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Analyst Corner| Jyothi Labs — Product launches to boost volume growth

Dishwashing has been one of fastest-growing categories for JYL and we expect strong growth to continue on account of market share gains and lower overall penetration in the category.




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SBI is geared to meet any additional demand for housing loans

The bank, which witnessed a spike in NPAs in its home loan portfolio post the merger of the associate banks, expects the NPA levels to dip with improvements in underwriting and recoveries.




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Bank of India to sell 25.05% stake in life insurance joint venture

Established in February 2009, Star Union Dai-ichi Life’s (SUD Life) premium income stood at Rs 1,211 crore, while its profit after tax stood at Rs 55 crore during April-December 2018-19.




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Big is beautiful: Lakshmi Vilas Bank, Indiabulls Housing to merge

The Indiabulls board has constituted a reorganisation committee headed by SS Mundra, independent director on the board of Indiabulls and former RBI deputy governor, to undertake necessary decisions in relation to the proposed merger.




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IndusInd Bank prices maiden dollar bond at 185 bps over US Treasury yield

The initial price guidance stood at 210 bps over the US Treasury. The bank indicated that with 3.5 times over-subscription, the final price tightened by 25 bps.




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Banks’ net interest income to rise over 20% y-o-y in Q4: Analysts

Even as banks see a rise in core income and a drop in fresh bad loans, they may see a fall in non-interest income, with treasury income falling sharply on a sequential basis.




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Lower output, price rise to hit cotton yarn margins

India’s cotton production is expected drop by over 5% in cotton season 2019 (the CS is usually from October 1, 2018, to September 30, 2019) due to low water availability and inadequate south-west monsoon in key cotton producing states and higher incidences of pest attacks.




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Gold rush: Jewellers make desperate bid to woo customers

Popley Group has launched a special edition of gold coins, which are being offered at cheaper rates, and is also selling luxury watches at a 25-50% discount.




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Branded bouquests blooming on the shelves of modern retail

The concept of modern malls in India has been slow in catching up with the trend of stocking flowers. The trade has been traditionally reserved for road-side vendors.  




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Cashew exporters concerned over surge in fraudulent imports of kernel

India produces 6-7 million tonne raw cashew per annum, and was till recently the leading supplier of kernels to the global markets.




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Cotton association reduces crop estimates for 2018-19 to 315L bales

CAI’s current estimates for the North Zone, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh are lower by 1 lakh bales each compared to its previous month estimate.




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Cyclone Fani impact: Surat textile industry reels from Rs 500-crore losses

To make matters worse, a sizeable number of labourers from Odisha are employed in the Surat textile industry, said Ashish Gujarati, president of Pandesara Weavers' Association.




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Sensex logs 5th straight loss amid earnings, trade woes

The investors sentiment was also dented by the weak results reported by some of the heavyweights; the Street chose to stay cautious ahead of results from other blue chips given the trend so far has been somewhat mixed.




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Promoters’ pledged shareholding falls to 2.83% in Jan-Mar: Kotak Institutional Equities report

Outstanding promoters’ pledged shares were Rs 1.95 lakh crore, which is about 1.38% of the total BSE-500 Index’s market capitalisation in March 2019.




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Corporate bond issuances via private placements rise 76%

The total corporate bond issuance in FY19 was Rs 6.1 lakh crore, just slightly higher than `6 lakh crore mopped up in FY18.




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Pink bollworm attack on cotton crosses economic threshold limit in Maharashtra

Last year’s cotton sowing was estimated at 126.44 lakh hectare. Scientists say that early cotton sowing may be responsible for pink bollworm attack.




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Rains put price pressure on Kerala’s banana, veggie exports

Banana accounts for as much as 60-65% of the green exports from Kerala and the rest are vegetables. Of the banana varieties, nenthran plantain leads the food preferences of Kerala’s 20 lakh diaspora families fanning out in the GCC countries.




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Steel pricing spread helps assertain strength of variables

In the next three decades the deregulation of the steel market (abolition of freight equalisation) and imports having been put under open general license led to a paradigm shift to the concepts of supply, capacity creation through differential technologies, SME’s role, demand assessments, competitiveness, pricing and export strategies.




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Govt, RBI done all that they could for NBFCs: SBI chief Rajnish Kumar

There is nothing further the government can do, Kumar said, adding that there is liquidity, partial credit enhancement and interest rates have moderated. Asked about the progress made in the resolution of stressed NBFC Dewan Housing Finance (DHFL), Kumar said: “That you should ask the company.”




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Easy loans: Banks to sanction retail loans through portal

Industry members claim that the turnaround time after loan sanctions through the portal has been long. In a meeting with finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman earlier this month, an industry association raised a complaint to this effect.




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Plan to charge zero MDR for large merchants is faulty, says expert

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the FY20 Budget abolished MDR charges for all merchants having a turnover of over Rs 50 crore which would lead the payment companies taking a hit on their margins.




