Retail chains & restaurants shut stores as consumption slowsSeveral lifestyle retail chains and restaurants are closing stores on high streets and in smaller towns due to a year-long slowdown in cons...
16 Mar, 2025, 05.36 AM IST
Post-pandemic, Indians shopped...till they dropped (in FY24)Pent-up demand post-Covid led to booming sales in athleisure wear and lifestyle products. Kumar Rajagopalan notes the unsustainable high gr...
25 May, 2024, 05.30 AM IST
3 themes Devang Mehta is bullish on for near termThis is good time for FMCG as well as discretionary consumption to sort of come back as the entire market is now rallying and it is on a br...
19 Jul, 2023, 10.26 AM IST
India set for a good stock & sector pickers’ market; here’s what Devang Mehta is buying“I will throw some weight on discretionary consumption which can be food and beverages or jewellery and watches and of course, what better ...
27 Nov, 2022, 09.00 AM IST
Strong rally lifts half of Nifty500 stocks above key long-term trend indicatorAbout 59 of the NSE500 stocks are currently trading 20% above their 200 DMA. Heavyweights such as ITC, Adani Enterprises, Mahindra & Mahind...
18 Aug, 2022, 06.10 AM IST
Big Indian spender, go forth and splurgeThe resilience of big-ticket consumption in an adverse macroeconomic environment is captured by high-frequency indicators that signal capac...
02 Jul, 2022, 12.01 AM IST
Blue collar job openings rise the most in 18 monthsEconomists and job market experts are of the view that the recent rise in the number of Covid-19 infections in the country and fears of a p...
17 Jun, 2022, 12.44 AM IST
We have revised our sales estimate by 10-12% due to high demand: AB InBevThe pandemic outbreak hit beer and spirits makers as bars, restaurants and pubs across the country operated with low footfalls and restrict...
13 Jun, 2022, 12.12 PM IST
Phoenix Mills to add 4.4 million sq ft to retail portfolio in 12-15 monthsPhoenix that counts Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) as its partners will hold arou...
25 May, 2022, 09.40 PM IST
In banks, quality managements only differentiator: Vikaas M Sachdeva"People are saying it does not matter whether it is a PSU bank or private sector bank; at the end of the day if you are looking at a three-...
25 Oct, 2021, 04.46 PM IST
Hotels and restaurants set for bookings bonanza in October on back of pent up demandITC Hotels chief executive Anil Chadha said going by the current trend and surge in domestic traffic, bookings are expected to continue int...
04 Oct, 2021, 01.21 PM IST
Indians likely to shop more this festive season: SurveyConducted among 10,482 people across India, the study showed that at 56% overall household spending, consumers have registered a 2 percenta...
13 Sep, 2021, 06.30 AM IST
FMCG cos likely to sacrifice margins for growth nowVolume and margin growth don’t sustain at the same time. One of them will have to give way to the other, says Milind Sarwate
26 Feb, 2021, 04.09 PM IST
3 big themes to play in the current marketGlobal factors will mostly determine the future pace and direction of this market, says Ajay Bagga.
22 Feb, 2021, 10.02 AM IST
Revenge consumption: Surat diamond units working overtime to meet US demandThe exporters said that demand for the Chinese New Year is expected to come in shortly. The Chinese New Year in 2021 falls on February 12. ...
14 Dec, 2020, 06.42 AM IST
The curious phenomenon of revenge shopping in China after lockdownLong queues, fuelled by revenge spending sprees, have been seen outside outlets of brands in Chinese cities.
02 May, 2020, 11.53 PM IST
Ranthambhore tigress died of poisoning: ReportThe vulnerability of the Ranthambhore tiger reserve has been exposed by a state forensic science report on the death of a tigress in Decemb...
04 Jan, 2014, 01.30 AM IST