Franchising industry can touch $50 billion by 2017, likely to contribute 4 pc to GDP: Pepsi India CEO D Shivakumar
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"By 2017, the opportunities for franchise business model in India would be USD 50 billion and the big ones would be in sectors such as
The industry is currently estimated to be around USD 30 billion with an annual growth of 30 per cent. Shivakumar predicted that it could create 47,000 new companies by 2017 as India has a new breed of entrepreneurs," he said, adding that it is expected to contribute almost 4 per cent of India
Elaborating on sectors which would contribute majorly, he singled out apparels, with USD 11 billion, followed by consumer deliverables, electronics and mobile (USD 11 billion), furniture and furnishings (USD 5.3 billion), and pharmacy and jewellery with USD 4 billion and USD 3 billion, respectively.
Shivakumar said for over 100 years, franchising has been a fundamental driver of PepsiCo's success, which today covers more than 120 countries. It has build strong partners across the country in the last 25 years.
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PepsiCo is focused on strengthening both COBO (company-owned bottling operations) and FOBO (franchise-owned bottling operations), he added.
When asked about present scenario for franchising, he said, "India has the correct franchise business environment as other have...we believe that the franchise model is the future business model of the industry".
On being asked that from where the opportunity would come, he said, "It would across the country, as luxury goods would be in the metro cities, QSR (quick service restaurants) would be across the country, and apparels would be in tier II and III."
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