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Kishore Biyani, Founder and CEO, Future group, is quite fond of number 30 or similarly sounding 13. He has set the group target of Rs 30,000 crore ($6.5 billion) in sales, from 30 million sq ft by 2013. Biyani revealed the agenda for growth of his group, while delivering the keynote address on 22nd October, [...]

Bharti Wal-Mart, which began its India operations with opening of cash and carry (B2B) wholesale store under the banner of “Best Price Modern Wholesale” in the holy city of Amritsar in Punjab, has also begun partenering with the government (PPP) as well as large multi-national private sector corporates to undertake projects of social importance.
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“Retail sales have again picked up and we are more or less back to the same level as we were before the global crisis broke out,” said Kishore Biyani, Founder and CEO of Future group.
Accordingly, Pantaloon Retail (Future group’s retail arm), which operates several multi-format, multi-product, retail chains in value, lifestyle, and home retail segments, [...]

Onam, the biggest harvest festival of Kerala marking the homecoming of legendary King Mahabali, despite clouds of global recession still hovering on the sky, is being celebrated with traditional gaiety, festivity, and feeling of happiness.
While, Supplyco (Kerala State Civil Supplies Corporation), a state government retailer, has planned to celebrate the festival beginning the 28th August, [...]

Hypercity Retail India, which operates a chain of hypermarket format retail stores under ‘HyperCITY’ brand name across India, opened its fourth store in Hyderabad, the capital city of Andhra Pradesh. Apart from Hyderabad, HyperCITY also operates three more outlets at Mumbai (2) and and Jaipur.
The new HyperCITY outlet spread over 100,000 sq ft of trading [...]

Spencer’s Retail, among the country’s oldest and leading retailers, unveiled a new Shop-In-Shop (SIS) format Gourmet store in Kolkata on Thursday.
“In India there is a propensity for good food. It may not be a volume market but would be a niche market, which is expected to grow with time. This store would cater to a [...]

‘Green Design Studio,’ a brand shop that aims to cater to all interior surfacing needs of customers, recently opened its second exclusive retail store in Delhi.
Green Design Studio, which had opened its first outlet at Bangalore in April this year, is a one-stop shop for a wide array of over 500 designs of laminate [...]

Indians are expecting a lot from Pranab Mukherjee, the union finance minister, who will today be presenting the first annual budget (2009-10) of the new UPA government.
The high hopes are on account of this budget being the first budget of the ruling Congress in recent times free of ideological shackeles of the regressive ‘Left’ parties.
While, business and industry, [...]

Odyssey, a wholly owned subsidiary of Deccan Chronicle Holdings Limited, publishers of Deccan Chronicle, Financial Chronicle and Asian Age newspapers, opened its sixth store in Mumbai on 9th June, 2009.
Founded in 1995, Odyssey is among the country’s fastest growing retail chains of books and leisure products offering books, stationery, gifts, toys, music, and multi-media gaming items targeted mainly at kids [...]

Vishal  Retail, the Delhi-based multo-product, multi-brand, value retailer, has announced breakout of a fire in one of its warehouses situated in NCR. The 300,00 sq ft warehousing facility of the company is located at Wazirpur (village Dhanwas) on Farukh Nagar Road in Gurgaon (Haryana).
While confirming the news, reliable sources in the company have said that the fire has already been brought [...]