Unlike last year, when kirana store owners came to the rescue of consumers, this time around they are battling with the fear of contracting the virus.

Hyderabad-headquartered Hesa, which started as a rural marketing and event management company in 2012, in the last one year has pivoted into becoming a last mile digital rural marketplace

Be it Myglamm, Vedix, Juicy Chemistry or Mamaearth, most of these new-age brands are not just digital-first, over 80 per cent of their revenue comes from their own website

Manish Taneja, Co-Founder and CEO, Purplle.com claims that the brand is among the highest selling personal care brands on Amazon and Flipkart. \"Good Vibes has clearly transcended Purplle,\" he says

Fireside closed its second fund in January this year at Rs 863 crore, and Singh believes that its strategy of not chasing unicorns has paid off

A large number of kirana stores, especially in the cities, have taken to omni-channel in a big way in the last one year. Many of them have also signed up with retail tech companies to create their own app

Globally, especially in the matured markets such as the US and the UK, consumers prefer branded fruits, not because they offer consistently tasty fruits, but due to their claims of using environment-friendly cultivation practices and making a positive impact on livelihoods

\"When I run, I am not competing with anybody else, I am improving myself. Sometimes it's about timing, sometimes it's about being able to manage the run with enough energy left,\" say Ajoy Chawla

Close to 99 per cent of MyGlamm's sales comes from its own platforms, unlike other new-age FMCG brands which are more dependent on e-commerce marketplaces for their revenue.

Apart from a sales force of around 300 people, which physically visits the stationery shops, the company has hired 130 tele-callers who take orders over the phone

iD Fresh Food witnesses a 40 per cent jump in B2C and made up for the revenue loss it incurred in the B2B business. CEO PC Mustafa says direct-to-home will contribute around 5 per cent to its overall revenue

India Inc. has not just institutionalised working from anywhere, it is also revisiting hiring strategy, performance management and office space to become agile and nimble

Amazon used tech to shift to hybrid model of working and build a diverse, agile workforce during the lockdown

The coronavirus pandemic has seen a spurt of women entrepreneurs in rural India who have not just turned into savvy entrepreneurs but have also embraced digital solutions

Shailaja Kejriwal, Chief Creative Officer (Special Projects), ZEE Entertainment, calls it an effort to be an inclusive content creator, which according to her would reap fruits in the long run

Haldiram's recently entered into a 51:49 joint venture with South African health food company, Futurelife (it was earlier in talks with Kellogg's for a JV), under which it launched products such as granola, protein powders and oats

AkzoNobel in the last two years has trained 200 women painters and the plan in the next one year is to train another 1,000 women. Rajiv Rajgopal, MD says that the company's agenda is to increase diversity and inclusion in the blue-collared workforce

The Rs 5,000-odd crore feminine hygiene market (dominated by P&G and Johnson & Johnson with over 90 per cent market share), has witnessed the entry of a host of new-age brands in the past few years

\"Golf is a long game, and so is business. You always need to think long-term. It also teaches you not to get frustrated and have patience,\" says Ravinder Takkar, MD and CEO, Vodafone Idea

\"I used to take special permission to go to the IIT Delhi library to read research papers,\" says Amit Sharma, Founder and CEO of ShopX