Opportunity India Desk

The wellness market of India is turning out to be a hub of opportunities. While we wrote about how big FMCGs are utilising these opportunities with newer products in this segment, the sector is also seeing mushrooming startups filling the gaps and owning these opportunities. One such startup looking to capture a significant ...

Even if an organisation is in the business of selling jars of foot-cream and bars of skin-tone whitening soap, it needs love and skills to come together to create those corporate masterpieces called ‘growth over the previous year’ and ‘super dividends for the investor’. Love and skills aren’t just PR-coined hashtags for applause on the ...

Founded in 2009, Innov4sightHealth and Biomedical Systems was conceptualised by a group of buccaneer scholars - Geetha Sanjay, Co-founder CEO, Knowledge Management, Balachandra Agoramurthy, Co-founder & VP, Research and Development, along with Vijaygopal R, Founder & CEO of the healthtech startup. As a socially conscious business enterprise, the venture was launched officially in 2014. Since ...

Forayed into Indian market in 2004, Thalgo cosmetics were initially distributed by French Touch Cosmetics Pvt Ltd. In 2008, the firm was acquired by Ocea Marine Cosmetics Pvt Ltd, owned by Harsukh Pathar and Gayatri Kini Sali. In those initial years of the brand’s inception in India, the spa product brands were less known in ...

Furniture industry mostly works at a snail’s pace and is more like a real estate business- you are always short of space and struggling with slow moving inventory and fast changing global trends. Carpentry still dominates this industry, contributing to almost 85 per cent of the market size. The Indian furniture consumer demands variety, competitive ...

Tell us in detail about your journey from inception till now?The idea came when I was diagnosed with diabetes 22 years back. In 1995, I was pronounced a diabetic with a reading of 429 mg/dL. Eighteen years of struggle and discoveries inspired me with a vision of Lifespan Clinics which would cater to ...