Retail
Hilco looking to buy Jessops: reports
25 Jan 2013
Hilco, the restructuring firm now effectively in control of the troubled HMV chain, is now eyeing fellow high street struggler Jessops, according to reports.
Re-examine FDI in retail, SC tells government
22 Jan 2013
FIPB clears IKEA's store-cum-cafeteria FDI proposal
21 Jan 2013
The Swedish retailer’s proposal to invest around $2 billion in store chains in India will now be placed before the cabinet committee on economic affairs (CCEA) for final approval
Cash-strapped HMV faces closure
16 Jan 2013
Wal-Mart to hire 100,000 veterans
16 Jan 2013
Wal-Mart Stores said yesterday that over the next five years it would hire every veteran who had been given an honourably discharge from military service in the last year.
PE firm Cerberus to acquire five supermarket chains from Supervau for $3.3 bn
11 Jan 2013
Supervalu Inc, the third-largest US grocery store operator, is one of the largest companies in the US grocery channel with annual sales of approximately $35 billion
UK consumer spending down in December: Survey
07 Jan 2013
Decision on IKEA’s India plans put off
31 Dec 2012
IKEA is reported to have sought approval to sell items such as upholstery and other accessories, consumer electronics, leather products and lifestyle products apart from food and beverages through its furniture outlets
IKEA not happy with limited FIPB nod
27 Dec 2012
UK retailers facing critical issues: Survey
24 Dec 2012
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The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
03 Jul 2023
HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
02 Apr 2023
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
Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
06 Mar 2023
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