Retail
Electronics retailer Retravision Southern in voluntary administration after retail downturn
22 May 2012
M&S to launch beauty products line
12 May 2012
Wal-Mart shoppers can now make online purchases
28 Apr 2012
Mexico launches probe into Wal-Mart’s practices
26 Apr 2012
Wal-Mart bribed officials in Mexico: New York Times
23 Apr 2012
Wal-Mart has been hit by allegations of attempting to cover up a bribery campaign by executives in Mexico to drive its rapid expansion in the country.
Mothercare announces three-year turnaround plan
13 Apr 2012
A retailer’s faux pas
21 Mar 2012
What are we doing wrong as customers that retailers feel compelled to stoop to undignified methods of preventing shoplifting, wonders Maulshri Shukla Rajdhan
Survey bats for FDI in multi brand retail
15 Mar 2012
Online retailer Amazon goes Junglee.com in India
02 Feb 2012
Cambridge's Trinity College buys 50 % stake in Tesco stores for £450 mn
30 Jan 2012
Trinity, the wealthiest college of Cambridge University, has acquired a 50-per cent stake in a portfolio of Tesco Plc stores, 10 days after Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathway increased its stake in the giant retailer
Asda unveils plans for new stores in UK
24 Jan 2012
Amazon to set up fulfilment centre in Mumbai
21 Jan 2012
Amazon.com, the largest internet retailer in the world, is setting up its first “fulfillment centre” in India, in a bid to break into the second most-populous nation in the world
Featured articles
Lighter than air, yet very, very powerful
By Kiron Kasbekar | 03 Jan 2024
In March 2013 Chinese scientists pulled off a remarkable feat. They created the world’s lightest aerogel. Tipping the scales at a mere 0.16 milligrams per cubic centimeter – that’s a sixth of the weight of air!
COP28 explained: A closer look at COP28's climate change solutions
By Aniket Gupta | 27 Dec 2023
The 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP28, took place from 30th November 2023, to 13th December 2023, at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
What is a Ponzi scheme?
By Aniket Gupta | 06 Dec 2023
Ponzi schemes have long captivated the public imagination, drawing unsuspecting investors into a web of illusion and deception.
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
.jpg "Adani-Sirus joint venture to acquire 77.5% stake in Coredge.io parent Parserlabs")
.jpg "RBI issues new directions to banks for recovering money lost in frauds,")
