In India, Samsung is seeing strong competition from local company Micromax.
Despite the failure of most e-commerce players to meet orders through the first week of the lockdown, there has been no serious crisis, thanks to supplies from 11 million small kirana and mom-and-pop stores across the country with the support of over 300,000 distributors and wholesalers.
Reliance Industries on Friday reported more than doubling of its March quarter net profit to Rs 13,227 crore as improvement in petrochemical and consumer business countered continued weakness in refining business.
Leading Indian companies are considering whether to bid for the India cricket team sponsorship for the next three years. The deadline for doing so is Saturday.
The consumer electronics industry is ecstatic about 3D this year. Or so it seems with players like Panasonic, Sony, LG, Toshiba and Samsung announcing the introduction of 3D on just about every visually-related product they make, including point-and-shoot cameras, camcorders, laptops and screens.
Consumer Electronics and Appliances Manufacturers Association Consumer has also welcomed the move saying the it would improve the sentiments and strengthen the growth.
The good news is that India is hitting critical mass across product categories like mobile telephony, auto and consumer electronics, to name a few.
The 19 inches LED TV is equipped with latest features and weighs around 3.5 kgs, the company said in a statement.
Consumer electronics major Panasonic on Monday announced the setting up of an internal division, Panasonic Automotive Systems India, to focus on the Indian automotive sector.
Credit Suisse said if the deal fructifies, then this will bring together the largest offline and online retailers in India.
As the rupee continues its freefall against the dollar, cars, TVs, washing machines and other home appliances are set to cost more with companies set to hike prices to offset impact on their margins.
A story on how the Korean consumer durable majors LG and Samsung knocked out rivals in the fight for market share and brand recall.
While 100 per cent FDI is allowed in single-brand retail, if the foreign investment exceeds 51 per cent, the 30 per cent mandatory local sourcing norm kicks in.
The group is among the 40 largest defaulters identified by the Reserve Bank's first list for insolvency in late 2016.
Consumer electronics major Videocon on Monday said it is in talks with foreign entities for a 26 per cent stake sale in its telecom subsidiary Videocon Telecommunications and that a deal would fructify "very soon".
The survey, titled 'Are You Being Sold?', focused on 14 multinational brands in IT hardware and software, as well as consumer electronic space across countries, including India, China, Singapore, Thailand, South Korea, Indonesia and Australia. The performance of sales staff was judged on the basis of the complete shopping experience, including a salesperson's response time, product knowledge and attempts to close a sale.
Consumer electronics and home appliances company Videocon, plans to invest a sum of Rs 10,000 crore (Rs 100 billion) in Madhya Pradesh for setting up a power plant, television manufacturing unit and for building a hospital, a top company official has said.
At the same time, Tier II and III cities are expected to have a faster adoption rate with greater sales margins derived directly from online channels.
MIRC, which was struggling to survive just two years back, is on an overdrive to shed its image of just another TV company.
Japan's consumer electronics major Panasonic plans to double its headcount in India to 20,000 in next two years with the commissioning of its new manufacturing facility at Jhajjar in Haryana.
Developed by IITians, it will be showcased at the Consumer Electronics Show.
IT major Wipro on Monday said it has been ranked as a leader in the global R&D service provider survey by Zinnov Management Consulting for the fourth successive year.
Probably, one of the biggest stories of consumer electronics in 2010 may just be the rise of the tablet computers. A sneak-peek at the top 10 of the lot.
Call it the ultimate credit crunch gadget -- a bracelet which tells you when you are too stressed or emotional, and helps cope with them.
Most of Flipkart's business came from consumer electronics.
Presenting some of the coolest health and well-being devices we spotted at the ongoing Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, US.
With the new focus, the firm is doubling its advertising and marketing spending to Rs 100 crore this year on new campaigns for its products.
According to the order, all factories producing essential goods and services will remain operational at full capacity.
To tap the rapidly expanding online retailing market, Philips Lighting, a subsidiary of the Dutch consumer electronics giant Royal Philips, has partnered 'exclusively' with Amazon to sell its latest product range.
According to them, a boom in online trading and a surge in an 'anti-retail movement' could spell the demise of some retail outlets by 2020 unless they revolutionise the way they do business. Moreover, manufacturers are more more preferring to sell directly to the public and consumers opt to bypass stores and deal directly with wholesalers or even each other.
The issue has been raised by the income-tax department saying that consumer electronics and home appliances manufacturer Samsung India Electronics Ltd is liable to deduct tax in respect of goods outsourced for manufacturing to other manufacturers or original equipment manufacturers.
The Audi e-tron Spyder is the centre of attraction at the Consumer Electronic Show at Las Vegas.
The product, Vaio X, which is a direct competitor of Apple's Macbook Air, weighs around 600 grams and is half an inch thick.
This is the second acquisition by Philips in the domestic healthcare imaging sector and the fifth one in the emerging markets since 2007. Meditronics manufactures surgery and radiography X-rays and employs around 150 people across its R&D and production centres in the country.
This year, there is hardly any cheer in the market place, though three festivals - Eid, Dussehra and Diwali - have fallen in the month of October. Several consumer electronics, automobile, personal care products and food item retailers say sales are sharply down. Even new home sales are learnt to be lackluster.
As advertising reaches a cacophonous pitch, as it does every year around this time, brands say they are finding newer and more effective ways to reach their audiences.
These upcoming phones might have the coolest tech of 2018.
The added burden on manufacturers for recycling e-waste is expected to impact their margins, which may further lead them towards hiking prices of other items.
According to the data available on the Reserve Bank of India's website, net workers' remittances in April-June 2018 were $11.5 billion
The privately-held company founded by Indian-American Amar G Bose would not say how many positions would be eliminated at its corporate headquarters in Massachusetts or how many workers it employs there. Bose issued a statement on Tuesday saying it was 'restructuring its operations in response to the decline of the global economy, and its impact on consumer spending.'
