Mumbai, 18 April (HS): Apple’s first retail store in India opens in Mumbai, which is the world’s leading technology company, opened its first flagship retail store in India on Tuesday. The store is located in Mumbai’s Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC). The company’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Tim Cook inaugurated it on Tuesday. Cook also welcomed the customers on this occasion.
This official store Apple has been opened in the Jio World Drive Mall of Reliance Industries Reliance Limited in the country’s financial capital Mumbai. The company’s second store will open on April 20 at Saket in the national capital Delhi. The Mumbai-based outlet has been named Apple BKC. People queue up outside the BKC stores to buy iPhones.
The distance from Mumbai Central to Jio World Drive Mall is approximately 14 km. The design of the store is inspired by the city’s iconic ‘kali-peeli’ taxis. Its monthly rent is Rs 42 lakh.
Ahead of the inauguration of Apple’s first retail store, CEO Tim Cook on Monday visited industrialist Mukesh Ambani at Antilla, his home in Mumbai. Earlier he met Ratan Tata and had vada-pav with Madhuri Dixit. Cook told Tata Sons Chairman N. Chandrasekaran and other top industrialists also met.
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