Tag: Retail Trading
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Food Combos: Whether Single-Brand or Multi-Brand Retailing?
[Akhil Kumar is a fourth year BA LLB (Hons.) student and Ayushi Singh a third year BA LLB (Hons.) student at NUALS, Kochi] Single and Multi-Brand Retail Trading According to paragraph 5.2.1. of the Foreign Direct Investment Policy (“Policy”), foreign direct investment (“FDI”) in the manufacturing sector is permitted in India under the automatic route.…
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Press Note 3 of 2016: ‘Old wine in a new bottle’?
[Posted by Satyajit Gupta] Press Note 3 of 2016 issued by the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) has had a mixed reception – e-commerce companies have largely remained silent, while some ‘brick and mortar’ retailers have welcomed the prohibition on influencing the price of goods amongst others. We believe that pending litigation and…
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FDI Reforms in E-Commerce: What Do They Entail?
[Posted by Umakanth Varottil] In a post on this Blog earlier this month, Satyajit Gupta and Saurabh Sharma elaborately discussed the background to the foreign direct investment (FDI) policy in the e-commerce sector. Ambiguities in the policy have not only given rise to uncertainties to players in the sector, but have also resulted in multiple…
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FDI in retail: Rising demand for a ‘level playing field’
[Posted by Satyajit Gupta] This article was jointly authored by Satyajit Gupta (Principal, Corporate M&A, Advaita Legal) and Saurabh Sharma (Associate, Corporate M&A, Advaita Legal) and appeared in the Nov 2015 – Jan 2016 issue of Sameeksha, the firm’s newsletter. Birth of e-commerce business India, as a nation, has gone through a phenomenal change…