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Marico was on track for recovery before Covid struck: CEO

‘We have exited April at 70-80% of our run rate, which we were doing last year.’




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WATCH: Coronavirus Briefings At The White House

Watch the latest updates on the coronavirus pandemic, including regular White House briefings.




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Phoenix firefighter dies after battling work-related cancer

David Mathis died in hospice care on May 5, according to the Phoenix Fire Department. He was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2007.

       




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Cottonwood police release body camera footage of shooting involving 57-year-old Jeffrey Thomas

Cottonwood Police posted a video on Facebook of a shooting that occurred when officers attempted to detain Jeffrey Thomas, 57, for a mental health evaluation on May 6.

       




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5 digital benefits of an azcentral.com subscription

With an azcentral.com subscription, you can play a vital role in supporting local journalism that you and your community can trust.

      




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Coronavirus Arizona: Some businesses defy Ducey stay-at-home order

Gov. Doug Ducey this week extended what had already been a month-long shutdown of nonessential services, but some small businesses have attempted to reopen on May 1.

       




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At The Republic, a new effort to explore tribal issues at the heart of the news

Thanks to philanthropic support — and your readership — we will spend the next two years examining tribes in Arizona and the Southwest.

       




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Wonderchef plans to open 100 exclusive outlets

Wonderchef, a Rs 200-crore company had recently entered north Indian market by launching its first flagship store in Gurugram.




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How chef Sanjeev Kapoor built a business empire that is valued at over Rs 1,000 crore

Sanjeev Kapoor's business ventures range from premium cookware and appliances brand Wonderchef to TV channel FoodFood to a chain of restaurants across India and abroad.




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Wonderchef launches 2 exclusive brand outlets in Bengaluru

With this addition, Wonderchef has 10 exclusive brand outlets in the country besides its omni-channel presence across 5000 retail outlets, it said in a release.




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Govt. should grant industry status to retail sector in Union Budget 2018: Wonderchef

Ravi Saxena, MD, Wonderchef emphasizes that it is the best time to award industry status to retail sector for overall economic growth.




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Sanjeev Kapoor's Wonderchef raises Rs 70 cr from Amicus Capital Partners

Founded in 2009 by Kapoor and former Sodexo Pass India MD Ravi Saxena, the company sells premium kitchen appliances, cookware and bakeware under the Wonderchef brand.




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Ujjwala scheme has been very beneficial to cooker market: TT Jagannathan, TTK Prestige

We expect to make up Kerala losses in September, October and November as the state rebuilds its economy.




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Take Note: Cariol Horne And Damon Jones On The Need To Reform Against Police Brutality

Veteran law enforcement officers Damon K. Jones and Cariol Horne are speaking out against police brutality and calling for reform. They talked with WPSU about the challenges they have faced as minorities in the police force, their thoughts about the Black Lives Matter movement and why change is necessary. Transcript: Cheraine Stanford: Welcome to take note on WPSU. I'm Cheraine Stanford. We're joined today by two activists advocating for law enforcement reform. Cariol Horne was a police officer in Buffalo, New York, for nearly two decades. When she was fired after she says she was assaulted by a fellow officer while attempting to stop him from choking a handcuffed man. Damon K. Jones has worked in the West Chester Department of Corrections for 28 years. He represents the state of New York in the organization, Blacks in Law Enforcement of America. The two came to Penn State as part of a panel called “Black lives inside of blue lives” to discuss the question: What happens when Black




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Take Note: Lindsey Whissel Fenton On Speaking Grief

Speaking Grief is a multi-platform project that aims to create a more grief-aware society. The public television documentary, Speaking Grief, premieres Tuesday, May 5 th at 8pm on WPSU-TV. It will also air on public TV stations around the country starting this month. Our guest on this edition of Take Note (recorded from home, via telephone to observe social distancing) is Lindsey Whissel Fenton of WPSU, producer & director of the film, who talks about the project, how we can overcome the taboo against talking about grief, and how we can learn how to support those who grieve.




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Adidas apologises after backlash over refusing to pay rent amid coronavirus scare

"We would like to wholeheartedly apologise. We have paid our landlords the rent for April." Adidas, which made a net profit of nearly two billion euros ($2.2 billion) in 2019, has been hard hit by a slump in Chinese sales and store closures around the world.




