Consumer goods
ITC’s food business revenue hits $1-billion mark
30 Jun 2015
E-sales of FMCG goods to leap in India: Google-Bain study
11 Feb 2015
With the online retail market booming in India, the internet is expected to influence $35 billion worth of FMCG sales by 2020, says a study by Google and Bain & Co
Voltas to move beyond A/Cs, re-enter areas it had quit
03 Feb 2015
Tata Strategic Management Group and Voltas are currently working on segments Voltas can enter, and in some cases, re-enter after having exited them inthe late '80s
P&G to sell Camay and Zest soap brands to Unilever
23 Dec 2014
The deal involves the global sale of the Camay and the Zest brand outside of North America and the Caribbean and the Talisman manufacturing facility in Mexico, which employs around 170 people
Consumer goods: growth for those with diversified range
By By B G Shirsat | 09 Sep 2014
P&G to cut 100 underperforming brands, focus on key products
04 Aug 2014
While Procter & Gamble did not say which of the estimated 100 brands would either be discontinued or sold off, these brands taken together had aggregate sales declines of 3 per cent a year over the last three years
Godrej Consumer heads 9 Indian firms in Forbes ‘innovative growth’ list
22 May 2014
Led by Godrej Consumer Products, nine Indian companies have made it to the Forbes 'World's 100 most innovative growth companies' list
Dabur board approves raising FII limit to 30%
25 Nov 2013
ITC Q1 net rises over 18% to Rs1,891.33 crore
25 Jul 2013
Hindustan Unilever Q4 net climbs 15% to Rs787 crore
29 Apr 2013
For the financial year ended 31 March 2013, HUL’s net profit zoomed 41 per cent to Rs3,797 crore
HUL Q3 net profit up 16 per cent at Rs871 crore
22 Jan 2013
HUL shares, however, slumped after the company announced a phased increase in royalty payments to parent Unilever from 1.4 per cent to 3.5 per cent of turnover by 2018
UK consumer spending down in December: Survey
07 Jan 2013
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