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US food company Kraft Heinz withdrew its proposal for a $143-billion merger with larger rival Unilever, raising questions about whether Kraft will turn its focus to another target

Demonetisation Impacts PepsiCo's India Business In Q4: Nooyi

The demonetisation drive in India had a "significant impact" on PepsiCo's business in the country in the last quarter of 2016 and there are still "lingering effects" of it, according to the food-and-beverage giant's India-born CEO Indra Nooyi

PI Talkies: Parable of A Leader And His Hanky

Prakash Iyer

Columns

It happened over three decades ago. In a kirana shop in a corner of the country. And yet, it’s a story that’s probably been retold to successive generations of young managers at Hindustan Unilever. It’s a story that bears repetition

FMCG Firms To See 5-6% Drop In Bottomline Due To Note Ban

Fast moving consumer goods companies are likely to report a 5-6 per cent drop in net profit during the third quarter due to the hit on sales that they witnessed post-demonetisation drive, says a brokerage report in the run-up to the earnings season beginning this week

Future Group Partners With Cognizant For FMCG Arm FCL

Companies & Markets Sector Reports Retail

IT major Cognizant has entered into a strategic partnership with Kishore Biyani-led Future Group to transform its FMCG arm Future Consumer Ltd (FCL) into a connected enterprise

Mother Dairy Ranks Number One In Providing Healthy Products

Monica Behura

Food and beverage companies in India are falling far short of what they need to do to help fight malnutrition, says ATNF report

Maggi, Nano And Dant Kanti

K. Satish

Columns

The Nano, a brilliant and novel product, dream child of the venerable Ratan Tata, sadly, became the biggest victim of wrong positioning

FMCG: A Lasting Impact

Monica Behura

With unsold inventory piling up with wholesalers, and consumers spending less due to liquidity crunch, FMCG companies are preparing for a short-term blip in sales

Corporate: Resurrecting Brand Maggi

Ashish Sinha

Has brand Maggi been successfully revived? Nestlé India is on an overdrive to expand its products around health and wellness

Hindustan Unilever Q2 Net Up 11.54% On Higher Income

FMCG major Hindustan Unilever has posted an 11.54 per cent rise in its standalone net profit at Rs 1,095.6 crore for the September quarter, helped by higher income from operations

Panel Gathers To Set GST Rate

Economy India

The GST would do away with levies charged when goods cross state lines, a boon for manufacturers and shippers, and shares in logistics companies including Gati Ltd, VRL Logistics and Allcargo Logistics Ltd gained by between 3 and 4.6 percent before the meeting

PepsiCo Sets Global Target For Sugar Reduction

PepsiCo says the new global target is more ambitious than its previous goal of reducing sugar by 25 per cent in certain drinks in certain markets by 2020

Who Can Beat Baba Ramdev On Business Front?

Swadeep Srivastava

The biggest pull for Ramdev's products comes from the fact that Patanjali products directly cater to his large base of disciples and followers, who look at him as the single source of inspiration and find his yoga sermons and antics as a potent solution to their health problems

FMCG: Bright Future

C H Unnikrishnan