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 [...]

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 [...]

Doug McMillon, 42, CEO, Wal-Mart International, among the top ranking officials of the company, is on visit to India.
The world’s largest retailer and largest employer, which garners annual revenues of $404 billion and employee strength of 2.1 million persons worldwide, has set up a retail joint venture in India.
The Wal-mart’s  joint venture with Sunil Mittal-led Bharti Enterprises has already begun [...]

‘Best Price Modern Wholesale’ is going to be the brand name of the Cash & Carry stores to be set up in India under the retail joint venture agreement signed two years ago between Bharti Enterprises, the coutry’s largest mobile telecom player, and Wal-Mart, the world’ largest retailer.
Wal-Mart is incidentally amongst the largest C&C players in the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Dewang Mehta Business School Awards, which recognise talent and leadership amongst the Business Schools across India, were recently presented in an award function held at the Taj Lands End in Mumbai.
Gibson G. Vedamani, Chief Executive Officer, Retailers Association of India (RAI), was chosen by a jury consisting of 25 prominent industry leaders, as the [...]

Retailers Association of India (RAI) has been organizing two day Workshops on “Excellence in Store Operations,” (ESOP) in several large cities of the country.
These workshops focus on the means of achieving great retail performance by virtue of enhancing the store productivity and profitability.
The two day Workshop offers a learning platform for retailers, practicing Retail [...]

“The schools will seek to change the traditional outlook of the traders and educate them to adopt a contemporary approach in business to retain customers and increase profitability.” — Praveen Khandelwal Secretary General Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT).

Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT), an umbrella body which represents interests of small [...]

According to Kishore Biyani, the founder and CEO of Future Group, management schools in India need to innovate to become relevant in the fast changing business world. He was speaking at the Management Education Convention organised by The Association of Indian Management Schools (AIMS).”
B-Schools were first established about 100 years back in the industrialisation era.Today services dominate the [...]