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Life after Listing | Valuation is a by-product of how well you execute your plans: LatentView CEO Sethuraman
Though valuations are a little down since its historic IPO, Sethuraman says LatentView is chugging along smoothly. It’s exploring acquisitions aligned with verticals and geographies it focuses on.
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Life after Listing | Our success is due to the people’s trust in us: Anand Roy, Star Health MD
Listed during the pandemic, Star Health has weathered headwinds over the past two years and is now spreading deep into the underserved rural market.
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PB Fintech should have gone public four years later: Chairman Yashish Dahiya
In an interview with Moneycontrol, Yashish Dahiya and Alok Bansal said they are focused on the three-to-five-year perspective.
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Our IPO is just part of a long-term play in the dairy market: Dodla Dairy’s Reddys
A year after taking their company Dodla Dairy public, Dodla Sunil Reddy Founder and Managing Director and BVK Reddy, CEO fill us in on its performance and expansion plans and reiterate their faith in the growing need for convenience and value among India's working class.
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A pan-India presence has given Metro Brands an edge both online and offline: Promoter family
Farah Malik Bhanji and Alisha Malik say the company’s broad footprint enables it to reach customers across the country and service online footwear and fashion orders speedily.
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Paint makers spared from demand slowdown as raw material prices rise, says Indigo Paints CMD Hemant Jalan
Indigo Paints Chairman and Managing Director Hemant Jalan says consumers have taken inflation in their stride as far as the paint industry is concerned but warns that a continued increase in the price of raw materials may affect demand.
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Interview | Sequoia pushed us to grow our top line, to take aggressive bets, says Indigo Paints’ Hemant Jalan
When you want to create wealth for all stakeholders around you, that starts giving you a much, much greater kick in life than any personal material acquisition, says Jalan
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More regulatory clarity will mean more investments in gaming industry: Nazara Technologies founder
Nazara Technologies founder says when there is no clarity, companies like his find it difficult to invest or build these businesses. A lot of fly-by-night operators in India or outside take advantage of it
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India will be among the top countries in spending on games in 4-5 years: Nazara Technologies founder
CEO Manish Agarwal called the present period a ‘beautiful golden decade’. Many other business models, such as eSports, are emerging. What was seen in IPL auctions will be seen in eSports auctions, he said
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Viewership of e-sports tournament finales can fill Wankhedes and Chinnaswamys: Nazara Tech
Nitish Mittersain bases his assumptions on the advent of smartphones in India, the availability of fast and cheap data, and the growth of digital payments.
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How Metro Brands’ massive offline reach helps widen its online footprint
Metro Brands has seen massive growth in the digital channel. Farah Malik Bhanji and Alisha Malik, two members of the promoter-founder family, talk to Anuradha Sengupta in an episode on the ‘Life After Listing’ show and discuss what has helped the surge in sales from the online channels.
BUSINESS
How Sapphire Foods is operating in Sri Lanka’s challenging environment
Sri Lanka has been going through its worst financial crisis and citizens of the island nation are struggling to secure common supplies such as fuel, food products and medicine.
BUSINESS
Sapphire Foods looks to operate 2,000 restaurants: Group CEO Sanjay Purohit
The company that runs KFC and Pizza Hut in India may take on two more brands as is gears up to be a restaurant operator platform.
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Pizza Hut today offers better value than competitors: Sanjay Purohit, Group CEO, Sapphire Foods
Pizza Hut competes with Domino’s Pizza, whose master franchisee is Jubilant FoodWorks.
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Profitability, revenue forecasting more complex amid rapid technological disruption: Happiest Minds CFO
Less room for predictability has changed the way contracts are negotiated in the digital IT space, Narayanan said.
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Attrition to peak next quarter amid change in IT job trends, hiring patterns: Happiest Minds MD
Happiest Minds reported high attrition rates in the last financial year and the level has risen steadily. From 12.1 percent in FY21, it jumped to 17.8 percent in Q2 of FY22, 21.1 percent in Q3, and 22.7 percent in Q4.
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One area which we really picked up ahead of time was drones: Venkatraman Narayanan of Happiest Minds
"We are making investments in Web 3.0. A new area is low-code, that's something we are investing in. Then there are process automation, robotic process automation, and artificial intelligence-based solutions," the MD of Happiest Minds says.
