This big fight will decide who is India’s retail raja

Amazon vs Future will determine whether the e-commerce giant or Reliance gets to dominate the fast-growing organized retail space.

Few judgements in recent history have been as keenly awaited.

The Delhi High Court is expected to rule shortly on what is perhaps the biggest corporate dispute in India, a judgement that is bound to have a significant bearing on how organized retail shapes up in India in the years to come.

Media reports have described the tussle between Jeff Bezos’s Amazon.com Inc. and Future Group, whose key retail assets were bought in August by Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries, as a clash of titans. And rightly so, because of the personalities involved. Bezos happens to be the world’s richest man, …

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T Surendar

Surendar helps lead the newsroom at The Morning Context as executive editor. Over the years, Surendar has worked in industries from pharmaceuticals to diamonds, as well as a stint as an equity analyst. In his long career as a business journalist, he has led teams at The Times of India, India Today and Fortune India. He was part of the founding team at Forbes India and interned at and published in The Times, London.

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