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Godrej Consumer CEO Vivek Gambhir says the confluence of slowing demand, channel liquidity pressure and weakening consumer sentiment has worsened the situation in the sector.

It’s a perfect storm in the consumer goods sector, says Godrej’s Vivek Gambhir

3 min read . 12:10 AM IST

Ease of doing business is severely constrained by the inability to enforce contracts or laws, costly litigation processes, and archaic legislations.

Rebuilding investor confidence will be a challenge: Ashishkumar Chauhan

1 min read . 15 Dec 2019

Markets regulator Sebi banned Gautam Thapar and entities associated with him for three years.

Gautam Thapar cites board approvals, rejects fund misuse allegations

4 min read . 15 Dec 2019

Branson said that he has decided to place a picture of his great, great, great grandmother Aria. (richardbranson/Instagram )

Richard Branson reveals his family link from Tamil Nadu

1 min read . 13 Dec 2019

Walt Disney had acquired Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox Inc. in a $71 billion cash and stock deal in June 2018. (REUTERS)

K Madhavan appointed new country manager of Disney and Star India

1 min read . 13 Dec 2019

Musk's mother, Maye Musk took to Twitter to share a photo of a 23- or 24-year-old Elon working on the broken window of a 1978 BMW back in 1995. (@mayemusk)

Elon Musk's mother shares a 1995 photo of him fixing car window

1 min read . 13 Dec 2019

Wabtec has launched a new engineering and technology centre in Bengaluru. (Image for representation)

Bengaluru: US-based MNC to hire 400 engineers for new technology centre

1 min read . 13 Dec 2019

Vivek Ramabhadran, vice-president, South Asia, South East Asia and Africa, Swarovski Professional

After-hours with the boss: Vivek Ramabhadran

1 min read . 13 Dec 2019

Hema Ravichandar

‘HR teams of the future will be information curators’

2 min read . 12 Dec 2019

Fortis Healthcare co-founder Shivinder Singh.

ED arrests former Ranbaxy promoter Shivinder Singh

1 min read . 12 Dec 2019

Vipin Sondhi, (Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint)

Ashok Leyland appoints Vipin Sondhi as CEO, MD for five years

1 min read . 12 Dec 2019

The average pay package for these roles will range between ₹15 lakhs to ₹28.5 lakh. (HT)

Media.net to hire over 130 freshers from top engineering colleges, B-schools

1 min read . 12 Dec 2019

Cisco has 10,000 engineers in India. (Mint/Image for representation)

Indian techies contribute as Cisco unveils pathbreaking 'internet of the future'

2 min read . 12 Dec 2019

This still image taken from a Blue Origin video shows Blue Origin's sub-orbital New Shepard rocket landing in western Texas on December 11 2019. (AFP)

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin successfully launches New Shepard spacecraft

1 min read . 12 Dec 2019

Google said Thursday it would continue to engage with the ACCC and the Australian government on areas 'such as privacy, ad tech and our work with publishers'. (Reuters)

Google, Facebook market power gets more scrutiny in Australia

2 min read . 12 Dec 2019

IKEA India CEO Peter Betzel.

We will open much more than 25 stores in India: IKEA’s Betzel

3 min read . 12 Dec 2019

SoftBank Vision Fund’s Praveen Akkiraju is stepping down

1 min read . 12 Dec 2019

Vivekananda Hallekere, Co-founder and CEO, Bounce

Click Moment | 'We raised debt from NBFCs on a pay-per-mile-basis'

1 min read . 11 Dec 2019

Mahindra Group chairman Anand Mahindra.

Anand Mahindra quotes couplet, Twitterati question its attribution to Gulzar

1 min read . 11 Dec 2019

The board of Yes Bank Ltd. deferred a decision Tuesday on which version of Braich it supports, saying his backing of a preferential share sale was 'under discussion.' (Mint)

Braich, who wants to save Yes Bank, has a back story worthy of Netflix

7 min read . 11 Dec 2019