Consumer Goods Newsletter - 08 April to 12 April, 2013

Jyothy Laboratories Ltd. (JYL), the Indian maker of fabric whiteners and dishwashing soaps, is targeting a sixfold gain in sales of deodorants, vying with bigger rivals such as Unilever to woo urban women whose incomes are rising. Revenue from its ...

The largest overseas bet on Indian consumers is spurring speculation that companies from Nestle SA (NESN) to Colgate-Palmolive Co. (CL) will pursue more deals in a nation where household income is forecast to triple this decade. Foreign bids for ...

Data for 800 companies from Bombay Stock Exchange. Values are: days closing price, previous closing price in brackets, 52-week low and high in bold, and volume traded (in 000) in brackets. GROUP A A A B B 524.9(518.35) 830-469 (14) A C C 1229.8(1249.35) ...

Conference of parties to Stockholm Convention to allow DDT use for malaria control until alternatives become available The proposal to commit to a deadline on a worldwide ban on pesticide DDT by 2020 was rejected at the sixth Conference of the Parties (CoP) ...

After struggling for much of 2012-13, fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) companies appear to have recovered some of their composure in the fourth quarter of the fiscal. Results declared by key companies so far for the three months ended March 31, ...

India April 29(IM):Toxic chemicals sprayed on fruit trees in Kashmir orchards is causing fatal brain cancer in the valley. That 90 percent of patients who die from malignant brain tumor in the valley is linked to orchards where pesticides, ...

There may have been some slowdown in discretionary spends by consumers, growth across Godrej Consumer Products ' key categories -- personal care, hair care and household insectisides -- remains strong, according to a top company official. "By and ...

The Supreme Court on Monday noted that the waste at Union Carbide's Bhopal plant has not been cleared even after 28 years of the tragedy and lamented that the issue has been forgotten because victims were poor. A bench of Justices G S Singhvi and H L Gokhale ...