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Godrej Consumer Products sees strong Q1 FY26 growth in home care segment
Godrej Consumer Products Ltd (GCPL) released its quarterly business update for Q1 FY26 here on Saturday, reporting steady growth momentum across its standalone and global business operations, especially in home and international markets. According...

Godrej Consumer Products Ltd - Quarterly Update - Q1FY26
Our Standalone business is likely to deliver high-single digit value growth on the back of mid-single digit UVG. Volume growth has been strongly competitive and is sequentially improving. Home Care business has had a broad-based and strong growth...

Godrej Consumer Products expects India margins to stay below normative range, volume improving sequentially
Godrej Consumer Products expects its margin from India business to stay below 'normative range' in June quarter, but is likely to deliver high-single digit value growth aided by volume expansion. The company's volume growth, in its standalone...

Reliance Industries plans to spin off new consumer products arm; invests in UK beauty business
Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), which runs India’s largest retail network that brings together Reliance Retail Ventures Ltd (RRVL), Reliance Retail Ltd (RRL) and Reliance Consumer Products Ltd (RCPL), is reported to be planning to launch a new...

Reliance Industries To Consolidate Consumer Goods Brands, Prepares New Subsidiary For Retail IPO Launch
Reliance Industries Gears Up for Retail IPO. | Mumbai: Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries is setting the stage for a major move—an IPO for its retail business—and it’s making sure everything is neatly in place before the big reveal. One of the...

Setting stage for Retail IPO: Reliance to consolidate consumer goods brands under New RCPL unit
Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) is planning to transfer all its consumer goods brands to a new wholly-owned subsidiary as Mukesh Ambani-led oil-to-telcom major is getting ready for an initial public offering for its retail business. A Bloomberg...

Hope returns to Nigeria’s consumer goods sector after volatile year
By Chinwendu Obienyi The growth of Nigeria’s consumer goods industry slowed in 2024, but early signs of recovery are beginning to emerge, driven by operational recalibrations, strategic investments and subtle macroeconomic shifts. According to the...

New standards proposed for consumer goods in Bahrain
NEW specifications could be introduced for consumer products and electronic appliances in Bahrain, if MPs have their way. The proposed standards aim to ensure products are environmentally friendly, energy-efficient and built to last, aligning with...

How A-listers are shaking up the consumer-goods business
Celebrities ARE venturing beyond the billboard and the big screen—and into big business. Hailey Bieber, a model married to Justin, recently sold Rhode, her make-up brand, in a deal valued at as much as $1bn. Skims, a shapewear label founded by Kim...

Reliance Industries to spin off consumer goods business into new unit
FILE PHOTO: A woman checks her phone next to a Reliance Retail kiosk at the annual Retail Leadership Summit in Mumbai, India, February 27, 2025. REUTERS/Hemanshi Kamani/File Photo Billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries said it will spin...

India’s Reliance to spin off consumer goods business into new unit
Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries said it will spin off its consumer goods unit into a new entity to allow the fast-growing business to attract investors beyond those backing its retail unit. Reliance‘s consumer business...

Consumer Reports: Circuit Court Preserves Bipartisan Leadership at the Consumer Product Safety Commission Pending Appeal
CR calls on Congress to preserve the CPSC as an independent agency, and support its vital mission to protect the public from hazardous consumer products WASHINGTON, DC — Consumer Reports (CR) welcomed an order from the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of...

Ambani's Reliance to spin off India consumer goods business into new unit
MUMBAI - Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries said it will spin off its consumer goods unit into a new entity to allow the fast-growing business to attract investors beyond those backing its retail unit. Reliance's consumer...

New Reliance Consumer Products Ltd: Mukesh Ambani-led RIL to group all its FMCG brands under new company; IPO plans in works
Reliance Industries Limited's chairman Mukesh Ambani has signalled intentions for initial public offerings of retail and telecommunications divisions. Billionaire Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) plans to consolidate its fast-moving...

Trump Asks Supreme Court to Allow Him to Fire Consumer Product Safety Officials
The U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington on June 25, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times President Donald Trump filed an emergency application with the Supreme Court on July 2, asking the justices to let him fire three Biden appointees at...

Trump asks Supreme Court to allow removal of consumer product safety commissioners
Audio By Carbonatix By Mike Scarcella WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to intervene in his bid to fire three Democratic Consumer Product Safety Commission members by putting on...
Trump asks Supreme Court to remove 3 Democrats on the Consumer Product Safety Commission

Trump takes bid to oust consumer product safety commissioners to Supreme Court
By Mike Scarcella WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to intervene in his bid to fire three Democratic Consumer Product Safety Commission members by putting on hold a judicial...

Trump takes bid to oust consumer product safety commissioners to Supreme Court
By Mike Scarcella WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to intervene in his bid to fire three Democratic Consumer Product Safety Commission members by putting on hold a judicial...

Trump urges Supreme Court to let him fire members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission
(CNN) — President Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to step in on an emergency basis to permit the firing of three members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, as the White House continues to attempt to...