Rajan Bharti Mittal, vice-chairman and managing director of Bharti Enterprises took over as president of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) at the conclusion of its 82nd annual general meeting (AGM).
Bharti Televentures Ltd has appointed Sunil Bharti Mittal, Rajan Mittal and Akhil Mittal as the directors of the company.
Bharti Enterprises has had a joint venture with Walmart in the wholesale trade for years in India.
Calling for a strong collaboration between industry, the Centre and states to tide over infrastructure gaps, he said it is time the country catapulted itself into a major manufacturing hub by positioning it as an alternative to China, which is the world's factory now.
Bharti Airtel on Monday reported a 168 per cent year-on-year rise in consolidated net profit to Rs 3,593 crore for the September quarter, and the company unveiled top-level changes, including Gopal Vittal moving into the role of executive vice chairman on January 1, 2026. India's second-largest telco - that competes with Reliance Jio and Vodafone Idea in the Indian telecom market - clocked quarterly revenues of Rs 41,473 crore, 12 per cent higher than the year-ago period, aided by strong momentum in India and growth in Africa.
Bharti Enterprises, which has tied-up with Wal-Mart, on Friday said discussions are on over business arrangement with the US firm for their retail venture.
We are also trying to bring in modern processes and technologies in the area of supply chain, logistics and cold chain that should ultimately benefit the entire retail ecosystem through better quality, and more choice at better prices, says Bharti.
"We are interested in states like West Bengal, but the government does not seem enthusiastic about this.Currently, we are looking at states which are more proactive and have invited us in setting up this venture," said Rajan Bharti Mittal, vice chairman and managing director of Bharti Enterprises.
The Bharti group, which has just acquired a majority stake in the Bangladeshi mobile operator Warid Telecom, is on the lookout to acquire government-owned telcos in developing markets like Africa which are up for divestment.
The auction concluded on Wednesday generating a revenue of Rs 67,710 crore.
Asked for comments about Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma informing the Rajya Sabha in September that Wal-Mart had made the investment in Cedar via its Mauritius arm but the RBI had no FDI data of the same, Mittal said: "I have no idea. We have given everything what is required".
Bharti Group, which has joined hands with industry leader Wal-Mart for a foray into
Coming under flak by the Left parties for Wal-Mart's entry into the Indian retail market, Bharti Enterprises on Friday said its tie-up with the US firm was "as per the guidelines".
Mittal said any company, which does business that can cause loss of life of a magnitude where an entire township could be wiped out, needs to be responsible enough not only on technology but also that the backup is enough.
Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry president and Bharti Enterprises vice president Rajan Bharti Mittal chaired a symposium on corporate leadership on climate change in the presence of the Prince of Wales, who is here in connection with the Commonwealth Games.
The world has changed from G7 to G8 to G20, where India plays a key role.
Plans outlets smaller than in the US, with mostly Indian products, and a desi nameplate.
Bharti Retail on Friday announced appointments of former head of Walmart India Raj Jain as its CEO and Pankaj Madan, another senior executive of erstwhile joint venture Bharti Walmart, as Chief Financial Officer.
India Inc on Tuesday described Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee as industry's Sachin Tendulkar saying the veteran leader was steering the economy "with ease of a seasoned player" in difficult times.
In a pre-Budget meeting with Revenue Secretary Sunil Mitra, Ficci President Rajan Bharti Mittal said in view of the looming threat of a double-dip recession and another slowdown in western countries, the stimulus should not be rolled back in the Budget in February.
Captains of the industry, particulary the outgoing chairman of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce of Industry Harsh Pati Singhania, who is also the managing director of JK Paper Mill, hailed the Union Budget.
The Indian industry has thus joined hands with the government in urging Americans to lift stringent export controls on high-technology transfer.
Within a year of Gopal Vittal becoming the joint MD and CEO of Bharti Airtel's India operations, the company has elevated him as the MD and CEO for Bharti Airtel's operations in India and South Asia.
With the deadline to bid for the airport modernisation project drawing closer, one of the pre-qualified bidders Bharti on Friday said it would prefer bidding for Delhi airport.
For 2016, India's rank in ease of doing business has improved.
Several leading industrialists, including Reliance Industries CMD Mukesh Ambani, Vedanta Resources Limited executive chairman Anil Agarwal, chairman emeritus of Tata Sons Ratan Tata, Mahindra Group chairman Anand Mahindra, Paytm Founder and CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Welspun Group chairman and Assocham president B K Goenka, attended the swearing-in ceremony.
Home minister heads several groups of ministers, including the one to decide the revival package for Bharat Sanchar Nigam and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam. His ministry also takes decisive calls on national security in relation to telecom operations as well as equipment and technology used in the industry.
Bharti Enterprises vice chairman and managing director Rajan Mittal said most of these will be Easyday stores.
A sharp dresser, with a prominent jawline, Kohli will now have to contend with aggressive competition from Vodafone-Essar, perhaps the toughest so far in his career.
Bharti Tele-Ventures Ltd, which runs GSM mobile services under the Airtel brand name, would invest around $1 billion this financial year for its capital expenditure plans.
Bharti Retail exuded confidence that it is 'on course' to become a billion dollar company by 2015, and will open 40 more stores in the next three months notwithstanding the economic slowdown.
Bharti Retail, a subsidiary of Bharti Enterprises, on Monday said it will increase the head count to 60,000 by 2015 from 2,000 now as it has set a target to become a $1-billion company by then.
Bharti Wal-Mart Pvt Ltd, the joint venture between Bharti Enterprises and retail giant Wal-Mart, opened its first cash-and-carry (wholesale) store in India at Amritsar.
India Inc on Saturday cheered the road map for lowering corporate taxation.
Bharti Wal-Mart Pvt Ltd, the joint venture between Bharti Enterprises and retail giant Wal-Mart, opened its first cash-and-carry (wholesale) store in India at Amritsar in Punjab on Sunday.
India's leading mobile operator Bharti Airtel Ltd will invest Rs 200 crore (Rs 2 billion) in Jammu and Kashmir during 2006-07 as part of moves to double its subscriber base in the state.
The government is considering to tweak FDI policy in retail sector so as to allow global chains like Walmart, Carrefour and Tesco to open multi-brand stores in non-hilly cities with population less than one million.
Asking the government to tweak FDI norms in multi-brand segment, retailers said sourcing rules must be made similar to that of single brand while demanding foreign firms be allowed to put only 50 per cent of first tranche of investment in back-end infrastructure.
After ending its wholesale partnership with Walmart, Bharti Retail has decided to merge with the Future group
"We now realise that the so-called farmer agitation hardly remains a farmers' agitation. It has almost got infiltrated by Leftist and Maoist elements, a flavour of which we saw over the last two days when there were extraneous demands to release people who have been put behind bars for anti-national (and) who have been put behind bars for illegal activities," Goyal, the Minister for Railways, Commerce and Industry and Food and Consumers Affairs, said at FICCI's annual meeting.
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