Consumer durable firms stare at uncertain future

In 2020 a round of hikes in customs duty on components like compressors, motors and printed circuit boards aggravated the situation, coronavirus crisis is now leaving manufacturers with no option......

Pollution in Delhi: Air purifier, pollution mask sales spike

While Hindware is expecting sale of its air purifiers to double this year, brands like Xiaomi, Blue Star and Daikin, too, are expecting significant rise in sales. As air quality in the Capital......

Early rains halt FMCG, durable firms' summer run

Premium ice-cream brand Baskin Robbins sold about 600,000 litres of ice cream last summer. This summer, it expected to sell 30-35 per cent more ice cream.In March and April this year, it sold......

Split is cool in AC mart

Split air-conditioners are grabbing increasingly larger pie of the AC market in India at the cost of window air-conditioners. They currently comprise 30 per cent of the one million unit room ACs......