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Can D2C brands maintain their growth momentum?
As the pandemic gripped the world, nascent direct-to-consumer (D2C), or digital-first brands, hit the fast lane. The business case was made pre-pandemic for such labels that bypass traditional marketing and rely instead on online influencers to build a customer connect. It has worked, now can they sustain the growth momentum?
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2022 Investment Special: Bulls, bears, pigs and chicken of the street
If you look back from this point, it's obvious who the winners and losers are—those who got in or increased their exposure in the early days of the pandemic, and those who attempted to ride the boom late last year, in that order. But there's another breed that has quietly reaped in more than modest gains
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Forbes India Leadership Awards 2022: Meet the changemakers
The Forbes India Leadership Awards (FILA) is a celebration of leaders who were able to redefine and, or transform their businesses during a crisis—a pandemic
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Employee well-being: From perk to best practice
The pandemic has evolved the HR lexicon to include empathy, compassion, human connection and care; the challenge of course is to ensure that this new engagement permeates through the entire organisation. And those organisations that succeeded make it to the annual Forbes India-Kincentric Best Employers in India study
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How startup CFOs and finance heads are emerging as new-age strategists
In the digital era, CFOs are at the heart of strategy and making decisions, not just supporting them
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Forbes India 30 Under 30: The dynamic, diverse young achievers
The Forbes India team was cognisant of the relevance of variety when firming up the annual 30 under 30 list—on which you will find young men and women that lend diversity across dimensions from gender to geography
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Quick and furious: Zomato and Blinkit's quick commerce play
Think instant and you'll think noodles, but it all started with coffee in 1901, and now we're in a market that expects everything at the snap of a finger, whether it's food, groceries, cigarettes, or more. Zomato founder Deepinder Goyal believes he's got it figured out with Blinkit
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22 For 2022: Of omicron and unicorns
The emergence of the Omicron variant makes it crystal clear that mutations of Covid-19 virus are here to stay for at least the next few years. How do we deal with it? The answer lies in one of the 22 essays the Forbes India team has put together in this special collector's edition for 2022
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Tycoons of Tomorrow 2021: From here to futurity
Forbes India's second list of Tycoons of Tomorrow does not—like the first—restrict only to the world of business and entrepreneurship. We have actors and sportspersons who are pushing the boundaries of creativity and performance
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Forbes India Roaring 50s: When age is just a number
Startup founders, our brains have been hardwired to believe, are young—mid-20s or thereabouts—with bellies bursting with fire and an insatiable appetite for risk. But the founders in our Roaring 50s special prove age may be just a number in the journey to a bigger, multi-digit figure
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Forbes India W-Power 2021: Role models who will inspire a generation
The purpose of the W-Power list is to ensure a bagful of success stories will beget a million more