印度将向外资开放零售业,给予沃尔玛、家乐福和特易购等外国超市集团全面准人资格。这些集团长期以来一直谋求打进这个拥有12亿人口、总价值4500亿美元但服务欠缺的市场。印度是亚洲第三大经济体,拥有地球1/6人口。对于那些能够适应该国时常变幻莫测的商业气候的外资集团来说,印度市场大有可为。外资电信集团更是已在该国投资了几十亿美元。在印度城市居民的零售支出中,目前只有8%左右发生在“有组织的”零售业。不过,过去4年里,在现代化零售商 India will open its retail business to foreign investors and give full access to the foreign supermarket groups such as Wal-Mart, Carrefour and Tesco. These groups have long sought to tap into this market of 1.2 billion people, worth a total of 450 billion U.S. dollars but lacking in services. India is the third largest economy in Asia with one sixth of the Earth’s population. The Indian market is promising for foreign groups that can adapt to the often unpredictable climate in the country. Foreign telecom groups have already invested billions of dollars in the country. Only about 8% of Indian retail spending by urban residents occurs in the “organized” retail sector. However, in the past 4 years, in the modern retailers