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The new pay deal takes the pay of the hourly-paid workers to 10.10 pounds ($13.21) an hour from 9.55 pounds previously, following agreement with the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (USDAW), and will take effect from July 24. The total hourly rate for delivery drivers and assistants will rise to 11 pounds. The deal also includes changes to benefits employees receive, extending their discount at stores, as well as more investment in training. "We are delighted to have reached an agreement with USDAW that recognises the vital role our colleagues play in our business now and in the future, giving them a well-deserved pay rise, more access to extra hours and setting out a long-term commitment and investment in their careers at Tesco," said Jason Tarry, Tesco UK and Ireland CEO. USDAW said that the pay deal gives Tesco workers the highest hourly rate of pay in the sector. British employers are offering higher pay deals in the face of staff shortages and rising inflation, with Bank of England officials, who have raised interest rates in successive meetings this year, urging workers to show restraint in pay negotiations to stop inflation becoming entrenched. "This new deal recognises the contribution our colleagues make to our business at a time when household budgets are under pressure," Tesco said. "Given the uncertainty in the economic environment, this will be a one-year deal, rather than two-year, and we will review pay again with USDAW in 2023." 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"In terms of the gender ratio of Direct Sellers, the industry currently comprises 53 per cent of male and 47 per cent of female active Direct Sellers," as per the report. * FLIPKART RAISES IPO VALUATION TARGET TO $60-70 BILLION, EYES 2023 LISTING * RIL-ACRE'S OFFER FOR SINTEX INDUSTRIES GETS OVER 90% SUPPORT FROM LENDERS * COFFEE DAY DEFAULTS RS 480 CRORE ON LOAN REPAYMENT, SECURITIES MOST READ IN FOOD & ENTERTAINMENT * This Week * This Month * COFFEE DAY DEFAULTS RS 480 CRORE ON LOAN REPAYMENT, SECURITIES * AFTER ZOMATO, OLA PILOTS 10-MIN FOOD DELIVERY; SWIGGY MAY EXPLORE FASTER DELIVERIES TOO * RUCHI SOYA CEO ON TURNING ZERO-DEBT CO AND REBRANDING AS PATANJALI FOODS * RUCHI SOYA RENAMED PATANJALI FOODS LIMITED: FILING * COFFEE DAY DEFAULTS RS 480 CRORE ON LOAN REPAYMENT, SECURITIES * AFTER ZOMATO, OLA PILOTS 10-MIN FOOD DELIVERY; SWIGGY MAY EXPLORE FASTER DELIVERIES TOO * TATA COFFEE TO BE MERGED WITH TATA CONSUMER * FUTURE RETAIL CEO SADASHIV NAYAK RESIGNS AFTER 7 MONTHS OF HIS APPOINTMENT RETAIL TV * DUBAI'S FUTURISTIC ECOMMERCE ECOSYSTEM * 25:01 DIGITIZATION ROLE IN RETAIL INDUSTRY: IN CONVERSATION WITH DEEPAK SURI FROM MAERSK * 01:04:56 ETRETAIL SCS 2022: DEEP DIVE INTO DEMAND, SUPPLY, FORECASTING STRATEGIES TO INCREASE SUPPLY CHAIN VALUE * 01:08:41 ETRETAIL SCS 2022: HOW WILL THE GROWING LAST-MILE DELIVERY TRANSFORM THE INDIAN E-COMMERCE ECOSYSTEM? View More EXCLUSIVE TESCO SUPERMARKET WARNS ON PROFIT AS INFLATION BITES The group said factors impacting performance included "the level of cost inflation" along with "investment required to maintain the strength of price position relative to the market". * AFP Click Here to Read This Story * * * * * * * * London: Britain's biggest retailer Tesco on Wednesday warned that soaring inflation would bite into future profit, causing its share price to slide along with those of rival supermarkets. Tesco said underlying profit was expected to drop in its current financial year after it jumped by more than one-third in 2021/22. The group said factors impacting performance included "the level of cost inflation" along with "investment required to maintain the strength of price position relative to the market". Tesco added that "further normalisation in customer behaviour as we come out of the pandemic" would also affect future earnings. Pandemic lockdowns triggered a surge in online shopping, massively benefitting supermarkets. Tesco said it expected retail adjusted operating profit of between £2.4 billion and £2.6 billion ($3.1 billion and $3.4 billion) in the year to the end of February 2023. That compared with profit of £2.65 billion in the year just ended, up 35 percent year-on-year. "Given the significant uncertainties in the external environment, we believe it is appropriate to provide profit guidance in the form of a wider than usual range," Tesco said. Traders jumped on the profit warning, with Tesco's share price the biggest faller on London's benchmark FTSE 100 index, with a loss of more than six percent in morning deals. That dragged down rivals, with online supermarket Ocado shedding around five percent and Sainsbury losing 3.5 percent. "Inflation data is centre stage after sky-high readings stateside and in the UK while corporate reports also drive the agenda with Tesco languishing