Venturing into the outdoor media business, Kishore Biyani's Future group, with retail brands such as Pantaloon, Big Bazaar
Customers want formats which have wide assortment, international products, and so on. Basically, it is an assortment play.
Kolkata, which has remained a priority centre for Future Group is also all set to get three more Pantaloon stores by the festive season in 2011. The group has finalised locations for Madhyamgram, Lake Mall and Jessore Road.
Deal with current owner Exide may be signed next week
The Welingkar Institute of Management invites applications for its various two-year, full-time, management programmes.
Future Group Founder & CEO Kishore Biyani wants to take his pet theme of 'collaboration' to the next level for a greater share of the consumer's wallet.
The actor turned showstopper to promote Liva Crme, a new age fabric from Aditya Birla Group.
Recovery seen in Q4, companies continue to focus on enhancing cash flow
It is unrealistic to expect that change will happen in one year: Birla
Confrontational advertising has become the order of the day in India with corporate houses taking on rivals head-on.
Renuka Ramnath is credited with raising the India Advantage Fund Series II, the country's largest private equity fund till date with a corpus of $810 million.
It took the Aditya Birla group four years to make up its mind on entering the the burgeoning e-commerce market in the country.
A steep decline in the Asian equities after crude oil fell to its lowest since September 2003 dented sentiments.
VCs have been especially bullish about India.
As India's online population crosses 450 million, e-commerce ventures are trying to grab a pie of online sales estimated to hit $48 billion by 2020.
The Sensex closed the day at 27,490, higher by 479 points and the Nifty ended at 8331.95, up 150.45 points.
PhonePe via Bharat Bill Payment System (BBPS) plans to get into a number of new verticals, including fee payments in schools and colleges, payments at hospitals and other services
In the decade since Biyani revolutionised retailing in India, he has attempted a number of things, eventually exiting a few of them.
HUL has achieved few milestones in the fiscal gone by and hence is performing good on revenues front.
As billions of dollars flow into India's booming online economy, some investors are beginning to fret that soaring valuations could hamper market listings.
Discount chain to expand to the east and west, continue with third-party brands.
Another important early decision of Birla was to get into the wireless telephony business in association with AT&T and another revered Indian business house, the Tatas.
He wants to transform his retail-led enterprise into a consumer goods giant, and reach Rs 1 lakh crore in turnover by 2021, but is that feasible?
The 30-share Sensex ended down 414 points at 25,481 and the 50-share Nifty slipped 119 points at 7,603.
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