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India’s Spending Boom Is Getting Bigger. India Inc’s Giants Want In

admin — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 11:55:00 +0000

Vikash Tripathi, Outlook Business 1 September 2026 Eight decades ago, the ‘nationalist businessman’ GD Birla helped prepare the ‘Bombay Plan’, which asked the state to pro-vide for the bare minimum needs of its people. His plan asked for 2,800 calories of well-balanced food per day, 30 yards of clothing per year and 100sq ft of […]

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A Supply Crunch Is Keeping Whey Protein Prices Elevated

admin — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:49:00 +0000

Pritha Pahari, The Core 5 Aug 2026 Saurav, a 27-year-old resident of Navi Mumbai, has bought the same tub of whey protein for three years, same brand, same 1kg pack, same monthly ritual after his gym membership renews. Last month, at checkout, the price had jumped by nearly a thousand rupees. He assumed it was […]

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Second time lucky?

admin — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:25:00 +0000

Kartikay Kashyap, Financial Express / Brandwagon 30 July 2026 Wendy’s first foray into India’s quick service restaurant (QSR) market in 2015 remained a non-starter. Sierra Nevada Restaurants, the then master franchisee, could not scale its retail presence beyond four conventional restaurants concentrated largely in Delhi-NCR. This limited physical availability, brand awareness and ordering frequency. Ten […]

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Specialty quick-commerce bets on curation, not just rapid delivery

admin — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 13:54:10 +0000

Sowmya Ramasubramanian, Vaeshnavi Kasthuril (MINT) Bengaluru, 13 July 2026 India’s vertical quick-commerce startups across categories like baby care, medicines and fashion, backed by venture capital heavyweights, are beginning to redefine what “quick” means. For some, the race is no longer about cutting delivery times by a few more minutes. Instead, founders are increasingly talking about […]

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Coffee startups chase growth despite losses

admin — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 11:36:00 +0000

Viveat Susan Pinto, S Shanthi (Financial Express) 13 July 2026 India’s new-age coffee chains are accelerating expansion despite continuing losses, as investors bet that the country’s under-penetrated branded cafe market can deliver long-term growth. Third Wave Coffee plans to open 100 cafes this financial year while targeting company-wide break-even. Blue Tokai aims to expand from […]

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Why foreign-owned ecom firms’ operating models are under the lens

admin — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 14:36:00 +0000

Nivedita Mookerji, Business Standard 12 Jul 2026 Recently, fast moving consumer goods distributors posed some existential questions to the government: Have the rules changed for foreign-owned ecommerce firms? With that, the All India Consumer Products Distribution Federation made a plea to the government to examine if foreign-funded ecommerce and quick commerce players can run inventory-led […]

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Consumer firms jittery as fears of higher crude oil prices return

admin — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 07:50:35 +0000

Neethi Lisa Rojan & Vaeshnavi Kasthuril, MINT Mumbai/Bengaluru, 8 July 2026 The collapse of the US-Iran peace deal in less than a month has rattled India’s consumer sector, reviving fears that higher oil prices and fresh supply-chain disruptions could squeeze demand just as companies were betting on a broader recovery. The renewed uncertainty followed US […]

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Stitching together growth: Modenik bets on legacy brands in India’s innerwear battle

admin — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:35:00 +0000

Vaeshnavi Kasthuril, MINT 30 June 2026, Mumbai Advent International-backed Modenik Lifestyle Pvt. Ltd is doubling down on its portfolio of legacy innerwear brands, planning to scale each label into a sizeable business rather than rely on a single flagship brand. “Each of the brands must grow big enough to be called a company of its […]

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Online beauty marketplaces push for growth with in-house brands

admin — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:19:06 +0000

Sharleen D’souza & Shivani Shinde, Business Standard Mumbai, 21 June 2026 Online beauty marketplaces Reliance Retail Ventures’ Tira and Nykaa have a common mantra: growing in-house brands. Successful brand acquisitions and margin growth seem to fuel the push. “With private labels, margins are better. It also helps both companies plug the gap in the market […]

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Ecommerce isn’t adding much to Retail Inc’s cart

admin — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:24:00 +0000

Aanya Thakur & Writankar Mukherjee, Economic Times 12 June 2026, Mumbai/Kolkata India’s leading retail chains have seen the share of e-commerce in total sales either remain flat or edge up by a sluggish 1-2 percentage points over the past four-five years despite a sustained push towards omnichannel retailing. An ET analysis of eight major retailers-market […]

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