Ecommerce leaders must adopt AI observability to avoid outages, delight customers, and secure festive-season sales, writes Rob Newell, Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Asia-Pacific and Japan at New Relic The festive season is make-or-break for ecommerce businesses in India. The 2024 season alone saw ecommerce platforms clock in around USD 14 billion […]
From utility to a defining, almost calming space in a homeowner’s psyche; the bathroom, once a purely functional space, has undergone a dramatic transformation, writes Shiozawa Kazuyuki, Managing Director, TOTO India, a Japanese Luxury Sanitaryware Brand India’s economy is of global importance. With a large and young population and an open and democratic political […]
Tanuj Gupta, Director – Sales & Marketing, Thermocool Home Appliances, explains how GST 2.0’s simplified tax slabs could make home appliances more affordable and boost demand across urban and rural India With the introduction of GST 2.0 on 22 September 2025, India is entering a new era in indirect taxation. The new structure streamlines […]
With millions of listings uploaded daily, manually tagging, classifying, and updating product information has become an operational bottleneck, writes Sameer Kanodia, Managing Director and CEO, Lumina Datamatics Limited, & Vice Chairman & CEO, TNQ Tech Every day, over 270 million Indians shop online, making the country the second-largest e-retail market globally with a GMV […]
Once considered a niche within traditional retail, D2C brands are now at the forefront, writes Rajneesh Kumar, Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, Flipkart Group India is at the cusp of a consumer commerce revolution that is paving the way for Direct-to-Consumer (D2C) brands to emerge as agile, consumer-centric contenders in the retail landscape. As the […]
GST rationalisation is set to reshape India’s textile sector, with UP’s garment hubs emerging as key beneficiaries of lower tax rates on apparel and handicrafts, writes Yawer Ali Shah Will GST rationalisation power Uttar Pradesh’s ambition to become India’s garment hub? With Noida, Varanasi, and Gorakhpur emerging as major textile clusters, the decision to […]
In India’s fast-evolving smartphone market, the next wave of growth won’t come from spec wars alone. It will be shaped by a generation that buys with its identity, powered by invisible 5G, and made smarter by AI woven into everyday use, writes CP Khandelwal: CEO PSAV, (Official Partner for HONOR Smartphones in India) Industry […]
Handlooms across the length and breadth of India do more than just clothes, they communicate, writes Nelson Jaffery, Head of Design Liva Fabrics on National Handloom Day The handloom industry of India has been synonymous with eternal beauty, craftsmanship and cultural tradition. With the nation observing the National Handloom Day every year on 7th […]
As ingredient-savvy consumers reshape India’s beauty market, brands are merging tradition with science to meet rising demand for efficacy, transparency, and ethical innovation, writes Manjari Singhal, Head of Business, FMCG and General Merchandise, Flipkart India’s contemporary beauty landscape is entering a new phase, one defined by ingredient awareness and purpose-driven purchases. Where once recognition […]
India is rapidly strengthening its position as a global trade and production hub, to address key barriers to competitiveness, writes Nitin Navneet Tatiwala, Vice President Marketing, Customer Experience, and Air Network, MEISA at FedEx India’s logistics sector is at an inflection point. As the country targets a USD 5 trillion economy with policy reforms, […]
