right now it is still too early to comment on consumer buying this festival season as it has just begun however onam and puja both have shown robust growth for us this weekend especially has been great there was a bit of a downturn in september but we believe that the sales will pick up said rachna aggarwal ceo indus league clothing with winters setting in sales will catch up we are hopeful good sales would continue after the festive season as well aggarwal said for jewellery and watch brands it is a winwin situation apart from the festive shoppers these brands would also be looking at the wedding season which sets in with the winter most of these brands said they did not mind shelling out extra bucks for advertisement and promotions as the sales will be worth the spend timex watches will be spending over a 1 million on advertisements this season the company is 100 sure that sales would be great targeting a 37 growth this year the company is looking at 11 of the entire sales to be coming from just the diwali period we grew by almost 30 in september as compared to last year and we should meet our targets this month too sales slightly drop in november but we can easily cover 20 of our november sales in october itself said v d wadhwa md timex group