These firms reported a combined operating profit of Rs 26,077 crore (Rs 260.77 billion).
Reducing dependence on wholesalers will give the company better control over its inventory, besides offering greater visibility to new brands, reports Avishek Rakshit.
Lower revenue collection puts upward pressure on government borrowing, ensuring that it deviates from the glided path of debt reduction
This analysis is based on the quarterly earnings for 724 companies.
While larger companies like Nestle India, Britannia and the like are often mentioned, some mid-cap companies are also expected to grow at a rapid clip.
New entrants could include Flipkart, Paytm, Cafe Coffee Day and ICICI Prudential Life Insurance, it says
The bigger worry is that its effects could linger well into the next financial year.
In five years, per-employee revenue for IT companies grew at 9 per cent each year.
Urjit Patel as the new RBI governor whose focus is on taming inflation has lowered the probability of interest rate cut soon
Combined debt-equity ratio of top companies declines but interest expenses outgrow profits.
Promoters' holding in private sector BSE 500 companies declined to 43.4% in Sept
They believe that the key reason behind such a high growth rate could be "a steep downward revision" of the year-ago base period.
In the past 12 months, such earnings have grown in double digits in Europe, the US, Japan and South Korea.
The index is more expensive than it was at 2014-end or when it hit a life-time high in January.
FY17 GDP growth faces cash crunch heat
Experts, however, caution that though the moves are positive for the sector as a whole, they don't expect much gain in the near-term.
Number of stocks trading above 50 times and 100 times earnings are at record highs. When this happened in 2015 and 2016, the Sensex fell 22.6 per cent in a little over a year's time after peaking in January 2015, while it fell by 11.3 per cent in two months from its peak in September 2016.
FMCG stocks have underperformed the market, falling 2.2 per cent so far in 2014.
Though India has been one of the best-performing markets in the last two months, it has lagged some of its emerging market peers such as the Philippines, Thailand and South Africa.
The report analysed product launches of 2011, their success over three years, and reported 31 of the 14,509 products introduced that year were received well by consumers.
The rush for prohibition and the Supreme Court's decision to ban liquor sales within 500 metres from highways have hurt companies.
EM asset classes could rally if the pace of US Federal Reserve rate increases moderates.
Beat gains made by mid-cap, broader indices.
After 11 years at the helm of Jubilant, Ajay Kaul, the 'nuts and bolts' executive, called it a day amid speculation that his expansionist strategy was not clicking, says Viveat Susan Pinto.
If financials and oil sectors were removed, India Inc has done quite well.
Analysts are eyeing bigger launches that will positively impact company's fortunes.
Developers had been urging dual usage of their SEZ land since the beginning of global financial recession in 2008.
Is it a last ditch attempt to reassure consumers, or a way to gain the upper hand at the negotiating table, or is it just a way of exhausting the treasure chest before the lights go out
With a rise of around 30 per cent in the benchmark index S&P BSE Sensex, 2014 has been the best year for Indian equity markets since 2009, when the benchmark index surged 81 per cent.
67 companies with total debt of Rs 5.65 lakh cr were either loss-making or didn't generate enough profit to cover interest cost in FY15
The company plans to overhaul business and rationalise costs in a bid to reach parent Unilever's new profit targets, reports Viveat Susan Pinto.
Election results, diesel & gas pricing moves, labour law changes - all stoke anticipation of more cheer ahead.
Lower IT exports will raise India's dependence on capital flows to fund imports.
The markets gained nearly 7 per cent in the 4 trading sessions of March.
There, however, has been an improvement in operating margins.
Analysts now expect India Inc to report a decline in both top line and bottom line for the September quarter.
Analysts say traders have been building long positions on expectations the BJP would sail through in the five Assembly elections
Through the past 12 months, the Bank Nifty has risen 55%
The growth premium India enjoyed has largely been lost.
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