Surf Excels as HUL’s top brand, nets over Rs 5,000 crore in salesSurf, launched 60 years ago, recorded sales of Rs 5,375 crore in the past year with a market share of 17.9%, industry executives citing Nie...
25 Feb, 2020, 09.25 AM IST
No Wheels enough to catch up with Ghari; detergent maker maintains market shareThe detergent brand is now bigger than the next 3 popular brands — Wheel, Sunlight and Nirma — put together in economy segment.
14 Dec, 2017, 03.53 PM IST
HUL, P&G, Nirma lose market share to small local brandsIn 2016, listed laundry behemoths Hindustan Unilever and Procter & Gamble either lost market share to regional and local brands or showed s...
22 Mar, 2017, 01.27 AM IST
Parle Products topped the charts among food companiesParle Products topped the charts among food companies in India during 2014-15, with sales exceeding Rs8,300 crore, according to a recent Ni...
24 Jun, 2015, 07.30 AM IST
HUL Q4 net up 17% at Rs 1,018 croreDomestic sales, a proxy for consumer demand in the country, grew 9% from a year earlier to Rs 7,555 crore in the fiscal fourth quarter.
09 May, 2015, 03.02 AM IST
Nirma story again? How Ghari, Mamy Poko are giving HUL, P&G a run for their moneyGhari is made by Kanpur-based RSPL (Rohit Surfactants) is fast narrowing the gap with HUL that has three brands in the segment — Wheel, Rin...
08 May, 2015, 10.57 AM IST
Asif Ali Zardari in London to placate BilawalBhutto was assassinated on December 27, 2007 on her way back from a rally in Laiqat Bagh Rawalpindi, some 300 kilometres from Lahore.
23 Dec, 2014, 05.01 PM IST
Rohit Surfactants plans to take HUL head on in premium category; aims to replicate 'Ghari' magic in urban landscape with 'UniWash'At Rs 95 a kilo, the new product commands a 10% premium over competitors Rin and Tide’s basic variants and costs double as much as Ghari.
01 Apr, 2013, 04.12 AM IST
Rohit Surfactants to launch mid-premium laundry brand Uni Wash to challenge HUL & P&G brandsThe new brand, Uni Wash, will be launched in the next 2-3 months and be priced similar to Rin and Tide, the company said.
18 Apr, 2012, 10.40 AM IST
- Ghari detergent maker Rohit Surfactants Pvt Ltd plans IPO to raise Rs 1,000 crore
Maker of Ghari detergent, Rohit Surfactants Pvt Ltd, plans an initial public offering that could value the privately held company at about ...
12 Mar, 2012, 10.53 AM IST
- Unclean history of washing powder business
In India and across the world the washing powder business has been full of such twists. ET presents a brief and interestingly unclean histo...
15 Jan, 2012, 12.28 AM IST
Ghari moves out Wheel to be No 1 in laundry marketGhari had more share during the latest two months than Wheel, a brand that contributes over Rs 2,500 cr, 12% of the Rs 20K-cr topline of Un...
11 Jan, 2012, 06.23 AM IST
- Rising input costs force Hindustan Unilever to raise prices of Rin
Hindustan Unilever (HUL) has kicked in a phase of price increases in laundry, a segment where margins had clearly bottomed out.
16 Jul, 2011, 06.28 AM IST
- How Ghari overtook FMCG majors Lux and Surf to be No. 2 detergent brand in quick time
It took 15 years for Ghari to hit Rs 500 cr in sales. The next 10 years saw it adding another Rs 1,700 cr and be second only to Hindustan U...
06 May, 2011, 11.57 AM IST
- Price war between MNCs, growth of Ghari threatens small detergent with washout
A price war between MNCs and rapid growth of the Ghari brand across the country have washed hundreds of regional detergent brands out of th...
22 Apr, 2011, 03.25 AM IST
- CVC, Ghari deal off
The proposed deal between private equity player Citigroup Venture Capital (CVC) and Ghari Detergent has been called off after prolonged neg...
03 Apr, 2007, 01.54 AM IST
- Citigroup in talks to buy 14% in Ghari detergent maker
Citigroup Venture Capital India (CVCI) is in talks with Kanpur Trading Chemicals (KTC), the maker of Ghari detergent, to pick up equity sta...
01 Aug, 2006, 02.57 AM IST