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Sunday September 5th 2010

‘Supply Chain’ Archives

Unlocking retail’s potential

As Prime Minister Singh recently noted, India needs greater competition to keep food prices in check for the consumer. (more...)

SPAR launches South India’s biggest Hypermarket in Malleshwaram

SPAR, the world's largest independent food retail chain spread across 35 countries, unveiled its flagship hypermarket in India under the license agreement between Max Hypermarkets India Pvt. Ltd. & SPAR International. (more...)

Hypercity launches its first store in Punjab

Hypercity, India's finest hypermarket chain launched its 1st store in Amritsar. (more...)

Future Group chases Reliance on pvt brands

Kishore Biyani's Future Group is getting its act together on supplying its private labels outside the group's 1,000-odd outlets, even as Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Retail has already marched ahead by starting to sell some of its private brands to kiranawalas (independent stores). (more...)

ERP Used To Gain Scalability, Visibility in Supply Chain

New Holland Fiat India, a wholly owned subsidiary of CNH Global - the world's leading agricultural equipment company - is a majority owned subsidiary of the Fiat Group. Since its inception in 1996, the company had posted robust growth. In 2008, it manufactured over 23,000 tractors for the domestic and global market. (more...)

Shell ramps up fuel retail network to 74

Country’s only international fuel retailer Shell India has silently ramped up its petrol pump network to 74, a 50% jump in just one year, even as other private retailers fret about the lack of level playing field in the retailing business between the private players and government-owned companies. (more...)