The FMCG market is gearing up for a boom time again with the onset of three-month festive period spanning Dussehra and Diwali, which had brought in an additional revenue of Rs 844 crore (Rs 8.44 billion) last year.
Italian marble floors, bar, modular kitchen, a state-of-the-art bathroom and a swimming pool in the backyard: luxury has just got redefined, and that too for the middle class as far as housing is concerned.
A study by second-hand car dealer CARS 24 showed 42 per cent of the consumer feel the need for a car to travel safely now. Those who used cabs to commute before the pandemic want to buy a car for the family and a two-wheeler for shorter runs.
Alcaraz stops Zverev to set up semi-final of US Open champions
Major international luxury goods manufacturers are riding high in China with the luxury goods market booming, despite a slowdown in economic growth.
The K-shaped economic recovery in India from the pandemic slowdown shows in corporate results as well. The automobile sector, which represents big-ticket consumption, continues to do well and has increased its share in corporate revenues and profits while fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) companies that sell low-ticket consumer goods are struggling with poor sales and earnings growth. The share of the automobile sector, including makers of auto ancillaries, in corporate net sales rose to a 10-quarter high of 10.05 per cent during July-September 2023 (Q2FY24) from 8.94 per cent a year earlier and 9.75 per cent in Q1FY24.
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'You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks'.
Nextbillion Technology (Groww), the venture capital-backed broking platform, has dislodged Zerodha Broking as India's largest brokerage in terms of number of active clients. Groww had 6.63 million active clients at the end of September, as against Zerodha's 6.48 million, ending the latter's long run at the top. AngelOne and RKSV Securities (Upstox) were ranked third and fourth with 4.86 million and 2.19 million active clients, according to data available on the National Stock Exchange (NSE).
There is no denying that China is booming! According to a media reports sales of laptop computer and digital television -- items long considered fit only for the rich are expected to boom.
The Goa Foundation started filing writ petitions before the Bombay High Court from 1992 onwards against several mining companies.
The outsourcing industry believes the growth of the LPO is expected to be between 50 and 100 per cent. Forrester Research, an independent technology and market research company, has projected the offshoring of 29,000 legal jobs by the end of the year and as many as 79,000 by 2015. When a company files for bankruptcy protection or various forms of bailouts take place in the US, there arises a need for legal work associated with such events.
Sanjana Ganesan and Jasprit Bumrah wed in Goa on March 15, 2021.
Buoyed by the boom in stock markets, many small and medium sized IT firms, including Servion Global Solutions, Accel-ICIM Frontline, Bahwan Cybertek and Dax Networks are planning initial public offerings to fund their growth and expansion plans.
Millions of procedures are performed around the world every year.
The private sector is increasingly playing a dominant role in China's socialist market economy and by mid-2004 the booming nation had some 3.44 million private companies, with a sizeable number owned by Communist Party cadres, a latest survey has fou
'When things are going your way, it's important to stay in the present and not to overdo things.'
India and England have played with contrasting approaches in the World Cup so far, producing contrasting results. That is unlikely to change when the teams meet in Lucknow on Sunday.
'Work and you'll get what you need; work hard and you'll get what you want,' Boom Boom captioned his Instagram video.
At a time when salaries continue to rise, ICICI Bank says it's important to keep economic realities in mind.
Ambegaon is going to be one of Pune's most vibrant real estate boom areas over the next 10 years.
Mutual funds are increasingly launching schemes to take advantage of the infrastructure boom, both within the country and globally. The schemes will invest in companies that will benefit from the multi-billion dollar investments required in ports, roads, telecom, construction, engineering and aviation across the world in the coming years.
India's HS Prannoy showed nerves of steel, advancing to his third successive quarterfinals at the World Championships.
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty earned India's first-ever badminton gold medal at the Asian Games
More than 85 skyscrapers are set to adorn the Mumbai skyline in a few years.
The other trend is towards the big and bigger, especially in the retail sector. Take The Great India Place in Noida, Unitech's 15 lakh sq ft "shoppertainment" destination which opened earlier this year.
An increasing number of contractors managing parking lots at malls, multiplexes and five-star hotels are buying parking insurance covers
CapitaLand, the Singapore state-owned developer, is set to make one of the biggest bets by a foreign company on India's retail property boom, investing in 15 shopping centres worth S$2.1bn ($1.46bn) in association with two Indian construction and property groups.
Companies, which are jumping into the bandwagon, include MNCs. For instance, the world's leading component company Bosch has committed an investment of Rs 2,650 crore (Rs 26.50 billion) through four subsidiaries in India. Funds will be used to set up manufacturing facilities for gasoline systems, electronic control units and ABS systems.
Among the international companies that are increasing their investments is the Japanese paint major, Nippon, which is putting in about Rs 80 crore (Rs 800 million) for manufacturing facilities in Gurgaon and a 25-acre unit in Chennai.
The government informed the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday that it is keeping a watch on a person who is suspected to have used the booming Indian share market for terror funding. "Recently, a case has come to our notice. It is suspected that it may be linked to a person under watch. I cannot divulge further details," Finance Minister P Chidambaram said.
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The demand for aircrafts and hospitality industry is poised to treble by 2009.
It's not rare for Hansika Motwani's fashion posts to receive over 200,000 likes on Instagram.
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