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Indian Hotels’ Puneet Chhatwal on why moving from Taj to Ginger is no longer a demotion for his team

The company’s turnaround wasn’t just about seemingly counterintuitive choices, but also about embracing the unexpected

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TISS is starting to look more like an IIM than TISS

As India’s best-known social-sciences institute churns out courses to please the market, it’s neglecting what built its legacy. To the detriment of students

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Tata Mutual Fund is in the top 10 again. There’s nothing to celebrate

The three-decade-old fund house from one of India’s best-known business groups still lags far behind similar-vintage peers. Closing in on them requires shifting gears

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FMCG giants are caught in a spice war. MTR’s owner beat them to it years ago

Orkla’s IPO is up against a regionally-fragmented spice market, where each state has its own unique spice blends

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Tesla is almost in India, but who cares for its cars?

India doesn’t have what it takes to build a Tesla car. Tesla may not have what Indians want, either

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Zara taught Zudio how to outdo Zara

Trent-owned Zudio has used the Spanish fast-fashion giant’s playbook to reach such great heights that it makes Zara look quite ordinary

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Tata Capital’s IPO has a Tata Motors problem

A merger with the automaker's finance arm adds Rs 40,000 crore to Tata Capital’s book—but will dent its financials

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Tata Tech, just merge with Tata Elxsi

The time is ripe for the listed, niche engineering entities within the Tata Group to join and spare their shareholders the woes

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Tata’s iPhone factory dorms are fully charged. But the talent it wants is out of coverage area

The US$155-billion Indian tech-manufacturing industry needs skilled talent and high productivity—something companies can’t find closer to their factories

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Tanishq wrote the gold-retail playbook. Kalyan Jewellers hijacked it

For over two decades, the jewellery retailer has dominated organised retail in the sector. Now, regional players like Kalyan Jewellers and Senco Gold are challenging its lead

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Meet the ex-Tata CEO with a plan to make up for India’s lost time in chipmaking

After more than 40 years in the chip industry, Raja Manickam has founded a company and devised a business model which, he believes, is the only way to scale semicon products in India

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What’s Aditya Birla Fashion without brands like Allen Solly and Louis Philippe?

By spinning off Madura Fashion, the retailer makes itself far less appealing to investors

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The Tata wind beneath Tejas Networks’ wings carries investors away

The telecom equipment maker is a star on the bourses, but a part in a massive $3.3B deal with BSNL may not be its place in the sun

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What a US$630M solar-panel maker’s IPO U-turn says about investors’ clean-energy appetite

Waaree Energies ditched its listing plans after a ~US$120 million private fundraise. It’s not easy convincing public-market investors to back a business that hinges solely on protectionist policies

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Westside makes way for a new star in Tata’s retail universe: Zudio

The young fast-fashion chain, which has surpassed 24-year-old Westside’s footprint, could become not just parent Trent’s biggest revenue driver, but also the Tata Group’s most visible retail brand

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With Jio’s winds in its sails, HFCL charts course for Telecom 2.0

If telecom 1.0 was about operators, 2.0 is about integrators. If Tatas have emerged as one, decades-old telecoms veteran HFCL cannot be far behind. A close partner and investee of the Reliance group, HFCL is flexing its yet-to-form product muscles as the winds of change gather speed

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Reliance’s startup accelerator has commitment issues

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

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Amara Raja, Exide face tricky tech transition in their Li-ion charge

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

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Dunzo’s grand plan to be the hyperlocal Amazon

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

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The many pieces of Reliance’s integrated healthcare jigsaw

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

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The chicken soup for Tata Group’s FMCG soul

Premium cereals brand Soulfull became a part of Tata Consumer Products in the latter’s search for FMCG glory. But the company will need more than just a niche offering to break into a segment studded with mainstream favourites

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For better or worse: The Tata-BigBasket marriage of convenience

The conglomerate’s impending acquisition of a majority stake in the e-grocer is just what they both desperately needed. Together, they have to shed their measured approach to ward off deep-pocketed rivals

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Offline pharma’s omnichannel pill to counter Tata, Reliance, Amazon

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

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Who’s standing in the way of Tata’s digital supremacy plan?

The $113 billion-revenue Tata Group wants to shake things up in India’s online ecosystem with a super app to take on Reliance’s MyJio, including plans for a payments network. Even as it tries to build a war chest, Tata first has to get past its troubles with scaling and consolidation

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Tata-Tesco’s retail identity crisis is now an existential one

The joint venture’s supermarket chain Star has been struggling to make a mark with only 57 stores across the country, compared to Reliance Retail’s 797 and DMart’s 214. Pushed into a corner, Star now has little choice but to think big

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The Advinus Decade: Inside the Tata Group’s expensive drug discovery flameout

Born 2005. Died 2017. Several hundred crores poorer, the Tata Group has finally pulled the plug on its ambitious drug discovery venture. What went wrong?

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