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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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Ikea India: Rewriting the Playbook

admin — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 12:58:00 +0000

Kartikay Kashyap, BrandWagon, Financial Express 18 February 2026 IKEA HAS BEEN around in India for about eight years, with another three years before that spent studying the market. It has developed a range that it deems “locally relevant-like the roti maker, the tava (pan), the belan (rolling pin), and the pressure cooker -which now constitute […]

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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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Lenskart’s Year of Big Wins

admin — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 13:37:00 +0000

Gargi Sarkar, Inc42 7 December 2025 The past year has been nothing short of monumental for LensKart — from reporting another operationally profitable quarter in Q2 FY26 to making the public markets leap in November, and crossing a market capitalisation of INR 70,000 Cr despite a muted stock market debut. A clear shift this year […]

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New tax & labour rules: What rising compliance costs mean for e-comm platforms

admin — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 05:08:00 +0000

Pooja Yadav, Exchange4Media 3 December 2025 Over the last few months, India’s e‑commerce and quick‑commerce ecosystem has undergone a wave of structural regulatory and tax reforms. Be it the Goods and Services Tax Council (GST Council) formally bringing “local delivery services” under the tax net with an 18% levy, or the newly implemented labour and […]

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Swiggy Looks to Secure Workplace Meals with DeskEats & Corporate Rewards Launch

admin — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 14:27:00 +0000

Aakriti Bansal, Medianama August 5, 2025 MediaNama’s Take: Swiggy is shifting from individual convenience to workplace capture. With DeskEats and Corporate Rewards, the company is embedding itself directly into the workday. This move is not just about food delivery. It is about becoming part of employees’ daily routines. More repetition leads to more orders, stronger […]

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Quick fashion delivery startups lean on AI, try-and-buy to cut costly returns

admin — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 14:39:00 +0000

Alenjith K Johny & Ajay Rag, Economic Times Jul 27, 2025 Startups in the 60-minute fashion delivery segment are betting on features such as ‘try and buy’ and artificial intelligence (AI)-powered virtual try-ons to tackle high return rates, a key pain point in the segment. These tools are helping increase conversion rates and reduce returns […]

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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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How Zomato’s Opaque Ad Model Is Squeezing Small Restaurants’ Margins and Forcing Unsustainable Spending

admin — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 17:25:00 +0000

Aakriti Bansal, MediaNama June 5, 2025 A restaurant owner recently took to X (formerly Twitter) to publicly slam Zomato for “mystery charges” and unauthorised ad placements, reigniting concerns over how the platform treats its small business partners. The tweet, accompanied by screenshots of the restaurant’s earnings dashboard, claimed that despite months of listings, his restaurant […]

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Big retailers, Reliance to Titan, slash jobs by 52,000 in FY24

admin — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 08:57:00 +0000

Around a dozen lifestyle, grocery retailers, and quick-service restaurants cut about 26,000 jobs in FY24. This decline followed a slowdown in store expansions amid weakening consumer demand. Leading this staff reduction were Reliance Industries' retail arm and other major retailers. Still, some retailers, such as Shoppers Stop, continued to expand.

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