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Rovio Entertainment,owner of the Angry Birds franchise, aims to become default app on India smartphones

Rovio’s India head also said that the company wants to have its own retail store where it can sell Angry Birds merchandise such as shirts and stuffed toys.




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Star Chef - India's most successful mobile game developed in Udupi

With 35% users each in the US and Asia Pacific region and the remaining in Europe, 99Games is one of the first Indian gaming studios to hit this success.




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Rotomac loan default swells to Rs 3,695 crore, CBI files case against Vikram Kothari

Earlier, the loan default was estimated at over Rs 800 crore but scrutiny of documents by CBI revealed that the amount is much larger.




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Eyeing Rs 2k cr in revenue, Kurl-on says partnership with IKEA will prove beneficial

"Some part of Kurl-on's business did get cannibalized with the opening of IKEA's first store in Hyderabad, but it is not a cause of worry," Sudhakar Pai, Chairman and MD, Kurl-on says.




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Bangladesh garment factories reopen, defying virus lockdown

"We have to accept coronavirus as part of life. If we don't open factories, there will be economic crisis," said Bangladesh Knitwear Manufacturers and Exporters Association vice president Mohammad Hatem.




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ASCII-graffiti, referential public art

Isn’t ASCII Art a perfect form of “graffiti” in 2010s? The 8-bit aesthetics is among the strongest visual references connecting the analogue recent past with the omni-digital present, so why not adopt it to finally have some public art embedded




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Truefitt & Hill to take India tally to 17 by 2017-end

World’s oldest barber shop Truefitt and Hill is keen to take its India tally to 17 by the end of this year.




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VLCC ropes in Jayant Khosla, formerly with Landmark, as chief business officer ahead of IPO

Khosla’s mandate will be overseeing the firm’s wellness centres, personal care products and its institute of beauty and nutrition, across Middle East, Africa and CIS countries.




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CureFit hires senior executives from Flipkart, Walmart, InMobi

The startup, backed by Ratan Tata's investment platform RNT Capital, confirmed his appointment.




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CureFit to expand to Delhi-NCR, invest Rs 25 cr

The company is looking at a revenue run rate of about USD 50 million by December 2018, from USD 10 million currently. Revenue run rate is a term used to indicate total sales value of merchandise sold through the marketplace over a certain period of time.




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CureFit gets $10 m in debt financing

The startup plans to raise more going forward to fund its capital expenditure (capex).




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Fitness startup Curefit adds Rs 4.2 crore in cart

It secured Rs 4.18 crore in a funding round with participation from Flipkart cofounder Binny Bansal and Myntra-Jabong CEO Ananth Narayanan, according to data-intelligence platform Paper.vc.




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Mukesh Bansal's CureFit eyes 500 CultFit fitness centres by 2020

Bansal said the startup has so far raised around $160 million and only less than 20% of the funds were utilised so far and the balance funds will be spent over the next few years towards developing fitness devices and technology platform, apart from expanding the footprint.




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Curefit may enter online retailing of sportswear

Selling sportswear online will open up an additional revenue stream for Curefit, which currently offers four products such as gyms under Cultfit, yoga and meditation centres under Mindfit, health food under Eatfit and primary care with Carefit.




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Talwalkar’s group defaults on Rs 3.44 crore interest payment

Care revised its rating on long-term securities to ‘B’ from ‘A+’.




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Curefit raises Rs 832 crore from Temasek, Unilever

The deal would value the company at close to Rs 4,300 crore, a premium of about 15% to its previous round of funding which valued the company at over Rs 3,700 crore, according to filings from ministry of corporate affairs sources by TOI.




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Heart failure patient hits out at AXM defibrillator vandal

Jim Tees should check his facts before jumping in with both feet and looking foolish.




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Chief Medical Officer's Handling Of Coronavirus Inspires Alaskans To #ThinkLikeZink

As the COVID-19 pandemic began to pick up in Alaska, Dr. Anne Zink, the state's chief medical officer, faced a difficult choice. Should she continue in-person meetings and nightly briefings with Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy? Or should she opt for a more socially distant form of engagement? Zink chose the latter, saying she wanted to model the behavior that she has been appealing to residents to follow. She now appears at Dunleavy's briefings by video. And over the past two months, she has become a trusted voice as she urges Alaskans to follow the strict social distancing and other public health guidelines adopted by the state administration — which doctors groups have credited with keeping the state's COVID-19 numbers among the lowest in the country. Zink, who has a Facebook fan club and a #ThinkLikeZink hashtag , isn't the only public health official to acquire a cultlike following during the pandemic: Dr. Anthony Fauci, the federal infectious disease expert, has inspired a Saturday




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Begbie tells clubs to take money before it’s too late

SHEILA Begbie, the SRU’s director of rugby development, has urged more clubs to apply to the Club Hardship Fund for help before the end-of-month deadline.




