It was a very happy year indeed for the Indian consumer
2014 was the year when what we were hearing about actually happened. And if someone is truly happy about how things happened last year it is the Indian...
Mobile operator Bharti Group is in talks with two global retail chains — French major Carrefour and Japan's largest retailer Aeon — for forming a new joint venture with one of them, according to media reports.
According to the report,...
Bharti Retail, a fully-owned subsidiary of Bharti Enterprises, has appointed Andrew Levermore as its chief operating officer. Levermore will join Bharti Retail in July 2010 and lead the operations for Easyday and Easyday Market stores across India.
Levermore has over...
Bharti Airtel will continue to scan emerging markets for acquisitions or partnerships after the Indian company ended talks over a cross-shareholding deal with South Africa’s MTN last week, its chairman said.
“It’s my job to move forward and not look...
Bharti Airtel on Thursday posted a net profit of Rs 2,647.9 crore for the first quarter (Q1) ending June, logging a growth of 22.21 per cent. Its consolidated revenue grew 12.2 per cent year-on-year to Rs 9,942 crore. The...
During India 's misplaced years post-Independence, business and commercial activity was treated as a ‘necessary evil'. Businessmen were labelled as rapacious, self-interested people who needed to be kept under strict control. And shopkeepers were possibly among the lowest on...
Bharti Retail has planned to invest around $2.5 billion to set up multiple format stores including neighborhood stores, supermarkets and hypermarkets by 2015.
Speaking at the Reuters Consumer and Retail Summit held in New York, Rajan Bharti Mittal, managing director...
Contradicting a report published in a leading daily speculating on the entry of Bharti Retail in pharmacy retail, Vinod Sawhney, president and chief executive officer, Bharti Retail, told Indiaretailing, “We do not have any such plans.”
A section of the...
Even as corporate companies sought government assistance to boost the retail sector, especially in regard to supply chain, Rural Development Minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh sounded an assuring note, though with a rider: “Those in the retailing sector should do...
Even before the findings on retail trade by Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) have been made public, contradictory reports have begun appearing in the media.
The ICRIER was commissioned by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) at...