by - December 9, 2019 12:14 pm
Walmart is creating a supplier development program dubbed Walmart Vriddhi in India to train and equip 50,000 Indian small businesses to work to expand domestic supply chain capabilities and participate…
by - April 5, 2017 4:32 pm
Wal-Mart Stores is once again tiptoeing toward expansion plans in India, after pausing the past couple of years since the breakup of its partnership with Bharti. IGD Retail recently noted…
by - June 11, 2015 3:40 pm
Access to 1.2 billion consumers nor the estimated $534 billion value of India’s retail market is enough to entice Wal-Mart to alter its wholesale-only strategy, according to Walmart International CEO…
by - October 26, 2014 9:41 pm
Wal-Mart International has chosen Murali Lanka as chief operations officer for its Indian business unit. Lanka will lead store operations and business development in the retailer’s wholesale business there. He will…
by - August 25, 2014 9:29 pm
Wal-Mart CEO Doug McMillon continues to draft his U.S. management team from around the globe. New Walmart U.S. CEO Greg Foran is an Australian who was managing the retailer’s China…
by - December 13, 2013 10:38 am
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. named Krish Iyer as the new CEO and president of its Indian unit, effective January 20. He replaces Ramnik Narsey, who served in the interim since June,…
by - October 18, 2013 10:33 am
Several news organization, including the Wall Street Journal recently reported that Wal-Mart received a clean record from the foreign investment investigation, sourced from officials close to the issue. But it…
by - October 17, 2013 11:44 am
The probe by India’s finance ministry that alleged Wal-Mart violated stringent foreign investment protocol has cleared the retailer, according to multiple reports out of India early Thursday morning (Oct. 17)….
by - August 27, 2013 10:30 pm
News that Wal-Mart has applied the brakes to its India expansion is no indication the retailer has gotten cold feet, despite a management shake-up and an ongoing investigation tied to…
by - June 26, 2013 9:01 am
Some seven months after Wal-Mart Stores Inc. suspended some executives within its Bharti joint venture, the head of the Indian operations has resigned. Wal-Mart confirmed Raj Jain, CEO of Bharti…
