IndiaRetailBiz

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 […]

China– the world’s most populous and fastest growing economy– will continue to remain most attractive investment destination for packaged food products, notwithstanding the recent toxic food scare, particularly concerning dairy food products, that were found to have contained poisonous plastic chemical malamine.
According to a new report recently released by ”just-food,” China had the largest packaged food market (US$96.2bn in 2007) in value […]

Pantaloon Retail, India’s largest listed retailing company, part of Future Group, according to an ET report, has called off its joint venture with Alpha Retail UK. The MoU for the setting up the JV was signed in October 2006 with a view to develop retail and food & beverage businesses at leading airports.
This development has […]

SPAR, claiming to be the world’s largest independent food retail chain, has unveiled its 20,000 sqft supermarket format store on Friday, October 17th 2008 in Hyderabad. SPAR also has a hypermarket store operating in Bangalore.
The supermarket offers a wide range of Grocery, Fruits & Vegetables, Bakery, Dairy & Take Away Foods, Meat, Poultry […]

Wadhawan Food Retail, a part of Delhi-based realty major Wadhwan group, which operates convenience food and grocery chain called “Spinach” notwithstanding the reports of financial crunch, is planning to invest Rs. 1,500 crore to set up 1,300 new stores across the country.
These stores will come up over a period of the next […]

Barring a few luxury items like luxury cars, almost all categories of retail are now feeling the combined impact of rising inflation, high operations costs, credit crunch, and uncertain economic future.
In these columns, we have regularly carried reports of retail chains, which have permanently closed down their shutters, or which have downsized their operations, or in […]

“There is a huge opportunity in this area and not many organised players are present in this sector. This made us look at this sector.” — R Srinivasan, Head, Supply Chain Solutions, Future Logistics.
Future Logistics, the logistics arm of Kishore Biyani-led Future group, according to a BS report, may soon begin supplyin products […]

Vishal Retail, a Delhi-based  value retail chain of megamarts, which has recently forayed into small format retail as well, is looking at various options to raise Rs 200 crore to fuel its growth plans.
The company has last month opened its first franchise-based small format retail store at Indore. It plans to eventually expand this […]

Subhiksha, the South-based food and grocery discount chain, after setting shop in the South, the West, and the North, is now expanding into the East.
“The company is already present in the north, south and western regions. To make its presence felt in the east, we will soon foray into the east,” said […]

The woes of Metro C& C, the wholly owned cash and carry subsidiary of German food and grocery giant, are not going to end soon.
Although, West Bengal’s ruling Left front constituents, All India Forward Bloc (AIFB) and CPI (M) had last week agreed to resolve their differences and renew APMC licence of Metro […]