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Shrinkflation, price hikes buzz in consumer firms as war spikes costs

admin — Sat, 02 May 2026 09:32:00 +0000

Neethi Lisa Rojan, Mint 2 May 2026, Mumbai Fast-moving consumer goods makers are leaning on a mix of price increases, smaller pack sizes and tighter cost controls to navigate raw-material volatility triggered by the ongoing US-Iran war, while still reporting robust volume growth for the March quarter. The ongoing war blew up end February this […]

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Project Falcon and Tata’s Consumer Coup: The Making of an FMCG Challenger to HUL, ITC

admin — Fri, 01 May 2026 10:33:00 +0000

Yuthika Bhargava & Vikash Tripathi, Outlook Business Mumbai, 1 May 2026 For generations of Indians, the word Tata hasn’t just been a brand, it has been a permanent resident in our homes. Think back to the kitchens of your childhood. It was the familiar packet of Tata salt, the Desh ka Namak, that seasoned every […]

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Taking the road less travelled

admin — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 08:03:00 +0000

Anees Hussain and Kartikay Kashyap, Financial Express / Brand Wagon 6 February 2026 Swiggy Instamart’s Noice has consciously rejected every aesthetic that defines platform house brands. Its visual identity doesn’t sport minimalist colours or whites, no clean sans-serif, no ‘discount alternative’ signalling. Instead it uses Indian truck art inspired design with neon colours and bold […]

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Foreign fashion labels fade, functional clothing the fad

admin — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 05:07:00 +0000

Sagar Malviya, ET Bureau Mumbai, 15 January 2026 It’s mostly a tale of two halves for top western fashion labels in India after the runaway sales and retail expansion in the years soon after the pandemic. While Marks & Spencer, Benetton, and Adidas are battling waning demand, Uniqlo and Nike are gaining fresh ground, reflecting […]

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Why Reliance is Buying Old Brands

admin — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 14:33:00 +0000

Writankar Mukherjee & Shabori Das, Economic Times / Brand Equity 7 January 2026 There’s a renewed sparkle in the adage ‘Old is Gold’ at India’s biggest conglomerate Reliance. Banking on Indians’ nostalgia, it is hawking and reviving labels that once defined everyday life, Campa and BPL among them, to set its consumer venture’s cash registers […]

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India’s lab-grown diamonds sparkle as investors rush in

admin — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 05:17:00 +0000

Priyamvada C, Mint 1 Dec 2025 A wave of investor capital is flowing into India’s laboratory-grown diamond (LGD) segment, as fastscaling brands tap rising consumer adoption in a market now worth well over $300 million. New-age brands have raised multiple rounds of capital on the back of growing market share and improving margins. Actor Shilpa […]

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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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Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance battles mom-and-pop stores for India’s shoppers

admin — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 12:04:00 +0000

Chris Kay, Krishn Kaushik and Andrea Rodrigues in Mumbai Nov 18 2025 Just before dawn, Kashif Sameer joins dozens of couriers zipping across Mumbai to deliver items stocked in a basement of a shopping mall run by Reliance Industries. “I make between 20 and 30 deliveries in a day,” said the 25-year-old, who had just […]

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Depresso! Cafés go through the grinder

admin — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 00:03:00 +0000

Sagar Malviya, Economic Times 9 January 2025 Starbucks, Barista, Chaayos and Third Wave Coffee are among café chains facing the brunt of a slowdown in discretionary consumer spending. The impact is more severe for these retailers as they opened hundreds of new stores last fiscal year even as losses widened. To be sure, smaller chains […]

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Flipkart Minutes eyes 10-min drug delivery to outpace its rivals

admin — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 07:14:00 +0000

Writankar Mukherjee, Economic Times 3 December 2024 Flipkart is set to shortly start delivering medicines within 10 minutes, likely becoming the first quick commerce service to do so, intensifying competition in this red-hot market. The Walmart-owned company’s Flipkart Minutes service has started enlisting local chemists in the metros from where the products will be sold […]

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