IndiaRetailBiz

Bharti Wal-Mart, the 50:50 cash and carry joint venture between India’s telecom behemoth Bharti Enterprises and world’s largest retailer Wal-Mart, which has scheduled to rollout its first wholesale store from Punjab in India in the first half of calendar 2009, has announced to begin registration of membership for bonafide business owners in Punjab.
Cash & […]

Bharti Wal-Mart– a joint venture between Bharti Enterprises, country’s largest mobile service provider, and Wal-Mart Stores, world’s largest retailer, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the state government of Punjab to establish a special skills training centre for imparting training in retail operations at Amritsar.
The skills training centre to be known as ’Bharti Wal-Mart Training […]

Chinese suppliers of Wal-Mart will now be required to incur 20 times the current cost of providing identification on their products being supplied by them to the world’s largest retailer.
The move comes in the wake of recent safety concerns surrounding products originating from China.
Wal-Mart has instructed its vendors in China to use RFID tagging instead of standard […]

Bharti’s Chairman Sunil Mittal is consciously breaking his group free from telecom business by expanding more aggressively into diversified businesses, including retail. This was revealed by Mittal, while addressing media persons in New Delhi on Monday to announce the group’s new corporate brand identity.
Mittal is expecting to cross $10 billion in 2010 turnover. […]

Are changing times forcing Wal-Mart– the world’s largest retailer– to change its expansion strategy, or is it the Tesco’s success with its recently launched small sized supermarket stores chain in the US called ‘Fresh & Easy’ that has made most discount retailers to rethink about store-size strategy for their food and grocery stores in the […]

Bharti Wal-Mart Pvt. Ltd, a 50:50 joint venture (JV) between Mittals-led telecom giant Bharti Enterprises and the US-based world’s largest retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc., is in talks with the state government of Punjab to set up a training institute that would train people for jobs in cash and carry bulk retail (B2B) as well […]

“Will I have enough to put on the table so my family can eat?” — Shopper’s concern.

Economic pain has begun to show.
In the US, where the impact of financial meltdown is most visible, shoppers have started to display disturbing changes in their buying habits, says a U S Today report.
Economic pain is […]

After closing down its operations in South Korea and Germany, and downsizing operations in Japan, Wal-Mart — the world’s largest retailer– is finding the going to be tough in mainland China as well. Not only, the giant retailer has failed to make profits in its 12 years long existence in the world’s […]

The rollout of Easy Day, a supermarket chain of Bharti Retail, the retail venture of India’s largest mobile player Bharti Enterprises, has not only been slow but restricted to Punjab state only.
In six months, since its launch from Ludhiana in April, this year– the home town of its promoter Mittal family– the retailer so far has […]

Seiyu Ltd, the wholly owned Japanese subsidiary of the US-based world’s largest retailer Wal-Mart, is downsizing. It will close 20 stores and cut off six per cent of its employees.
Seiyu is likely to offer pre-mature retirement to 350 of the 5,000-odd employees.
To gain more flexibility and control, Wal-Mart early this year had bought the remaining four […]