at the bottom of the UK index, down six percent following its profit warning," said Victoria Scholar, head of investment at Interactive Investor. Tesco added that its latest annual net profit slumped to around £1.5 billion from £6 billion after a massive asset sale was not repeated. As the pandemic began to take hold in March 2020, Tesco struck a deal to sell its businesses in Thailand and Malaysia to Thai conglomerate CP Group for £8 billion. This has massively skewed its annual net profit performance over the past two years. Follow and connect with us on Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Youtube Food & Entertainment Grocery Tesco supermarket revenue profits inflation Read on App Read on App EXCLUSIVE INDIA'S PALM OIL IMPORTS JUMP IN MARCH AS UKRAINE SUNOIL SUPPLIES HALT In March, 539,793 tonnes of palm oil landed in India, up from 454,794 tonnes in February, the Solvent Extractors' Association of India (SEA) said in a statement. India imported 212,484 tonnes of sunflower oil in March, up from 152,220 tonnes in February, helped by the arrival of a few ships that had left Ukraine before the war, it said. * Reuters Click Here to Read This Story * * * * * * * * India's palm oil imports jumped 18.7% in March from the previous month, as traders moved to secure alternatives to sunflower oil that can no longer be bought from Ukraine, a leading trade body said on Wednesday. The higher purchases of palm oil by India, the world's biggest importer of edible oils, could support Malaysian palm oil futures.. In March, 539,793 tonnes of palm oil landed in India, up from 454,794 tonnes in February, the Solvent Extractors' Association of India (SEA) said in a statement. India imported 212,484 tonnes of sunflower oil in March, up from 152,220 tonnes in February, helped by the arrival of a few ships that had left Ukraine before the war, it said. "However in April, as no shipment from Ukraine came, sunflower oil import may fall to nearly 80,000 tonnes, mainly arriving from Russia and Argentina only," it said. India has contracted for 45,000 tonnes of Russian sunflower oil at a record high price for shipments in April, as edible oil prices in the local market surged because of the cessation of Ukrainian supply. The country's soyoil imports in March fell to 299,421 tonnes from 376,594 tonnes a month ago, the SEA said. "Brazil and Argentina have limited soyoil surplus. In the past few months, India was trying to buy soyoil from other origins including the United States and Germany. But these countries can't ship big volume," said a Mumbai-based dealer with a global trading firm. India has imported a record 112,576 tonnes of soyoil from the United States in the first five months of the current 2021/22 marketing year ending on Oct. 31, the SEA data showed. As sunoil and soyoil supplies are limited, India has no choice but to import more than 600,000 tonnes of palm oil in April, the dealer said. India buys palm oil from top producers Indonesia and Malaysia and soyoil mainly from Argentina and Brazil. Follow and connect with us on Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Youtube Food & Entertainment Grocery palm oil Ukraine sunoil supplies Ukraine sunflower oil Solvent Extractors' Association of India palm oil imports India's palm oil imports Read on App Read on App EXCLUSIVE ABOUT 29% INDIAN HOUSEHOLDS DOWNGRADED EDIBLE OIL: REPORT One in two households is absorbing the impact of rising prices by dipping into their savings, and consumers have demanded Government intervention on black marketing, hoarding, unfair trade practices and even capping of trade margins on edible oil, the report by community social media platform LocalCircles said. * ET Bureau Click Here to Read This Story * * * * * * * * About 29% Indian households have downgraded the edible oil they use, while 17% have cut down on discretionary spending, with escalation in raw material prices, a new report said. One in two households is absorbing the impact of rising prices by dipping into their savings, and consumers have demanded government intervention on black marketing, hoarding, unfair trade practices and even capping of trade margins on edible oil, the report by community social media platform LocalCircles said. This report said intervention of the government would ensure manufacturers don’t charge inflated prices from consumers. LocalCircles will escalate the findings of this study to stakeholders in the government, it added. Prices of cooking oils including sunflower, peanut oil and canola have risen 50-70% over pre-Covid levels, escalated by the ongoing geopolitical tension. India imports about 85% of soybean oil from Argentina and Brazil, 90% of sunflower oil is imported from Russia and Ukraine, while Indonesia and Malaysia are major exporters of palm oil to India. The report said the price surge in edible oils continues