A cornerstone of the Group’s journey, Renuka was instrumental in creating the high-street fashion brand Splash in 1993.

In her current role, Renuka oversees all retail and hospitality operations, leading strategic growth through expansion into new markets and driving the group’s CSR initiatives. Under her leadership the Group forayed into e-commerce and invested in MENA region’s largest privately-owned logistics and distribution hub, with a vision to reach the customers, no matter where they shop.

Landmark chairman Micky Jagtiani, Renuka’s husband, founded the group in 1973 with a single store in Bahrain and has successfully grown it into one of the largest retail and hospitality conglomerates in the region. The couple were inducted into the Retail Hall of Fame at the 2017 World Retail Congress held at Madinat Jumeirah Hotel in Dubai.

Last year, the Landmark Group and Jagtiani Foundation committed AED15m ($4.08m) towards accredited NGOs, food banks and healthcare workers on the frontlines to provide aid to help local communities where we operate in need directly in the GCC and India.

Coronavirus relief efforts by Landmark Group in India 

The group’s brands, alongside the Jagtiani Foundation and The LIFE Foundation, have pledged to support and empower affected communities including migrant and garment workers, frontline personnel, low-income families and other vulnerable individuals.

The Jagtiani Foundation is working directly with government hospitals to provide Personal Protective Equipment and masks to frontline healthcare workers, working with Max India to leverage the Group’s partner factories in India to channel resources through its existing supply chain and working communities.

The Foundation is also working with a network of reputed local non-profit organisations, such as Apnalaya, Jan Sahas, Oscar Foundation, SAVE, and READ, to provide access to food for underserved populations including low-income families, daily wage earners, and migrant workers.

Since its inception, READ has been working on prevention, protection and rehabilitation for young workers from Textile industries and Garment Units located in and around Tiruppur, Erode, Coimbatore and nearby districts and SAVE, a reputed organisation with its roots in the Tiruppur area in Tamil Nadu, has been one of the pioneers in bringing out the issues of textile and garment workers to the world, and eradicating child labour in Tiruppur.

In addition to funding these organisations, the Jagtiani Foundation, as well as The LIFE Foundation have also partnered with SPAR Hypermarkets to ensure good quality rations are made available in the quickest possible manner. The Foundation, in its first phase, is focusing resources in Mumbai, one of the hardest-hit cities in India, as well as in Coimbatore and Tiruppur.

The LIFE Foundation has dedicated its Covid-19 efforts to providing food rations and hot meals for labourers, villagers, street dwellers, elderly citizens, and children, as well as PPE Kits, sanitisers, masks for frontline workers in police stations, and public hospitals. The LIFE Foundation is also working to provide medical equipment, having recently donated to the pediatric ward ICU Nair Hospital, Mumbai.

Lifestyle International Private Limited (LIPL) will continue to work with its partner NGOs, pivoting existing programmes to address the immediate needs of those impacted by coronavirus, providing humanitarian relief, and strengthening public health systems. This includes working providing food packs to daily wage earners and migrant workers.