IndiaRetailBiz

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 [...]

DHL Life Sciences and Healthcare, a division of the world’s leading logistic services player, is likely to soon set up a supply chain infrastructure for providing logistic services to deliver drugs and related healthcare products that are sourced from foreign manufacturers to retailers in India. This, while ensuring quick supply of lifesaving products, will eliminate [...]

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 [...]

Beating slowdown blues, this festive period appears to have brought a lot of smiles on faces of luxury goods retailers, particularly luxury car retailers in Gujarat.
The Dussehra day is turning out to be a bonanza time for retailers as Gujaratis, who prefer to buy vehicles, houses, and other expensive durables on this auspicious day, are [...]

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 [...]

Yum! Brands, the US-based world’s largest network of system restaurants with nearly 36,000 restaurants in over 110 countries/ territories, employing over 1.4 million persons, has decided to go aggressively on expanding the network of its restaurants in India.
According to Niren Chaudhary, Managing Director of its Indian subsidiary Yum! Restaurants India, the company will expand its [...]

Green is In! In what could turn out as a ‘game changing’ initiative, the world’s largest retailer Walmart has proposed to create “sustainable product index.”
The Index, perhaps a composite number that provides a single measure of environmental information, is expected to tell the consumer as to how a product she is buying affected the planet.
To [...]

India Franchisee of Pizza Hut and Kentucky Fried Chicken quick restaurant chains, appears to have run into trouble with the government authorities dealing with foreign exchange regulations (FIPB) over breach of certain conditions it accepted while obtaining license from them to operate within India.
Yum Restaurants, the franchisee, according to a newspaper report, had [...]

Barista Lavazza, the wholly owned Indian subsidiary of famed Italian coffee major Lavazza, (which earlier known as Barista was acquired from well-known NRI businessman Shiva Sankaran (who had earlier also acquired it from Tatas) is making new strides in its new rebranded avatar by focusing on highways.
Barista Lavazza is setting up new eateries on either side [...]