Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Delhi to sip Starbucks first

Delhi is scheduled to be the first city to get a Starbucks outlet. This iconic American coffee chain has taken up a 2,000 sq. ft . area in the city’s Saket’s Select Citywalk, an expensive mixed use development area that will be operational in August. The $7.8 billion coffee retailer plans to stay in Delhi in the first year with five openings. It expects to set shop in the Delhi by October this year. Starbucks’ strategies would, of course, be dependant on the go-ahead from the government. The coffee retailer’s request to FIPB, was earlier rejected owing to lack of lucidity on the foreign shareholding pattern of the proposed Indian venture.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007

An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative

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