FMCG Sector

ITC said the dividend will be paid between July 22, 2022 and July 26, 2022 to entitled members.

Stocks to Watch Today: Sugar and FMCG stocks likely to be in focus as govt limits sugar exports and exempts customs duty on agri cess. Apollo Hospitals, Bata, Coal India and Nalco to report results.

Stable price outlook for inputs such as copra, however, is a positive

FMCG major Britannia Industries Limited (BIL) has said it aims to achieve a diversity ratio of 50 per cent by 2024 by increasing the participation of women in its factory workforce. BIL Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Amit Doshi said that at present 38 per cent of the company's factory workforce is women. "We aim to achieve a diversity ratio of 50 per cent by 2024 from the current national average of 38 per cent across our factories," he said. At Britannia's Guwahati factory, the proportion of women in the workforce is 60 per cent and it will be increased to 65 per cent, he said. "We are proud to have a women workforce in areas typically dominated by men like engineering, taping and grinding as well as packing, housekeeping, pantry, lab testing, canteen and security," he said. For empowering women, the company has already launched a start-up challenge among woman entrepreneurs, Doshi said. So far, the company has provided seed capital of Rs 10 lakh each to 30 woman entrepreneurs fo

Volumes shrank by 2.6% due to inflationary pressure and other macro-economic factors

Major FMCG stocks are not showing exciting structure on charts, better play is to avoid them.

As several leading brands are threatening to push India's traditional distributors into oblivion. They recently got breakthrough against HUL and Colgate Palmolive. Find out how they are fighting back

"Rural demand was also sluggish, albeit optical to an extent, given the high base," said Marico

Distributors of fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG), ranging from biscuits to shampoos, are likely to delay the January 1 deadline they set to stop working with the consumer goods companies as talks over their demand for similar margins as given to organised distribution platforms continue, officials said. The All India Consumer Products Distributors Federation (AICPDF), a body that represents dealers and distributors, is in negotiation with several FMCG makers and this may stretch to next year, said an official. Earlier, AICPDF had put a deadline of January 1, 2022, to address the price disparity and had threatened to drop products from their portfolio. The federation had decided to call for a "non-cooperation" movement against FMCG companies from next year if B2B retailers, such as Jiomart, Walmart, Metro Cash & Carry, Booker, ElasticRun and udaan, continue to sell the products at lesser prices. According to an AICPDF official, talks with several companies are going on and in ...

Traders may keep positions light owing to the weekend factor as uncertainty lingers around the threat of Omicron variant

Kolkata, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Pune led the growth, Volume growth was muted at 1.2%

Kolkata-based FMCG major Emami has embarked on various distribution initiatives and rural expansion drive to boost growth in the current fiscal, its Chairman RS Agarwal said on Wednesday

After their tryst with smaller packs and lower product categories, consumers are now shrugging off the tendency to compromise on quality and quantity

Steady economic revival holds the key

Indian FMCG industry recorded a 36.9 per cent value-based growth in April-June 2021, the quarter hit by the second wave of the pandemic, over the corresponding period a year ago, Nielsen has said

In the second instalment of a four-part series on how some of the defining numbers in key sectors are springing back to the pre-pandemic level, Arnab Dutta looks at India's top FMCG players

Chaitanya Chitta's brand SLAY has a three-pronged strategy aimed at ushering a marked shift in coffee drinking from indulgence to habit among millenials, in much the same way as pizza

The company, which saw investors pull out of a fund raise as the pandemic struck, is now eyeing an annual revenue run rate of Rs 600 cr by this December

Unlock, good monsoon, better pace of vaccination and rural demand could galvanise recovery

Brokerage JM Financial expects PAT to decline 6.4 per cent YoY to Rs 3,554.9 crore during the quarter ended March 2021