Sowmya Ramasubramanian, Mint 17 September 2025 Snapdeal, run by AceVector, is relying on strong growth in fashion and apparel to strengthen its position in the competitive e-commerce space, especially during the high-stakes festive season when customer loyalty is low. According to CEO Achint Setia, the company has seen its fashion and lifestyle categories triple in growth this year, though exact figures remain undisclosed. "Fashion has been a standout category this year and, in fact, has been possibly the fastest-growing one so far. Overall, lifestyle [including fashion, home decor, and kitchen] already accounts for 90% of our business today, and fashion…
Shabori Das & Sagar Malviya, Economic Times 15 September 2025 ITC Foods is making a strategic entry into fresh packaged foods including short shelf-life cookies, cakes, and chapatis, among others, part of its broader aim to ride the surge in quick commerce demand, said Hemant Malik, chief executive of the food division of ITC. The move is also prompted by the cigarette-to-snack maker's aim to capture India's growing appetite for convenience-led, freshly-made food with shelf life of a few days, instead of 12-24 months for other food products, with quicker fulfilment systems. "There is a growing consumer demand for fresh…
Praveen Paramasivam, Reuters August 21, 2025 Summary India's luxury beauty market to quintuple by 2035 Domestic brands account for less than a tenth of sales Global brands modify offerings for India India's luxury beauty market is expected to quintuple to $4 billion by 2035 from $800 million in 2023, driven by its young, affluent, social-media savvy shoppers with rising disposable incomes, consulting firm Kearney and luxury beauty distributor LUXASIA said in a report. Luxury beauty makes up just 4% of the $21-billion beauty and personal care market, compared with 8% to 24% across top Southeast Asian countries and 25% to…
Alka Jain, Outlook Business 10 July 2025 Just when Blinkit, Instamart and Zepto were slowing down in their quick commerce game, Amazon’s entry may spur them towards a more aggressive race. The ecommerce giant has begun offering deliveries in as little as ten minutes in Delhi after Bengaluru, under the name ‘Amazon Now’. “We are excited with the initial customer response and positive feedback, especially from Prime members. Based on this, we are now expanding the service over the next few months addressing immediate customer needs while maintaining Amazon’s standards for safety, quality and reliability,” the company said in an…
Sankalp Phartiyal, Bloomberg 1 July 2025 Just last week, Amazon.com Inc.’s India unit announced the launch of five new fulfillment centers to speed up e-commerce deliveries across the South Asian country’s smaller towns and cities. The online shopping giant’s statement included the words fast, faster and fastest nine times. That’s because delivery speed has never mattered more in India than it does now. Homegrown firms such as Eternal Ltd.’s Blinkit, Swiggy Ltd.’s Instamart and Zepto are now delivering everything from pricey herbal skincare to Bluetooth speakers in just 10 minutes, making Amazon’s overnight shipping look comparatively lethargic. With one of…
ITC Foods Limited, #food division of ITC Limited and a leading player in the Indian #FMCG sector, is making its debut in the fresh packaged #foods segment such as short shelf-life cookies, cakes and chapatis, through #quickcommerce.
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Are we seeing a "protein revolution" in #India or just #marketing gimmickry from #Food / #FMCG companies? @devangshu shared his views with @kabir_naqvi. (For the longer video of the entire conversation, please check the previous tweet.)
Big #food cos are rebranding everyday #staples with a promise of more protein, #health, strength. Is this just clever #FMCG #marketing disguised as #nutrition awareness? @devangshu @DilipCherian @News9Tweets @kabir_naqvi
Customer Forfeiture Cost (CFC) is the lifetime value lost when a customer walks away because of a “burn". We measure Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC), why not CFC? @devangshu
