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Bharti Walmart’s Stores To Organize Cloth Collection-For-Donation Initiative in India
Initiative to be carried out by Best Price Modern Wholesale Stores in
association with GOONJ
• 7 Best Price Modern Wholesale cash and carry stores across India to
participate
• Initiative to run from 1st to 15th September across 7 cities in 4 states of
Punjab, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh
• GATI to provide free logistic support to aggregate donated clothes from
Bharti Walmart stores to GOONJ collection centres
Raipur, 23 August 2011: Bharti Walmart, the joint venture between Bharti
Enterprises and Walmart Stores Inc for wholesale, business to business and
cash and carry operations in India, will organize a cloth collection-for-donation
initiative for underprivileged people across 7 cities in 4 states of India. The
initiative is being organized in association with GOONJ’s ‘Cloth for Work’ project
- which offers temporary employment opportunities to economically backward
people in exchange of clothes. This initiative by Bharti Walmart will help poor and
needy people gain economic stability, improve their standard of living and foster
inclusive growth.
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This initiative will be organized by Bharti Walmart, from 1st to 15th September
2011 across its 7 Best Price Modern Wholesale stores across Amritsar, Zirakpur,
Jalandhar, Kota, Bhopal, Ludhiana and Raipur. Best Price Modern Wholesale
store employees will participate in the initiative and will also encourage members
to contribute as well. The initiative is part of Bharti Walmart’s “Store of the
Community” program to contribute to the society.
The collected clothes will be used to motivate under-privileged people to
develop infrastructure in their communities like repair roads, dig wells, clean
the villages, among other possible activities. Improvement of infrastructure will
help the communities create a better life. As part of the initiative, people will be
encouraged to do shramdaan (community labour) and get the collected clothes in
return, as a reward.
Bharti Walmart will launch this initiative in association with GOONJ, a well-known
national NGO, which provides clothes to millions of poor and needy people and
Gati – a leader in express cargo delivery and a pioneer in distribution and supply
chain management solutions in India. Gati will collect the donated clothes from
the Best Price Modern Wholesale stores and deliver them to GOONJ collection
centres, which will finally distribute the clothes among under-privileged and
economically distressed communities.
About Bharti Walmart Private Limited
Bharti Walmart Private Limited is a business-to-business (B2B) joint venture between Bharti
Enterprises and Walmart for wholesale cash-and-carry and back-end supply chain management
operations in India to serve small retailers, manufacturers and farmers. The JV launched its
first B2B Best Price Modern Wholesale cash-and-carry store in Amritsar in May 2009. A typical
cash-and-carry store stands between 50,000 and 100,000 square feet and sells a wide range
of fresh, frozen and chilled foods, fruits and vegetables, dry groceries, personal and home care,
hotel and restaurant supplies, clothing, office supplies and other general merchandise items. The
JV is expected to open 12 new wholesale cash-and-carry facilities and employ approximately
4,000 people by December 2011. Currently, Best Price Modern Wholesale stores are present in
Amritsar, Zirakpur, Jalandhar, Kota, Bhopal, Ludhiana and Raipur.
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