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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Today, the proliferation of coffee cafes in India, with their rapidly adapting and westernising variations of coffees is shaping the way India’s younger generation consumes coffee, writes Praveen Jaipuriar, CEO, CCL Products (India) For decades, India’s coffee identity has been defined by geography. In southern India, consumers have gravitated towards stronger coffee which sometimes […]
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 […]
A strong emphasis on ‘Make in India’ and support for MSMEs has been a highlight of this year’s budget, writes Rajkumar Jain, Managing Director, Bonjour The Union Budget 2025 has laid out a progressive roadmap for India’s retail sector, introducing measures that enhance ease of doing business, strengthen domestic manufacturing, and foster digital transformation. […]
