Search

The battle over mobile payment platforms is heating up. On one side is Apple Pay, which launched Oct. 20 and encourages users to pay for merchandise with Apple's iPhone 6 [...]

Summary: CEOs at BT's lunch meet in New Delhi discuss the FDI dilemma facing India. There was a surprise element at Business Today 's CEO Lunch held on the 20th [...]

Byline: Katy Askew France's Carrefour is reportedly in talks with Bharti Group over a potential joint venture in India. According to Indian publication The Economic Times, the companies are in [...]

Global retail giant Walmart, has got the Competition Commission of India's (CCI) green signal for purchase of the Bharti group's almost 50 per cent stake in their Indian joint venture [...]

Bharti Enterprises Ltd and Walmart had ended their joint venture for wholesale cash-and-carry business in Oct 2013. Bharti has now decided to go solo in its retail business. The company [...]

Wal-Mart Backs U.S. Push By KRISTI ELLIS WASHINGTON Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is standing by its pledge to boost American manufacturing. Bill Simon, Wal-Mart's U.S. president and chief executive officer, revealed [...]

Byline: Shailendra Tyagi 'We Wish Walmart the very best for the future,' said Rajan Bharti Mittal, managing director of Bharti Enterprises, after the mutual parting of ways between his company [...]

Byline: Katy Askew Indian authorities are expected to clear Wal-Mart of alleged violations of rules governing foreign direct investment in the country. According to local reports, citing people familiar with [...]

Byline: Katy Askew Speculation has continued to mount that US retail giant Wal-Mart could be preparing to dissolve its joint venture with Bharti Enterprises in India. Scott Price, CEO of [...]

Byline: Katy Askew Wal-Mart Stores has insisted it is 'optimistic' about growing its business in India amid speculation it is preparing to bring its wholesale partnership with Bharti Enterprises to [...]

Walmart has informed the Government of India that it is not possible to source 30 percent of the products from small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in India. The company can [...]

The expansion of Wal-Mart in India has stalled. The Indian unit of Wal-Mart is unlikely to apply for its first retail store licence before Mar 2015. The company says it [...]

Walmart may not start Walmart Supercentres spread over 1,00,000 to 2,60,000 square feet as in the US as they may not get that much space in or on the outskirts [...]

Bharti Enterprises Ltd has partnered with Walmart for wholesale business. Bharti is now looking at forming a 50:50 joint partnership with Walmart to launch retail outlets in the country. The [...]

Walmart of the US is likely to launch its supermarket format in India with the Government of India clearing 51 percent foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail stores. The company [...]

Wal-Mart has said that its joint venture with Bharti Enterprises will depend on future government policy on allowing foreign direct investment (FDI) in the multi-brand retail sector. FDI in retail [...]

Bharti-Walmart, a joint venture between Bharti Enterprises and US- based Walmart, has roped in Ansal API to set up its cash-and- carry store in Lucknow. The store will come up [...]

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Wal-Mart expects the Government of India to consider foreign direct investment (FDI) in multi-brand retail. The Government has allowed 51 percent FDI in single-brand [...]

Bharti Retail has set a target of 150 stores by the end of 2010. It plans to open 70 stores by the end of 2010, of which, some will be [...]

Bharti Wal-Mart Private Ltd (BWMPL) has developed a sustainable agricultural program in Haider Nagar village in Punjab. The initiative envisages providing quality fresh produce to the joint venture's retail stores [...]

MEXICO CITY -- Cifra here is the leader in what promises to be a very fast-growing industry--supermarkets in Mexico. There are competitors who would love to topple Cifra from the [...]

Bharti Wal-Mart Private Limited (Bharti Wal-Mart), the joint venture between Bharti Enterprises and Wal-Mart Stores for wholesale, Business to Business, cash-and-carry and back-end supply chain management operations in India, has [...]

WASHINGTON D.C. Saving fuel, reducing emissions, creating jobs - this is the trifecta of issues ArvinMeritor hopes to address with its new dual-mode hybrid Class 8 tractor prototype - a [...]

Download BTN's listing of The 25 Most Influential Executives of the Business Travel Industry of 2007 here. Business Travel News editors again proudly recognize the 25 business and government executives [...]

A prepaid card venture between Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and General Electric Co. could give the companies a leg up on money transmitters, check-cashing outlets, and other financial services companies catering [...]

Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s efforts to get into banking lost some steam last year. After years of trying and failing to acquire a charter, the retailer opted in November to enter [...]

Wal-Mart is getting into the online music business, partnering with Geneva Media on the new venture. Roughly 200,000 song titles are available on Walmart.com. Each download costs 88 cents, and [...]

McDonald's Corp. is opening numerous McDonald's inside new Wal-Mart Stores across the U.S., in a move that has not been publicized by either company, but renews an alliance that faltered [...]

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Chinese conglomerate China International Trust and Investment Corp. signed an agreement to create a joint venture, to be named East China Wal-Mart Stores Co., which will [...]

The Independent Community Bankers of America wants federal regulators to block a deal between TD Bank Financial Group and Wal-Mart to provide banking services in the discount stores. 'Wal-Mart has [...]

Agency franchisor inks deal with Super Kmart; Uniglobe runs off with bridal-store chain A New Jersey-based company announced it has reached an agreement with Kmart Corp. to place travel agency [...]

Developing an award-winning, sales-lifting, and viewership- driving promotion is a difficult-enough task. Creating a second-year campaign that tops the first effort is even more daunting. But the promotions team at [...]

Once considered a Pokemon-level fad, Lyrick Studios' Barney & Friends quietly turned into an evergreen property in the late 1990s. But such staples of the pre-school market face a constant [...]

America Online and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. are mulling a possible e-commerce alliance that could provide a psychological boost to the No. 1 retailer's stock, according to Wall Street analyst Gary [...]

Wal-Mart, Fingerhut Ink Web Deal BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Wal-Mart Stores here signed a deal to have Federated Department Stores' Fingerhut Business Services subsidiary handle order fulfillment for its on-line business. [...]

Wal-Mart's announcement of its agreement with Bharti Enterprises has resulted in plenty of activity. Much has been written in India about the repercussions of the 'Wal-Mart Effect,' even though the [...]