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India's government has allowed foreign brands such as Adidas or home furnishings giant Ikea to open 100-percent owned shops, but will continue to block the entry of supermarkets. The retail reform allowing wholly foreign-owned "single brand stores" into India was announced late Tuesday by the left-leaning government, which had initially announced sweeping plans to throw open the sector. In December, it said it planned to allow in foreign supermarket chains such as Wal-Mart, but it ...

... the quality of products and opens doors for further private label ...

According to The Moscow Times, Italian company Cremonini Group has opened a meat plant that will produce hamburger patties for McDonald’s in Russia. The plant, located in Odintsovo, Moscow region, will produce 25,000 metric tonnes of hamburger patties a year and up to 80,000 hamburger patties an hour for McDonald's restaurants, using domestically produced beef. The capacity will be increased to 50,000 metric tonnes in the future, Cremonini said. www.planetretail.ne N

Tesco has opened its first zero carbon store as part of its bid to be a carbon neutral company by 2050. The outlet, in Cambridgeshire, is timber-framed rather than steel, and uses skylights and sun pipes to cut lighting costs. It also has a combined heat and power plant powered by renewable bio-fuels, exporting extra electricity back to the national grid. In addition the refrigerators - one of the biggest blackspots for food retailers trumpeting their green credentials - have doors to save ...