Fdi Boon or Bane

As we all know, the retail industry is very crucial and is highly competitive. As this company

Retailing is rapidly becoming a global industry and many retailers are expanding to foreign markets. However, some retailers successful in their home countries have failed in emerging markets such as Chile. A case

FDI allows the home country to invest into the host country to produce, advertise, and distribute products, in order to upsurge their market share and provides a long-term investment and enhancement. (Moosa, 2002)

In India, the middlemen between the producer and the retailer also played a prominent role in the retail and wholesale industries. Walmart’s proposal was to cut out these middlemen and to connect the producers directly to the retailers, in order to reduce the inefficiencies in India’s traditional supply chain. This was to be implemented through the joint venture, wherein Bharti would manage the retail store operations and Walmart would focus on logistics capabilities and building the supply chain. However, cutting out middlemen would create more opposition to Walmart’s presence in India. Notwithstanding the benefits that Walmart could bring to India, the retail lobby increased its protest against Walmart’s entry to the Indian retail

Wal- Mart in order to capture the Indian market is trying to introduce low price strategy on their products which inturn affect the other local businesses. Local traders later also should implement this pricing strategy which may affect their profit margin. But in return the consumers may benefit a lot from this. Due to the entry of Wal –Mart into the Indian market the competition may increase between local retailing businesses like Pantaloon, Reliance etc. we can see a tough competition between these business units in future . From the analysis there is advantages and disadvantages for Wal-Mart to enter in the Indian retailing system. From the arrival of the Wal-Mart to India FDI will be increased in India and most of the retail stores will have the subsidiaries in many of the places to increase the availability of the customers. Most of the foreign retail outlets is

FDI in Retailing started with FDI in cash and carry wholesale trading first permitted in 1997 to the extent of 100% under the Government approval route and thereafter in 2006 brought under the automatic route. In 2006 again FDI in Single Brand Retailing was permitted to the extent of 51%. From here it is but natural and logical that FDI would now proliferate to multi-brand retailing. But the progression to FDI in multi-brand retailing cannot take place at the cost of vital concerns raised in connection with this possible change by different groups; viz, the question of adaptability of the retailers in the unorganized sector, the question as to how the FDI in retailing can be harnessed for the benefits of Indian agriculture and Medium and Small Enterprise and above all how to impart into the economy a degree of resilience to withstand the changes that would be ushered in the wake of introduction of FDI in retailing. All these concerns have to be addressed not because the Left wing political parties and the media through their campaign have necessitated such attention but because we are constitutionally bound to do so .The Preamble of the Constitution resolves to constitute India into a Sovereign, Socialist, Secular, Democratic, Republic and to secure to all its citizens JUSTICE, social, economic and political …..EQUALITY of status and opportunity. Directive Principles of State Policy similarly exhorts the state to establish just, equitable and fair order. Article 39(c) states that the state should ensure that the operation of the economic system does not result in the concentration of wealth and means of production to the common detriment. Though both these features are not enforceable, the Executive and the Apex Court in particular have

As 70% of employment is coming from the agriculture sector, hence this form of retailing is mostly seen in those areas and of course to some part of urban India there is a lot of ups and downs for opening of sector for direct investment from the foreign players but government cannot neglect the interest of small players. One of main reason for not opening this sector to FDI is it may decrease the employment in the Unorganized sector and increase the

India’s retail market is expected to nearly double to US$ 1 trillion by 2020 from US$ 600 billion in 2015, driven by income growth, urbanization and attitudinal shifts. While the overall retail market is expected to grow at 12 per cent per annum, modern trade would expand twice as fast at 20 per cent per annum and traditional trade at 10 per cent.

Even if foreign retailers do not need the approval from one central authority anymore, they have to run after much necessary permission to open new stores. Besides, under this strong competition context, the government is hardly to bring in new laws to calm the situation. Obstacles are quite numerous. Let’s summarize this analysis into a graphic to have a better representation of the procedure how to penetrate this market.

In India, the process of retailing is one the main pillars in economy which mainly accounts for 15 percent of the GDP. Our Indian retail market is amongst the top five retail markets as per the economic value in the world. Having 1.2 billion people, our country is the fastest growing markets in the retail sector in the world. Earlier there were mainly the small shops markets in India

The retail industry India is so pivotal that it accounts up to 14% of the country’s national gross domestic product and provides jobs for nearly 10% of the entire country and is expected to rise at prompt rates. Before the rapid rate in India’s population there were plenty of competition within the Indian retail sector, but not between major licensed retail corporations but amongst small mom and pop stores, mobile carts and pavement vendors which are known as the unorganized retail sector, which in earlier yeas accounted for nearly 98% of the country’s retail market. With India’s population 1billion plan and the GDP growth estimate at 7.5% in upcoming years all sorts of different opportunity for all mass merchants and food retailers to expand their businesses locally and nationally were up for grasp. It was apparent the Indian retail sector was on its way to becoming worth billions of dollars, so the country saw many different companies beginning to funnel into the retail sector with hopes of taking advantage of all the positive changes in the region. As more and more business began entering the market the more competition presented itself.

Retail industry is an important economic sector, which plays a significant role in expanding domestic demand, promoting employment, stimulating economic growth and increasing overall social welfare. With the progress of the industry, competitions among

Supply factors. A firm’s decision to undertake FDI may be influenced by supply factors to cover production costs, logistics, availability of natural resources and access to key technologies 7

The Indian retail market is estimated at US$350 billion of which organized retail is just about US$8 billion. Given this unbalanced existence of organized and

International Retailing has existed and gained market in the past decades. There has been a financial boom in many countries. International Retailers are the companies who are dealing with the retails in the Countries abroad, i.e. far from the countries of the company’s origin. Earlier they were just Domestic Retailers covering their domestic market in the country of their respective origin, but with the elapse of time the demands of people rise in various items and in various countries. It was not possible for them to fulfill the demand of their domestic market and other countries at the same time. So with a risk they started to increase their retails shops within the origin country to have a look at the response of the