Customer delight and NPS improvement for a leading eyewear retailer

The anticipation of a rough funding winter may make Indian startups more conscious about their spending habits, according to several analysts and industry experts Business Insider India spoke with.

India’s e-commerce titans — Amazon, Flipkart and Myntra — are all hosting their mid-year sales at the moment. It might sound like a bad time as customer sentiment is low due to inflation, layoffs, increasing interest rates and more.

The Indian government’s decision to allow duty-free import of crude soybean oil and sunflower oil, coupled with limiting of the basic import tax on crude palm oil to 10%, will bring cheer to the inflation-hit consumers as well as FMCG players.

Honasa will operate and manage BBLUNT's hair care and styling products business while BBLUNT salon business will continue to operate as an independent entity, with the founding team Adhuna Bhabani, Osh Bhabani and Avan Contractor as creative directors and Spoorthy Shetty as CEO

Dairy brand Country Delight is in talks with private equity funds Temasek, Venturi Partners, and Premji Invest to raise $90-$100 million, valuing it at $500-$550 million, three people with direct knowledge of the development said.

Budget 2022 | Big-bang announcements to spur consumption were missing but a host of initiatives on creating employment opportunities as well as a 35 percent increase in capital expenditure would help in boosting demand in the long to medium term, say experts.

With all things K catching the fancy of Indians, these easy-to-use wraps have too, and major beauty brands are lining up their mask-ranges

Ecommerce major Flipkart Group, including its fashion portal Myntra, cornered an around 60% market share in this year’s Diwali festive sales, according to data collected by business research and market intelligence firm PGA Labs.

BB Now, expected to be launched around the middle of December, will be part of BigBasket and the company has also started work to bring its subscription-based essentials delivery service, BB Daily, on to the main app.

India’s consumers are taking to the internet for affordable and personalized products in a post-COVID world.

Dabur earlier this week entered the baby diaper category. Though a high-margin and lucrative product segment, the diaper market presents several challenges. The company has to tackle competition from brands such as Pampers and Mamy Poko Pants.

Meesho is the dominant player in India’s burgeoning social commerce space, which allows small businesses, a bulk of which are led by women, to sell products on social media channels like WhatsApp and Facebook.

a bunch of young startups like Dukaan and Khatabook have been preparing the ground for these big tech giants to make a big splash

When Falguni Nayar launched Nykaa in 2012, the e-commerce marketplace was dominated by Amazon and Flipkart, but what was unique about Nykaa was that it brought makeup, beauty and skincare brands onto one platform

Investors pumped in US $ 1.4 billion into the D2C brands between 2014 and 2020, of which 54% went into the beauty and fashion segment.

FMCG company Dabur introduced chocolate- and strawberry-flavoured honey syrups as demand picks up for a wider variety of dips, sauces and spreads.

Zomato eyes a big slice of this grocery unicorn

Zomato invested $100 million in Grofers about a month ago for a 9.3% stake, valuing the online grocer at more than $1 billion.

the Indian e-Grocery market is estimated to touch USD 22 billion by 2025.

BB Daily, BigBasket's subscription-based morning essentials delivery business, is on the path to becoming “the most profitable” business for the company

Pilgrim is one of the brands that have gained popularity among millions of Indians over the last couple of years

Flipkart will double its valuation to $37.6 billion after the latest funding that included SoftBank Group as the India online retailer gears up for a public listing later this year.

Homegrown e-commerce company Flipkart has raised $3.6 billion in a new funding round.

Zomato eyes 10% stake in e-grocery startup Grofers to counter rising competition from rivals Swiggy and BigBasket

A report by PGA Labs and Knowledge Capital suggested that the D2C start-up segment saw an investment of close to US $ 417 million in 2020.

Digital-first brands fill in the space left by regular players as they are open to?experimenting

ndia has more than 600-plus D2C brands, and it is expected that the addressable market size for this industry will be $100 billion by 2025. Here are 8 D2C startups that have raised funding this year so far.

Early-stage VC fund IvyCap Venture earned USD 45.6 million after selling partial stakes in Purplle. It had invested USD 2 million in the company in 2015.

Mumbai-headquartered direct-to-consumer (D2C) startup OZiva said Wednesday it has raised USD 12 million in a Series B round led by Eight Roads Ventures, with participation from F-Prime Capital and existing investor Matrix Partners India.

