Seattle-based coffee retailer Starbucks has announced intentions to enter India more times than Lindsay Lohan has been arrested, Paris Hilton has been embarrassed or Elizabeth Taylor has been married. This time they may be for real. I mocked lightly them in my 2008 book for vacillating on India. In 2007,...
India considers 100% FDI in Single-Brand Retail
If you are Ikea or Starbucks and you wish to open stores in India, the government currently requires you to find a a local investment partner who would own 49 percent of the India business. Companies ranging from Reebok to McDonalds have entered the India retail market under these terms...