Bharti ties up with GRS to impart retail training
With a view to cashing in on the requirement of skilled professionals for the retail sector, Bharti Resources, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bharti Enterprises on Monday announced its tie-up with the Global Retail School (GRS) to impart training to...
By PTI |
NEW DELHI: With a view to cashing in on the requirement of skilled professionals for the retail sector, Bharti Resources, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bharti Enterprises on Monday announced its tie-up with the Global Retail School (GRS) to impart training to jobseekers in this sector.
"We have entered into a strategic partnership with the Global Retail School to bring modern skills, knowledge and progressive training to create employability for young people in the growing retail sector of India," Bharti Resources CEO and Executive Director Sanjeev Duggal said.
He said, besides retail, the company was also looking at training workforce in areas like insurance and telecom.
The Indian retail sector would offer around 2.5 lakh jobs in the next two years with 75 per cent of them being customer facing, Technopak Vice President (Retail and Consumer Goods) Asitava Sen said, who is also a member of the advisory board of GRS.
In the first year of the alliance, the company is targeting to enroll around 15,000 in various courses in subjects like retail sales and marketing, visual merchandising and space planning, retail supply chain management, retail management and store operations including others.
Global Retail School (GRS) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cosmo Aviation Training School known under the brand name of Flying Cats. Currently, the company has 31 centres across India, out of which six are corporate centres and rest are franchisees.
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