The Union Budget backs skilling across animation, gaming and comics. But creators and studios confront a hard question: who owns what comes next?
Whether it's Carrefour, Ford, or other foreign majors, they are ready to adjust their strategies and design their plans in a way that would address the Indian consumption story.
The coffee chain plans to invest close to Rs 75 crore to open 300 stores across the country in the next five years.
The country's franchise industry is estimated at $24 billion with a year-on-year growth of 30 per cent.
The maker of the iPhone and the iPad has made a proposal to the government for a wholesale foray.
Sources estimate there could be about 60 applications at the department of industrial policy and promotion for up to 49 per cent foreign direct investment in single-brand retail.
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