‘Trends’ Archives
India will be third largest FDI recipient in 2010-12
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) on Thursday said India would emerge as the third largest recipient of foreign direct investment (FDI) for the three-year period ending 2012. (more...)
India: supermarkets arrive in the garden city
Visitors to Bangalore arrive at a modern airport and take the new highway down into the city. They see the buildings they expect in India's IT capital. Those of us who live here enjoy finding corners where we can remember Bangalore's past. (more...)
Retail business poised for a big push
Mukesh Ambani, CMD, Reliance Industries, is betting big on the company’s retail business. At the company's annual general meeting on Friday, he said that the business will touch a whopping Rs 45,000 crore in the next five years from Rs 4,500 crore at present. (more...)
India, Brazil on hold, luxury targets Middle East
Luxury groups discouraged by thickets of red tape and taxes are putting on ice ambitions to expand into India and Brazil and focusing instead on the Middle East, their No.2 priority after fast-growing China. Gulf countries represent a tiny pool of buyers compared to India and Brazil but they offer low tariffs, a friendly business environment, [...]
Mumbai gets online Supermarket
A venture promoted by Davinder Goyal - Groceryshop.in is launched in Mumbai. The supermarket is one of its kind in India, specially when the brick-and-mortar model of supermarkets has just taken off. (more...)
Aditya Birla Retail aims to become $ 2.5-bn entity by 2017-18
Aditya Birla Retail Limited (ABRL), the retail arm of the Aditya Birla Group, aims to be an USD 2.5-billion entity by 2017-18, a top company official said. (more...)
Organised retail segment to grow over 3-fold in 5 yrs
Global consultancy firm Technopak said the organised modern retail segment in India will grow by over three times during the next five years to reach a figure of USD 80 billion. (more...)
Domino’s opens 300th store in India with appetite for more
Domino's, the $5.5 billion Michigan-based pizza delivery and Italian fast food giant, has opened its 300th store in India, and its 9,000th worldwide, with an appetite for more outlets in the country in the coming months. (more...)
Retail wants industry status, hike in FDI limit in Budget
Barely recovering from the slump in the economy, organised retailers in the country today said the sector should be given industry status, besides easing foreign investment norms in the forthcoming Budget. (more...)
India’s Retail Ties That Bind
If there's one cloud on the silver lining of India's economic recovery, it's food-price inflation. Wholesale food prices rose by 17.4% in mid-January compared to a year earlier, and food inflation hit a 12-year high of 20% in December. (more...)
