Procter & Gamble (P&G) India has set up a fund in which it will allocate Rs 200 crore to invest in technology-led solutions to solve business problems.

Stellar Value Chain Solutions has set up 2-million-sqft of warehousing operations in five new Indian cities including Surat, Nagpur, Indore, Raipur and Patna. The new built-to-suit centres will push the company’s warehousing space footprint to 14 million sq ft. These new warehouses have been set up to meet the rise in demand of the festive season sales in tier II cities.

DHL Supply Chain will invest around Rs 4,000 crore in India over the next five years to expand its warehousing capacity, workforce and sustainability initiatives. With this expansion, DHL Supply Chain will add 12 million sq ft of warehousing space in its existing portfolio to take its total capacity to about 22-million sq ft by 2026.

US-based Panattoni has forayed into India and will invest $ 200 million to develop four industrial and logistics parks as it seeks to tap the growing demand for warehousing spaces across major cities.

Logistics infrastructure major NDR Warehousing is planning to invest more than Rs 2,000 crore to develop its portfolio of warehousing and industrial parks over 20 million sq ft in the next 24 months.

Realty major Hiranandani Group and US-based private equity firm Blackstone Group’s joint venture, GreenBase, is planning to invest over 3,000 crore to develop industrial, logistics and warehousing parks across key cities in India.

The realty firm has partnered with Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investingto develop a premium warehousing project near Mumbai with an investment of Rs. 600 crore. Macrotech Developers, which got listed on stock exchanges in April, markets its properties under Lodha brand. It has closed a deal with MSREI to develop about 1.9 million sq ft at Palava Industrial and Logistics Park.

The company has launched a Rs. 500 crore fund that will invest in warehousing and industrial assets. The Landmark Warehousing & Logistics Funds target corpus includes a green shoe option of Rs. 200 crore. The fund plans to allocate 60 per cent of its corpus in warehousing assets and the remaining in other industrial assets.

A Gurugram-based third-party logistics warehousing firm, is looking to invest around Rs 500 crore to set up 30 Grade A+ warehousing facilities across the country in the next five years. As each facility is expected to come up at a cost of around Rs 50 crore, this will entail a total investment of around Rs 1,500 crore.