Flipkart investors could force Walmart to take company public in four years

Flipkart investors could force Walmart to take company public in four years

Abdul Saleem, a deliveryman known as a Wishmaster for Flipkart Online Services Pvt's Ekart Logistics service, sorts packages at the company's office in the Jayaprakash Narayan Nagar area of Bengaluru, India, on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016. Photographer: DHIRAJ SINGH/Bloomberg

Walmart Inc., the world’s largest retailer, could be forced to publicly list its newly acquired Indian e-commerce company, Flipkart Group, within four years at the request of a small minority of Flipkart shareholders, a public filing shows.

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