retail industry fashion industry founded 1998 headquarters mumbai india 1 area served india key people akshay raheja vice chairman vinay nadkarni globus md and ceo products discount department store clothing fashion accessory apparel website globusfashion.com globus is a retail clothing store chain based in mumbai india . it is part of the rajan raheja group . as of april 2012 the chain has 35 locations in 22 cities in india . 2 globus was founded in january 1998 . its first location at 35 000 square foot store opened in indore in june 1999 followed by two locations in chennai . its mumbai flagship location opened in november 2001 . by may 2008 the chain had expanded to 24 stores and started a push to greatly expand the number of locations . 3 4 5 the chain has previously announced bold plans to expand to a much larger number of stores such as 150 . 6 the chain was run by ved prakash arya from its founding until march 2004 . 7 currently it is run by vinay gajanan nadkarni who serves it as the managing director and ceo . nadkarni who took over from arya in 2004 opened the 36th store in february 2013 . kareena kapoor became the brand ambassador in 2008 and planned to launch her own clothing line with the store . 8 in 2007 globus created the world s largest christmas stocking which was 111 feet tall . 9 references edit corporate office 4 april 2012 . pune gets its third globus store indiaretailing.com madaan k.v.s. fundamentals of retailing p. 288 2009 lamba a.j. the art of retailing p. 104 05 2003 1 november 2001 . globus unveils in house brand in mumbai store the hindu kareena kapoor is the new face of globus . bollywoodhungama.com . 2007 08 28 . retrieved 2010 11 23 . sabarinath m. 8 march 2004 . globus chief arya quits is coo of pantaloon the economic times i am launching my clothesline with globus kareena . bollywoodhungama.com . 2008 02 16 . retrieved 2010 11 23 . globus . press release globus unveils the tallest christmas stocking in the world contending for the top slot in the book of records . businesswire india . retrieved 8 june 2012 . further reading edit chennai stores of globus relaunched economic times globus ropes in kareena as brand ambassador money dna this article about an indian company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title globus clothing retailer & oldid 741580266 categories clothing retailers of indiaclothing brands of indiacompanies based in mumbaiindian company stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages edit links this page was last modified on 28 september 2016 at 11 30 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view