27 Jul 2020 The Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) sector is the fourth largest sector in the Indian economy. In the quarter ending September 2019, FMCG’s urban segment witnessed a growth of 8 percent and the rural segment grew by 5 percent. The rural segment contributes around 45 percent of the…
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Strengthening SMEs in India While Combatting COVID-19
21 Jul 2020 COVID-19, which has gripped the entire world has not only created an unprecedented human health crisis but also a major disruption in economic activity. This can be validated by IMF’s projection that the global economy may shrink by over 3.0 per cent in 2020 – the steepest…
Revitalizing the Travel and Tourism Industry
14 Jul 2020 The tourism and hospitality industry contributes significantly to the Indian economy and accounts for 9.2% of the country’s GDP. It employs close to 8.1% of the population, with the total contribution to forex at approximately USD 28 billion. The significance of the industry to the nation’s economic…
Does competition law apply during crises?
09 Jul 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted businesses and the livelihoods of millions of people at a global level. Although global supply chains have been impacted, businesses are coming together to find solutions and ways to ensure uninterrupted supply of essentials. In these unprecedented times as companies come together…
Building India-Japan Business Cooperation
07 Jul 2020 India and Japan share long-standing economic ties, which have significantly progressed over the years. The signing of the historic Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) between India and Japan in 2011 gave an impetus to the bilateral relationship and expanded economic and commercial relations between the two sides. …
New Era of Quality Production in India
02 Jul 2020 Against the backdrop of COVID-19, as businesses and the economy gets impacted, quality will play a key role as a differentiator and help companies deliver products and services that exceed customer expectations and help the company expand its market. The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) took a…
Select E-Commerce in India E-Commerce in India
27 Jun 2020 The outbreak of Coronavirus, which has limited physical movement due to the lockdown, has turned the spotlight on the digital and virtual. India, in fact, over the last decade has been evolving into a digitally empowered society. Increasing penetration of smartphones, rapidly increasing internet bandwidth and speeds,…
Helping the Logistics Sector Create Value
29 Apr 2020 The CII Institute of Logistics, a CII Center of Excellence (CoE) in the logistics and supply chain management domain, uses a multi-pronged approach to help transform the logistics sector, and is working to enable the sector to add value to manufacturing, domestic trade and exports. The Institute,…
COVID 19 Best Practices by Indian Industry
03 Apr 2020 COVID-19 has been declared as a global pandemic by World Health Organization (WHO) and identified as a ‘Notified Disaster’ by Ministry of Home Affairs. The disease, since its outbreak in the end of 2019 in the wet market of Wuhan, China, has taken the world by storm,…
CII Actions to Combat Coronavirus
31 Mar 2020 The Coronavirus pandemic is wreaking havoc with people’s lives and livelihoods across the world. The number of affected people and casualties is close to 600,000 and 27,000 respectively as of 27th March. Entire countries and major cities are in lockdown to contain its further spread. India’s Government is…