India's leading footwear retailer and manufacturer, Bata India is going to open 70 large format flagship stores this year which are going to be built as per their global format. This is as compared to the more than 105 stores which Bata India had set up till last October. For starters, it has just launched two such flagship stores in Kolkata and now looking at the tier II and III markets across the country. Bata has over 1,250 stores across India.