INDIA
June 1st, 2010
BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA
Kumar Rajagopalan, CEO of Retailers Association of India, said there were only rough estimates of the number of c-stores in India. He said the total number of retail stores in the country is about 12 million, out of these those selling food would be 7.2 million; of these, modern branded stores comprised only 3 to 4% of the total, ie around 200,000 to 250,000. He said among the modern retailers only the large format ones - with 3,000 square feet and above are currently growing in numbers, while the number of these stores below 2,000 square ...
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