and fashion accessories. It even has plans to make a mark into private labels in these segments as well as apparel and wedding fashion. <\/p>\n<iframe src='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.franchisemart.in%2Ffranchise%2Fgitanjali-lifestyle-plans-fine-dining-spa-foray%2F&amp;layout=button_count&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=280&amp;action=recommend&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=30' scrolling='no' frameborder='0' style='border:none; overflow:hidden; height:30px' allowTransparency='true'><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gitanjali Lifestyle planning to enter the spa business, specialty cosmetic and perfume stores, mini-theatres and a chain of fine dining restaurants.<\/p>\n<iframe src='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.franchisemart.in%2Ffranchise%2Fgitanjali-lifestyle-plans-fine-dining-spa-foray%2F&amp;layout=button_count&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=280&amp;action=recommend&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=30' scrolling='no' frameborder='0' style='border:none; overflow:hidden; height:30px' allowTransparency='true'><\/iframe>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[695,696,694],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retail-news","tag-dining-spa-foray","tag-gitanjali-group","tag-gitanjali-lifestyle","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisemart.in\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisemart.in\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisemart.in\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisemart.in\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisemart.in\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisemart.in\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1265,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisemart.in\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions\/1265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisemart.in\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisemart.in\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisemart.in\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}