Suneera Tandon

The country’s top beer maker is gearing up for the future of alcohol consumption in India: craft brews and imported drinks.

Private equity (PE) investors have returned to shop for mall spaces in India.

Forget technology and e-commerce, India’s business school graduates are currently most interested in soaps and detergents.

Patanjali is in need of some deft yoga moves.

Over 65% of Indians live in villages and small towns, a key market for consumer companies that draw anywhere between 40% and 45% of their sales from the hinterland.

Walmart’s biggest gamble in India isn’t going down too well with some of the country’s small and medium businesses.

Nykaa, one of India’s top beauty e-tailers, is all set to chase profitability even as it invests in opening more brick-and-mortar stores.

Walmart made a big splash in India this week with its $16 billion (Rs1 lakh crore) acquisition of Flipkart. But the deal is unlikely to get the world’s largest retailer too far in a country that’s still obsessed with its mom-and-pop store culture.

Soon after Walmart announced its $16 billion (Rs1 lakh crore) acquisition of Flipkart, its shares tanked in early hours of trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Investors feared that a loss-making Flipkart would dent Walmart’s earnings.

When Walmart first announced its big-bang entry into India in 2007, it had grand plans to have its huge signature stores sprinkled across the country. Almost a decade later, the reality looks very different.

Japanese fast-fashion retailer Uniqlo is set to make its India debut next year.

Grab your beer mugs.

Over the last five months, PC Jeweller has been caught in a spiral that has wiped off billions in investor wealth. To be precise, since Jan 19, 2018, the jewellery chain from New Delhi has lost over 75% of its market value, worth $2.8 billion up until last week, on the BSE.

Inside a glass-fronted four-storied building in the heart of Gurugram, 150 engineers are continuously tracking a fleet of 2,500 trucks as they criss-cross the country, travelling thousands of kilometres every day.

Global giants like Walmart and Metro Cash and Carry will soon have a new competitor in India’s wholesale retail market.

India, the world’s fastest-growing major economy, could do a lot better if only it treated its women better.

One of India’s top hoteliers has decided to take the fight for the decriminalisation of gay sex to India’s top court.

India’s tea entrepreneurs may finally be getting their mix right.

India’s biggest cities may be losing up to $22 billion annually to traffic congestion, and its commuters are bearing the burden.

Kirana stores, or neighbourhood corner shops, are the backbone of India’s retail trade.

India’s retail sector, particularly the groceries and budget apparel segments, is poised to hit a purple patch.

In the early 1990s, IBM, one of the world’s largest technology companies, launched its research arm in India just to provide back-end support to its global business. Two decades on, IBM Research is at the heart of innovation that the New York-based firm is working on.

In the mid-2000s, Prosenjit Choudhury, the restaurant manager at Indore’s Sayaji Hotels, had an idea. So he went up to his boss, Sajid Dhanani, who approved.

More Indian flavours are finding their way into McDonald’s menu.