A wave of Indian D2C startups is using this festive season to launch new products — not on their own websites, not through a traditional retail rollout, but directly on Blinkit, Zepto, Swiggy Instamar...
Deloitte’s latest Consumer Signals India report has put a name to something a lot of category-level research has been circling around for a while without quite pinning down: “calibrated co...
India’s FMCG majors opened FY27 with numbers that, on the surface, look like a genuine turnaround. Hindustan Unilever posted 10% year-on-year revenue growth to ₹17,341 crore in the June quarter ...
Flipkart’s Big Billion Days and Amazon’s Great Indian Festival haven’t been officially confirmed for 2026 yet, but both platforms are expected to open within days of each other in th...
India’s trade relationship with the US has whiplashed twice in the past year. Tariffs on Indian goods hit a punishing 50% in August 2025, a February 2026 bilateral deal brought that down to 18%,...
India’s retail inflation hit 4.45% in July, released this week by the National Statistics Office — a 19-month high, and the third straight monthly acceleration. That’s the headline every o...
The RBI’s Monetary Policy Committee met this week and did, on the surface, nothing — the repo rate stays at 5.25%, the stance stays neutral, all six members voted unanimously. But Governor Sanja...
India’s retail inflation crossed 4% in June for the first time in 16 months, coming in at 4.38% against economist expectations of roughly 4.3%. That single data point matters less than the traje...
Indian consumer goods manufacturers are ramping up production by as much as 30% ahead of this year’s festive season, betting on the Onam-to-Diwali window that typically delivers close to a third...
