News: Bharti Enterprises ties up with Global Retail

(BL 08/05/2007) New Delhi - With interests in telecom, insurance and retail, Bharti Enterprises on Monday announced its entry into the education sector. Bharti Resources, a subsidiary of Bharti Enterprises joined hands with private vocational education provider Global Retail School (GRS) to impart training in retail management.

"It is a marriage between the opportunity to enter the education sector and the need to augment our talent resources," said Sanjeev Duggal, CEO and Executive Director, Bharti Resources.

Bharti will absorb "many of the 15,000 students that will be trained in the first year", he added.

The fields in which the course would be offered include retail sales and marketing, visual merchandising and space planning, retail supply chain management, retail management and store operations.

Duggal said the company was also looking at imparting training in areas such as insurance and telecom.

The retail sector would offer around 2.5 lakh jobs in the next two years, said Asitava Sen, Vice-President (Retail and Consumer Goods), Technopak.

Global Retail School (GRS) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cosmo Aviation Training School and runs the `Flying Cats' brand of aviation institutes.

On offer are six-month and three-months certificate courses and a one-year diploma in retail management, to cost Rs 30,000, Rs 15,000 and Rs 50,000 respectively. The courses would be offered through 30 existing centres of GRS and another 30 to be opened by the end of the year in tier II and III cities.

The eligibility of the course would be plus-2. The one-year diploma course would be offered in partnership with the Annamalai University.