India Bazaar

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India Bazaar
Private
IndustryIndian Grocery Store, Indian Retail
Founded2004;16 years ago (2004)
Plano, Texas, U.S.
Founders
  • Anand Pabari
  • Gopal Pabari
Headquarters Plano, Texas, U.S.A.
Number of locations
8 stores, 5 restaurants, 1 shopping mall,
Area served
Georgia [1] (planned shopping mall), Illinois, and Texas
Website www.indiaco.com
www.mallofindia.us (Shopping mall)
www.indiabazaardfw.com (Stores)
www.rkusa.com (Resturaunts)

India Bazaar is an Indian grocery / resturaunt / retail company that operates eight grocery stores and three restaurants in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and one shopping mall in Naperville, Illinois, which is the biggest Indian mall in America.

History

Brothers Anand and Gopal Pabari opened the first India Bazaar grocery store in 2004 in Plano, Texas. [1] The company expanded to include a resturaunt chain called Rajula's Kitchen. [1] The chain expanded to Frisco, Texas in 2014 and opened a second location in Plano in 2017. [2] [3] In March of 2018, India Bazaar announced its interests to use the unused Walmart building in Naperville, Illinois. The building would become a retail complex called the Mall of India. The complex will include 26 vendors and a 10 resturaunt food court. The retail complex will also include an unused Sam's Club building to house a 60,000 square feet banquet hall, a 70,000 square feet entertainment center. The mall will operate under the name India Co. [4] [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 https://www.indiaco.com/
  2. https://communityimpact.com/local-news/dallas-fort-worth/frisco/features/business/2019/04/29/india-bazaar-celebrates-five-years-in-frisco/
  3. https://communityimpact.com/local-news/dallas-fort-worth/plano/news/2017/02/03/india-bazaar-grocery-produce-market-opening-second-plano-location-angels-drive/
  4. Erin Hegarty. "Indiaco grocery store, several restaurants and shops to open in March at Naperville's Mall of India". Chicago Tribune.
  5. https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/naperville-sun/ct-nvs-mall-india-state-of-city-st-0321-20180319-story.html