Bela Gupta

Current

Commercial Director -Softlines at Tesco

Past

CEO at Kewal Kiran Clothing Limited
CEO & MD at Spink Marketing Company Pvt Ltd
GM Buying & Merchandising at Shoppers' Stop, Mumbai, India

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Education

Middlesex University
University of Mumbai

Recommended

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Connections

500 connections

Industry

Retail

Websites

Bela Gupta’s Summary

Strategic Consulting, including business plan & sales strategy development in retail in the apparels,lifestyles and services.Leadership & team mangement.Researching consumer behaviour & trends.Advising inorganic businesses opportunities in Brand & Retail.

Bela Gupta’s Specialties:

Retail:Sourcing,Buying,Merchandising,Operations,Marketing Design branding and identity for brand & retail,Interpreting the consumer behaviour & trends to the business strategy,Business development in apparels and lifestyle retail.

Bela Gupta’s Experience

Commercial Director -Softlines

Tesco

(Public Company; TSCO; Retail industry)

December 2008 — Present (1 year )

Lead the category to deliver the strategic objectives of the Operations, Customer, People and Finance Plan. Create an innovative promotional plan to drive category performance and contribute to the Corporate Business Plan
Plan and drive trade year on year to deliver sustained like for like growth. Manage and deliver Commercial gross margin.
Lead the team to achieve availability, stockholding and market share targets, whilst managing waste and shrink budgets
CEO

Kewal Kiran Clothing Limited

(Apparel & Fashion industry)

January 2007 — August 2008 (1 year 8 months)

Leadership & Team management.Strategic Consulting, including business plan & sales strategy development in retail & on new businesses.Profit centre head.
CEO & MD

Spink Marketing Company Pvt Ltd

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Management Consulting industry)

October 2001 — December 2006 (5 years 3 months)

Strategic Consulting, including business plan & sales strategy development.Advising on new businesses.Rengineering strategies.System & process setting.Brand & Marketing strategies.
GM Buying & Merchandising

Shoppers' Stop, Mumbai, India

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; AAA; Retail industry)

1991 — 2001 (10 years )

Developed Sourcing, Buying & merchandising Systems.Generated new vendor partnerships for a retail company that focused on department stores in the areas of apparels, lifestyles, leather & home.Part of Set up and start up operations team of two retail formats.

Bela Gupta’s Education

Middlesex University

MTech , Accounts,Economics & Programming.

Overseas Studies Program: 4 semesters at Middlesex Polytechnic University, London UK, focus on Computer Programming in Basic, Cobol & Pascal.

Activities and Societies:

Photography Team.
University of Mumbai

BCom , Accounts, Economics, Advertising & Computer Science

Graduated with Honors in Economics & Accounts. Majored in Computer Technology.

Activities and Societies:

State level TableTennis player, College Judokan Team,Car Rally Team.

Additional Information

Bela Gupta’s Websites:

Bela Gupta’s Interests:

Retail,professional networking,design,photography

Bela Gupta’s Groups:

Executive Net, Startup Specialist, Retail Industry Professionals, Retail Industry Experts, Linked HR

Executive Suite
Killer Idea Developers (KID)
India Believers
BRICs Business Leaders ( 1500 + members)
Global Web Forum of Leader (GWL)
Luxury & Lifestyle Professionals
Formula 1 Enthusiasts
Foodies
Apple Professionals
Nokia World
Shopper Insights & Marketing Professionals
Leadership Think Tank
Retail India Group
Fortune Global Group
Shoppers Stop
Innovation Management Group
ENTREPRENEURS-GET FUNDED
CxO Network
CEO Crossing
Consulting Network - http://consultingnetwork.co.in
Retail Management
Startup Specialists
Club CEO
Retail Industry Professionals Group
Retailers Industry Management Group: Merchandising, Finance, Supply Chain, E-commerce, IT Technology
Retail Professionals
Licensing, Merchandising & Brand Management
Specialty Retail Group
Global Indians - "C" Level Executives
Fashion Retailers
Retail Industry Professionals Worldwide
RETAIL EXECS
Directors and Chief Executives
Tesco Alumni
Asia Retail Congress
retailers association of India
Wal-Mart's Best Practices
Retail Executives in Emerging Markets