Venkatesh Kini, business unit president, Coca-Cola India and South West, shares his plans with Arnab Dutta.
The hike in clean energy cess is likely to impact input cost for thermal power producers
The kind of feeling a brand evokes dictates the kind of relationship it will have with it consumers. Many a times, strong feelings remain long after the message fades, says Bobby Pawar.
The tests, according to the report, showed that Pepsi products from its plant in Khalapur in Raigad district contained 0.6 mg of lindane, which is above the permissible limits.
While Coca-Cola India improved its profit margin during the year, arch rival PepsiCo's margin was far lower. Coca-Cola India, which does not manufacture or market any products, gets majority of its revenue from royalty incomes against ownership of formulations for key products. Over the years, PepsiCo's operating revenue has come down significantly, as it kept divesting bottling plants to its franchise partners.
'If you can do new things everyday, your mind will be challenged.'
To keep operations at TCP alive, Corus has been channelising internal orders to the TCP which was also getting some demand from outside.
The commerce ministry has endorsed India Inc's stand against signing a free trade agreement (FTA) with China until it becomes a market economy that follows transparent pricing of manufactured goods and services.
The CCI passed this judgment in two different cases relating to the e-auction scheme and fuel supply agreements which were filed last year.
In the first two months of the current fiscal, Indian exports of finished steel reportedly grew by almost 76 per cent on a YoY basis and China alone accounted for close to 60 per cent of the increase.
The new push is being driven primarily by over 170,000 villages where household income is over Rs 1 lakh a year.
A passenger travelling in a cycle rickshaw can now have the luxury of sipping a Coke or Pepsi apart from listening to music via a headphone while he travels.
Faced with rising input costs and increasing competition, Steel Authority of India Ltd has embarked on a Rs 400 crore (Rs 4 billion) cost-reduction exercise in the current fiscal in areas of raw material usage, energy and refractory consumption.
With RIL supplying about 47 per cent of the domestic petcoke production, current dynamics are bound to change.
The region constituted more than 31percent of the segment's total sales volume in 2016.
PepsiCo bets on value-added water by launching vitamin-fortified drinks in a segment that is growing rapidly in India.
The UK steel industry is struggling for survival in the face of extremely challenging market conditions.
That's because India does not have a serious venture capital industry with an appetite for risk, observes T N Ninan.
The Maggi controversy is likely to be a stepping stone in the evolution of country's packaged and processed food industry.
It's Sanjeev Chadha, named Pepsi's chief executive for Asia, W Asia & Africa, versus Coca-Cola's Atul Singh.
The Appellate Authority has stayed Rs 1800 crore penalty on Coal India.
The increase in production will be from the existing mines.
Coca-Cola on Friday announced a cut in prices of 300 ml and 200 ml packages to Rs eight and Rs five respectively for Coke, Thums Up, Limca, Sprite and Fanta in some North Indian markets.
Gas production from Krishna Godavari basin block has dropped to just over 12 mmscmd and RIL is carrying out workover on main Dhirubhai-1 and 3 gas fields.
Experts question Nestle's silence over Maggi controversy.
What does one make of Ramdev's recent allegations that MNCs are conspiring against Patanjali?
The manufacturing sector, a key indicator of economic activity, grew 10.6 per cent year-on-year in October.
The study, 'Trade and trade diversion effects of United States tariffs on China', shows that the ongoing US-China trade war has resulted in a sharp decline in bilateral trade, higher prices for consumers and trade diversion effects -- increased imports from countries not directly involved in the trade war.
Metal sector is not too happy from Budget announcements for the sector
Apply the 'insurgent' tests on what Ambani, Ramdev and Agarwal have done of late, and you will start seeing the similarities rather than obvious differences of industry, upbringing or social station, says Shailesh Dobhal.
Contraction in exports continued for the 12th month in a row in November as outward shipments shrank 24.43 per cent to $ 20.01 billion amid a global demand slowdown.
Mumbai-born Veena Sahajwalla has developed a microfactory in Australia to upcycle electronic waste.
'We will have a well-designed product, and not a compromise.' 'We will make a completely contemporary vehicle, in keeping with consumers' aspirations, not like the Nano, which disappointed them,' Sajjan Jindal tells Shreekant Sambrani.
M Veerappa Moily's takeover of the environment & forests ministry last month, it appears, is turning out to be a blessing for Coal India Ltd (CIL), the world's largest coal producer.
