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“We are looking at families below the poverty line, where children are sixth or eighth standard dropouts and don’t get admission into a polytechnic or an ITI. We are now in the process of finalising a structured system of skill development in which they undergo training for two-three months.” — Rita [...]

Kishore Biyani-led Future group, is launching a residential learning programme called “Future Learning and Development,” to provide training to in-house employees of the group reports PTI. The programme meant for shop-floor to store management level employees will initially be lauched at three centres from September this year. Ahmedabad, Kolkata and Bangalore are [...]

Development of nationwide infrastructure and creation of uninterrupted supply chains are among the most important challenges facing the retail industry in India and other emerging markets, according to Prof Kathleen A. Krentler of the College of Business Administration, San Diego State University, California.
Krentler said this while delivering the keynote address at a [...]

The Retailers Association of India (RAI) has decided to conduct a competitive test called Common Admission Retail Test (CART), to select students for admission to the Association’s Post Graduate Programme in Retail Management (PGPRM), being offered through 15 Business schools chosen across the country.
The common admission test will be conducted across 25 cities [...]

Current boom in the retail sector resulting in tremendous job opportunities at all levels has prompted Mumbai-based Academy of Retail Training (ART) to set up a number of training institutes to cater to the needs of aspiring job seekers. The Academy owned by Ashish Doshi and Pranav Doshi will help develop basic [...]

The Institute of Public Enterprise (IPE), at Hyderabad, an autonomous non-profit educational society established in 1964, better known as a training centre for the IAS and other senior officers of Central and State Governments, public sector enterprises, and private corporate sector, has now been allowed by All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) to offer a [...]

Close on the heels of Bharti Enterprises setting up a joint venture with the Chandigarh-based Global Retail School (GRS) and Pantaloon Retail (Future Group) tying up with the Mumbai-based Welingkar’s Institute to offer training courses in retail management, Reliance Retail, the wholly owned retail arm of the Mukesh ambani owned Reliance [...]

Delhi-based NIIT, the leading global talent development company, is looking at new avenues to provide training the country’s youth that will prepare them to meet the the needs of emerging sectors of economy like retail, says a HT Mint report.
Apart from providing training in sectors like banking, insurance, transport, and manufacturing, NIIT, which was founded in [...]

To meet the growing manpower requirement of retail industry, estimated at around two million in the next three years, Global Retail School (GRS), set up in technical association with Annamalai University and Bharti Resources (a wholly owned subsidiary of Bharti Enterprises), has begun offering courses in retail management from 40 centres [...]

RCOM (Reliance Communications) has joined hands with BIMTECH (Birla Institute of Management Technology) and the US-based Philadelphia University to offer a course on retail management titled `Executive Program for Retail Management (EPRM)’. Graduates with minimum two years experience will be eligible for the course.
Admissions could be offered to up to 1,000 [...]