Reliance launches beauty business with omnichannel strategy

Reliance is unstoppable for now. It’s launching/ acquiring/ partnering businesses across segments and industries. As part of it’s retail expansion strategy, the subsidiary Reliance Retail Ventures Limited (RRVL) has now entered into the beauty segment. Launched with an Omnichannel strategy combining both the online and offline route Tira website and app for ecommerce 1st physical … Read more

Sanjiv Puri shares some key insights

ITC‘s Chairman and MD, Sanjiv Puri has shared the following – Indian FMCG industry will bounce back by volume sales growth from FY24, led by rural demand, with early signs of recovery already visible. concerns around monsoons this year can be a dampener (he didn’t mention it) ITC will accelerate investments across businesses back to … Read more

Nykaa loses 5 senior employees

Few months back, Nykaa’s CFO had resigned. Now 5 more senior executives of the Company have resigned. Chief Commercial Operations Officer, Manoj Gandhi Chief Business Officer of fashion division, Gopal Asthana Chief Executive Officer of wholesale business, Vikas Gupta Vice President of Nykaa fashion division’s Owned Brands business, Shuchi Pandya Vice President of Finance at … Read more

Controlling stakeholder Crompton decides to merge Butterfly with itself. Couldn’t proceed due to rejection from Butterfly’s public shareholders.

Crompton had acquired controlling stake in Butterfly last year. For details check here. Currently, Crompton owns 75% stake in the Company, previous promoter group 7.78%, DIIs 5.61% and balance 11.58%  by public. Crompton has now decided to merge Butterfly within itself. Consequently, there would be only one listed entity i.e., Crompton and other shareholders of … Read more

HUL announces new MD & CEO from internal team. Seems normal course.

Rohit Jawa will take over as MD & CEO w.e.f, 27th June, 2023 upto 26th June, 2028, i.e., for 5 years. He will also takeover as President, Unilever South Asia. He is taking both positions from the well respected veteran Sanjiv Mehta Sanjiv served at the position for 10 years, which one can consider to … Read more

Apple reshuffling management to give more focus on India

Apple is reorganising the management of its international businesses to give more focus on India, which has become an important market for the company. This marks the first time that India will be its own sales region at Apple, highlighting the nation’s growing significance. According to Bloomberg sources, the shift is happening after the retirement … Read more

No correlation between heat wave and demand for fans, coolers and ACs

Intense heat waves and extreme weather conditions have little bearing on revenue growth of companies selling products such as fans, coolers, and air conditioners, a detailed analysis of historical data by brokerage ICICI Securities has found. “On analyzing the heat waves in past three decades (FY92-FY22) and revenue growth of summer product companies (fan, cooler, … Read more

Walmart-owned Flipkart poised to list publicly, says SoftBank

Walmart-owned e-commerce giant Flipkart is among SoftBank’s list of portfolio companies which are poised to go public. Other such portfolio companies of the Japanese investor which are expected to list publicly include the British chip designer arm, TikTok parent ByteDance, mobile payment system PayPay, Mexican online used-car dealership Kavak and Brazilian real estate startup QuintoAndar. … Read more