Chennai, India based CK Ranganathan and the company he founded, Cavin Kare, became noticed first with the success of Chik shampoo in single-use sachets that cost half a rupee. Even today most shampoo sales in India are units sold at about 2 cents a piece. As this feature story, shows...
Rising Income fuel India's spiralling consumer economy
It took 33 years for India to increase its per-capita annual income from $100 to $500, but only five years to double it from $500 to $1,000. It's not surprising then, that Indian industry reported huge rises in sales in June: cars (34 per cent), refrigerators (32 per cent), air...
Wal-mart's India partner expands its own retail chain
In April 2008, Bharti Retail opened its first "EasyDay Market" retail store in founder Sunil Bharti Mittal's mid-sized home town of Ludhiana in Punjab. Eschewing the major metro cities that have been the focus of other Indian retail chains such as Spencers, Reliance and More. Since then, CEO Vinod Sawhny...