Selvakumar Varadharajan, founder, Layman Agro Image: C P Shanmugham for Forbes India Eight years in Bengaluru until 2013 gave Selvakumar Varadharajan, 38, almost everything: Career, money, exposure to a cosmopolitan society, and the blues. The bling was blinding. Renouncing a big city life would have taken longer had this humbling realisation not dawned upon him. […]
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Los Angeles: A federal court ruling that Amazon.com Inc. can be held liable for a dog collar sold on its website that partly blinded a woman could complicate the online merchant’s business if it is applied broadly. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals, in Philadelphia, overturned a judge’s decision that Amazon was shielded under the Communications Decency Act, […]
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The Godrej family has been one of the most-cited business case study of successful close-knit family businesses that has functioned without glitches for over a century. The 122-year-old conglomerate has been unfazed by any controversies surrounding traditional family-run units. Roles had been clearly defined and the third generation had their board positions across companies. Even […]
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To celebrate International Small Business Day, Google today launched a new website that will suggest its products that seem like the best fit for a specific business. The Google for Small Business portal was announced today at the Grow with Google Learning Center in New York City, where the company offers a variety of workshops and classes. During a break […]
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Here is a wrap of the major business news of the day. RBI Deputy Governor Viral Acharya resigns six months ahead of term end Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) Deputy Governor Viral Acharya has quit six months before the scheduled end of his term. He is set to return to the New York University Stern […]
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In both business and our daily lives, concerns about data security, information credibility and the fishbowl of social media are climbing fast. According to this year’s Edelman Trust Barometer, 73% of respondents globally worry about false information being used as a weapon, and only 1 in 5 people believe “the system is working for them.” Businesses […]
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WASHINGTON: Ahead of his visit to India, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has revealed that he had a “tough” time as a businessman in Chennai and Bengaluru while trying to sell machine parts for the aerospace industry in the country. Pompeo said this during his address to a Washington audience that included Google’s Indian-American CEO Sundar Pichai […]
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SMB’s play such a significant role across economies, and to quote the World Bank “formal SMEs contribute up to 60% of total employment and up to 40% of national income (GDP) in emerging economies.” The below factors are critical to the success of SMB’S: Access to Market E-commerce and digital payments have opened up access to market […]
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Fondly called Yogi or YCD by friends and admirers, Y C Deveshwar has always been dignified and led from the front. The story of Deveshwar is the story of ITC Ltd, a century-old company, that he transformed from being a cigarette maker to FMCG giant, hotel, hospitality, agri-business, paper, printing and packaging company. Born as […]
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We had a very satisfying fourth quarter (Q4) and we had an all-round growth in our key matrix starting off with our top line growth of 17%. We had a very robust renewal premium, we had a product mix which showed an increasing share of both protection as well as longevity protection in the form […]
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