Beauty & Wellness
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 8 min readToday’s customers are exposed to a lot of information about beauty and personal care, through a plethora of channels like television, internet, newspapers and word-of-mouth. As a result, there is a heightened consciousness of one’s own beauty needs. Although many customers prefer physical store experiences, they are also willing to try alternate channels of engagement ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 7 min readCurofy is a startup which was founded by three like-minded individuals to offer ultimate medical solution to patients. The startup raised Pre-Series A funding in October '15 from Roundglass Partners, a Seattle based healthcare VC. Prior to this, the startup raised a seed round of US$150,000 from a group of highly respected angels including Rajul ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 4 min readPeople around the world are looking at changing the way they take care of themselves. It’s now a holistic approach that includes not just our bodies, but also our minds, spirit, society and planet. Instead of just fixing problems, the approach now includes addressing and preventing the root causes of our personal and societal ills.I ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 4 min readSo far, the hot sensations of Bollywood used to inspire millennials across India to remain in shape. However, if you’ll read about the business of these actors of tinsel town, you’ll understand how big India’s fitness industry could be in a couple of years. Take a look:1. Madhuri Dixit NeneInitiated with a desire to turn ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 5 min readThe Indian wellness industry has grown by leaps and bounds, 25-30 per cent precisely, in the past one year and is expected to grow at this rate year on year. It’s now a trillion dollar market. It is no surprise then, that players, both in the services and products sector, are eyeing this market, tapping ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 6 min readAccording to a recent study, a new venture has 85 per cent chance of being successful if it’s a franchise while if you go on your own, you have only 15 per cent chances of succeeding. Of course, these kind of figures can be disputed and only should be filtered through one’s experience of life ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 4 min readThe growing rage of digitisation in almost every sphere of business has given birth to Content Marketing, which is the key to success for online ventures. And, in the wellness industry, apart from the word-of-mouth publicity and quality assurance, content plays a pivotal role in buying consumers for your products or services. In the current ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 4 min readWhen Emami founders - RS Agarwal and RS Goenka - started their venture in 1960, with meager Rs20,000, it wasn’t the apt period to kick off a venture. Distilled in an easy-to-read, insightful narrative of business tips, the founders of multinational Emami Group of India, Radheyshyam Agarwal and Radheyshyam Goenka, are the legends of India’s ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 4 min readThe business of spa is an expensive affair, for those who want to indulge in tranquil rejuvenation or for those who would like to offer such high priced services. But you can’t deny the fact that it’s one trade which gives you high profit margins.Often aspiring entrepreneurs chuck the idea of getting into spa business ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 5 min readWith the growing rage of entrepreneurship among Indians, women are no less in the race of becoming self-reliant. Surprisingly women entrepreneurs in the herbal products segment have built themselves from the scratch and earned adequate profit. However, nothing just simply clicked their fingers and had their way; they have fought tooth and nail and spent ...