The company now plans to bet on health sciences, skin care and specialised products, says Arnab Dutta.
ASCI and Ayush ministry get down to monitoring print and television ads of ayurvedic, unani, homeopathic and yoga and naturopathy practitioners.
Experts say launches would pick up pace from mid-March.
All eyes this year, however, are on Nokia's latest launches.
Demerging print and TV news businesses will allow for separate investment by interested players.
Feature phones still hold the majority of the 270 million handsets market in the country/
Yoga guru Ramdev's company to invest Rs 5,000 crore in four units in the next 500 days to boost production.
Pitch Madison says advertising expenditure will grow 13.5% this calendar year
Television as a category would see a lower rate of growth at 8% vis-a-vis 10% last year.
HUL, the country's largest FMCG company, saw sales volume fall by 4% for the December quarter.
The five key components, which are indispensable for any smartphone, cost more than Rs 2,000 even for a budget 3G-enabled 3.5-inch handset.
The upgrade, said Icra, takes into account the "robust internal accrual generation, leading to low reliance on debt, as well as gearing levels, and strong debt protection metrics".
While FMCG companies lose Rs 98,928 crore in m-cap, consumer durables stocks are down Rs 20,673 crore since November 8.
The first of a six-part series examines how the leather workers at Dharavi are coping after five weeks of demonetisation.
Suresh Narayanan, chairman & managing director, Nestl India, shares tips on crisis management.
Although the markets could see a knee-jerk reaction, they rule out a sharp fall.
Bali Padda will head the second-largest toymaker in the world.
Double whammy for consumer firms, where the top line will remain subdued due to demonetisation and margins will squeeze owing to a crude oil spike and rupee depreciation, reports Viveat Susan Pinto/Business Standard from Mumbai.
Ban on high-value currency sends advertising industry into a tailspin.
'As the world changes, we will be on a constant change programme too,' advertising agency J Walter Thompson Global Chief Executive Officer Tamara Ingram and South Asia CEO Tarun Rai tell Viveat Susan Pinto.
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