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A tangle of approvals, high costs, and looming DPDP rules means the race could leave many smaller players sidelined before the first server even spins up
Big names, numbers, and narratives don’t equal big returns
Orkla’s IPO is up against a regionally-fragmented spice market, where each state has its own unique spice blends
Turning away from heavy promotions in a bid for prestige hasn’t been enough to fend off its struggles
Despite counting the Tatas, Reliance, and Mayo Clinic among its investors, Karkinos couldn’t stay afloat long. Its journey was too fast too soon
In an agritech landscape where startups try to be everything to everyone, the four-year-old startup proves that mastering pomegranates and bananas could be more profitable than juggling the entire produce
Three foreign firms—Vertiv, Schneider Electric, and Stulz—are set to capture a slice of India’s Rs 10,000 crore data-centre boom as liquid cooling becomes essential to handle AI’s power surge
Ravneet Kaur is revitalising the Competition Commission of India, trying to shake off its toothless tiger image—but she must confront a mix of old and new challenges
It is so sprawling that every listed Indian retailer is a rival. Even when none of them has a fraction of its complexity
Reliance Industries's right of way can’t always be taken for granted
Airtel is banking on its deep distribution network to do what many fintechs in India would give an arm and leg for
The Mukesh Ambani-led company whisked its top-tier brands—Coach, Steve Madden, Kate Spade, and more—away from the Tata Group platform, granting Ajio Luxe exclusivity. Now, Tata Cliq stands on the brink of its extinction
Amid a flurry of activity, the US$5.4B-valued EV maker is sprinting to get the massive battery plant started within the next six months
Fighting the decades-old distribution system was always going to be hard, even for Reliance. Now, its priorities have shifted
With an investment of over US$14 billion, the company is expected to replicate the disruption Reliance brought to the telecom industry. And it's putting together a crack team
Having highlighted the eight-year-old Milkbasket’s performance in almost all but one earnings call since the acquisition, Reliance is finally milking the e-grocer
India's movie-ticketing giant bounced back to its pre-Covid self. With theatres’ future up in the air, Bookmyshow is now focusing on a difficult new realm: live events
After saying goodbye to IPL, HBO, and Formula One, it is going back to its mass entertainment roots
Reliance Industries-backed JioCinema is set to host what may be the country’s largest streaming event ever. But advertisers worry about Jio’s technical chops and their return on investment
Blocking third-party data tracking will hurt smaller digital entities and hand over near-monopolistic control over the advertising market to large corporations such as Google and Meta
The conflict between the companies, simmering since the IPL media rights auction 2022, boiled over in October when the telecom giant discontinued most streaming bundle offers—ending a fairytale Reliance-Disney collaboration
Despite 170 startups passing through its doors over the last eight years, Reliance’s startup accelerator doesn’t have many success stories to boast of. While a few have gone on to become vendors for Reliance’s businesses, some have snubbed acquisition overtures from India’s largest conglomerate, and others have been acquired by rivals
Confronted with sliding share prices and unhappy investors, two of India’s largest lead-acid battery makers, Exide and Amara Raja, want to make lithium-ion batteries. Lithium supply chain problems aside, the arch-rivals may find that they’ve come on the scene just a little too late
After only expanding to eight cities in seven years, Dunzo wants to reach as many as 25 within the next 18 months. All while reaching profitability. Standing in its way, though, is a murderers' row of rivals, both old and new
Since acquiring Embibe in 2018, Reliance has spent nearly $80 million revamping the AI-based edtech. With a mega relaunch lined up for January 2022, Embibe is looking to take the quickest route to scale—schools
With its $770 mn acquisition of Norway’s REC Solar, Reliance Industries is betting on next-gen solar tech to move in lockstep with Chinese solar majors. And scale can’t guarantee the disruption it’s after
The Mukesh Ambani-led conglomerate has built up a small army of healthcare offerings with a view to creating an integrated healthcare play. Putting all these pieces together, however, is proving difficult even for a behemoth like Reliance
With Udaan taking biscuit maker Parle to the antitrust regulator for not supplying directly to it, the fault lines in the FMCG-B2B e-commerce relationship are becoming clearer. Even so, JioMart has a few aces up its sleeve to weather the storm better than Udaan
India’s largest conglomerate Reliance Industries already owns an Indian Premier League franchise and operates the country’s top football league. Its next goal is to get into the lucrative Indian sports broadcast industry, which will reportedly be worth $1.3 billion by 2024. Indian cricket rights—the IPL in particular—are high on the agenda
India’s top telco, Reliance Jio, recently announced that its low-cost smartphone would be delayed until November. Having already suffered from inventory issues, it will be a tough task to reach its target of 300 million devices sold. Especially now that Bharti Airtel is mooting its own smartphone offering
After emerging out of nowhere and becoming number one in the world’s most competitive telecom market, Reliance Jio is in a bit of a tight spot
Smartphones and electronics have been the jewel in the crown of Flipkart and Amazon. Now, Reliance is looking to leverage the JioPhone Next to create an offline B2B empire that could topple the e-commerce giants
The largest toy shop in the world, Hamleys, wants to source nearly half of its toys from India. That hasn’t always been the case—nearly 80% of India’s toy industry is driven by imports from China. The Indian government is now trying to change that narrative
The Reserve Bank of India wanted entities with new ideas to take digital payments beyond 100 million. Not only does it now have a pitched battle on its hands, but the consortiums scrambling for a licence want to duplicate existing payments products
Already struggling offline pharmacists had to deal with deep discounts online luring customers away. Now with corporates wanting to have the e-pharmacy cake and eat it too, offline pharma is banking on its intimate relationships with customers for an omnichannel experiment
India has made some big bets towards a greener economy. It doubled down on its targets, and even extended them from 175 GW to 225 GW by 2022. This makes 2021 a critical year—experiments must shift to implementation
India is witnessing the emergence of a few “super corporations” that dominate across sectors, both on their own and in partnership with each other. This does not bode well for their current or potential competitors
Like with e-commerce, the game now shifts from startups to corporations
A year ago it didn’t exist. Today it’s worth $65 billion. In 2 years, $103 billion. Can it deliver the cash flows?
Reliance Jio wanted to upend the broadband space the same way it changed the telecom game. Its old tricks, however, haven’t yielded similar success, leaving its sales teams struggling to meet internal targets
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