Sentence examples for foreign retailer from inspiring English sources

The deal throws down a challenge to Carrefour, China's biggest foreign retailer.

Tesco is not the first foreign retailer to leave Japan with its tail between its legs.

Walmart wasn't the first foreign retailer to do business in China, but, in the eighties, it became one of the most aggressive importers of products manufactured there.

The Swedish company will be the first foreign retailer wholly to own its subsidiary in India under new rules on investment.

Starbucks Coffee, the world's largest coffee company, became the first foreign retailer to enter India Monday, after the government loosened rules about how single brand companies can invest here.

Tellingly, the Bailian group, China's biggest retailer, is state-owned".There could be political tensions if a foreign retailer gets too big or too dominant," says Matthew Crabbe of Access Asia, a consultancy.

And last month, when he was asked to comment on the government's plan to allow foreign investments in the retail sector, Mr. Hazare compared foreign retailers to the East India Company, which once colonized India.

All this to get around the government regulation that allows foreign retailers only in cash-and-carry retail.

Ms. Consolo said there are a few hundred foreign-owned shops open in Manhattan, and she and several other retail brokers agreed that activity among foreign retailers had been exceptionally strong in the last year.

The latest example comes from India, where the government recently announced that it would delay plans to allow foreign retailers like Walmart to wholly own and operate retail stores in the country.

The paucity of quality rental spaces for the retail sector in the cities where multibrand foreign retailers are expected to enter the market could trigger demand for new projects.