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Starbucks, McDonald’s deploy $10 Million to address urgent waste challenge

Opportunity India Desk Oct 25, 2021 - 2 min read

Closed Loop Partners announced an additional $10 million commitment from the NextGen Consortium’s Founding Partners, Starbucks and McDonald’s, to continue the Consortium’s work: identifying, accelerating and scaling commercially viable, circular foodservice packaging solutions, shared a McDonald’s statement. The Coca-Cola Company increased its commitment to now participate as a Sector Lead Partner, paving the way for ...

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How far we have come with the street food business

Opportunity India Desk Oct 25, 2021 - 6 min read

Walking to a street food vendor, just the way one would walk into a quality restaurant, worrying little about the quality of food is still a farfetched dream in India. Unless in countries like Paris, Italy and New York where street dining is highly regularised and holds a quality of not less than ...

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Doyobi Raises $2.8 Mn Pre-Series A Led By Monk's Hill Ventures

Opportunity India Desk Oct 25, 2021 - 3 min read

Doyobi, a provider of STEM teaching resources and teacher professional development to schools through its virtual learning environment (VLE), recently announced it has closed a $2.8 million Pre-Series A round led by Monk’s Hill Ventures. Other investors who participated in the round are Tresmonos Capital, Novus Paradigm Capital, and XA Network; and prominent angels such ...

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Bookingjini Raises $1.2 Mn From Mumbai Angels Network

Opportunity India Desk Oct 25, 2021 - 3 min read

Mumbai Angels Network, a startup investment platform for early-stage venture investments, announced to have invested $1.2 million out of a total investment of $3.3 million in Bookingjini, a hospitality SaaS platform and a one-stop solution for hotels that offers a complete Hotel Operating System, that has raised funding in its Pre-Series A round. Bookingjini will ...

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Pepperfry Launches Its 100th Experience Store In Lucknow

Opportunity India Desk Oct 25, 2021 - 3 min read

Furniture and home products marketplace Pepperfry announced the launch of its 100th Studio in Lucknow. In partnership with Lt. Col. Siddharth Verma, the Franchisee Studio spreads over a sprawling 500 sq. ft. area in Hazratganj area in Lucknow. With this launch, Pepperfry now has studio footprints across 57 cities in India and aims to reach 200 Studios ...

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Astral Limited Forays Into New Business Vertical Of Faucets & Sanitaryware

Opportunity India Desk Oct 25, 2021 - 1 min read

Astral Limited (Astral; erstwhile Astral Poly Technik Ltd.) today announced its foray into the new business vertical of Faucets & Sanitaryware as a part of its growth strategy to leverage the brand Astral and its network of more than 33,000 dealers in pipes and more than 130,000 dealers in the adhesives and sealant vertical across ...

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Shoppers Stop Q2 Net Loss At Rs 3.68 crore, Sales Up 2x To Rs 642 Crores

Opportunity India Desk Oct 25, 2021 - 2 min read

Indian retail chain Shoppers Stop has claimed to narrow its consolidated net loss to Rs 3.68 crore for the September quarter, which is said to be facilitated by a comeback in sales. The brand had posted a net loss of Rs 97.70 crore in the July-September period a year ago. Revenue from operations rose over two-fold to Rs ...

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OnePlus Elevates Navnit Nakra as India CEO

Opportunity India Desk Oct 25, 2021 - 2 min read

Leading smartphone brandOnePlus has elevated Navnit Nakra to the CEO and Head of the OnePlus India region. He was holding Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer, and Head of Sales (India) position. As part of this new senior leadership role, Nakra will spearhead the company's business operations and overall strategy for the India region. "Navnit has successfully led the strategy and ...

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Nestle India Q3 Profit Rises 5% At Rs 617 Crore

Opportunity India Desk Oct 25, 2021 - 2 min read

FMCG major Nestlé India Limited, a subsidiary of Nestlé reported a 5.15 percent rise in net profit to Rs 617.37 crore for the third-quarter ending in September, driven largely by high single-digit volume growth in the domestic market. The company, which follows the January-December financial ...

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Why Market Research Possess a Significant Space in Business

Opportunity India Desk Oct 25, 2021 - 4 min read

Due to the recent ups and downs in the market, many people want to start a business. They just need to earn profit from the ever-growing market of India. Unfortunately, they somewhere forget that this cash cow also needs to be fed with good business skills, marketing strategy and office good products and service. The ...

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