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Lines between online, offline blur as brands redraw engagement map

Brands need new customer touch points, efficient channels of communication and delivery and new ways to stay relevant

J&J sets aside fairness business to stand with #BlackLivesMatter movement

Now with J&J taking its brand out of the game, other brands have a larger slice of the pie to carve out, but is there a risk in doing that?

Eight of top 10 firms add Rs 1.76 trillion in m-cap; Reliance leads rally

Top losers were ITC, HUL

Covid-19 crisis: Hindustan Unilever's crorepati club shrinks by 10% in FY20

HUL's permanent employee base in FY20, for the record, stood at 7,082, an increase of 25 per cent over the previous year.

Top headlines: Fitch predicts growth at 9.5% in FY22, AGR hearing, and more

From S&P retaining India's sovereign rating and outlook, SC relief to Amrapali homebuyers to HUL's crorepati club shrinking, here are top news of the day

Near-term outlook for FMCG sector 'extremely uncertain', says HUL

Hindustan Unilever Ltd is confident about medium to long-term growth prospects of the sector

Hindustan Unilever CMD Sanjiv Mehta's gross salary up 2.86% in FY20

While his FY20 salary and allowances, bonus, and provident fund contribution have grown by 41.59 per cent

Leading with empathy, humility and dialogue

To an extent, leaders do sell dreams to their followers but that should not become a litany of unfulfilled promises

FMCG capacity utilisation surges to 70-75% as lockdown curbs ease

The only exception here is Hindustan Unilever (HUL), the country's largest FMCG company, which is opearting at 80 per cent capacity utilisation.

Invest in trust to promote entrepreneurship

What we observe currently is a dilution of the formal channels of communication, while there is not much evidence of the informal ones evolving

Many manufacturing companies weighed labour cost cuts even before lockdown

Salary and wage bill for manufacturers was down around 1% YoY in Jan-Mar

Advertisers retune the gender pitch, show women as decision makers

During lockdown, advertisements are targeting women as decision makers of the household, but brands need to be cautious about the tone and narrative, say experts

Digital queues to virtual trial rooms: Retail's answer to Covid-19

From digital queues to virtual trial rooms, retail stores are adopting new technologies to adapt to the post-Covid world, reports Sai Ishwar

Covid-19 impact on sectors: Consumption story hits the slow lane

The Rs 20-trillion stimulus package announced by the prime minister on Tuesday evening should help improve the fortunes of India Inc and these sectors

Two stocks that Vaishali Parekh of Prabhudas Lilladher is bullish on

For HUL's stock, the bias has improved a lot and the stock has the potential to rise further

RIL, Infosys, HUL account for 51% recovery in Sensex from 52-week low

In all, these three entities have added Rs 5.8 trillion to their m-cap during the period, against a Rs 11.3-trillion rise in the incremental m-cap of all 30 Sensex companies

GSK sells its entire 5.7% holding in HUL for over Rs 25,000 crore

More than 133 million shares of HUL were sold in the Rs 1,900-1,950 range, via multiple large transactions in morning trade

RIL's valuation premium hits all-time high of 830 bps; stock rises over 3%

It is trading at nearly 28 times its trailing earnings per share against Sensex's 19.4

"There is a divinity that shapes our ends..."

The complete denial of luck or coincidence in leadership success/failure seems misplaced

Beauty takes back seat as essential items become priority amid lockdown

Beauty products segment witnesses 0.8% decline in March, says Nielsen