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Walmart Exits Germany

Earlier during the week, Wal-Mart made a rather surprising announcement that it is exiting Germany and Metro would be taking over its German Operations.

Metro Group already with a leading share, will gain a much stronger foothold now in Germany after taking over WalMarts Supercentres in Germany. Metro only recently acquired Casions Geant Hypermarket chain in Poland. Wal-Mart on the other hand had just recently exited South Korea and now Germany.

Wal-Mart did say its rather going to focus on new and high growth markets. With this exit, Wal-Mart's international operations is expected to take a backseat.

Despite all the exits, Wal-Mart has just got the Indian Governments approval to open its office here. Retailing in India is still a barrier to overcome for international chains.

Indian government Bans Blogs

Its rather sad that the Indian Government has blocked access to a few websites and many blogs like Typepad. Although the government has apprensions about the current affairs after the recent Mumbai Blasts, its rather strange that they have decided to block every website instead of filtering out the ones they had a problem with.

And I thought the government was taking steps with Freedom of Speech, Right To Information, etc

So much for liberalization.

You might only be able to recieve this email update and for sometime the retail india blog may be blocked with a million others if you are accessing within India. Till then.....

Reliance Retail

Reliance Retail has no plans to Franchise its operations for the moment and all the stores opening up in the initial phase will be company owned, as expected. Adding this note to all those writing in seeking on how to get a Reliance Franchisee.

Franchise India

Since I am recieving a lot of emails lately on how one could go about opening a business, I'm posting this link to FranchiseIndia.com which is one India's leading Franchise Facilitation companies having a credible list of Franchisors. Site can be accesed by clicking here www.franchiseindia.com

Well not endorsing them or marketing them, but just assisting the dozens searching for some clues :)