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April’s consumer sentiment continues freefall amid COVID-19 pandemic




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Edinburgh coach Richard Cockerill benefits from doing his business early

WHETHER through shrewd planning, good fortune or a bit of both, Edinburgh managed to complete the bulk of their business for next season before rugby came grinding to a halt. When precisely play resumes is, of course, unknown and out of their control, but they are at least confident that they will be in good shape to hit the ground running.




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Peaceful Protesters Say 'No War With Iran'

There was a peaceful anti-war protest in DeKalb on Thursday evening. The event was part of a nationwide effort led by MoveOn.org. It gave people the opportunity to gather at 5:00 p.m. in their cities and say, "No War With Iran." DeKalb's protest took place at Peace Corner, just off Lincoln Highway and 1st Street. More than 50 people gathered to express their concern. Dani Brzozowski is running for Congress in Illinois' 16th District. She said, "I think President Trump and people like Representative Kinzinger thought they'd be able to take military action in Iran without fear of any consequence from the American public." She gestured to the cars driving by and the dozens of people around her and said, "That's not the case, right? People did not just sort of turn a blind eye to this." Matthew Fazekas said, "I'm 23. We went to war with Iraq when I was six years old. I think it's time for this kind of thing to stop." He continued, "We live in a very unpredictable time. Another war is just




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BBC's 'Big Night In': When fundraising event by Comic Relief and Children in Need is happening

Comic Relief and Children In Need are teaming up for the first time ever to hold a special fundraising night on BBC One.




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Letters of the day: No more benefits for Glasgow drug addicts

Use the bins




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Glasgow Clan sign defenceman

Glasgow Clan Chief Operating Officer Gareth Chalmers has revealed the club have signed a defenceman, who should be ready to play in tomorrow's clash with Manchester Storm.




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Lee McGregor bids to stay fighting fit before boxing resumes

Lee McGregor fears ring rustiness could be his most dangerous opponent when he eventually returns to action.




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Rangers dossier claims clubs unaware of £10m liability before SPFL vote

RANGERS claim that the SPFL failed to inform its members of a potential £10million liability and “substantial problems” with league reconstruction before asking clubs to vote to conclude the 2019/20 campaign.




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Selina Hales: Glasgow asylum seeker is left feeling imprisoned again during pandemic

THE accommodation more often than not leaves a lot to be desired.




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Letters: Fears over lockdown if rest of UK eases measures before Scotland

I’M very worried about what’s going to happen after the weekend when the rest of the UK begins to ease lockdown, while Scotland chooses not to.




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Partick Thistle thank fans for generosity as majority of Firhill faithful reject refund saving £75k

PARTICK THISTLE have thanked their season ticket holders after just 3.5 per cent of supporters applied for refunds.




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Shortening The Distance: Walsenburg Historian Reflects On The Great Depression And Today’s Pandemic

With all that's going on in the world right now, we wondered what life experience and family history might be able to tell us. As part of KRCC's Shortening the Distance project, producer Shanna Lewis got in touch with historian Carolyn Newman. She's 88 years old and has lived in the same house in Walsenburg for 60 years.




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New Tax Laws Effect Estate Planning

Your Legal Rights Host Jeffrey Hayden welcomes Janet Brewer and Alicia Gamez, specialists in estate planning, wills, trusts and probate law. We consider new tax laws' effects on planning and special issues to do with international assets and family minors. Questions for Janet and Alicia? Please call toll-free 866-798-8255.




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Farmworkers Are 'Essential' During COVID-19, But Are Left Unprotected And Underpaid

On this edition of Your Call, we’ll speak with Dr. Ann López , executive director of the Center for Farmworker Families about how California's farmworkers are still unprotected, months after the COVID-19 crisis began.




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Experts Say Two Million People Per Week Must Be Tested Before Reopening

On this edition of Your Call, we're speaking with epidemiologist Gregg Gonsalves about the current status of testing for COVID-19 across the US.