Trent Limited is an Indian retail company headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It is part of the Tata group and operates a portfolio of retail formats spanning apparel, footwear, accessories, beauty products, food and grocery. Trent is best known for its flagship fashion chain Westside, the value retail format Zudio, and the hypermarket chain Star.
| Type | Public company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Retail |
| Headquarters | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
| Parent | Tata Sons (Tata group) |
| Listings | BSE, NSE |
| Major formats | Westside, Zudio, Star, Utsa, Misbu |
Trent traces its origins to Lakmé Limited, the cosmetics business that the Tata group divested to Hindustan Lever in 1996. The retained corporate entity was renamed Trent Limited in 1998 and repositioned as the Tata group's specialty retail arm. The company entered organised retail through the acquisition of the Littlewoods store in Bengaluru, which was relaunched under the Westside brand.
Westside is Trent's flagship lifestyle and apparel chain, offering largely private-label clothing, footwear, accessories and home products across departmental-style stores in Indian cities.
Zudio is a value-fashion format launched to address lower price points than Westside. It has expanded rapidly across metros, tier-2 and tier-3 cities and has become a significant driver of Trent's store footprint and revenue growth.
Star (earlier Star Bazaar and Star Market) is Trent's food and grocery business, operating hypermarket and supermarket stores. It was developed in association with Tesco PLC of the United Kingdom; Trent Hypermarket Private Limited operated as a joint venture between Trent and Tesco before later restructuring.
Trent operates through the parent company and several subsidiaries and joint ventures, including Trent Hypermarket Private Limited (Star) and Booker India for wholesale cash-and-carry distribution. The company designs and merchandises a high proportion of its products in-house under private labels, with manufacturing largely outsourced to Indian and overseas vendors.
Trent is regarded as one of the leading organised retailers in India and a key constituent of the Tata group's consumer-facing portfolio. The rapid expansion of Zudio in particular has been cited as a notable shift in Indian value retail, while Westside remains among the most established private-label fashion chains in the country. The company is included in major Indian equity indices and is widely tracked among listed retail stocks.