Retail
Retailers scared to sell Chinese goods, stocks pile up
15 Oct 2016
Chinese lighting and decorative products enter the Indian markets three months before Diwali, but this year wholesalers are stuck as there is a 20-per cent decline in offtake by retailers due to calls on social media for a boycott of Chinese products
Back to basics: Amazon opening brick-and-mortar grocery stores
By By Jagdeep Worah | 13 Oct 2016
Online bonanza for buyers leaves traditional retailers weeping
04 Oct 2016
Brick-and-mortar stores say the ecommerce players are circumventing rules to offer deep discounts, but there is little they can do as there is no single authority to which they can complain
Private equity firms in talks to buy majority stake in Italian supermarket chain Esselunga
29 Sep 2016
Walmart may take stake in Flipkart, invest around $1 bn
28 Sep 2016
While both companies have refused to comment, reports are rife that the world’s largest retailer Walmart will take a stake in home-grown ecommerce leader Flipkart to take on global e-retail giant Amazon in the fast-growing Indian market
American Express can bar merchants from steering customers towards rivals that charge lower fees
27 Sep 2016
Amazon fined £65,000 for attempting to ship dangerous goods by air
24 Sep 2016
Amazon was convicted earlier this week on four counts trying to ship lithium ion batteries and flammable aerosols by air, in breach of air safety regulations
Walmart India to focus on ‘food only’ retail model
22 Sep 2016
Walmart India operates stores in nine states across the country and plans to add 50 more stores in the next five years
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Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
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Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
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Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation