Sugar, you shrunk the kids: Bouquet of diseases nestled within your child's nutritional drinksHave you been a fan of "nutritional" drinks since childhood? Chances are, the milk you consumed was laden with about 50% sugar. This habit ...
27 Apr, 2024, 12.12 PM IST
HUL withdraws 'health' label from Horlicks, rebrands it as 'functional nutritional drink' amid regulatory changesRitesh Tiwari, the Chief Financial Officer of Hindustan Unilever, announced the change during the earnings press conference on April 24. Ti...
25 Apr, 2024, 09.17 AM IST
Bournvita, other brands to lose 'health drink' statusE-commerce sites advised to stop labeling Bournvita as health drink due to undefined food laws. Cadbury faced controversy over sugar conten...
14 Apr, 2024, 05.30 AM IST
Govt directs e-commerce platforms to remove Bournvita, other similar beverages from 'health drink' categoryThe Ministry of Commerce and Industry has issued an advisory to e-commerce companies, directing them to remove drinks like Bournvita from t...
13 Apr, 2024, 08.23 PM IST
Remember Food Pharmer of Bournvita controversy? He has now this to say about Nest Tea, Too Yumm, Storia coconut water & BournvitaSocial media influencer Revant Himatsingka has released a new video on packaged food companies. In the video he highlights four companies w...
11 Aug, 2023, 05.44 PM IST
Within controversy lies an opportunity for malted milk drinks to reinvent themselvesMalted milk drinks are facing controversy in India after social media influencer highlighted high levels of sugar in Bournvita, after which...
30 Apr, 2023, 10.08 AM IST
How sugar turned bitter for BournvitaMondelez India has received a notice from the child rights body NCPCR which has asked it to review or withdraw all "misleading" advertiseme...
26 Apr, 2023, 09.16 PM IST
Bournvita controversy rages on; many join issue on social mediaA recent video by a social media influencer on sugar content in Bournvita kicked up a storm. Mondelez India-owned health drink brand reject...
20 Apr, 2023, 03.20 PM IST
Does Big Food walk the talk on fostering health of consumers?It remains to be seen what the impact of the social media uproar is on the sales of Bournvita, or on the goodwill enjoyed by Cadbury in Ind...
20 Apr, 2023, 12.07 AM IST
Allegations of health food brands making false claims mount pressure on govt amid raging Bournvita controversyThe latest trigger is a controversy over Mondelez's Cadbury Bournvita, which flared up last week after social media influencer Revant Himat...
19 Apr, 2023, 04.02 PM IST
Sunil Alagh on brands, influencers & Bournvita controversySunil Alagh urges brands to disclose sugar content, which many parents fail to notice. Brand ambassadors and influencers must also take res...
19 Apr, 2023, 10.23 AM IST
Zerodha founder demands changes in food labels amid Bournvita controversyRecently, a social media influencer claimed that Bournvita has high sugar content, cocoa solids and cancer-causing colourant in it.
18 Apr, 2023, 05.50 PM IST
How Baba Ramdev has built a Rs 2,000 crore ayurvedic FMCG empire & plans to take on multinational giantsAccording to filings with the registrar of companies (RoC), Patanjali Ayurved clocked Rs 1,200 crore in revenues in fiscal year 2014.
14 Jun, 2015, 07.12 AM IST
- Horlicks, Complan slug it out over price points
A no-holds-barred legal battle has now broken out between GlaxoSmithKline and Heinz India - in the Bombay and Delhi high courts over their ...
23 Dec, 2008, 03.14 AM IST
- Colgate: Brand equity's trusted brand
While Colgate tops the BE’s Survey, Nokia becomes the first non-FMCG brand to break into top 10.
28 May, 2007, 01.00 AM IST