IndiaRetailBiz

Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), the flagship company of Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance group, has identified retail as one of the five main areas of growth for future. Apart from retail, core areas of conventional energy and hydrocarbons as well as as rural transformation and innovations (like non-woven fibres for wallpaper and paper for currency), have also [...]

Shoppers Stop, leading lifestyle retailers of the country, is going to invest Rs 250 crore to expand its department store format, lifestyle, retail chain operating under the same brand name.
Founded in 19991 by K Raheja group, Shopper’s Stop, currently operates around 27 stores and occupies a total retail space of 1.88 million sq ft. It [...]

Walmart Stores Inc, the world’s largest retailer, which operates a retail JV with India’s telecom behemoth Bharti Enterprises (Bharti Walmart Retail Limited), is satisfied with its results and is looking at expanding the footprint of its cash and carry stores in India. This was stated by Anand Sharma, Commerce & Industries minister of India, while [...]

Walmart Stores, world’s largest multi-brand retailer with over $400 billion in annual sales and operations under 53 banners across 15 countries (including India), is lobbying hard for change of policy on foreign direct investment (FDI) in multi-brand retail in India.
Currently, while no FDI is allowed in the multi-brand segment of retail operations, up to 51 [...]

Bharti Wal-Mart Pvt Ltd, the 50:50 joint venture between Wal-Mart Stores –the world’s largest retailer– and Bharti Enterprises– India’s largest mobile service provider– is looking at either the West or the South zone for expansion of its ‘Cash and Carry’ wholesale centres.
The JV has already launched its first C&C store under the brand name of [...]

Walmart– the world’s largest big box retailer– which operates in India via its 50:50 JV with India’s private telecom giant Bharti group, is keen on expanding its operations in India. According to S Robson Walton, its chairman, the retailer is also looking at expanding its presence in China.
“Internationally, we’re focusing on larger markets. China is [...]

Bhartia’s owned “Jubilant FoodWorks Limited,” — the master franchisee of world renowned QSR (Quick Service Restaurants) pizza brand “Domino’s Pizza” in the South asia (except Pakistan)– according to media reports is looking at an IPO so as to enable one of its private equity (PE) investor JPMorgan Chase & Co, a JP Morgan Partners affiliate, [...]

Rajan Mittal, Vice-Chairman of Bharti Enterprises, which owns Bharti group’s retail arm Bharti Retail, has pitched hard for allowing foreign investment (FDI) in front-end, multi-brand, retail. Currently, there is a complete ban on inducting FDI in this segment, which accounts for bulk of retail business, in India.
FDI in retail has traditionally been opposed by small [...]

Bharti Wal-Mart, which began its India operations with opening of cash and carry (B2B) wholesale store under the banner of “Best Price Modern Wholesale” in the holy city of Amritsar in Punjab, has also begun partenering with the government (PPP) as well as large multi-national private sector corporates to undertake projects of social importance.
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Pollo Campero, the Latin American chicken restaurants quick service (QSR ) retail chain with close to 60 stores in the US, is getting ready for a festive season launch into India’s multi-billion-dollar fast food market.
The world’s largest $450 million Latin American chicken quick service restaurant chain, founded in 1971 in Guetmalan, offers “Flavor You Can’t [...]