Shalimar Paints: Bridging a 120-Year Legacy with a Future-Ready Vision

In this conversation, Kuldip Raina, MD & CEO, Shalimar Paints reflects on the company’s performance in FY24–25, the strategic pivots shaping its trajectory, and the milestones it is targeting.

From Tradition to Transformation: How Beyond Appliances is Redefining Kitchens in India

In this interview, Vikas speaks at length from AI-driven personalisation and IoT connectivity to smoke management and self-cleaning systems that Beyond Appliances is crafting

Health Oriented Orders are Growing 2x Overall: Rajat Tuli, Kearney India

Rajat Tuli, Partner at Kearney in the Consumer and Retail practice, shares his perspective on the structural drivers, consumption shifts, technological accelerators, and future-defining trends that will shape India’s QSR market in the years to come.

How Mount Everest Breweries Taps into Premiumisation and At-Home Beer Culture

Packaging trends are also in flux. In northern markets, cans are gaining popularity, lightweight, faster to chill, and easier to carry. But in the South, bottles still dominate.

Festive Season Drives 45% of Consumer & Gaming Sales: ASUS’ Paramjeet Singh Mehta

From expanding across 4,500 IT hardware stores and 300+ exclusive outlets to experimenting with bold new formats like selling laptops on Swiggy Instamart, ASUS is redefining how tech brands connect with consumers.

Nobel Hygiene’s Kartik Johari on Breaking Social Taboos Around Adult Diapers, Funding & IPO Plans

Nobel Hygiene’s Friends leads the adult diaper category with a 48% market share. Now, buoyed by a fresh INR 170 crore investment from New Asset Management and backed by marquee investors, the company is preparing for its next phase of growth, including a potential IPO.

Sirona’s Bold Buyback: From Unfinished Mission to Renewed Vision

The founders funded the buyback completely and as per the Sirona founder, the company was last valued at INR 450 crore at the time of buyback.

RAI Calls for a Flat 5% GST Rate Across Categories

The industry body has urged the government to address structural flaws and category-specific issues to ensure that reforms translate into real benefits for both retailers and consumers.

GST Rationalisation Set to Boost Consumption, Festive Cheer Across India

For both large corporates and millions of small shopkeepers, the GST reforms promise higher footfalls, stronger festive sales, and a lasting shift in affordability for Indian households.

From Gods to Good Vibes: Indian Spiritual Retail Market in a New Growth Curve

The Indian spiritual market is in the middle of a fascinating transformation. Astrology hotlines, crystal healing, rudraksha beads, pyrite stones for prosperity, even wellness-infused pooja kits, what was once a niche is now mainstream consumption.

From Dotcom to Destiny: How AstroYogi is Rewriting Spiritual Retail

What started as digitised content evolved into digitised services, an early precursor of the “platform economy.” AstroYogi connected seekers with reputed astrologers across the country, gradually creating a trusted ecosystem.

UNIQLO India Targets INR 3,000 Cr Revenue by 2028

Nidhi Rastogi reveals that e-commerce now contributes around 15% of total UNIQLO's sales. Looking ahead, Rastogi says the brand’s long-term ambition is clear: to become the “most trusted fashion brand in India.”

Beer Cheer: How Medusa Is Bridging India’s Beer Gap with a Premium Strong Brew

If beer were a conversation, Singh wanted Medusa to be the one people remember not just for what it said, but for how it made them feel.

Making 10,000 Cotton Dresses but Selling Only 2,000 Isn’t Sustainable: Amar Nagaram, Founder, Virgio

Nagaram said, while Virgio may look like a sustainable fashion brand, at its core they are a fashion technology company redefining supply chains, not just how fashion is made, but what and when to make.

ITC, Dabur Hail GST Reforms, See Boost to Consumption

Sanjiv Puri from ITC said that the reforms will also promote ease and cost of doing business through a transparent, simplified and growth-boosting tax structure enabling enterprises to be more competitive and agile in a fast-evolving business environment.

Rapid Commerce Could Mirror UPI’s Success in India

Rapid commerce is the space between the extreme of 10 to 15-minute deliveries (typical of quick commerce) and the traditional 2 to 4-day delivery timelines seen in classical marketplaces.

Rapid Commerce: India’s Next $20 Billion E-commerce Frontier

Currently worth only a few hundred million dollars, the market’s growth trajectory is described as “explosive”, with triple- and quadruple-digit growth possible in the next few years.

Eternal Announces New Subsidiary Blinkit Foods

In a letter to shareholders, Eternal founder and CEO Deepinder Goyal said the company currently operates 38 Bistro kitchens across Bengaluru and Delhi-NCR.

From Barn to Bottle: Why India's Dairy Industry Is an Underdog Abroad Despite Contributing 25% to the F&B Pie

From IoT-enabled herd monitoring to cold chain logistics and AI-powered herd management, technology is becoming central to the dairy sector’s transformation. These tools are improving not just milk yield but also traceability and product quality; key to gaining consumer trust.

bigbasket Targets 30% Festive Sales Boost, Banks on Q-Commerce, Fresh Assortments, and Cultural Intelligence

The company already operates 500+ dark stores, servicing most Tier-I and Tier-II cities, and plans to ramp that up to 800 by December 2025, ahead of its previously speculated March 2026 goal.