Globarena to offer courses in retail

Globarena Technologies Private Limited, a Hyderabad-based learning and knowledge solutions company, is gearing up to offer diploma courses to impart training in retail management from the next quarter of this financial year.

"We are on the threshold of signing an external tie up with a Delhi-based B-school for the course content, and expect to start the diploma course from the next quarter," Naren S Ayyar, CEO of Globarena, told Business Standard.

The six-month and one-year diploma courses are aimed at fulfilling the demand of the retail industry. The fields in which these courses would be offered include basic sales and marketing, expertise in retail counter sales and walk-in customer management and sales management.

"Initially, the courses would be offered through one of our 'CareerCampus' centres in Hyderabad with a student intake of 500 in the first year. We would build it up to 3,000 across all the centres over the next two years," he added.

Stating that the demand for marketing and risk assessees is huge in the insurance industry, with a requirement of around 5 lakh marketing professionals and 20,000 risk assesses annually at any conservative level, Ayyar said the company was also looking at entering this arena.

"We are in discussions with a Canadian institution for offering a one-year diploma course in insurance and it may take a while," he added.

Globarena, part of the $54-million (Rs 250 crore) Chary Group, operates in four divisions "� PlaceMentor, CareerCampus, NeoVistas and eVarsity.

The company provides instructor-led training for courses like GRE (Graduate Recruitment Entrance), Integrated Common Entrance Test (ICET), and International English Language Testing System (IELTS) through its CareerCampus centres. It currently has five such centres in Hyderabad and plans to add close to 100 centres across the country, at an investment of around Rs 7 crore.

"We plan to open 25 centres this fiscal at Visakhapatnam, Vijayawada, Guntur, Warangal, Tirupati, Chennai, Bangalore, Coimbatore, Madurai, Trichy, Puducherry, Tirunveli and Erode this fiscal. Ten centres would come up in the first quarter of next year in Mysore, Mangalore, Belgaum, and Tumkur, followed by centres in Maharashtra, Gujarat, Delhi, Punjab and UP in the middle of next fiscal," Ayyar said.