The UK-based retailer can add to the best practices it already brings to Tata's retail business.
French giant might apply for multi-brand retailing if UK rival gets nod.
Reliance has around 100 Delight stores in the country.
The privately-owned Hangzhou-based group, which has been in news for its impending IPO, is already sourcing human hair from the southern regions of India and has identified this category as a 'big opportunity', along with others like machinery, agro products, apparel and spices.
Cash-&-carry chains claim of the products they sell 85-90% is local.
Cash-and-carry stores try tricks, from playing Bollywood music to customising orders, to retain customers.
The stores will sell products under the Fashion at Big Bazaar brand.
At a time when others are cutting on development of commercial property, plans to add 50% more of IT space.
Regulator seeks clarification on transfer of convertible debt after merger
Analysts say worst seems over but RBI's helping hand needed in form of rate cuts.
Sales have picked up in the past few days for retailers in the apparel and consumer durables segments.
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The chain readies to expand its footprint as Bharti focuses on its retail venture.
The fund is to invest in income generating assets such as malls, office complexes among others.
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While private equity giant Blackstone and Pune-based realtor Panchshil Realty had offered Rs 800 crore for the building at Nariman Point, the building's owners -- Viveck Goenka, chairman and managing director of the Indian Express Group, and private equity firm ICICI Venture (which has 49 per cent stake in the property) -- expected the sale to fetch Rs 900 crore, said the executive.
The two former partners own about 100 such properties; expansion of Best Price, EasyDay stores only after transactions linked to the split are over.
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He started a fund with Rs 800 crore and made several investments.
US retail chain Walmart is awaiting a decision by its board decision on its India strategy, including its partnership with the Bharti group.
The one-year extension would give Walmart and its Indian joint venture partner in the cash and carry business, Bharti Group, more time to sort things out and decide on a retail foray together, people in the know said.
In the last few years, zero per cent financing has become quite attractive as consumers aspire to buy the latest products, especially in categories such as mobile phones and television sets.
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