From High End Employer to a Value Retailer ?

July 3, 2008 in banks, chain, fresh, investments, policy, retail, small, supply
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/jul/03/marksspencer.retail1
The Guardian newspaper of UK has reported that the High End Employer Marks and Spencer is now reconsidering its strategy in developed country markets.
So will Marks and Spencer now become a Value Retailer in emerging markets ? What a mishap for the High Flyer falling on Bad Times and burning away cash.

Home Minister Shri Patil Meets Unorganized Street Hawkers

June 16, 2008 in 2008, ASEAN, BJP, acorn, advertising, africa, agra, airtel, ambala, america, american, amul, anand, annual, asian, assocham, association, bangalore, banks, bengal, bhopal, अजमेर, इलाहाबाद, किराना, जनवाद, व्यापार, व्यापारी, सब्ज़ी
Tags: american, bharat, BJP, burgers, coffee, cola, congress, dairy, democratic, doha, drinks, european, fdi, grocery, hawkers, independent, investment, janvad, kirana, open, stree, swadeshi, swatantra, vendors, vyavsyi, WTO

Hawkers’ leaders from around the country met with the Home Minister for Livelihood Protection and Regulation of Street Vending Bill
Hawkers leaders from around the country met the Home Minister, Mr. Shivraj Patil, who has been made the Chairman of Empowered Group of Ministers to draft Livelihood Protection and Regulation of Street Vending Bill and discussed [...]

Liberators of India Retail Market Demand Open – Minds & Wallets

May 29, 2008 in ASEAN, BJP, CPM, ICICI, ICRIER, M&A, account, accountants, acquisitions, advertising, africa, agra, america, amul, annual, asian, association, average, ban, banker, banks, baroda, bhartiya, bihar, bloc, body, bottled, box, brazil, budget, carry, cash, cereal, cereals, chandigarh, cheap, choice, commission, compliance, congress, consolidate, consortium, consultant, consumers, corporate, costly, credit, customer, dairy, data, debt, deccan, delays, demand, destinations, developed, diesel, disposal, drinks, dukan, elections, electricity, emerging, entry risks, equipment, exports, farm, financial, fiscal, food, food brands, format, forum, framework, france, fresh, front, funds, furniture, gaps, gas, germany, ghats, ghaziabad, global, goa, grains, gujarat, gurgaon, hawkers, health, hedge, household, hubli, impact, imports, independent, industry, inflation, insurance, investments, jamshedpur, jobless, juice, karnataka, kirana, kisan, konkan, land, latin, leftist, leisure, lessons, lic, lifestyle, lopsided, loss, marketing, markets, masala, media, medical, merger, mergers, mobile, monetary, monopoly, monthly, morcha, mustard, mysore, ndtv, neighbourhood, neon, neutral, noida, oil, online, orissa, pakistan, panjim, parks, petrol, plant, policy, poor, power, producers, pulp, puri, pwc, ranchi, rate, ratings, rebate, regulator, regulatory, restaurant, retail democracy, retail.democracy, rights, risk, risky, rupee, sasta, shortage, stakeholders, standard, statistical, statistics, street, subsidy, suburban, supply, surat, surplus, survey, tables, tamil nadu, tariff, tata, threats, times, trends, tripura, utpadak, vertical, vote, wastage, water, weekly, wheat, women, wood, world
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Self Appointed Liberators of the Retail Sector demand OPEN MINDS – and OPEN WALLETS ?
Arvind Singhal: Liberating the retail sector
http://www.business-standard.com/common/news_article.php?leftnm=lmnu2&subLeft=3&autono=324337&tab=r
The report must be read more carefully, and with an open mind, by those vociferous elements in the UPA government (read: Left parties), Mayawati of BSP, and our own Don Quixotes going by names such as [...]