to upset households’ budgets and consumption patterns. In December last year, the government reduced import duty on refined palm oil to 12.5% from 17.5% to rein in the prices of the commodity. But despite the average contribution of edibles oils’ inflation to overall food inflation declined to 1.3% from 3% in FY-21, prices of these commodities remained substantially higher than pre-pandemic levels. With prices of edible oil having risen steeply over the last 12 months, half the households said they are consuming the same amount as before and paying more each month from savings. The report flagged that the rise in prices of edible oils is forcing low and middle income households to opt for cheaper and low-quality oils, which could potentially lead to health risks. Follow and connect with us on Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Youtube Food & Entertainment Grocery edible oil prices localcircles ukraine russia price rise inflation import duty food inflation edible oil Read on App Read on App EXCLUSIVE TRADERS REROUTE COFFEE BOUND TO RUSSIA, DEMAND HIT FROM WAR SEEN Although food trade is not included in sanctions imposed on Russia after its invasion of Ukraine, difficulties in processing payments from Russian importers and concerns about the safety of ships in the Black Sea have cut shipments of coffee and other goods to the country. * Reuters Click Here to Read This Story * * * * * * * * BOSTON: Traders are diverting coffee shipments that were initially expected to go to Russia, and some have stopped selling to that market altogether, attendees at a U.S. coffee conference said. Although food trade is not included in sanctions imposed on Russia after its invasion of Ukraine, difficulties in processing payments from Russian importers and concerns about the safety of ships in the Black Sea have cut shipments of coffee and other goods to the country. Russia, which calls its actions in Ukraine a "special operation," is among the five largest coffee importers in the world. Consumers in Russia are hoarding food due to worries that supermarkets will run out of supplies. Coffee prices have surged more than 20% in Russia due to higher costs, broker HedgePoint said last week. The brokerage estimates that the ongoing war in Ukraine will lead to demand reduction of around 1.3 million 60-kg bags. European food trader Marex sees the hit to coffee demand higher, at around 1.8 million bags. Olvin Lopez, commercial manager at Honduras-based coffee exporter Inloher, said he had instructions from his firm's partner, the French food trader Sucden, to redirect a coffee shipment leaving Honduras bound for Russia to the port of New York instead. "They didn't say why they are rerouting the cargo, but it is probably due to logistic issues," Lopez said on the sidelines of a SCA Coffee Expo in Boston. A coffee trader working for an international dealer, who asked not to be named, said soft commodities trader ECOM had decided to stop any business with Russia while the war continues. Sucden and ECOM did not return requests for comments. Another trader said, however, that some countries continue to supply Russia with coffee, notably top grower Brazil. "People don't like to say much, but there are deals going on, using crypto," he said. In addition, one coffee co-op was closing a barter deal with a Russian dealer, where coffee would be swapped for fertilizer, the trader said. Follow and connect with us on Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Youtube Food & Entertainment Grocery russia ukraine sucden hedgepoint european food trader demand coffee Read on App Read on App EXCLUSIVE AMUL DAIRY SAYS BRACING FOR SALES DISRUPTION DUE TO STRAWS BAN India last week refused to waive an impending ban on straws that are packaged with small juice and milk beverage packs, stoking fears in the $790 million industry that includes players like PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, India's Dabur and Parle Agro. * Reuters Click Here to Read This Story * * * * * * * * India's $8 billion Amul dairy group said on Monday it is bracing for disruptions and higher input costs for some products from July when the government's ban on plastic straws kicks in. India last week refused to waive an impending ban on straws that are packaged with small juice and milk beverage packs, stoking fears in the $790 million industry that includes players like PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, India's Dabur and Parle Agro, Reuters reported. Amul has not worked out any practical solution to replace the tiny plastic straws and the paper variant is not feasible, said R. S. Sodhi, Amul's managing director. "The intention of the government is good ... (but) the straws are not even 0.1% of total plastic consumption," Sodhi told Reuters. "The entire industry will be impacted." Sodhi's comments underscore the growing tensions in India's drinks industry at a time when demand surges in the sweltering summer season. