Kishore Biyani met Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon, in Delhi last week and "discussed many things like the macro environment and the prime minister"
The group's much-touted acquisitions in recent years follow a series of disappointments in joint ventures.
Advertising taglines such as 'Bright in studies, bright in sports' attempted to drive home the message that Bournvita, a chocolate drink, could build a child's mental and physical faculties.
With inauguration of Tumkur food park, he has ambitious plans in the segment.
Household consumption recovered in urban India in May-July but remains weak in rural.
To tackle the resultant inflation, the Indira Gandhi government had imposed price controls on manufactured products, including soaps and vanaspati, in 1973.
Burger King's entry is expected to heat up the burger chain market in India, dominated by McDonald's.
E-commerce, Rs 1,000 crore (Rs 10 billion) as an advertising category, is expected to bring at least Rs 200 crore (Rs 2 billion) in ad spending next month, when there would be both Dussehra and Diwali.
Consumer durables and electronics companies are putting the final touches to their festive period plans.
A sightholder is a company on the Diamond Trading Company's list of authorised bulk purchasers of rough diamonds.
While e-commerce operations for these firms are small at the moment, it is slated to grow in the next 3 to 4 years.
This is the first market where the newest entrant to Mondelez's global chocolate portfolio will be launched, Siddharth Mukherjee, director, chocolate category & media, Mondelez India Foods Ltd, said in an exclusive conversation with Business Standard.
Anticipation of weak sales this festive season due to deficient monsoon, especially outside big cities.
Indian diamantaires are looking to go slow on rough diamond purchase during the remaining quarters of the current financial year, thanks to weak global sentiment.
Ban on US-EU import of meat & poultry products could, if we get active, allow us to access a $128-billion market.
Vegetables account for 5.44 per cent of the Consumer Price Index.
The fall in global prices resulted in a drastic decline in the Food Price Index compiled by the United Nations' Food and Agricultural Organization. Based on the prices of a basket of internationally traded food commodities, the FAO Food Price Index averaged at 203.9 points in July, down 4.4 per cent (2.1 percentage point) from a revised value in June. This level was seen earlier in January, at 203.2 points.
Spends by e-commerce players have now touched Rs 1,000 crore.
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India eats 1.2 million tonnes of onions a month and the current stock will last till the end of August.
Health Minister Harsh Vardhan's recent request to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley - for an increase in tax on cigarettes from 45 per cent to 60 per cent in the coming Budget - seems to have had a serious impact on cigarette smokers' pockets.
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