{"id":2623,"date":"2013-06-07T15:13:14","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T09:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/?p=2623"},"modified":"2013-06-07T15:13:14","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T09:43:14","slug":"fdi-rules-for-multi-brand-retailers-by-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/fdi-rules-for-multi-brand-retailers-by-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"FDI rules for multi-brand retailers by Govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/foreign-multi-brand-retailers-not-allowed-to-franchise-stores.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2624\" title=\"foreign-multi-brand-retailers-not-allowed-to-franchise-stores\" src=\"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/foreign-multi-brand-retailers-not-allowed-to-franchise-stores-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>Foreign retailers entering India\u2019s multi-brand segment will not be allowed to franchise their stores, and will have to put 50 per cent of their investments in back-end infrastructure specifically for the chain they are setting up.<\/p>\n<p>In a clarification issued on queries from global retailers, including Wal-mart, Tesco and Carrefour, on FDI policy for multi-brand retail trading (MBRT), the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) said the \u201cfront-end stores set up by MBRT entity will have to be company-owned and company operated only.\u2019\u2019<br \/>\nThe DIPP also said the mandatory 30 per cent sourcing from small industries will be counted only for sales through the front-end stores.<\/p>\n<p>It clarified that as per the conditions for wholesale cash &amp; carry trading, such an entity is not permitted to undertake retailing of any form.<\/p>\n<p>As regards supplies by MBRT company to franchisees run by its partners, it is clarified that the policy envisages multi-brand trading in retail and the MBRT entity is not envisaged to undertake wholesale activity, that is, B2B. It said the cash &amp; carry trading cannot be considered to be providing back-end infrastructure to the multi-brand retail store. \u2014 PTI<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign retailers entering India\u2019s multi-brand segment will not be allowed to franchise their stores, and will have to put 50 per cent of their investments in back-end infrastructure specifically for&nbsp;[ &hellip; ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,787],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-franchise-news","category-news","list-style-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisezing.com\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}