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2 months ago | 
the-ken.com | hari krishna |Gaurav Bagur |Suprita Anupam |Nuha Bubere
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
the-ken.com | Rohin Dharmakumar |Nuha Bubere |Aakriti Bhalla |Rounak Kumar Gunjan
In 2023, two-wheelers and three-wheelers in India experienced growth of around 37% and 66%. Electric four-wheelers also promised to go down the same path because in that same year, there was a significant increase in sales of electric four-wheelers, 113%. Now, of course, this is from a lower base, but the signs were clear. The conventional wisdom or the narrative has been petrol and diesel cars are going to become a relic of the past.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
the-ken.com | Rahel Philipose |Nuha Bubere |Nathan Narde |Rounak Kumar Gunjan
The sexual wellness industry has long been shrouded in taboo. But now, thanks to quick commerce, getting a stamina supplement or a massage wand has become as effortless as ordering a packet of milk. In the process, the long standing dominance of the old guard – the likes of Durex, Manforce and Score – has also been challenged. That’s because these quick commerce platforms shone a light on the many upstarts that have entered the market in the last few years.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
the-ken.com | Rahel Philipose |Rounak Kumar Gunjan |Nuha Bubere |Olina Banerji
For an Indian university, a spot on the QS Rankings list could change everything. It would mean they belonged to the same elite club as the Cambridges and Oxfords of the world. But to nab that spot, universities are stopping at nothing — from admitting more foreign students, to paying top dollar to hire consultants and purchasing seats at conferences. But in the process some fear these universities are neglecting their bread and butter — academics. How did we get here?
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
the-ken.com | Nuha Bubere
Not all brands are cut out to tread the quick-commerce path. While many are battling it out to get noticed on quick-commerce platforms, a four-year-old beverage brand in Bengaluru delisted itself from Blinkit, Zepto, and Instamart in June 2024. Today, it’s driving sales through its own website and offline stores in the city, after selling its beverages via quick commerce from 2023 to 2024 and pulling in over Rs 2.5 crore (US$30,000) in annual recurring revenue.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
the-ken.com | Rohin Dharmakumar |Seema Singh |Alifiya Khan |Nuha Bubere
Subscribe to The Ken’s premium plan and download our beautiful apps for iOS, ipad or android to tune in. Or sign up to Two by Two with a monthly subscription for early access to full episodes on Apple Podcasts. App Store Play Store Apple Podcasts Fintech Lending was supposed to be the bridge that would enable entrepreneurs, small businesses and even individuals across the country to get access to much-needed credit to build businesses.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
the-ken.com | Rahel Philipose |Seema Singh |Anand Kalyanaraman |Nuha Bubere
There’s a running joke at Hindustan Unilever’s Mumbai Headquarters. If a new hire is assigned to the ice cream division, it’s immediately clear that they aren’t in the company’s inner circle. But if you’re handed Surf Excel, Brooke Brond, or Glow & Lovely, it means you are in the big leagues. Right now, that pecking order is clearer than ever. Just last month, the FMCG giant went ahead and decided to demerge its ice cream business.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
the-ken.com | Rahel Philipose |Rohin Dharmakumar |Nuha Bubere |Arundhati Ramanathan
For the last five years, India’s new-found love for plastic has been pretty visible. More than 100 million credit cards had been issued by banks by Feb 2024. Banks, as we all know, are in a rush to sell more and more credit cards. To do this, they use a whole gamut of attractive offers. For example, free access to airport lounges became all the rage for the longest time. The footfall at these lounges went up significantly till banks slowly realised it was getting a bit too expensive.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
the-ken.com | Nuha Bubere
792 — 458 — 218To most people, these numbers might look like an incomplete phone number or an encoded text. But for a Flipkart manager, they were the figures staring back from their dashboard on the evening of 27 November. The digits represent the targets that the e-commerce company’s executives had to meet across Mumbai, Delhi, and Bengaluru—the cities its quick-commerce service, Minutes, currently serves. Here’s the breakdown: 792 large appliances in stock. The target: sell 458 units by that hour.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
the-ken.com | Rohin Dharmakumar |Seema Singh |Aakriti Bhalla |Nuha Bubere
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