IndiaRetailBiz

“If big capitalists enter the retail sector, one crore small traders will suffer,” Mamta Banerjee, Chief, Trinamul Congress.
Reliance Retail’s re-entry into West Bengal with the opening of three ‘Reliance Fresh’ stores in Kolkata on Friday the 1st August 2008, as reported earlier, has begun to show cracks in the state’s ruling Left Front.
All India Forward […]

Indian consumers, who are already combating high rate of inflation, are now faced with the specter of goods disappearing from retail shelves unless the truckers strike, which began yesterday, is not brought to a swift end by the concerned authorities. Truckers, across the country, went on strike to press their long pending demands, many of which relate to levy of toll […]

“Inflation has made no impact on our growth plan. We are going to open 70 more stores by the end of the current year and will invest Rs 700 crore for the purpose.” Ram Chandra Agarwal, Chairman, Vishal Retail.
Undettered by high inflation, Vishal- the Delhi-based mega markets retail chain has drawn up plans […]

Navin Patnaik led Orissa government, which in the wake of protests of small traders and street vendors had refused to provide any special treatment or extra security to large retailers, particularly Reliance ‘Fresh,’ has decided to create 15 vending zones in Cuttack the commercial capital of the state, which will help roadside vendors affected by the entry of […]

Kishore Biyani (CEO, Future Group), Santosh Desai (MD and CEO, Future Brands), Damodar Mall (CEO, Innovation and Incubation), and Sadashiv Nayak (CEO, Big Bazaar) are among the top honchos of the Future Group, who are reported to have recently met Adi Godrej and other senior officials of the Godrej group, to […]

West Bengal in general and Kolkata in particular, which formed an integral and important part of Reliance group’s retail rollout, is firmly out of Reliance’s future plans; at least for the next calendar year 2008. This was made clear by Bijou Kurien, President & CEO (lifestyle division), Reliance Retail, who was speaking […]

Politics appears to have triumphing over business plan as reports of Reliance Retail going slow on its promise ‘fresh’ strategy gain momentum. Reliance after revisiting its ‘farm to fork’ strategy, according to Times News Network report, has decided to minimise its exposure on fruits and vegetables business and increase focus on food, FMCG, […]

While, strident political opposition to Reliance’s entry in farm produce, particularly fruits and vegetables, has forced the company to withdraw from Uttar Pradesh and postpone operations in West Bengal, ‘Safal,’ a part of Mother Dairy, has decided to sell 13 varieties of vegetables at Rs. 5 per kg in Delhi and […]

Political activists belonging to the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Uma Bharti’s Bharatiya Janashakti (BJS) party attacked a Reliance Fresh store in Bhopal on Thursday. She had come to Bhopal to hold a rally and demonstrate against Reliance Fresh.
The rally, taken out from Yadgare Shahjahani Park, turned into a meeting outside the […]

Wadhawan Food Retail Pvt Ltd (WFRL), a part of the Wadhwan Group, which owns India’s second largest housing finance company DHFL, and which runs flagship ‘Spinach’ food and grocery (F&G) retail chain is expanding its operations in the next four years.
It has planned to invest Rs. 1,400 crores to achieve annual […]