If the hike in fuel prices has weighed on your wallet, then you should brace for another bad news. Consumers in India will soon have to shell out more on daily use products.

Priya nair is taking premium products to smaller towns.

The pay gap between female and male employees not only exists but also increases as they advance in their careers. What can be done to reverse the trend?

An investment of Rs 1 lakh into the stock three years ago would have turned into Rs 5,79,567 corpus in the current scenario. The rise in stock price can be attributed to a host of factors such as consistent rise in net profit, interest income, loan book and sales.

The yoga guru Baba Ramdev's company, which had recorded over 100 per cent growth rate about a year ago, has since witnessed a considerable dip in demand.

The complex milk procurement model (perfected by Amul and other cooperatives such as Nandhini) had psyched most multinationals, who are used to corporate farming.

The likes of ITC Foods, which is barely 10 years into this business, has surpassed HUL's food revenues, and is already an over Rs 11,000 crore business.

An increase in use of sanitation equipments is expected to impact the toilet-related products and services market

The big shift we have done in the last couple of years is not just add stores but also see that they are sustainable over the next 10-12 months and eventually over the next 2-3 years, says Srinandan Sundaram, Executive Director, Sales and Customer Development, HUL.

Last year in November, the GST Council had slashed the tax rates for all restaurants, except the ones located within hotels with room tariffs of Rs 7,500 and above, from 18 per cent to 5 per cent.

Benchmark Sensex finished above the 37,000-mark for the first time, while the NSE Nifty too breached the historic 11,200-level today on widespread buying led by consumption and capital goods stocks.The BSE Sensex vaulted over 352 points today to wrap up a stellar week -- during which it finished at fresh lifetime highs for each of the five trading sessions.Barring the BSE IT index, all other sectoral indices ended in the green.ITC was the top gainer in the Sensex pack, surging 5.2...

Q1 earnings of the firm took the stock to fresh 52-week high level of 307 level in trade today. ITC on Thursday reported a 10% rise in standalone net profit at Rs 2,818.68 crore for the first quarter ended June 30, 2018, aided by lower expenses, good growth in agri-business and other FMCG business despite decline in cigarettes sales.

Taking over businesses in challenging circumstances and turning them around is nothing new for Hindustan Unilever Chairman & MD Sanjiv Mehta. In a conversation with Prosenjit Datta and Ajita Shashidhar, Mehta talks about how he turned the slow-growing Indian operations into India's highest valued FMCG major. Edited excerpts:

Hindustan Unilever can trace its history in India back to the late 19th century.

Chairman and MD Sanjiv Mehta seeks to reinvent HUL as a future-ready corporation that can juggle heterogeneous markets successfully.

Sentiment got a boost after global crude oil prices dropped by over 4 per cent yesterday owing to oversupply fears, helping the rupee to strengthen against the dollar, brokers said.

It fell despite strong earnings as some brokerages downgraded their target price citing the expensive valuations of the stock. The stock opened at 1770 level on the BSE compared to Monday's close of 1753.85 on the BSE.

FMCG major Hindustan Unilever today reported a 19.17 per cent increase in standalone net profit at Rs 1,529 crore for the first quarter ended June 30, 2018.

Nestle, Danone and Hindustan Unilever (HUL), among other firms, are reportedly also in the race for GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare (GSKCH), whose product line-up includes Horlicks, Boost, and Maltova among others.

First time the statue of a Yogi would be installed at Madame Tussauds museum in London. This will further add to the glory of the science of Yoga and will motivate people across the globe to adopt a Yogic lifestyle, says Ramdev.