Consumer Goods Companies

During October, India exported goods worth $280 million, up 3.7 per cent as compared to a year ago, led by demand for items such as vegetables, tea, coffee, chemicals as well as iron and steel product

Berry told Business Standard in an interview that the company was aiming to increase its revenues from cheese products by five times within the next five years

Company says gross margins shrank 230 bps in Q2FY23 due to inflationary pressures and an unfavourable portfolio mix due to extraordinary high sales of pain management products last year

Volumes decline 3.6%; urban areas sustain at 1.2 %: NielsenIQ

Its net sales in the quarter was up 7.2 per cent to Rs 3,391.92 crore which was led by price hikes

Like the rest of the consumer goods industry, Unilever's margins have been squeezed since the start of the war in Ukraine that has pushed up costs of energy and key ingredients

Jope, a long-term veteran of the consumer goods company, will leave after only five years in the role, with no named successor currently in place

Centre plans Lok Adalats to dispose of pending cases in consumer commissions

"The chairman and the nomination committee have begun the process to identify the best long-term candidate to take Reckitt on the next phase of its growth and transformation journey," the company said

Reckitt Benckiser said its Chief Executive Officer Laxman Narasimhan will step down at the end of September after three years in the role.

While reporting a 4.5% fall in second-quarter profit and higher expenses, Nestle India said on July 28 it could see softening of prices in such commodities as edible oil and packaging materials.

The challenges of inflation persist and the global macroeconomic outlook is uncertain, but we remain intensely focused on operational excellence and delivery in 2022 and beyond, CEO Alan Jope said.

The festival season kicks off with Onam end-August right through Diwali in October

The company's Parachute coconut oil also recorded a marginal volume decline in the quarter

Their net profits down 26 per cent in H1FY22 over H2FY21 owing to higher input costs

Robust growth expected despite shortage of components and the threat of a third wave of Covid-19 pandemic

GCAC raised this week $170 million in an initial public offering listed in NASDAQ.

Rural India was largely unaffected by first wave of Covid-19

Reliance plans to keep expanding and promoting its private labels - even in non-food segments - via its own supermarkets and kiranas

Scale-up of personal and home hygiene segments, stable demand across other categories drivers of growth