Kerala Government to examine legal and regulatory aspects of Food Retail Chains in Kerala

March 13, 2008 in 2008, IIM, additional, affairs, american, asda, authority, banks, battle, branded, buffet, ceylon, chain, china, committee, competition, corporate, corporation, diesel, duty, economic, elections, electricity, endorsement, energy, entry, european, executive, farm, fdiretail, finance, french, fresh, frozen, fruits, fuel, funds, gas, global, goods, graduates, hedge, increase, india, indian, indonesia, institute, insurance, investments, iran, iron, jobs, kirana, legal, levy, livelihoods, local, logistics, madhya, malaysia, management, mandi, manufacturing, markets, medium, mortgage, municipal, nexus, northern, officers, ongc, organization, packaged, pakistan, petrol, platform, players, policy, power, pradesh, price, prices, processing, produce, protection, protectionism, protests, quit, recession, regional, regulated, retail, retailers, risks, roadside, rural, saarc, safe, samiti, sections, security, shulk, shutters, small, social, sri lanka, state, states, steel, strategy, subsidies, subsidy, subterfuge, supermarkets, supply, surcharge, swedish, tax, taxes, thailand, tibet, tier, traders, unbranded, underwrite, urban, uttar, vegetables, vendors, vietnam, vyapari, walmart, warren
Tags: american, asda, diesel, fdiretail, gas, indonesia, iran, kirana, lanka, ongc, pakistan, petrol, quit, swedish, thailand, vietnam, walmart

French supermarket prices rise 5% in a year :
The French Economic Affairs Minister Christine Lagarde said yesterday that prices in French supermarkets increased by about 5% between February 2007 and February 2008.
Kerala to examine legal aspects for banning retail chains :

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Retailing/Kerala_to_examine_legal_aspects_for_banning_retail_chains/articleshow/2854960.cms
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The CPI(M) led LDF government on Tuesday said it would examine all legal aspects [...]

Kerala Trade Shuts down – 150,000 traders protest on HallaBol

March 4, 2008 in 2007, 2008, BJP, UPA, accountants, acorn, action, advisors, american, asian, banks, bengal, bharti, bloc, boom, bric, budget, chain, cheap, chidambaram, class, commission, consolidation, consultants, currency, davos, deficit, delhi, democracy, derivatives, divide, economy, elections, emerging, entry, environment, expensive, exports, fiscal, food, french, funds, grassroots, ground, hawkers, hedge, hunger, imports, incredible, investment, isf, kerala, land, large, loans, lobby, markets, medium, middle, niti, packaged, pension, planning, plastics, pockets, policy, poverty, power, price, protest, pwc, rally, reality, report, retail, risks, risky, rupee, rural, security, shining, shopkeepers, shutdown, small, study, trade, traders, urban, verdict, virgin, vyapar, waterhouse, wsf
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Highlights of the Halla Bol Protest
Corp. Quit Retail !!                                                                             Wal-Mart Quit India!
Total Shut Down and Mammoth Rally of 150,000 Traders in Kerala on Halla Bol
Feb 23, 2008: Traders in Kerala today downed shutters as part of the nation-wide Halla Bol protest against the entry of retail giants into the retail trade. Reports from various parts [...]

23 Feb – Kerala – Halla-Bol against corporate retailers

February 11, 2008 in 2008, DYFI, ICICI, ICRER, SEZ, acorn, ambala, america, approvals, arunachal, assocham, aurangabad, autumn, avenues, bajaj, bangalore, banks, baroda, bhopal, birla, brand, branded, brazil, business, carrefour, carry, cash, chain, chandigarh, chembur, chennai, chile, civic, cochin, commerce, commission, communist, conduct, consult, consultation, cooperative, cooperatives, corporate, dairy, delegation, delhi, democracy, democratic, discount, discuss, economy, employment, environment, europe, european, examine, executive, exhibition, expansion, facilities, fair, fdiwatch, festival, ficci, financial, food, foreign, fresh, fruits, gandhinagar, global, group, hawkers, hubli, india, indiafdiwatch, indian, industry, insurance, investment, investments, investors, jaipur, jalgaon, jamshedpur, janvad, jharkhand, karnataka, kerala, kirana, kolkata, lifestyle, lucknow, ludhiana, luxury, maharashtra, mallya, marxist, media, meerut, mexico, minister, mobile, model, mumbai, mysore, nagaland, nagpur, new delhi, niti, opportunities, oppurtunity, planning, policy, practices, pradesh, preelection, president, processing, punjab, rajasthan, reliance, retail, retailers, review, sale, samachar, sangathan, shop, shopping, shops, single, small, social, spring, steel, strategy, subscribers, summer, supply, talks, tatas, tesco, towns, traders, trichur, tripura, umbrella, unemployment, unrest, utensils, vadodara, varanasi, vegetables, vendors, venezuela, vyapar, walmart, weekly, wholesale, winter, wsf
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Dear Friends,
India FDI Watch along with its partner organizations calls for Halla Bol on 23rd February 2008 in all the major cities of India taking demonstrations to the doorstep of corporate stores. Militant demonstrations will be organized before the corporate stores as part of the action. In Kerala, Kerala Vyapari Vyavasayi Ekopana Samiti will organize [...]

