Delhi In almost complete silence Bharti Retail, Wal-Mart’s joint venture partner in India, opened its first three stores less than a week ago in Ludihana, in the Punjab state of India. The stores which opened under the name, Easy Day, bore no identification or branding indicating that Wal-Mart had any involvement. Although Wal-Mart …
Category: International
Give Us Wings
Minneapolis Timing is everything, so while in the Twins for the Association Board, Kevin Whelan, a long time staff member, let me now that Give Us Wings was having its annual gala. I jumped at the chance to get to attend and see how Mary Steiner, his mother, had assembled the support for the …
Cell Space
New Orleans We have spoken of the important potential of cell phones in this space before, but it was a delight to read Sara Corbett’s piece in the Sunday Times “Can the Cell Phone Help End Global Poverty?” She made some of the points we have speculated on here. The increasingly ubiquitous investment in …