MD of the Company, Mr Chander Agarwal claims to have recently concluded the initial trials. In the trials conducted in Ahmedabad, medicines and other urgent/immediate delivery packages weighing 5-10 kgs were delivered to the customers, he said. The trials were conducting in collaboration with a start-up and made in India drones were used, he further … Read more
Transport Corporation of India (TCI) has sold 20% in it’s cold chain business to Japan’s Mitsui for Rs 63.5 crore. Key points to note – Cold chain business is run through TCI’s subsidiary TCI Cold Chain Solutions Ltd (TCI CCS). TCI CCS provides integrated cold chain logistics services in India, with a focus on temperature-controlled … Read more
The ongoing digital transformation of the corner kirana stores, tens of millions of shops catering to 1.3 billion consumers, will matter for everyone from Unilever NV and Procter & Gamble Co. to State Bank of India, the country’s largest lender. It will also be important to Amazon.com Inc. boss Jeff Bezos and Reliance Industries Ltd. … Read more
Proxy advisory firm Institutional Investor Advisory Services’s (IiAS) recommendation to vote against a resolution to reappoint 31-year-old Rama Kirloskar to the board of (KBL) and also her appointment as joint managing director triggered a war of words between her father Sanjay Kirloskar (Chairman of the Company), and the proxy advisory firm through series of emails. … Read more
The flyover was opened on August 1, 2021 after a significant delay (started in 2016 and was originally scheduled to complete by January 2019). These kind of delays are quite expected and accepted in general due to varied reasons. Delay in permissions, timely audits, modifications, cost escalations and payment delays being some of them. It … Read more