WALMART INDIA

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKEINDIA'S Council for Leather Exporters is pushing the country's producers to seize 20 per cent of the US$1.5 billion's worth of footwear bought globally by US retail giant WalMart over the next three years. Council chairman Shri S.S. Kumar said he wanted manufacturers to exploit the fact that WalMart executives visited a clutch of Indian shoe factories last November; their trip had been arranged by his organisation. Speaking at a seminar staged with Italy's Assomac, Mr Kumar noted that exports of leather footwear from India expanded ...


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