new delhi footwear chain bata is expanding its accessories segment to quicken growth as it witnesses increasing demand for products such as ladies handbags and belts it is expecting sales from the category to expand at double digits this fiscal year the company plans to give more space to display accessories at its new stores rajeev gopalakrishnan batas managing director for south asia said the marie claire range of products like sunglasses and bags targeting the youth has seen impressive growth in the past year the idea is to offer a complete solution to our consumers and hence the products are kept in coordination with shoes within the existing space gopalakrishnan said the collection of accessories at bata ranges from bags and belts to sunglasses scarves socks and mobile wallets occupying almost 510 of the space in its store the average size of our stores is 3000 sq ft we are now also looking at opening bigger destination stores at key locations like the high streets highways and shopping malls a larger store space gives us an opportunity to display more number of lines with a wider range of offering gopalakrishnan said the biggest bata store measures 20000 sq ft is at the viviana mall in mumbai it recently opened another big outlet spread over 9000 sq ft on the hill road in mumbais bandra area batas new stores will be retailing leather handbags and bags for all occasions they will also showcase other accessories bata india reported a turnover of rs 220108 crore in the year ended on december 31 2014 by avinder batra published on may 12 2015 at 0506 pm ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community of 2m industry professionals subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights analysis download etretail app get realtime updates save your favourite articles scan to download app homenewsbata india plans to expand its accessories segment