Global retail giant Wal-Mart is in talks with several domestic textile firms for its Indian operation, which is expected to begin next year
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Spencer's Retail, promoted by the Rs 11,500 crore (Rs 115 billion) RPG group, is in talks with international retailers for a possible joint venture in India. The company is exploring the JV route to introduce new formats.
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More corporates from across the world are keen on setting up operations in India, ranked the top destination for investments and acknowledged as being strategically important to them by global businesses.
Seeing a good market in the European Union countries, India's horticulture sector is now busy tapping this potential.
The joint-venture's first wholesale store is expected to be opened by the end of 2008, Wal-Mart India President (Operations) Raj Jain had said.
Beginning with the festive season, the company expects to open at least one store for each of these products by the year-end.
Domestic stocks are likely to face another challenging session tomorrow after Asian stocks slumped to their three-month lows on Wednesday and following cues from the US, which indicated a slowdown in consumer spending.
The sources said the company had provisioned to open one or two new stores every month during this financial year. The hypermarkets will offer a range of digital, food and lifestyle products.
It's certainly not the way the world' s largest retailer would have wanted to enter India. But it's nonetheless a turning point for the Indian retail market.
After having depended largely on direct online marketing since 1990s, Dell's personal computers are now on sale in Wal-Mart stores in the US and Puerto Rico.
Social activists, small traders and farmers organised protests in various cities across India, seeking restriction on foreign players' participation in the retail sector.
Steve & Barry's, one of the fastest-growing retail chains in the US, is planning to set up shops in India and China.
World's biggest retailer Wal-Mart, whose India entry has been mired in controversy, on Wednesday said it does not see any "political opposition" as the company has been educating customers, bureaucracy and political parties.
The company feels that it has the first mover advantage and is now gearing up to face the competition by consolidating its presence through rapid expansion.
Telecom major Bharti and world's biggest retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc on Monday signed an agreement to form a joint venture for their wholesale cash and carry business.
Move could delay FDI liberalisation in the sector.
Reliance Industries Ltd, India's most valued firm, may become the first in the country to achieve a market capitalisation of $100 billion, international brokerage and equity research major Morgan Stanley said on Tuesday.
Bharti Enterprises, which has announced join ventures with US giant Wal-Mart for its retail foray, said that the rising real estate prices could hamper the growth of the organised retail industry in the country.
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India is poised to become a major market for mining equipment, even larger than China, according to US-based Bucyrus International, a world leader in manufacturing equipment for the surface and underground mining industry.
GE Money India said on Monday it is talking to big retailers including Bharti-Wal-Mart and Reliance for offering credit programmes such as the private label credit card it has provided to Tata Group.
Pointing to the 'dangers' in the opening up of retail sector to multi-nationals and big Indian companies, traders in Kerala are gearing up to launch an agitation, if necessary an 'armed struggle,' to prevent their entry.
The Indian market is driven by prepaid connections, which accounted for over 84 per cent in 2006. It is expected to reach 93 per cent by 2011.
Cellular services segment in India, the world's fastest growing wireless market, is expected to more than double to $25 billion by 2011, global consultancy and research firm Gartner has said.
7-Eleven convenience stores across the US have been converted to Kwik-E-Marts, to promote the upcoming Simpsons movie.
Amid the noise around multinational retail chains queuing up to enter India comes a calming revelation. According to management consultancy firm A T Kearney, not all retail biggies continue in the new markets that they enter.
Agarwal built Vishal Retail from scratch into a chain of highly lucrative hypermarkets and discount superstores.
Finance ministry officials are of the view that current restrictions that prohibit FDI in multi-brand retail cannot be extended to franchise agreements between an Indian company and an overseas partner.
President A P J Abdul Kalam asked the Indian companies on Friday to tap the vast potential for health care products in the international market by maintaining competitive pricing and high quality.
The Confederation of Indian Industry expects an upswing in the Indo-UK bilateral relations under new British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
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With most global cities saturation point, retailers are now spreading their wings through second- and third-tier cities.
With the first Dell personal computers going on sale in Wal-Mart Stores in the US and Puerto Rico, the $56 billion company is reportedly planning to sell its PCs through retail stores in Asia (including India) and Australia.
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