NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: Global fashion company Hennes & Mauritz clocked more than Rs 1.75 crore in sales on the opening day of its first store in India, almost double what its largest rival Zara sold on its inaugural day five years ago at the same location, Select CityWalk mall in New Delhi, two people familiar with the matter said.This translates into an average billing of about Rs 27,000 every minute during the 11 hours the store was open, or the equivalent of 5,000 pairs of jeans and 10,000 tops sold. The store opened its doors on Friday to 2,500 eager fans who had queued up outside overnight to be among the first to get their hands on H&M’s merchandise.H&M made in one single day what a smaller store like Puma or Adidas would make in one year. “We were waiting for this day for a long time now and this fabulous response is truly worth the wait,” said Janne Einola, country manager at H&M India.Brands in the vicinity, too, benefitted from the opening of the H&M store, which occupies 25,000 square feet. Many stores in the mall registered higher sales and My Square food court and US coffee chain Starbucks logged their highest daily sales. Starbucks generated sales of Rs 4.75 lakh, one of the people said.My Square, the food court joint venture between Select CityWalk and private equity firm Everstone Capital-owned Pan India Food Solutions clocked sales of Rs 15.1 lakh against its previous record of Rs 11 lakh, Everstone officials said.“Consumers and good brands live in each other’s shadow. India always had consumers but not enough brands, but everything is happening now. Most of the global brands see India as an opportunity which offers substantial room for an error and a lot of room to grow. The recent launches of Burger King , GAP, Kidzania, H&M and IKEA (in the pipeline) shows growth momentum is building up really well,” said Jaspal Sabharwal, partner at Everstone Capital