Srei Infrastructure Finance Limited (Srei), one of Indiaʼs largest holistic infrastructure institutions, has reported a consolidated profit after tax (PAT) of `42.67 crore during the quarter ended June 30, 2019. The standalone PAT stood at ` 2.86 crore during the first three months of this financia...
Spices have been an integral part of India’s external trade for centuries, linking the ancient Indian civilisation to the civilisations of Babylon, Carthage, Alexandria, and Rome. Buying spices is so inexpensive now that it seems hard to believe that once they were valued as highly as gold a...
According to a report of India Brand Equity Foundation (IBEF), India is the third largest industrial user of silver in the world, after the US and Japan. India annually consumes around 4,000 tonnes of silver. India is today a dynamic retail destination and silver business is flourishing with the gro...
The automobile sector in India has been in the doldrums as passenger vehicles sales plummeted by almost 30% on a year-on-year basis in July 2019 alone. Industry giants have been facing huge inventory pile-ups and job losses in the midst of a severe slowdown in the industry.According to the Federatio...
In recent years, the total sales of e-retailers have increased manifold. With the introduction of Reliance Jio, these e-retailers have been able to penetrate into rural markets as well.This massive digital penetration has posed some problems for the local handmade footwear industry. With the digital...
With the emergence of various food and beverage apps, consumer choices have exponentially increased. Dineout is India’s largest dining out platform, which has tied up with more than 40,000 restaurants in 17 cities. Ankit Mehrotra, CEO and Co-founder, Dineout spoke to BE’s Aritra Mitra. Anki...
Think WhyNot Films (TWN-F) is one of the leading audio-visual story-tellers in India. In just few years, the company has charted out a unique path. BE’s Aritra Mitra spoke to Saurabh Sharma, Co-founder and CEO, Think WhyNot Films (TWN-F). Q) Please take us through your deliverables?A) ...
The Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) sector’s growth and employment generation capacity is high. In the last fiscal, it grew about 11% and increased employment by 14%. Its contribution to the export market is also considerable. At times, many MSME units go in for innovation of products....
Wellness tourism is a term used to describe the rapidly growing practice of travelling across international borders to seek wellness medical services. India has an advantage here due to its indigenous healthcare practices as well as its reduced cost and availability of healthcare alternatives like N...
Grounding of East West (1996), Damania (1997), Air Sahara (2007), Air Deccan (2007), Paramount (2010), Kingfisher (2012), and now Jet Airways may have different reasons but they commonly point out that the aviation sector is cyclical in nature. Although, small airlines fail to draw much attention, b...