Indian Retail Awards and e-Retail Awards Congress 2015

"The attitude towards brands and fashion is changing. Young Indian men are more style conscious, aware and understand global brands and trends better. They are no longer seeking me-too fashion and prefer to have a more distinctive style statement."

Mr. Rajiv Nair has over 20 years of experience as a retailer. He has played multiple, strategic roles in Product, Merchandise Planning, Brand management, and Retail Operations.

Rajiv has held leadership positions in Shoppers Stop, Hypercity, mothercare and now as the CEO of Celio since 2012. Celio is one of the largest menswear apparel brands in France - a 1 billion € company.

Mr. Nair has a Post Graduate Management degree from NMIMS (university of Mumbai) and a PGPMAX (General Management) from The Indian School of Business.He started his career as a Graduate management trainee at Shoppers Stop and spent 18 years in the group. He set up the mothercare stores (UK franchise in India) within Shoppers Stop; set up 12 standalone stores for the brand. Rajiv thereafter worked with Hypercity Retail limited as Business Head for General Merchandise & Apparel.