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India’s D2C journey: After a rapid scale-up, why it’s now all about discipline

admin — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 07:31:00 +0000

Samar Srivastava, Forbes India Feb 27, 2026 India’s young consumers are discovering the next big beauty serum, protein bar or sneaker brand not in a mall, but on Instagram reels, YouTube shorts and quick-commerce apps that promise 10-minute delivery. What began as a trickle of digital-first labels a decade ago has now become a full-blown […]

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Why Most Indian D2C Brands Fail to Cross INR 100 Crore Mark

admin — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 10:53:00 +0000

By Saumyangi Yadav, Entrepreneur India Dec 15, 2025 India’s D2C ecosystem has grown rapidly over the past five years, but scale remains elusive. While thousands of brands have launched and many have crossed early revenue milestones, only a small fraction manage to break past INR 100 crore in annual revenue. According to a new report […]

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Retailers fuel Black Friday frenzy with bumper offers

admin — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 13:56:00 +0000

Viveat Susan Pinto, Financial Express November 27, 2025 Several of the country’s top retailers, malls and brands have kicked off a shopping extravaganza on the occasion of Black Friday, offering steep discounts across product categories. A Western import, the day which symbolises the beginning of the Christmas shopping season in the US, the UK and […]

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High-value Products Online: Serious Revenue or Just a Digital Showcase?

admin — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 12:36:24 +0000

Yash Bhatia, IMPACT 4 November 2025 It started with groceries. Quick commerce started delivering milk, bread, and eggs in 10–15 minutes, which seemed revolutionary enough in 2022. Then came the iPhone 14 launch, and suddenly, quick commerce wasn’t just about convenience; it was about spectacle. Overnight, India’s app-based delivery ecosystem became the stage for a […]

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Shoppable videos, creator hubs: Why Indian e-commerce is becoming a media business?

admin — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 07:50:00 +0000

Shalinee Mishra, Exchange4Media 5 September 2025 Retailers in India are waking up to a hard truth: customer acquisition can no longer ride on advertising alone. Digital ad spends grew by 14-17% in 2024, touching nearly ₹50,000 crore (as per Pitch Madison report) and accounting for 46% of India’s total ad market. But with customer acquisition […]

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Shiprocket Unveils Shunya AI: What The E-Commerce AI Shift Means for MSMEs

admin — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 07:34:00 +0000

Prabhanu Kumar Das, Medianama 16 July 2025 E-commerce logistics platform Shiprocket announced the launch of Shunya.ai, a sovereign AI model developed in India to support the country’s Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), on July 11. The company claims that it is India’s first multimodal AI stack, built in partnership with US-based Ultrasafe Inc. This […]

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Amazon Arrives Late, But Can It Upset the Quick Commerce Apple Cart for Front-Runners?

admin — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 17:12:00 +0000

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 […]

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Amazon Hastening Deliveries in Competitive India

admin — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 16:57:00 +0000

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 […]

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What Zepto’s New Data Analytics Tool Signals For The Quick Commerce Industry

admin — Mon, 19 May 2025 10:59:00 +0000

Aakriti Bansal, Medianama May 19, 2025 Zepto has launched Zepto Atom, a paid analytics product for consumer brands. The tool offers live dashboards with minute-level updates, PIN-code level performance maps, and Zepto GPT, an in-house Natural Language Processing (NLP) assistant trained on internal data. While Blinkit and Swiggy Instamart have not announced comparable offerings, Zepto […]

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New skincare labels catch the fancy of young India, eating into demand for many biggies

admin — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 13:17:27 +0000

Sagar Malviya, Economic Times Mumbai, 20 March 2025 Established beauty product makers such as Forest Essentials, Colorbar, Kama Ayurveda, Body Shop, VLCC Personal Care and Lotus Herbals saw a slowdown in sales growth in FY24, according to the latest Registrar of Companies filings. Consumers favoured new-age rivals such as Minimalist and Pilgrim, specialised derma brands, […]

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