Thousands protest to oppose Bharti Walmart Retail Entry strategy

December 29, 2007 in 2007, 2008, DYFI, ICICI, ICRER, SEZ, UP, acorn, advertising, airtel, ambala, analysis, anand, artisans, assocham, aurangabad, bajaj, bangalore, banker, bankers, banks, baroda, bharti, bhopal, big, birla, brand, branded, business, carrefour, carry, cash, caution, cautios, chain, challenges, chandigarh, chembur, chennai, class, cochin, commerce, communist, consultation, cooperative, cooperatives, corporate, corruption, dairy, delhi, democracy, democratic, dignity, economy, employment, environment, europe, european, executive, expansion, fdiwatch, festival, ficci, financial, food, foreign, fresh, fruits, gandhinagar, giant, gold, group, gujarat, hawkers, hubli, india, indiafdiwatch, indian, industry, investments, jaipur, jalgaon, janvad, karnataka, kiran, kirana, kolkata, kurien, labels, labour, large, lifestyle, lucknow, ludhiana, maharashtra, mallya, marxist, media, medium, meerut, milk, minister, mobile, mumbai, mysore, nagpur, navi, new delhi, niti, ornaments, outlets, paper, planning, plans, policy, president, press, processing, pune, punjab, rajasthan, reliance, retail, review, risk, risky, sahay, samachar, scooter, shop, shopping, shops, small, social, states, strategy, students, subscribers, sun, supply, tata, tatas, tesco, threats, towns, traders, troubles, unemployment, unrest, vadodara, varanasi, vegetables, vendors, vyapar, walmart, weekly, wholesale
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Thousands protested to oppose the Bharti-Walmart Joint Venture

On the heels of the announcement of the Bharti-Walmart joint venture, thousands of traders, hawkers, farmers and workers protested across India. Protesters also included a group of American students who demanded that Wal-Mart not be allowed into India. Mass-based organizations called on the Prime Minister and Sonia Gandhi [...]

2007 Year End – Gathering Storm of Protests and Large scale Social Unrest in Incredible India

December 29, 2007 in 2007, 2008, ICICI, ICRER, UP, acorn, advertising, analysis, anand, bangalore, banker, bankers, banks, birla, brand, branded, business, carrefour, carry, cash, caution, cautios, chain, challenges, chandigarh, chennai, class, cochin, consultation, cooperative, cooperatives, corporate, dairy, delhi, democracy, democratic, dignity, economy, europe, european, executive, expansion, fdiwatch, financial, food, foreign, fresh, fruits, giant, group, gujarat, hawkers, india, indiafdiwatch, indian, investments, janvad, kiran, kolkata, kurien, labels, labour, large, lifestyle, maharashtra, mallya, marxist, media, medium, milk, minister, mumbai, navi, new delhi, niti, outlets, paper, planning, plans, policy, president, press, processing, punjab, reliance, retail, review, risk, risky, sahay, samachar, shop, shopping, shops, small, social, states, sun, supply, tata, tatas, tesco, threats, towns, traders, troubles, unrest, vegetables, vyapar, walmart, weekly, wholesale
Tags: chains, courts, economic, economy, food, infrastructure, investments, janvad, kirana, legal, political, retail.democracy, social, supply, trade, turmoil, unrest, vyapar

2007 Year End sees gathering Storm of Political Protests and Widespread Social Unrest in Incredible India -
The past few days witnessed interesting reports coming from ICRIER on their – “ongoing survey” of the likely impact of the corporate retail on the peoples livelihood. People protest continues.
1. In Kozhikode, Kerala Vyapari Vyavasayi Ekopana Samithi protested before [...]