Tablez to open 20 exclusive stores in India

Tablez, a retail arm of Lulu Group International, is planning to launch 20 exclusive outlets of US-based toy brand Build-A-Bear across India in the next ten years. The company has opened its first store in India in Toys’R’Us outlet in Bangalore. Besides standalone stores, shop-in-shop formats of Build-A-Bear would be launched within Toys ‘R’ Us. Build-A-Bear Workshop has nearly 500 stores worldwide including corporately-managed stores in the US, Canada, China, Denmark, Ireland, Puerto Rico, and the UK, and franchise stores in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, India, Mexico, and the Middle East. Opening of the new high stores in the sector is an added business opportunity for the signage companies dealing in in-store graphic and branding projects.