In a challenging environment with a continued rise in energy and raw material costs, the speciality chemicals company LANXESS delivered good results for the third quarter of 2022: Sales increased by a significant 38.2 per cent from EUR 1.581 billion in the prior-year quarter to EUR 2.185 billion.
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Mumbai: CFA Institute, the global association of investment professionals, has named Arati Porwal as Head of India, effective 1 December 2022. Arati will deliver value to CFA Institute stakeholders and constituents in this role by building and maintaining deep relationships with financial institutions, CFA societies, and universities. She will report to Nick Pollard, Managing Director, Asia Pacific, CFA Institute, and be based in Mumbai. Arati has served as the interim Head of the India market since the beginning of 2022. Before this appointment, she led the Society Relations function at CFA Institute in India. In the past year, Arati has…
New Delhi: Personal care brand, True Frog, has raised INR 1.65 crores (USD 2,00,000) in a round of funding through a group of angel investors. Vegan, Harmful Chemical free, skin and hair care brand intends to utilize the funds to improve the research infrastructure, expand the product portfolio, build the team size, and focus on branding and marketing. The investment is received from reputed names such as Deep Lalwani, Founder & CEO of Sublime Life; Rehan Sheik – CEO of Clicktech; Jason Jose, Co-founder & Director at XELPMOC, Saurabh Sharma, Founder & CEO of Future Wagon and AtulSiddam – Co-Founder &…
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Kashayah Design’s expertise is in creating superior interior designs that lead to comfortable living and enhance clients’ quality of life.
Ms. Geeta Goradia, the current chair of the FICCI Gujarat Council, received the IWEC (International Women’s Entrepreneurial Challenge) Award 2022 at its 15th Annual Conference in Madrid, Spain, from Nov 13-15, 2022.
Mumbai: CoutLoot, India’s largest non-grocery and Non-MRP retail aggregator, has announced the appointment of Nicky Sidhwanias, Vice President -Technology, to drive innovations and help digitize 60 million small merchants in the country. In this new role at CoutLoot, Nicky would be heading the technology and product verticals to create and deploy innovative solutions to help millions of small-time sellers grow their online presence and strengthen their offline business processes. With over 13 years of experience in entrepreneurship, technology and consulting, Nicky has worked with giants in the e-commerce and Logistics industries, helping them on projects focussed on driving optimization and efficiencies…
Gurugram: WriteSome today announced they had secured an undisclosed amount in their pre-seed funding round. It’s a mobile app to discover and share poetry and original stories. In more than 35 countries app has its users with the highest number from the India, USA and Indonesia. The startup will use the funds for marketing and to expand its team. App lets users read and write stories & poetry but also helps amateur writers get published. Founder & CEO of WriteSome, Arpit Sihra states, Writesome believes that people have always wanted to share their stories but cannot do it freely because of…
New Delhi: GoKwik, India’s largest e-commerce enabler solving complex problems in this space, says that it expects to onboard over 10,000 digital first brands and e-commerce players on its platform in 2023 on the back of several innovative solutions implemented by the company. At present, GoKwik helps over 500 brands to attain 10x growth through its innovative solutions. GoKwik, a company founded in 2020 by industry veterans Chirag Taneja, Ankush Talwar and Vivek Bajpai, is committed to solving problems that e-commerce brands face throughout the shopping funnel, including enhancing customer experience, abandoned cart recovery, increasing conversions, boosting GMV and reducing return…