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is pushing to stamp out polluting, single-use plastic trash that chokes rivers. The government believes the tiny straws are a "low-utility product" and should be scrapped for paper straws or spout pouches. Amul, a household name in India best-known for its milk and butter products, clocked sales of 610 billion rupees ($8.04 billion) in 2021-22, Sodhi said. It also sells various milk-based beverages in small packs with straws. With the ban, supplies of such packs will be disrupted and manufacturers may shift to more expensive packaging solutions, thereby raising costs, Sodhi said, adding that Amul sells billions of such carton packs each year. Pepsi's Tropicana juice and Coca-Cola's Maaza and Parle Agro's Frooti mango drinks are among other popular beverages sold in such packs. An industry body representing them and other beverage makers has said it plans to again raise concerns with the government, and Sodhi said Amul will follow suit. "We will write to the appropriate authorities," he said. Follow and connect with us on Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Youtube Food & Entertainment Grocery straws ban amul tropicana pepsico parle agro narendra modi dabur milk Read on App Read on App EXCLUSIVE ONCE A RETAIL GIANT, KMART DOWN TO 3 STORES AFTER NJ CLOSING Once it shutters, the number of Kmarts in the U.S. - once well over 2,000 - will be down to three last holdouts, according to multiple reports, in a retail world now dominated by Walmart, Target and Amazon. * AP Click Here to Read This Story * * * * * * * * Representative ImageAVENEL, N.J.: The familiar sights and sounds are still there: the scuffed and faded floor tiles, the relentless beige-on-beige color scheme, the toddlers' clothes and refrigerators and pretty much everything in between. There's even a canned recording that begins, "Attention, Kmart shoppers" - except it's to remind folks about COVID-19 precautions, not to alert them to a flash sale over in ladies' lingerie like days of old. Many of the shelves are bare, though, at the Kmart in Avenel, New Jersey, picked over by bargain hunters as the store prepares to close its doors for good April 16. Once it shutters, the number of Kmarts in the U.S. - once well over 2,000 - will be down to three last holdouts, according to multiple reports, in a retail world now dominated by Walmart, Target and Amazon. The demise of the the store in the middle-class suburb, 15 miles (24 kilometers) south of New York City, is the tale of the death of the discount department store writ small. "You're always thinking about it because stores are closing all over, but it's still sad," said cashier Michelle Yavorsky, who said she has worked at the Avenel store for 2 ½ years. "I'll miss the place. A lot of people shopped here." In its heyday, Kmart sold product lines endorsed by celebrities Martha Stewart and Jaclyn Smith, sponsored NASCAR auto races and was mentioned in movies including "Rain Man" and "Beetlejuice." It was name-dropped in songs by artists from Eminem to the Beastie Boys to Hall and Oates; in 2003, Eminem bought a 29-room, suburban Detroit mansion once owned by former Kmart chairman Chuck Conaway. The chain cemented a place in American culture with its Blue Light Specials, a flashing blue orb affixed to a pole that would beckon shoppers to a flash sale in progress. Part of its success was due to its early adoption of layaway programs, which allowed customers who lacked credit to reserve items and pay for them in installments. For a time, Kmart had a little bit of everything: You could shop for your kids' back-to-school supplies, get your car tuned up and grab a meal without leaving the premises. "Kmart was part of America," said Michael Lisicky, a Baltimore-based author who has written several books on U.S. retail history. "Everybody went to Kmart, whether you liked it or not. They had everything. You had toys. You had sporting goods. You had candy. You had stationery. It was something for everybody. This was almost as much of a social visit as it was a shopping visit. You could spend hours here. And these just dotted the American landscape over the years." Kmart's decline has been slow but steady, brought about by years of falling sales, changes in shopping habits and the looming shadow of Walmart, which coincidentally began its life within months of Kmart's founding in 1962. Struggling to compete with Walmart's low prices and Target's trendier offerings, Kmart filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in early 2002 - becoming the largest U.S. retailer to take that step - and announced it would close more than 250 stores. A few years later, hedge fund executive Edward Lampert combined Sears and Kmart and pledged