Loyalty programmes are the perfect retention tools for businesses. The trend of initiating various consumer loyalty programmes have taken off in a big way. India’s e-commerce industry has witnessed an increased growth in thelast few years due to the increase in internet penetration, safe and secur...
As the demand for healthy food rises in India, organic farming is experiencing a surge. The central and several state governments are supporting organic farming. According to a recent report, organic foods market in India is estimated to be over $0.50 billion. It is further projected to treble in th...
Media’s election coverages, in many cases, start with the reporter asking the car driver in which he travels - ‘what is the scene?’- and then, sometimes unfor-tunately, ends there. There was a story, almost convincingly circulated among media people, that a famous reporter wrote and file...
Srei Infrastructure Finance Limited, one of India’s largest holistic infrastructure institutions, has reported a consolidated profit after tax (“PAT”) of`162.43 crore during the half year ended September 30, 2017 as compared to`113.44 crore during the corresponding period of last year, a growt...
If the bubble of dotcom had not gone bust way back in the late 90’s, Murugavel Janakiraman probably would have been just another cog in the constantly spinning gears of the IT world. “Even when that happened and my career as a consultant in the IT sphere was at stake, I could have stuck ou...
The famous actor, humorist, newspaper columnist Will Rogers had cleverly referred to advertising as the art of convincing people to spend money they don’t have for something they don’t need. Advertisements are made to encourage or persuade an audience to continue with or to take on some new purc...
UrbanClap Technologies India Pvt. Ltd, one of the fastest growing start-ups in India, is a one stop destination for all urban lifestyle services. The Bengaluru-based home-services company was founded in mid-2014 by Abhiraj Singh Bhal, Varun Khaitan, and Raghav Chandra, with an aim to create an onlin...
The Narendra Modi government has initiated a process to corporatise the Central Public Works Department (CPWD), its 163 year- old main construction arm. The move is expected to strengthen the performance of CPWD by decentralising its ambit of operations. BE’s Shahana Banerjee spoke to Rajendra Kum...
Srei Equipment Finance Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Srei Infrastructure Finance Limited, and Tata Motors have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to finance Tata Motors commercial vehicles with a special focus on construction and mining tippers. This move will enable Srei and Tata Mo...
India’s Small and Medium Business (SMB) sector has the potential to revolutionise India’s economic growth trajectory by growing at a rate of 23% per annum. It has already outpaced the industrial sector’s growth rate. According to a KPMG report, there are around 51 million SMBs in India, of whi...