Jan 19, 2017 - More pain ahead for FMCG majors as Baba Ramdev looks poised to expand market share

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We request you to accept our promotional emails (B2B Decision-Makers, B2C Decision-Makers, TradeBriefs Premium). More pain ahead for FMCG majors as Baba Ramdev looks poised to expand market share At the present rate of growth, Patanjali Ayurved will be a $1 billion company next year. To grow from there, it will need a carefully measured dose of toxicity. Advt: Work for the best employer - Yourself Advantages - Best B2B audience in India, no hard-selling or up-front costs involved, access to our content repository and air-tight agreements with instant gratification. The Real Deal with Email and What TradeBriefs does right So, here Listing will help GIC reach Asean markets: Alice Vaidyan We have grown over 90%, including crop reinsurance, in the first half of the fiscal. Excluding crop, we have grown at 40%, says Vaidyan Indian government wants Apple, but not all officials are biting We want to make India an electronic-manufacturing hub, Union Electronics and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Wednesday, while detailing to the media the key decisions he took in a meeting with Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley. Has Amazon overestimated the size of India’s e-commerce market? Amazon’s gains in 2016 came at the expense of Flipkart and Snapdeal’s market share and not from a growing online retail industry Listing of PSU general insurers may boost profit, improve solvency State-run general insurers’ listing on stock exchanges to help them with better capital, a retail shareholder base How e-payments can prevent cartelization The spike in onion prices in 2010 provides an example of the perils of opaque data in informal markets Urban Ladder in talks for up to Rs200 crore fundraising Urban Ladder’s existing investors Kalaari Capital, SAIF Partners, Sequoia Capital are likely to pool in Rs100 crore, rest will come from a new investor Making Indians shift to cashless transactions Shifting to a digital platform will call for a change in behaviour across many economic transaction contexts on a sustained basis Warburg Pincus buys 14% stake in PVR for Rs820 crore Warburg Pincus bought the stake from existing investor Multiples Alternate Asset Management and promoters of PVR, including MD Ajay Bijli Right time to invest in India, says Nitin Gadkari There are no issues relating to land acquisition and green clearances, says minister. Lenders may move SC to avert Rs 30,000 crore Aircel blow Bankers say nearly Rs 30,000-crore debt will become unserviceable if the apex court cancels the telcos licence. IL FS in talks with Chennai-based Orient Power to merge its wind energy assets The all-stock reverse merger of unlisted IL&FS Energy Development will value the combined entity at Rs 4,500-5,000 crore. Fairfax India to pick 51% stake in Saurashtra Freight Fairfax India Holdings Corporation, which has just raised an additional $500 million to top up its India-focused investment corpus, has inked a deal to pick a 51% stake in Saurashtra Freight Pvt. Ltd for Rs 200 crore ($30 million), it said on Tuesday. Saurashtra Freight is a newly incorporated firm of Saurashtra Group that has presence in infrastructure and industrials space. The company will use the money raised from Fairfax to acquire container freight station (CFS) business of a group firm Saurashtra Infra and Power Pvt. Ltd. 'New regulatory framework, GST will propel private equity inflows into realty' 2016 saw impressivegrowth, says JLL Urjit Patel’s briefing leaves MPs no wiser about demonetisation RBI governor Urjit Patel deposes before the parliamentary standing committee on finance, but failed to answer most of the questions raised Tata vs Mistry: NCLT dismisses contempt of court plea filed by Mistry firms The NCLT asked the Cyrus Mistry family firms to file an affidavit in support of an earlier petition they had filed alleging oppression against Tata Sons BSE to delist 36 companies from 20 January BSE had placed the securities of these firms under suspension for more than 13 years on account of non-compliance of various clauses of listing regulations India Value Fund Advisors to invest 90% capital in four sectors Sector-agnostic and homegrown private equity firm India Value Fund Advisors (IVFA) has unveiled a new brand identity and would now be known as True North (Managers). The firm has also realigned its sector focus, it said in a statement.   The firm has restructured its business and investment management teams as per sector specialisations, namely financial services, consumer, healthcare and technology products & services, it said. Dividend income from equity shares of an Indian company is exempt from tax in India There will be tax implications on sale of equity shares and debentures also, depending on the period of the holding of the same Start-up bodies appeal for relaxation in tax policies Industry bodies including NASSCOM and TiE form 'coalition' to draw attention to difficulties that Indian startups face Govt approves listing of state-owned general insurance companies Oriental Insurance, National Insurance, New India Insurance, United India Insurance among firms that will list on stock exchanges Optimism reigns in India as CEOs, consumers look beyond China Jaishankar criticised CPEC, which passes through the Pakistan-occupied Gilgit-Baltistan region Achhe din for jobs! FMCG companies start hiring in anticipation of a demand revival The cash crunch post demonetisation did hurt FMCG companies but they dont expect it to last long or cause job losses. India would like Apple to come and have a base in India: Ravi Shankar Prasad - Apple has sought incentives to set up unit in India. SummerLabel, An App That Aims To Be The Zomato Of Clothes Shopping Making good clothing and accessories stores easier to locate. Yepme to sell over 3000 products on