to return them to their former greatness, but the recession and the rising dominance of Amazon contributed in derailing those goals. Sears filed for Chapter 11 in 2018 and currently has a handful of stores left in the U.S. where it once had thousands. Kmarts continue to operate in Westwood, New Jersey; Bridgehampton, on New York's Long Island, and Miami. It didn't have to end this way, according to Mark Cohen, director of retail studies at Columbia University in New York and former CEO of Sears Canada. Trying to compete with Walmart on price was a foolish strategy, he said, and Lampert was criticized for not having a retail background and appearing more interested in stripping off the assets of the two chains for their cash value. "It's a study in greed, avarice and incompetence," Cohen said. "Sears should have never gone away; Kmart was in worse shape, but not fatally so. And now they're both gone. "Retailers fall by the wayside sometimes because they're selling things people don't want to buy," he continued. "In the case of Kmart, everything they used to sell, people are buying but they're buying it from Walmart and Target." Transformco, which owns Kmart and Sears, did not respond to an email seeking comment and a phone number listed for the company was not taking messages. Nationwide, some former Kmarts remain vacant while others have been replaced by other big-box stores, fitness centers, self-storage facilities, even churches. One former site in Colorado Springs, Colorado, is now a popular dine-in movie theater. Employees at the Kmart in Avenel found out last month that the store would close. Unlike 20 years ago, when news of impending Kmart closures around the country prompted an outpouring of support from loyal shoppers and a Detroit radio station even mounted a campaign to try and save a local store, the closing of the Avenel location was met mostly with an air of resignation. "It's maybe a little nostalgic because I've lived my whole life in this area, but it's just another retail store closing," said Jim Schaber, a resident of nearby Iselin who said his brother worked in the shoe department at Kmart for years. "It's just another sign of people doing online shopping and not going out to the retail stores." The closing packed a little more of an emotional punch for Mike Jerdonek, a truck driver who recalled shopping at Kmart in Brooklyn and Queens in his younger days. "It's like history passing right in front of our eyes," he said as he sat in his car outside the Avenel store. "When I was younger I didn't have any money, so it was a good place to shop because the prices were cheap. And to see it gone right now, it's kind of sad." Follow and connect with us on Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Youtube Food & Entertainment Grocery department store walmart retailers retail store retail Kmart bankruptcy Amazon Read on App Read on App EXCLUSIVE EXPLAINED: WHY PRICES OF LEMON, CHILLI & OTHER VEGETABLES ARE RISING In many parts of the country, vegetable prices have shot up due to increase in transportation cost, resulting from fuel price hike, leaving customers as well as sellers struggling. * TIMESOFINDIA.COM Click Here to Read This Story * * * * * * * * NEW DELHI: Repeated hikes in fuel prices in the last 12 days has impacted the common man from all angles. Not only has it raised their daily commute cost, but is now pushing up food bills too. In many parts of the country, vegetable prices have shot up due to increase in transportation cost, resulting from fuel price hike, leaving customers as well as sellers struggling. Among vegetables, one of the steepest hikes can be observed in prices of lemon and chilli. A single lemon costs somewhere between Rs 18-Rs 25 in Gujarat. It is selling for around Rs 300 per kg in wholesale market. Retail prices have soared further to Rs 400 per kg in Jodhpur, Vastrapur. In Delhi, lemon prices are ranging between Rs 300 to Rs 350 per kg which means even one piece costs more than Rs 10. This has made the staple 'nimbu-pani' a luxury drink for common people in the scorching heat. A vegetable seller in Hyderabad told news agency ANI that he used to purchase a whole stake of lemon for Rs 700 earlier but, the same now costs him Rs 3,500. Similarly, chillies are also being sold at stepper rates across cities. In Bengaluru, the price of green chilli spiked to Rs 120 per kg two days back. In Delhi too, 1 kg of green chillies cost more than a litre of petrol. Netizens even took to social media sites to make memes of rising prices. One user said that bikes and cars will now have stickers of lemon and chilli instead of original ones. At such steep prices, people are hardly buying the vegetable. Besides, items as basic as these which were earlier given at minimal prices by vendors or sometimes even for free are taking buyers by surprise and most are