By Aishwarya Ramesh Tata Consumer Products has rolled out ready-to-cook mock meat products under the brand name Simply Better. Tata Consumer Products (TCPL) is the latest company to enter the plant-based meat segment in India. TCPL has launched a brand called Simply Better - which includes range of ready-to-cook (RTC) products, made of plant-based meat. The RTC range is a mix of snacking dishes and traditional Indian dishes. It includes plant-based chicken nuggets, chicken fingers, chicken burger patties and Awadhi seekh kebabs. All these plant-based products are currently available on Amazon Prime and Flipkart. TCPL's Simply Better products as seen…
Written By Akanksha Nagar Urban Company aims to bring quality, innovation and affordability to the unorganised beauty services market As the pandemic started hammering the business, a sizeable number of beauty professionals who worked at salons jumped onto the up and coming tech-enabled home services marketplaces. The bulk of the Indian beauty services industry remains unorganised and fragmented, dominated by expensive salon brands or small players that offer dubious products, inconsistent service and unsolicited advice. With a push from the pandemic-led restrictions, there has been a sudden rise of a clutch of organised, on-demand players that offer professional beauty care…
Akash Podishetty & Krishna Veera Vanamali, Business Standard New Delhi, 8 July 2022 India’s $900 billion retail market has emerged as one of the most dynamic industries and is expected to reach anywhere between $1.3-$1.5 trillion by 2025. The organized retail is seen gaining 15% market share in the overall retail space, while food & grocery and apparel and lifestyle may account for 80% of India’s retail market by 2025. Large market offers big opportunities. And it looks like Reliance Retail has seized it, with its massive omni-channel retail play of physical stores, B2B with kiranas and e-commerce. The company…
Written By Aditya Kalra & Abhirup Roy MUMBAI, June 30 (Reuters) - Reliance Industries (RELI.NS) said on Thursday it would open outlets of Pret A Manger in India under a franchise deal with the British sandwich and coffee chain, a first foray by the Indian firm in the country's growing food and beverage industry. Reliance Brands Ltd (RBL), a unit of the conglomerate that also runs India's biggest retail chain, would start by opening branches of Pret, as the brand is known in Britain, in big Indian cities, both companies said. RBL Chief Executive Darshan Mehta said in joint statement…
June 28, 2022 Edited by Surabhi Shaurya, India.com The blanket ban on single-use plastic items from next month poses a challenge to cool beverages such as Frooti, Real, Tropicana and Maaza. Earlier, beverage company Parle Agro, which owns Frooti and Appy had also urged the government to extend the deadline to implement the ban on plastic straws by six months. For the unversed, the government’s ban on single-use plastics, including plastic straw, is going to be effective from July 1, 2022. Calling the government’s decision a ‘hasty ban’, Parle Agro had said it will ‘negatively impact’ overall businesses of the…
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