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Rural India is seeing a surge in consumer activity as major packaged goods companies report increased demand. Whats driving this growth, and how are companies capitalizing on it?

Despite higher sales, material costs stayed flat, enabling expansion in gross margin to 48.6%. A bulk of it has been reinvested in brand-building

The year 2023 might well have been filed under the ‘extraordinarily ordinary’ category until 280 days into it.

It is pretty clear why A.J Quinnell couldn’t recognise his book in the 1987 film. But I’m sure he was seduced, as were the rest of us, by director Tony Scott’s dramatic and action-packed direction of the 2004 remake, even though that one also diverged from the original story. The money Quinnell received from the film’s huge success wouldn’t have hurt

On May 11, 2015, during a rally in Bomet, former president Uhuru Kenyatta was quoted saying “Gazeti ni ya kufunga nyama.” "Newspapers are only useful for wrapping meat." A statement that would create precedence in media attacks during his 10-year rule.

Blowing Hot a December 10, 20 by John Jeffay I stepped out of my front door this morning without a face mask.  For a brief moment I forgot we were in the midst of a pandemic.  Mask wearing is mandatory where I live, a nd provides a constant visual reminder on the streets that life is far from normal. Im sure Im not alone in yo-yoing between a sense of "business as usual" a nd the depressing realization that after nine months of lockdowns, restrictions and more, the end remains a long way o...