1-India Family Mart

1-India Family Mart is a chain of value retail stores in India operated by Nysaa Retail Pvt. Ltd.[2][3] The chain has the total of 100 stores across 81 cities of East and North of India.[4][5] 1-India Family Mart has established the first store in Uttar Pradesh and later has expanded operations across Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Uttrakhand, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and the North East.[6][7]

History

1-India Family Mart was established in 2012[8][9] and began operations in 2013. The retail chain was co-founded by Jay Prakash Shukla and Ravinder Singh.[10] Nysaa Retail Pvt. Ltd. is the parent company of 1-India Family Mart.[10] JP Shukla CEO and co founder of family mart is also known to be very fond of poetry and is a fan of T. S. Eliot's work[11]

It is engaged in the business of selling fashion apparel, lifestyle products and general merchandise through stores.

In 2022, a Mumbai-based ethnic apparel manufacturer Suumaya Industries bought a minority stake in its parent company Nysaa Retail.

Funding

In 2017, 1-India Family Mart has raised a funding of $6.5 million (42.5 crore) from domestic private equity fund Carpediem Capital.[10][4][6][12][13] In May 2019, company got its second round funding as external debt of amount 20 crore by a consortium led by APAC Financial Service.[14][15]

In 2022 the company raised INR 50 crore as a part of Series B round of funding. The round was led by the Dubai-based Gulf Islamic Investments (GII).[16][17]

See also

  • Retailing in India
  • List of supermarket chains in India
  • Big Bazaar

References

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  10. Rajesh Kurup. Nysaa Retail plans to invest 200 cr to open 100 more stores across India Business Line, retrieved 1 August 2018^
  11. Maleeva Rebello. 1-India Family Mart CEO loves reading TS Eliot, feels his poems are complex, disruptive The Economic Times, retrieved 2021-01-07^
  12. Carpediem Capital invests USD 6.5 mn in 1-India Family Mart - Asian News International Asian News International, 18 January 2018, retrieved 1 August 2018^
  13. Carpediem Capital invests USD 6.5 mn in 1-India Family Mart Business Standard, retrieved 1 August 2018^
  14. Sandeep Dubey. 1-India Family Mart raises debt funding of Rs 20 cr ET Retail, 2019-05-02, retrieved 2019-07-30^
  15. 1-India Family Mart raises Rs 20 cr Business Standard India, 2019-05-02, retrieved 2019-07-30^
  16. Debjyoti Roy. GII invests ₹50 crore in 1-India Family Mart mint, 2022-02-25, retrieved 2022-08-22^
  17. Rasul Bailay. 1-India Family Mart raises Rs 50 crore in funding from Dubai-based Gulf Islamic Investments The Economic Times, retrieved 2022-08-22^