INTRODUCTION One the leading E-Commerce companies in India, SNAPDEAL was founded by Kunal Bahl and

This report is based on the comparison between two organizations that deals with the Retail Company that operates hypermarkets. The report consists of a comparison between Canadian business and Indian business. For this project I have chosen Canada’s Walmart and India’s D’mart the Canadian Walmart is the multinational retail corporation.And Indian D’mart deals within India only.

The Snapchat application, which was developed by Brown and Spiegel as a project of Stanford University

As the founders developed their brand, Snapple became part of the Alternative beverage industry, which consisted of sports drinks, bottled water, 100% juice, non-premium beverages and premium beverages. Snapple was the leading company in the premium category of the Alternative beverage industry. Therefore, they could price their most successful products at a premium.

The retail division has accepted an awesome part all through the world in extending productivity of customer items and endeavors. It is similarly the second greatest industry in US to the extent amounts of agents and establishments. There is no denying the way that most of the made economies are particularly relying upon their retail territory as a prepare of advancement. The India Retail Industry is the greatest among each one of the organizations, speaking to more than 10 percent of the countries GDP and around 8 for every penny of the work. The Retail Industry in India has drawn nearer as a champion among the most dynamic and snappy paced organizations with a couple of players entering the market. Regardless, every one of them have not yet tasted accomplishment in perspective of the generous beginning hypotheses that are required to measure up to the underlying speculation with various

It should be noted that it is outside the scope of this paper to present a review of the international retail literature (see the excellent reviews by Alexander (1997); Alexander and Myers (2000); and Burt et al. (2003)). This would increase the length of the paper substantially

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

1 - Introduction In recent years, there have been vast growth in the wider business world regarding the overall influence of retailing and because of which, retailing and the issues that surround it, have become a vital sector in today’s global economy. (Fisher & Raman, 2001) It has been said that retailers no longer compete on retail activity alone, rather on the overall efficiency of the whole supply chain and overcoming ever expanding management issues of which arise throughout business activities. (Fernie & Sparks. 2004)

•  India's $250 billion retail business is the eighth largest in the world and has the potential to grow 7 per cent by 2011. [McKinsey Report] For a company already dominating the world markets, this is an un-passable opportunity.

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

Growth prospects e-commerce E-commerce has continued to be a business trend and it continued to grow in 2015. According to the data the Stefany Zaroban got from the U.S. Commerce Department, the web sales in 2015 totaled “$341.7 billion for the year, a 14.6% increase over 2014’s $298.3 billion” (Zaroban, 2016). This reveals that Amazon would continue to have the chance to increase their sales as well as an increase to bringing in more customers. According to the data that GlobalData received, U.S. had around “300 million internet users in the year 2014 which was an increase of 7% over the previous years” (GlobalData). These statistics show that with the increase of online shoppers every year and the definite advance in technology in the future, more people will shop online than to go to retail stores.

Retail internationalization is a popular, irresistible and inevitable phenomenon in most of academic literatures and retail market reports (Burt S, Dawson J & Sparks L, 2008). As the growth rate in emerging markets is very fast, they are very attractive to international companies. However, there is less focus on the exit process

Bill Gates, Founder of Microsoft stated, “ If your business is not on the internet, then your business will be out of business.” Shailesh Nigam, and six of his entrepreneur friends founded DesiFirangi.com in India, which is an online women’s fashion apparel, operated in 2014. They introduced the world wide web to the massive brick and mortar Lingerie business that has generated over billions of dollars. Mr.Nigam saw the transformation that was going on with e-retail lingerie industry and wanted to provide a quality the people can trust while also realizing how e-commerce could solve availability and distribution challenges. Five out of the Seven founders are women, thus playing a role in making a splash into DesiFirangi.com. Through this website, the founders tailored the focus “to the fashion needs of the modern Indian women.” (Niche E-commerce Portal)

Flipkart is an Indian e-commerce company founded in 2007, by Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal and headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka. It is considered as one of the largest e-commerce company that made online shopping popular in India. In the beginning, Flipkart backbone was to sale online books in India and but they get diversified and expanded into electronic products and many other variety of products. Due to very low penetration of net banking and credit card in India, the cash on delivery model adopted by Flipkart has gained great significance. Due to changing business economy and environment globally E-commerce plays a vital role in the global economy. It is predicted that E-commerce will become a core part in doing business globally.

While it is not modeled on any one foreign retailer, the ‘basic construct’ is taken from the experience of a number of successfully managed retail companies. It has leveraged expertise for a critical component like technology from all over the world, going as far as hiring expatriates from Littlewoods and using state-of-the-art ERP models. Shoppers’ Stop went a step further by even integrating its financial system with the ERP model. Expertise was imported wherever it felt that expertise available in-house was inadequate. But the store felt there was one acute problem. A shortage of the most important resource of them all was trained humans . Since Indian business institutes did not have professional courses in retail management, people were hired from different walks of life and the training programme was internalized. By 1994, the senior executives at Shoppers’ Stop were taking lectures at management institutes in Mumbai. The Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS) even restructured its course to include retail management as a subject. Getting the company access to the latest global retail trends and exchange of information with business greats was an exclusive membership to the Intercontinental Group of Department Stores (IGDS). It allows membership by invitation to one company from a country and Shoppers’ Stop rubs shoulders with 29 of the hottest names in retailing – Selfridges from the UK, C.K. Tang from Singapore, Lamcy Plaza from Dubai and the

The whole concept of shopping has altered in terms of format and consumer buying behavior, ushering in a revolution in shopping in India. Modern retail has entered India as seen in sprawling shopping centers, multi-storied malls and huge complexes offer shopping, entertainment and food all under one roof. The Indian retailing sector is at an inflexion point where the growth of organized retailing and growth in the consumption by the Indian population is going to take a higher growth trajectory. The Indian population is witnessing a significant change in its demographics.