60-65 per cent of the FMCG industry's overall sales come from urban areas; 35-40 per cent from rural areas.
FIIs have offloaded shares of Bajaj Corp, Nestle, Jyothy Laboratories and Britannia.
He is the face of the e-sports platform Dream11, the fantasy league platform, online bus ticketing platform RedBus, web hosting company, GoDaddy as well as traditional big-ticket brands such as Colgate.
20 start-ups that beat decades old companies in valuations.
The Rs 2,000-crore Patanjali, looking to grow its turnover two-and-a-half times in FY16.
Suresh Narayanan, chairman & managing director, Nestl India, shares tips on crisis management.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
147 domestic and international recruiters -- including Ola, Amazon, Flipkart and Xiaomi -- hired all 460 graduates.
The consumer goods segment faces an uphill task of retaining investor interest in the near future as valuations become expensive.
Patanjali's packet milk to be lower than competitor brands by Rs 2 a litre
Gujarat has caught the fancy of a large number of corporate heavyweights.
PI Industries, GCPL, Colgate and HUL have delivered positive returns every year since 2008.
FMCG stocks have underperformed the market, falling 2.2 per cent so far in 2014.
Companies whose products have not been picked up for distribution in Gujarat under a "non-cooperation movement" include Marico, Dabur, Emami, Britannia, Reckitt Benckiser, and Godrej Consumer Products.
Actor-director Jay Chandrasekhar and his business partner Kevin Heffernan talk about their latest film The Babymakers.
'The wonderful thing about being a journalist is that when someone tries to muzzle your work, it's a badge of honour.' 'You know you've done something right,' Priyanka Pathak-Narain, the author of Godman To Tycoon: The Untold Story Of Baba Ramdev, tells Sunil Sethi.
HUL, ITC, Nestle, Colgate, Dabur, Britannia, Asian Paints, P&G are trading at nearly 48 times. The previous record high was 53 times at the end of March 1994.
Ramdev made nature-to-goodness products popular, and reaped benefits. Then he seemed to lose focus and the last thing it needs is more distraction, like the passionate founder shooting his mouth off yet again
BMA's clients allege that depository firm CDSL and stock exchanges did not act on their complaints, prompting them to protest before Sebi. They say their shares have been transferred to a pool account without their knowledge and have been used to avail loans. Clients alleged that BMA has pledged their securities with a leading private bank, who could have sold their holdings.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
China, India and Brazil showed significant support for additional spending on green products.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Friday.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
Of the 16 FMCG firms, 12 companies saw an increase in their respective foreign institutional investors holding in three months ended September 2013 over the year-ago period, while the remaining four witnessed a decline in FIIs stake, according to a report by A C Choksi Share Brokers.
Dairy major Amul, Life Insurance Corporation of India and mobile manufacturer Nokia have emerged as India's top three brands according to Asia's Top 1000 Brands
Much of this has been made possible by the owners's insistence on building a team, rather than banking on a collection of talented individuals not necessarily suited to play alongside one another.
Even as conflicts between rival brands increase in India, industry experts find the trend encouraging.
If it were a corporate entity, the Board of Control for Cricket in India would have been among the country's top 170 companies in terms of revenues (2007) -- much larger than Zee Entertainment (Rs 1,515.88 crore) for which promoter Subhash Chandra is waging a bitter battle against the official cricket board to develop 20-20 cricket in India.
The highest salary rose by 14.22 per cent from last year.
Two new body washes -- Palmolive Thermal Spa's Firming Body Wash and Massage Body Wash -- promise you just that.
Personal care products maker VVF is looking at diversification into the food business. The Rs 675 crore (Rs 6.75 billion) company is currently eyeing buyouts in India.
Salim Damji, who five years ago had pleaded guilty to cheating a large number of investors to the tune of about $78 million, was this week charged with fraud and forgery.
Shah Rukh Khan kicks off the comeback of Antakshari.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
The list includes Hindustan Unilever, Asian Paints and Bharti Airtel - firms that investors feel are most likely to come up with the next big innovation.
The government on Friday cleared 24 FDI proposals valued at Rs 158.82 crore (Rs 1.58 billion), including ICICI Bank's Rs 44.45 crore (Rs 444.5 million) American Depository Shares offering and proposals of Colgate Palmolive and Bausch & Lomb.
And when it comes to dental problems, over 50% are unconcerned about preventing or curing dental problems
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