fashion portal Fynd Fynd, the unique fashion e-commerce portal, has welcomed online fashion retailer Yepme on board its platform. Fynd’s debut collaboration with one of India's biggest online fashion brands offers an e Warburg Pincus picks up 14 per cent in PVR for Rs 820 crore While promoter Ajay Bijli has sold 5% stake in the company, Multiples Alternate Asset Management (Multiples), promoted by the former ICICI Venture honcho Renuka Ramnath, has sold 9% in PVR. Indian retailers achieve steady growth despite challenging global economy: Report According to Deloitte, India is a key market and therefore despite global policy hurdles and other operational challenges, Indian retail is flourishin.. Nature's Basket may shut outlets in Delhi-NCR, overhaul design Nature’s Basket, a 100-percent subsidiary of Godrej Industries, is likely to shut all its outlets in national capital region of Delhi by March, according to sources. The stores, branded Godrej Nature’s Basket, sell premium gourmet food like cheese, fruits, vegetables, meat and beverages. The rising popularity of online furniture market Mumbai ka king cone: Can Mumbai-born 'Natural' go national The full story of Natural ice cream’s unusual rebranding and what scale-obsessed companies can learn from it American Apparel denies reports that it's imminently shutting down all of its stores American Apparel won't start closing stores for at least another three months. Telecom companies may hold average of 40 MHz spectrum per circle Telecom secretary J.S. Deepak says govt is planning telecom reforms to make spectrum available for activities it is currently not available for Apple in India: Government to take a coordinated approach The change in the policy could meet some of the demands that Apple has made apart from benefitting other phone makers as well. DoT aims to allocate 40MHz of spectrum to each telco, industry demands more The government is looking to allocate sufficient spectrum of 40 Mhz to each operator in each of the 22 circles Airtel is resilient against Rel Jio's new $4.4 bn war chest to kill competition In a battle of might Sunil Bharti Mittal is not ready to give up yet, even though Mukesh Ambani has flooded the market with free services. Airtel holds ground, and is willing to... Telecom to create around 2 million jobs this year: Report Of the metropolitan cities that join the race in creating job opportunities, Bangalore shoots ahead with a 95 per cent chance in employment opportunities. After Airtel, Idea Cellular challenges TRAI in telecom tribunal New Delhi, Jan 18: Telecom regulator Trai has asked for attorney general’s views on billionaire Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Jio’s free voice and data offering till March that rivals have called “predatory”. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) sought the top government legal advisor’s opinion on the tariff plans submitted by Jio, a top source … Videocon Telecom to shut operations from February 15 Prepaid customers should exhaust their balance and subscribers being billed monthly should clear their dues before moving to other carriers, the compa.. Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 totally killed it in Indian market in 2016: Antutu data Xiaomi phones dominated the world of Android in 2016. FSSAI to play tough with direct selling companies After packaged food industry and street food vendors, the food safety regulator is set to tighten the noose around direct selling companies and agents. Supreme Court order puts 42% liquor biz in limbo Mumbai: After raising a toast to road safety in their campaigns for years, global drinks giants Diageo and Pernod Ricard have fallen silent on last month's Supreme Court order banning liquor outlets and bars on national and state highways. Medics support higher tax on junk food Pune: The city's medical fraternity has supported the government's proposal to impose higher tax on junk food and sugar-sweetened beverages. Amazon's Tough Week In India Amazon drew ire from India this week after a couple of gaffes that led to the company pulling products. Starbucks unveils Teavana in India; keeps pricing competitive Tata Starbucks, the joint venture between Tata Global Beverages and Seattle-based Starbucks Coffee Company in India, has launched the chain of tea bars Teavana today, a year after Starbucks' chairman & CEO Howard Schultz had indicated the same.The Gavi and Unilever's Lifebuoy join forces Ground-breaking partnership will raise awareness of the power of immunisation and of handwashing with soap to accelerate child survival efforts Davos, Switzerland, 18 January 2017 – Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and Lifebuoy, Unilever’s leading health soap brand, have launched an innovative partnership to protect children under five from illnesses and premature death. By promoting handwashing with soap and immunisation together - two of the most cost-effective child survival interventions - the partnership aims to improve and save many young lives in India. Among childhood diseases, pneumonia and diarrhoea are two of the leading killers of children worldwide. Together they are responsible for nearly a quarter of the deaths that occurred in children under 5 years of age in 2015. India has the highest number of pneumonia and diarrhoea deaths among children in the world. Together these two diseases claim nearly 300,000 young lives every year. Lack of handwashing with soap can contribute to such preventable diseases. While progress is being made with the introduction of rotavirus and pneumococcal vaccines as well as hygiene programmes across the world, more needs to be done to accelerate the fight against these diseases. Airtel appoints Raj Pudipeddi as CMO for India operations Bharti Airtel on Wednesday said it has appointed of Raj Pudipeddi as director of its consumer business and its chief marketing officer for its India o.. 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