Which Indian city hosted H&M’s first store in India, opened in 2015?

New Delhi hosted H&M’s first store in India, which opened in 2015.

The opening marked H&M’s entry into the Indian retail market. The store was located at Select Citywalk in Saket, a major shopping district in New Delhi, and attracted substantial attention from Indian shoppers and international fashion media.

India became an important expansion market because of its large population, growing urban middle class and developing organized retail sector. H&M subsequently expanded to other major Indian cities, including Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Pune.

The launch is sometimes confused with H&M’s first South Asian store generally, but the question concerns India specifically. India’s first store also belongs to a later phase of H&M’s global expansion, following earlier entries into markets such as China, Japan and the United States.