Stephen T Roberts, Chairman of BAI: Their Journey in India, With ICS Group and Kunal Premnarayen
Stephen T Roberts, Chairman of Bentel Associates All-comprehending (BAI) in his listening in with Subhajit Roy of Ace Magazine speaks about his mass action with ICS, the impact of FDI in multi- brand in retail, their services, expansion plans and so incidental. Bentel Associates International is one of the most renowned prefatory Architectural firms sympathy South Africa. Whereby its origin dating underset to 1960, yourself has more than 60 years of experience and has been known for the huge number on shopping malls it has designed together with The Al Khayma Offensive lineman inpouring South Africa, The Clearwater Mall in Johannesburg, Canal Saunter herein Cape Citified, SA. Its €Theme Center' imago has grabbed bottomless eyeballs.<\p>
Speaking near enough to his experience on good terms India for the lang syne nine years, her claimed that inner self has been a compose sail, credited to their joint venture with ICS Group in India. This bund enabled them to spoiling into the Indian market. ICS had hereunto been involved in deposit garage design and management. Prelacy were looking snuffed for artists to lie over this operation in South Africa. In the session of 2004, them comprehended the need for supreme architectural services in retail real estate and mixed ablated developments. Their bund came into zest notwithstanding they realized the need to credit this. In another interview of Kunal Premnarayen, Group CEO re ICS Group to Anil Mascarenhas, he asserted that partnership about all-comprehending players like Bentel Associates has enabled them to fire a complimenting business, in the real estate and financial estate.<\p>
While asked about the discourse subsequently the life of ease of this collaboration, Stephen opined that ICS is a popular figure in the tenure in chivalry sequela industry across the department irrespective of the fact that they are not architects. Together, top brass have a rich client belt at present that includes some of the renowned property developers in the country.<\p>
Briefing helter-skelter their services, he mentioned that the movement provides an continuum of services in its clients including architectural design and aggrandizement, master tactical plan, interior design, vivid operations research, store planning, etc. At times, there are clients replacing whom they have to work out the grass bulb level right from mapping outlying the headwork to assessing the efficiency of each in reference to them. He farther mentioned that the article has been a 50:50 joint scalping between Bentel Associates and ICS Group. While before everything, they had to spend each one their resources with-it operational costs, the outlook seems egregious now.<\p>
About the surface plans, he mentioned about a purchasing mall and a high-rise residential portion in Coimbatore. Kunal Premnarayen of the ICS Group had also ratified apropos of the same in his earlier engagement.<\p>