refusing to buy them. Tomatoes are now being sold for Rs 40 per kg whereas earlier, the price was between Rs 25 and Rs 30 in Delhi. Bottle gourd is priced at Rs 40 per kg. Even the price of potatoes has gone up. It is now available for Rs 25 per kg. Earlier, it used to be sold for Rs 10 per kg. Watermelons -- a fruit widely favoured during the summer season -- is being sold for Rs 30 as against Rs 20 or Rs 25 earlier. Similarly, onion prices in Delhi have also gone up and is around Rs 40 per kg as against Rs 30-35 per kg before. In Uttarakhand, the prices of almost all vegetables have increased, with lemons being sold at Rs 200-250 per kg and bitter gourd at Rs 30-35 per kg in the mandi. Rates of radish, pumpkin, and gourd in Bihar also witnessed a jump last week. What led to price rise Vegetable sellers have been facing shrinking profits and reduced sales as due to the increased transportation cost and leading to the ultimate hike in buying prices. The raise in petrol, diesel and CNG prices since March 22 has caused a ripple effect on cost of transporting vegetables for venders. Rates of lemon are also soaring due to unfavourable weather in Gujarat. A cyclone has destroyed plants in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Gujarat. Besides, demand for lemon has also been rising as the nation celebrates two important festivals amid the rising summer heat. Green chillies have been in short supply in South India since the last one and half month, thereby deterring farmers from growing more. Kitchen staples like onion and tomato are transported to Delhi from Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka. However, high transportation costs have led by a rise in prices by about Rs 10-15 per kg. CNG prices in the national capital were hiked on Thursday for the second day in a row by Rs 2.5 per kg, taking the total increase since March to Rs 12.5 per kg. The increase in the CNG prices follows a Rs 10 per litre hike in the petrol and diesel prices in 16 days and a Rs 50 per cylinder raise in the LPG rates. Word food prices at record high, says FAO The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said that world food prices hit an all-time high in March as Russia's invasion of Ukraine sent "shocks" through markets for staple grains and vegetable oils. The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation said its Food Price Index, which tracks monthly changes in international prices for a basket of commodities, averaged 159.3 points last month, up 12.6 per cent from February. The war has pushed up prices of food commodities like grains and vegetable oils and caused a “massive supply disruption”. FAO said the war in Ukraine was largely responsible for the 17.1 per cent rise in the price of grains, including wheat and others like oats, barley and corn. (With inputs from agencies) Follow and connect with us on Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Youtube Food & Entertainment Grocery vegetable price rise soaring vegetable prices lemon prices lemon price hike green chilli pirce hike chilli price rise Read on App Read on App EXCLUSIVE FUTURE RETAIL LENDERS PICK RESOLUTION PROFESSIONAL TO TAKE COMPANY TO BANKRUPTCY COURT The bank had proposed to sell ₹141 crore of Future Retail and ₹106 crore Asian Hotel (North) loans by the end of March under a 15:85 structure wherein the ARC was to pay 15% upfront and the remaining after recovering the money from the borrower. * Sangita Mehta * ET Bureau Click Here to Read This Story * * * * * * * * Future Retail's lenders on Thursday evening selected Vijaykumar Iyer, backed by Deloitte India, as the interim resolution professional for referring the Kishore Biyani-promoted hypermarket chain to the bankruptcy court, said three people aware of the development. Lenders will approach the Mumbai bench of the National Company Law Tribunal next week, seeking to initiate proceedings against the retailer, they said. It takes a minimum of six months to admit a company into insolvency proceedings, despite the 14-day ceiling prescribed by the law. If the company does get admitted by the NCLT, it will have a bearing on the ₹24,713-crore offer that Reliance Retail had made in August 2020 to acquire the Future Group firm. Moreover, it will allow other potential buyers, such as Amazon, to bid for the company. The Future-Reliance is stuck due to legal challenges posed by Amazon. Meanwhile, IndusInd Bank last week cancelled a deal to sell Future Retail and Asian Hotel (North) loans to Edelweiss Asset Reconstruction Company without specifying any reason. The bank had proposed to sell ₹141 crore of Future Retail and ₹106 crore Asian Hotel (North) loans by the end of March under a 15:85 structure wherein the ARC was to pay 15% upfront and the remaining after recovering the money from the borrower. Follow and connect with us on Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Youtube Food & Entertainment Grocery Future Retail reliance retail nclt future group amazon indusind bank national company law tribunal Read on App Read on App EXCLUSIVE UK GROCER SAINSBURY'S UPS PAY FOR STAFF IN OUTER LONDON In January, Sainsbury's, one of the UK's biggest private sector employers, set new pay rates for directly employed workers that will see it hit Britain's real Living Wage for all staff with extra for those in inner London. * Reuters Click Here to Read This Story * * * * * * * * LONDON: British supermarket chain Sainsbury's will increase pay for its staff in outer London to the level already achieved by staff in the capital's inner areas, a source close the company said on Thursday after pressure from shareholders. In January, Sainsbury's, one of the UK's biggest private sector employers, set new pay rates for directly employed workers that will see it hit Britain's real Living Wage for all staff with extra for those in inner London. However, its planned rate of 10.50 pounds ($13.7) for workers in outer London fell short of the real Living Wage for that region. Sainsbury's chief executive Simon Roberts was expected to announce the change on Friday, the source said, speaking on condition of anonymity before the formal announcement. The Bank of England is watching pay deals closely as it weighs up the risk that the recent jump in inflation to a 30-year high of 6.2% becomes embedded in the economy and turns into a long-term price growth problem. Investment group ShareAction said last month it was leading an investor coalition that included Legal and General Investment Management, Fidelity International, HSBC Asset Management and Nest which was demanding Sainsbury's commit to paying the real living Wage to all its workers by July 2023. The real Living Wage is established by the Living Wage Foundation and independently calculated by the Resolution Foundation, a think tank. The rates are currently 11.05 pounds per hour in London and 9.90 pounds per hour in the rest of the United Kingdom, higher than the government's mandated minimum wage rate of 8.91 pounds an hour, which rose by 6.6% to 9.50 pounds an hour on April 1. Earlier on Thursday, Britain's biggest supermarket Tesco said it would give a 5.8% pay rise to store and fulfilment centre workers and promised to review the settlement next year. Tesco's new deal took the pay of hourly-paid workers to 10.10 pounds an hour from 9.55 pounds previously. READ ALSO UK SUPERMARKET MORRISONS WARNS OF HIT FROM UKRAINE CRISIS, INFLATION TESCO GIVES EMPLOYEES 5.8% PAY RISE AMID COST OF LIVING CRUNCH Follow and connect with us on Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Youtube Food & Entertainment Grocery sainsbury living wage tesco bank of england international economy Read on App Read on App EXCLUSIVE KARNATAKA: BEER PRICES MAY REACH NEW HIGH In the past two years, due to covid-19 pandemic, most beer companies did not increase the prices, but due to rise in input prices like barley, diesel, and petrol, the price hike is inevitable. * Bangalore Mirror Bureau Click Here to Read This Story * * * * * * * * After prices of petrol and diesel were hiked by the government, now beer makers are raising the prices of the alcohol beverage. In the past two years, due to covid-19 pandemic, most beer companies did not increase the prices, but due to rise in input prices like barley, diesel, and petrol, the price hike is inevitable. Most beer manufacturing companies requested the Excise department to increase per bottle price by Rs 5 to Rs 10. The revised prices will be implemented from April 15 for most of the companies, say sources. Most of the beer brands selling canned beer, 330ml and 650 ml bottles will see a price hike. The price hike is directly linked to the Russia and Ukraine war. The main ingredient for beer production is Barley, which was imported from Russia and Ukraine. The ongoing war between the countries led to a reduction in supply of the barley, which eventually led to the rise in its price. The price of yeast and other raw materials also rose. Added to this, the fuel price hike resulted in an increase in logistics. Web indenting, which was introduced in Karnataka State Beverages Corporation Limited (KSBCL) was not implemented properly and created a crisis for wholesale suppliers of liquor. A liquor retailer said “KSBCL is not supplying liquor from April 2. Due to the Ugadi festival last week, most retailers sold their stock. Very little stock is left. The remaining stock also closes by Tuesday.” Karnataka Wine Merchants Association conducted a protest, demanding the resumption of the earlier system of supplying liquor from KSBCL. A retailer said, “We have requested to keep the old system along with a new system of indenting for at least one month. 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