Cash and carry (wholesale)

After entering the cash-and- carry format, Café Coffee Day (CCD) plans to tie up with leading retail chains in the B2C space to vend its coffees at a national level.For promoting in-home coffee consumption, the coffee retail chain proposes...

Organised retail is the largest employment generator in India outside agriculture. Bharti Wal-Mart Training Centre, India’s first special skills training centre aimed at bridging the shortage of skilled workers for cash-and-carry and organised...

Late last month, Finance Minister P Chidambaram assured us that FDI in retail will eventually be allowed, and that big retail does not really drive small retailers out. That the onslaught of the foreign retailers does not necessarily mean...

A metaphor close enough to describe the dynamism of the Indian retail sector would be that of the Big Bang theory. Triggered by giant collision courses involving several thousand unorganised retailers occasionally rubbing shoulders against smart supermarkets, the Indian...

The UK-based cash & carry chain —Booker — is reportedly planning to launch its first store in India, later this year. This comes as a result of receiving encouragement from the 3,000 Indian restaurants and ‘thousands’ of Indian-owned businesses...

The scheduled launch of Wal-Mart Stores Inc’s first cash-and-carry store in India that was delayed for violence in Punjab is set to open on May 30, 2009 in Amritsar, according to company press release. The store named Best Price...

The proposed launch of Bharti Wal-Mart’s maiden cash-and-carry wholesale store, 'Best Price Modern Wholesale' has been delayed due to the outburst of violence across Punjab over the gunfiring and killing of a Sikh religious leader and leaving several seriously...

Bharti Wal-Mart, the joint venture between Bharti Enterprises and the US-based Wal-Mart Stores Inc, will open its first cash-and-carry store in India next week.The joint venture's first store, to come up in Amritsar, will be inaugurated by the Punjab...