Even as conflicts between rival brands increase in India, industry experts find the trend encouraging.
According to industry experts, individual entrepreneurs are uniting to offer a uniform retail experience.
According to Indian tax laws, an acquisition or sale made by an overseas subsidiary of an Indian company is not liable for taxation in India.
With substantial cash reserves, a buoyant domestic market and increasing global opportunities, almost every consumer goods (FMCG) company is looking for acquisition targets.
Darshan Mehta, CEO, Arvind-VF Brands, mentioned that the company would love to have a revenue-sharing expansion model, but there is a scramble due to a dearth of good-quality malls.
ICICI Bank will release Rs 100 crore (Rs 1 billion) over 5 years through Fabindia's subsidiary, Artisans Micro Finance.
There is also a growing realisation amongst companies that very small children are not able to comprehend communication properly.
Last week, lunch boxes delivered by Mumbai's formidable army of dabbawallas (delivery boys) came with a small tag.
Royalty terms with Danone for brand on the cards.
Confrontational advertising has become the order of the day in India with corporate houses taking on rivals head-on.
In what could be the norm in the days to come, luxury brands that are available in India, including the ones mentioned above, are coming together to work in unison.
During the last financial year, Tirupur exported goods worth Rs 11,000 crore. This year, manufacturers fear they will fall short of the 20 per cent growth target.
At present, Godrej Sara Lee's portfolio largely consists of household insecticide brands like Hit and Good Knight in India, apart from Sara Lee's air purifier brand, Ambi Pur.
The rankings are based on the performance of ad agencies and ad men at major international creative advertising awards like Cannes, The One Show, D&AD and Clio.
With the Central Government making it mandatory for consumers to switch to CAS in select parts of major metros, Onida is planning to launch LCD televisions that have an embedded technology to encrypt digital signals.
India may be out of the World Cup, but some cricket fans are willing to pay a whopping Rs 29,100 to buy two seats for the final match.
Move raises doubts about the viability of the business model in organised retail.
Even as the World Cup debacle lingers on everyone's mind, advertising agencies have welcomed Zee group chief Subhash Chandra's announcement of a parallel cricket league in the country.
Curiously, according to the Indian Readership Survey, the number of homes with access to cable and satellite television has surged 36 per cent from 38 million households in 2003 to 52 million this year.
Philips, the Dutch electronics company, has entered into a partnership with Swarovski, the Austrian cut crystal and jewellery manufacturer, to introduce consumer lifestyle electronics and fashion accessories for women.
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