Marico has acquired 53.98% of HW Wellness Solutions Private Limited, that operates under the brand name “True Elements” (TE). Key points to note – TE operating for last 5-6 years sells products in the healthy breakfast and snack segment. It offers 70+ products including oats, quinoa, muesli, granola, flakes, poha, upma, dosa, roasted seeds, seed … Read more
Leading food company Britannia Industries on Monday said it has judiciously increased prices in the January-March quarter on account of cost inflation and would further take such calibrated price hikes to retain its profitability. The Wadia group firm has “continued to take price increases judiciously and remained aggressive on the cost front,” said Britannia … Read more
Colgate Palmolive India (CPI) has informed the following top management changes – The current CEO and MD, Mr. Ram Raghavan has been promoted as President, Enterprise Oral Care, for Colgate Palmolive Company, the parent Company of CPI and will be based out of its headquarter at New York. In place of Ram, CPI has hired … Read more
Emami is buying 19% stake into TruNativ. Key points to note – TruNativ, founded in March 2019 is focused on healthy food and nutrition products. Emami has not disclosed the amount invested for the 19% stake. Consideration has been paid in cash to subscribe fresh equity of TruNativ. In FY21, TruNativ reported revenues of Rs … Read more
GlaxoSmithKline Plc said it rejected an offer from Unilever Plc for the drugmaker’s consumer healthcare unit last year that valued the business at about 50 billion pounds ($68 billion). Glaxo in a statement Saturday said that it had received three unsolicited offers from Unilever for its consumer healthcare business, the final one on Dec. 20 … Read more
From Plc to Colgate-Palmolive Co., consumer goods makers in India are facing distribution blues that have nothing to do with pandemic-induced shortages and bottlenecks. The trusted middlemen that brands have traditionally relied on to reach millions of small neighborhood stores in 8,000 towns and 660,000 villages are in revolt. It’s a mutiny that the multinationals … Read more
Harsh Mariwala founded Marico in 1987, turned it into an ₹8,000-crore FMCG company, and now, he says, he’s realised his dream of transforming it from a founder owned and led organisation to a professionally-managed one. His son, Rishabh who was part of operations very briefly earlier, will now be the trustee of the family-owned majority … Read more
Global chief executive Alan Jope said the Indian business is emerging stronger from the pandemic but mobility and consumer sentiments remain below pre-pandemic levels. “We are emerging stronger from the pandemic with over 75% of the business winning market share and household penetration continuing to grow well. Mobility and consumer sentiments still remain below 2019 … Read more
A new report by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) says India’s consumption market is back on the growth track after a year, having been disrupted by the pandemic. While growth projection for the consumption market was made before Covid-19 struck, BCG says that the economy has completely unlocked and there has been an uptick in demand … Read more