{"id":1830,"date":"2026-09-18T17:06:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T08:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/india-marketing.jp\/india-news\/michael-kors-hyderabad\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T17:06:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T08:06:46","slug":"michael-kors-hyderabad","status":"publish","type":"india-news","link":"https:\/\/india-marketing.jp\/en\/india-news\/michael-kors-hyderabad\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Kors opens a new store in Hyderabad, aiming to capture the south's demand for luxury accessories"},"content":{"rendered":"
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US accessories brand Michael Kors has opened a new store at the GVK ONE mall in Hyderabad, an IT hub in southern India. Operations are run by Reliance Brands, which runs a large number of overseas brands in India. This move, as luxury brand openings that had tended to concentrate in Delhi and Mumbai spread to major southern cities like Hyderabad, offers material for thinking about which Indian city a Japanese luxury brand should target next. Here is who, where, and what is being sold, organized to the extent confirmable from reporting.<\/p>\n\n

The starting point: a new store on the ground floor of GVK ONE<\/h2>\n

According to Indian Retailer (September 5, 2026), the new Michael Kors store sits on the ground floor of Hyderabad's GVK ONE mall, alongside brands such as Tira and Armani Exchange. It carries handbags, shoes, watches, accessories, and a curated ready-to-wear line. The opening was supported by Reliance Brands, which runs brands in India, and its team, including Suvneet Ahuja and Tarun Mehra, is reported to have been involved in the launch. Store size, total domestic store count, and investment amount were not disclosed in the reporting.<\/p>\n\n

Background: Hyderabad becomes a new home for luxury retail<\/h2>\n

Alongside its concentration of IT industry, Hyderabad's disposable income has been rising, thickening the consumer base able to support luxury brands. Indian luxury brands had traditionally tended to cluster in Delhi and Mumbai, but major southern cities are gaining presence as new store locations. Michael Kors's choice of GVK ONE can be read as a move to capture the traffic of this southern city's affluent and upper-middle class. \"Accessible luxury\" items like handbags and watches are a category where demand tends to take off even outside the two biggest cities.<\/p>\n\n

Local operations are held by Reliance Brands<\/h2>\n

What's worth noting about this opening is not the brand itself, but the local partner running operations. Reliance Brands operates many overseas brands in India and has accumulated know-how in site selection, mall negotiations, and store operations. Rather than an overseas brand tackling the whole country alone, partnering with a local operator like this and opening cities one at a time makes it easier to secure reproducibility in store openings. The brand contributes its name and merchandise, while the local operator contributes location and operations \u2014 this division of labor is becoming the standard way to enter India's luxury retail market.<\/p>\n