To shed its mass market tag, Dabur to focus on health juices rather than fruit drinks. While the pharma sector in India may be looking up, for the Dabur Group, the move is in line with its desire to maintain a strong foothold in the FMCG sector that is poised to grow by 16 per cent this financial year compared to the 12 per cent growth rate in pharma.
Herbal medicine has suddenly come into vogue with the notion of "wellness" becoming integral to the healthcare business. But here's the catch. Although India is the birthplace of ayurveda, one of the most popular forms of herbal medication, the domestic market looks positively anaemic when compared with its healthy presence in the West.
In the era when shops were still named after the owner and his sons' names, it took one high school student to start a new trend.
The stores will house everything from cosmetics and beauty products to healthcare and wellness products from a wide range of companies like P&G, Dabur, Hindustan Unilever and Johnson & Johnson. At the same time, they will also offer prestige products like Lancome, Clinique and MAC.
Brazil's famous alcohol, cachaca, has finally hit India. The Brazilian tequila - Diva Cachaca - has been launched by Diva Distilleries and will be distributed by Aspri Spirits. Diva Cachaca's launch in India is not only well timed, but also well researched, claims the company which did an exhaustive study of the Asian market and finally decided to step into the continent through India.
According to an M&S spokesperson, the 35 per cent price cut and an expansion in its store network will help the brand in widening its customer base.
It may have taken 54 years to set foot in north India, but south India's Manipal Health Systems has finally dived into the thick of action and announced two hospitals in Delhi with the promise of many more spread across the region. However, the big challenge facing the company that operates 17 hospitals in the south will be competition from existing, well-established hospital chains such as Fortis, Max or even Apollo that entered north a while ago.
Despite news of the private equity in the domestic healthcare and pharma industry touching almost Rs 40 crore (Rs 40 million) in the first nine months of the year, PE firms are not exactly bullish about investing in the pharma industry alone. In fact, a closer look at the investments reveals that a larger part of the money is being flown into healthcare delivery systems like hospital chains and not in pharma companies.
The design, material and technology used in a green building is such that not only does it conserve energy, it recycles the used energy wherever possible and also creates energy out of the waste. Be it a water treatment plant, a sewage plant, green lighting or using FSC certified wood that comes from sustainable forests, a green building is constantly in search of new methods of environmental conservation.
They are known to have introduced northern India to luxury cars. But now the British Motor Car Company (BMC) is playing an active role in the country's fitness movement.
But, the process patent that existed previously had already allowed for a huge number of cheaper generics. Even so, within two months, Pfizer's Viagra had exceeded its own expectations by capturing 1.8 per cent of the market, worth around Rs 80 crore (Rs 800 million). It set an example and gave hope to other pharma companies to launch their products in India.
Firms are opting for acquisitions over new projects as operational hospitals mean immediate revenue at lower costs.
Sustainable homes, writes Radhieka Pandeya, should be built in a manner to create energy within, so they do not need to borrow any from outside.
Clever strategising on ITC's part has put Bingo in the number one slot within six months of its launch.
Close to completing six decades in healthcare delivery, the Manipal Healthcare Group had a modest beginning with the Manipal Hospital in Bangalore
The foundation for the history of Nirula's was laid in 1934 with Hotel India, a 12-room hotel which later shut shop. What followed was a cafe, speciality restaurants like La Boheme, Gufa and Chinese Room.
A healthier future, but for whom, ask analysts, as investors and the corporate medical sector gear up to pour money into medical cities.
The paediatric cardiac team at the Max Heart and Vascular Institute, Delhi, successfully tested a new form of treatment for Early Eisenmenger Syndrome, caused by a hole in the heart
The best way to beat the heat is by staying hydrated. But keep that chilled beer at arm's length And look beyond plain old water.
South Indian cities such as Vizag, Kochi and Mysore are the next major investment centres for real-estate developers.
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