“We are yet to see the best in the economy and once the economy picks up, consumption is bound to pick up and that is when will positively impact the growth of the FMCG sector for sure.”…READ MORE
KEEP READINGITC would re-position its personal-care products every 6-12 months and explore unconventional outlets for selling soaps, shampoos, or shower gels, as India’s most valued consumer company seeks to establish its leadership credentials in a segment it entered 12 years ago…READ MORE
KEEP READINGIt plans to introduce about 40 new food products in the next year – a record for ITC – and sell premium chocolates and coffee through retail chains and online stores…READ MORE
KEEP READINGITC will not launch any new food brand. Instead, it will piggyback on existing ones for new launches and claims it has 5-6 new categories in its innovation funnel…READ MORE
KEEP READINGThere are lot of regional players doing well in foods, but very few national ones. So, how does the space looks like for the two largest FMCG players -HUL and ITC?…READ MORE
KEEP READINGNoronha is now worth more than the combined value of the shares that Sanjiv Mehta, MD, HUL, Y C Deveshwar, chairman, ITC, and Vivek Gambhir, MD, Godrej Consumer Products, hold in their companies…READ MORE
KEEP READINGEvery time the government raises taxes on cigarettes, smokers are asked to cough up more for their sin. Some do it grudgingly; some struggle to kick the habit; while a substantial section switches to cheaper variants. But the kerbside retailer doesn’t ever complain. For him, consumption does not contract much nor do companies such as ITC Ltd drop retail margins to lighten the burden of the tax hike on consumers. The reason, says Sanjiv Puri, ITC’s chief operating officer, is that reducing trade margins will only lead to more proliferation in the sales of contraband, or tax-evaded cigarettes…READ MORE
KEEP READINGITC is likely to swamp the fast-moving consumer goods sector this year with a record number of product launches, venturing into new categories and deepening its presence in existing segments, said Chief Operating Officer (COO) Sanjiv Puri, who’s tipped to take over from YC Deveshwar early next year…READ MORE
KEEP READINGITC has filed a case against Britannia Industries, claiming that the biscuit market leader’s NutriChoice Digestive Zero brand has copied the packaging of ITC’s Sunfeast Farmlite Digestive All Good biscuit…READ MORE
KEEP READINGITC is soon going to expand its Sunfeast Yippee! brand of instant noodles into the atta-based variant and will create a complete portfolio of such products including a multigrain one to build a heath quotient for a category which recently was shrouded in controversy regarding product safety…READ MORE
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