There were 25 million online beauty shoppers in FY2020, and Avendus estimates this number to reach 135 million by FY2025.

The report noted that customer desire to try new brands coupled with company willingness to experiment with niche ingredients and materials is propelling the growth of 'Internet first' consumer companies

Beauty and fashion companies attracted over 50% of USD 1.4 billion raised by internet-first brands between 2014-2020 in India.

One is a 153-year-old steel-to-software conglomerate with a middling supermarket chain. The other is a nine-year-old unicorn that has been instrumental in convincing Indians to buy fruit, vegetables, and staples online.

Top salon chains turn to on-demand beauty services to make up for low footfall

Earlier on January 28, Reckitt Benckiser said it will fund Bombay Shaving Company. In an interview, founder Shantanu Deshpande reveals his capital deployment plans, the evolution of the personal grooming market, especially with regard to men, and how the company weathered the pandemic.

A three-decade-long transformational journey of Indian retail

The activewear market has seen an upswing with the growing fitness consciousness amongst consumers.

Amazon and Reliance are fighting out for supremacy in India. In this fastest-growing Retail market, online sales are surging as more people from remote India has started making online purchases for the first time.

In the past few months, JioMart had expanded to fashion and electronics as well – among segments that drive sales for existing large e-commerce marketplaces. Reliance's intention to push these key segments first for the bigger e-commerce play ahead is obvious.

New Delhi: Pandemic-induced acceleration in consumption of bakery items has attracted food majors to venture into the "sweet and convenient" sub-category of packaged cake segment.

Joining the festive bandwagon, the Govt of India has recently announced a special scheme for all Central Government employees, as well as certain private-sector employees

Winning the mobile sales war is a proxy for muscle in e-commerce.

Following a sharp, unprecedented decline of nearly 10% in real GDP this summer, India’s economy will see a tepid recovery in the next twelve months. This is according to a new in-depth report from Praxis.

A win-win for Indian and foreign brands - only pride and no prejudice in a self-reliant Indian market

The Indian retail space is ripe for disruption and there has never been a better time to be a part of India’s digital revolution for the kirana store.

The lockdown triggered by the coronavirus outbreak may prove propitious for OTT platforms, which have seen a surge in new subscribers and increased consumption of late.

This market is projected to soar to $5.5-b by 2021. Male grooming has come of age and is creating quite a lather.

While social distancing and an atmosphere heavy with caution and concern have resulted in a general slowdown in buisness, adversity has spelt opportunity for certain online and digital services.

Rising wholesale and consumer inflation and a general slowdown in consumer demand have affected India’s GDP growth. This year’s Budget did not enthuse corporates and investors as much as the finance minister would have liked

Rising wholesale and consumer inflation and a general slowdown in consumer demand have affected India’s GDP growth. Consumption pulls investments and to revive India’s economy; that’s where the push should be.

India’s slump-hit consumer goods sector is high on hope in the run-up to the union budget for financial year 2021.

The company has over 10,000 gyms and fitness centers on its platform across 11 big cities - including Delhi, Mumbai, and Bengaluru - and has about 500,000 active mothly users.

After a $400 million investment from SoftBank in early 2019, FirstCry is changing gears—gone is its slow and steady ethos, now it’s about growth at all costs

In the past 5 years, Titan's reliance on the jewelry business for its top line and bottom-line growth has gone up.

Fashion week, big-designer collections, and a pivot to green fabrics- ITC  tried everything to make its lifestyle- retailing business work.

Sadar Bazaar, Delhi’s iconic wholesale market, finds a mention several times during a conversation with Grofers founder Saurabh Kumar. 

Sports, fitness and wellness (SFW) market in India will grow from $35 billion in 2016 to $90 billion by 2022

Here’s How a Win in India Can Boost Amazon.com, Inc. Stock Even Higher

Flipkart's small-town push for Big Billion sale

As Flipkart settles down from the exuberance of its biggest capital-raise, it would have to hastily explore ways to regain momentum against its closest rival, Amazon India, reports Mugdha Variyar.

Online grocery startup Grofers said it has doubled its gross sales in the past four months, with current annualized sales of about $120 million or Rs 768 crore, as it revs up its sales in the online retail segment, which is expected to see consolidation