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Texmaco Rail: Maintain ‘Buy’ with TP of Rs 69

While we like the company’s diversified segmental presence, we moderate our order inflow and execution assumptions due to the ongoing economic slowdown and slower traction in railway EPC projects.




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Why digital OOH is the new frontier of marketing

A Nielson study has highlighted that OOH enjoys significant advantages over conventional forms of offline advertising




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Relaxo’s Gaurav Dua on life beyond work

From Netflix to Apple, among others are some of his favourite brands




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How digital has revolutionised work from home

Digital allows to work from anywhere as long as there is a computer and a good internet connection -- half the battle is won




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Tupperware’s Deepak Chhabra on life beyond work

iPhone, Bose, Alexa are some of his favourite brands




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One on One: Building Loyalty On Mobile With Jack Philbin, CEO, Vibes

What's up with Apple Wallet?




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Pega Diary: We're Selling Change

Taking a deeper dive into how CRM is changing, and how customer engagement or experience, and AI-powered automation, are two sides of the same coin




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Jamming the Marketing Hall of Femme

To fill your days with music between now and the Marketing Hall of Femme Summit & Awards on June 21, here's our HoF playlist




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One on One: Rethinking CRM as Customer Engagement with Tom Libretto

Tom Libretto of Pega discusses the rapid evolution from traditional CRM to a real-time customer-centric marketing and sales environment




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4 Online Video Trends (And When To Use Them In Your Marketing)

In the rapidly-growing video marketing space, it's essential to stay ahead of emerging trends




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One on One: Connecting Global Audiences With Lilian Leong, COO, 9GAG

No potato needed




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Don’t force industry to pay wages during COVID-19 lockdown

Growth was already slowing before the corona outbreak; forcing industry to pay full wages imperils MSMEs’ survival




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Solving quota-cap riddle

It also said that the gubernatorial order didn’t stand the test of the provisions of Schedule V of the Constitution, and that the 100% reservation, apart from junking considerations of merit, violated the rights of other reserved groups.




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Covid-19 pandemic: 800 million households dependent on remittances to be hit

Global and multilateral institutions and national governments need to come together to make sure that the loss of income is offset through cash-and-kind support.




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Safety first: Punish attacks on doctors, but also focus on dispelling Coronavirus fears

Traditionally, our response to laws failing to arrest healthcare violence has been to simply increase the quantum and severity of punishment the next time.




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Designing minimum income guarantee post-Covid-19 collapse

Transfer amounts should also be linked to CPI. While PM-KISAN covers only farmers and is much more expensive and exclusive, such a transfer would avoid narrow coverage, also avoiding inclusion/exclusion errors




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Across The Aisle: Hoarding government, starving people

The worst fate that can befall a person is being locked down, alone or with his family, with no money and no food.




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Inside Track: Amid COVID-19 crisis, steps seem afoot to ensure Rahul Gandhi returns as Congress president

The impression was reinforced when Rajnath Singh, and not Shah, was appointed last month to head the 15- member high-power ministerial committee coordinating with states on ensuring movement of essential supplies during the lockdown.




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Magnanimity of the rich: Cricket needs to take a leaf out of tennis’s book to maintain equilibrium

When the game returns, the struggling cricket boards will be dependent on three superpowers—India, England, Australia—for bailouts




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Need faster labour reforms if the economy is to thrive

Parliamentary panel’s recommendations aren’t bold enough, and in some areas, they are even regressive.




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Dial-A-Doctor: eSanjeevani portal for telemedicine a welcome move by govt

As more governments integrate the service—Himachal Pradesh was latest to do so, on April 21—one can expect traffic to increase.




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Post-pandemic economics: The new normal will not be very different from the old one

Idealist notions of the State overtaking the Market as the one in charge are unfounded.




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Arbitrary arbitration: Enforcing global awards is getting more complicated

“The export without permission would have violated the law, thus, enforcement of such award would be violative of the public policy of India”, the SC said.




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Rebooting the economy: India needs a stimulus package of at least 5% of GDP

To bounce back from the pandemic quickly, India needs a stimulus package of at least 5% of GDP that focuses on broad-based development in laggard eastern states.




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The 40-70 rule of decision-making

Leaders should take a decision when they have 40-70% of the information required for taking that decision.




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Institutional challenges to migrants’ welfare

Not only has the registration of migrant workers by states been unsatisfactory, but state welfare boards’ capacities to offer assistance also varies, hampering daily wage labourers’ access to social and food security during the crisis




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Modi and the CMs take the wrong call

Likely extension of the lockdown is a bad idea; the PM and the CMs got trapped in flattening-the-curve rhetoric




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Franklin Templeton AMC is to blame for poor investment choices, not Coronavirus

Can’t blame Corona for crisis, investment choice was poor




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Coronavirus crisis: Politics of a pandemic

The Centre's fiscal management of the Covid crisis vis-a-vis availability of funds to states might result in creating a coercive, rather than a cooperative federalism.