The department store chain was supposed to open two large outlets in Mumbai and New Delhi this year, thus gaining a foothold in a market that could offset the group's difficulties in France. But nothing is going according to plan and this strategic project, which the company has been working on since 2016, has been delayed by over a year.
Work on the future Galeries Lafayette department store is still in progress in the Fort district, the historic centre of Mumbai, and is likely to remain so for several months, Glitz.paris has learned. A delegation of the French department store chain's representatives has just returned to Paris from the Indian megalopolis, which it visited to see how work on the new outlet was progressing.
The two century-old buildings, now linked
