Peanuts Retail Advisory
Our home ground. Your next store.
For over thirty years we have opened and run brand stores across fourteen cities in East and North-East India. Now we help other brands do the same: plan the entry, open the store, or let us run it.
Where is your store today?
Pick the stage you are at. Each one has a way we can help, with a set length and a fixed fee agreed before we start.
The way east, city by city.
The route your stock and your teams will travel, and what trading is really like at each stop. None of it is in a market report.
Tap a city.
Kolkata
Where supply for the East begins: the region's biggest market, and the hub its stock moves from.
Siliguri
Our home city, and the corridor. Road freight to the North-East passes through this narrow strip, so every plan here starts with how the stock gets through.
Gangtok
A hill capital. Footfall follows the tourist seasons in spring and autumn as much as it follows the festivals.
Guwahati
The gateway to the North-East, and the first city most brands enter. Its malls set the bar for the region.
Jorhat
An Upper Assam tea town. Bihu in April matters here as much as Puja does in October.
Dibrugarh
The far end of the line. The longest supply route in Assam, so the stock plan starts earlier than anywhere else.
Silchar
The Barak Valley, Bengali-speaking. Here Puja, not Bihu, is the biggest week of the year.
Agartala
Tripura's capital, at the end of a long road through the hills. Puja is the biggest week of the year.
From a first conversation to a plan in a week.
- You bookYour brand, category, cities and timeline.
- We talkThirty minutes with our director.
- We proposeOne page within a week: the work, the length, the fee.
- We startOn an agreed date, one person accountable.
- You decideOpen, run, or hand over, with what we built.
Deepakk Bansal
Director, Peanuts Retail Pvt. Ltd.
More than thirty years of opening and running brand stores across East and North-East India and, since 2026, Bengaluru. Today that is sixteen brands across fourteen cities in seven states, run by our own teams. He has watched what a festival week, a monsoon or the wrong site does to a store's year, and that is the ground he brings to your plan.
He leads every advisory engagement personally, from the first thirty-minute conversation to the day the store opens, with the operations team that runs our own stores behind him.
Read the JournalStraight answers.
Do you advise brands that compete with the ones you run?
No. We never advise a direct competitor of a brand we operate, in a category we operate. If there is a conflict, we say so in the first conversation.
Do you only work in the East and North-East?
That is where we know the ground best, and where we lead. We also run stores in Bengaluru, and our store launch and health check work applies wherever you are opening.
What does it cost?
The first conversation is a paid thirty-minute session with our director; we confirm the fee with your time. After that, every engagement has a fixed fee, agreed in a one-page proposal before we start. We do not bill by the hour.
Who actually does the work?
Our director leads every engagement, with the operations team that runs our own stores.
Will our figures stay private?
Yes. We never publish a client's figures, and one client's numbers never appear in another's work.
Can you run the stores after opening them?
Yes. That is our Run it for you offer, and it can become a long-term franchise partnership.
Tell us what you are planning.
A paid thirty-minute conversation with our director. Tell us about your plans here, then choose a time and pay. The fee is shown when you choose a time.