Market research company, AC Nielsen, in its monthly retail sales audit of consumer goods, has identified 24 categories in the personal grooming space that are growing at an average rate of 13 per cent.
Beverages major, Coca-Cola India, will use the might of Mumbai dabbawallas to lure customers to sample its orange juice drink, Minute Maid Pulpy Orange.
Danish beer giant Carlsberg is looking at increasing investments in manufacturing and distribution in India.
Mattel step may improve toy quality in India.
Mumbai-based fashion apparel manufacturer Spykar Lifestyle recently received $5 million (Rs 20 crore) investment from private equity firm Avigo Capital Partners.
Still drinks, nectars and packaged water sales are maturing quickly to grab a major share of the Indian beverages market, according to "The 2007 India Soft Drinks Report" by Canadean, the global beverages research company.
Dire warnings that the future wars will be fought over water may come true sooner than anticipated, albeit with a flavour. At least four behemoths, three of them multinationals, will soon mount an assault on the flavoured water market.
Having failed to receive even a lukewarm response to the open tender for marketing India as a tourist destination overseas, the ministry of tourism has decided to extend the deadline by over a fortnight to mid-August.
International brands like Roca, Kohler and H&R Johnson plan to expand their scale of operations in India. The expansion will be either through brownfield expansion of their joint venture partners or through setting up greenfield ventures.
Sources close to the development said this could happen at a meeting of the company's board of directors on Thursday.
Reach out-of-court settlement on trademark violation.
In the last two years, a clutch of home-grown fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) companies sought growth by acquiring companies overseas.
South-based CavinKare announced plans to expand its salon brand, Green Trends, from the current 35 to 70 by the end of 2007 and 140 by end-2008.
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