{"id":3222,"date":"2013-11-14T10:51:51","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T05:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/?p=3222"},"modified":"2013-11-14T10:51:51","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T05:21:51","slug":"payless-is-taking-its-business-to-indian-market-with-reliance-retail-ltd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/payless-is-taking-its-business-to-indian-market-with-reliance-retail-ltd\/","title":{"rendered":"Payless is taking its business to Indian Market with Reliance Retail Ltd."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Topeka, Kan.-based retailer has signed exclusive franchise agreement with Reliance Retail Ltd. The plan calls for a Reliance to bow and operate a chain of Payless locations, similar in format to the U.S. stores, across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The stores in India will expand Payless&#8217; international franchise network, which already includes 258 locations throughout the Middle East, Asia and Eastern Europe.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/news642.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3223\" title=\"news642\" src=\"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/news642.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reliance Retail&#8217;s footwear CEO G. Sankar was bullish about the parntership. &#8220;We believe this association has the potential to storm the ladies and kids footwear market in India which has largely been unorganized and fragmented to date,&#8221; Sankar said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A cornerstone of the Payless strategy is to expand into new markets and become the brand that resonates with consumers around the globe&#8230;&#8221; Payless Holdings CEO Paul Jones said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: wwd <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Topeka, Kan.-based retailer has signed exclusive franchise agreement with Reliance Retail Ltd. The plan calls for a Reliance to bow and operate a chain of Payless locations, similar in&nbsp;[ &hellip; ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-franchise-news","list-style-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}