Consumer goods
P&G to buy rest of Spanish Arbora & Ausonia JV for $1 bn
21 Jul 2012
Procter & Gamble Co yesterday launched a $1-billion bid for the rest of its Spanish joint venture with Spain's Agrolimen Group,to strengthen and expand its feminine- and baby-care products businesses
Unilever to close four UK sites; axe 800 jobs
15 Jun 2012
FMCG industry disappointed with excise duty hike
17 Mar 2012
Hitachi to double India turnover to Rs12,000 crore
05 Sep 2011
The Japanese major has identified India as one of its key management areas outside Japan
India, China to drive Unilever growth: Polman
09 Mar 2011
Hindustan Unilever Ltd - the fastest-growing among the entities that form the €44 billion group - will be the lynchpin of the strategy of doubling Unilever's revenues by 2020
L'Oreal may bid $19 billion for Avon Products: report
12 Oct 2010
Avon has increased the number of sub-$5 products in its portfolio and added more direct sellers to push sales to beat the downturn.
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Lighter than air, yet very, very powerful
By Kiron Kasbekar | 03 Jan 2024
In March 2013 Chinese scientists pulled off a remarkable feat. They created the world’s lightest aerogel. Tipping the scales at a mere 0.16 milligrams per cubic centimeter – that’s a sixth of the weight of air!
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By Aniket Gupta | 27 Dec 2023
The 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP28, took place from 30th November 2023, to 13th December 2023, at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
03 Jul 2023
HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
02 Apr 2023
Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
06 Mar 2023
Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation
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