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Roastea eyes Rs 100 cr in topline, to install 5,000 vending machines

Beverage startup, Roastea is eying Rs 100 crore turnover and 5,000 vending machines network by 2024-25. "The company's tea and coffee vending machine business will be one of the key drivers of growth, and it aims to roll out over 1,500 such machines this year, aggregating to 2,500 machines," a company statement said Roastea aims to have around 5,000 vending machines installed across corporates and open 40 cafes over the next two years (by 2024-25), it added. Profitable since inception, Roastea aims to reach Rs 100 crore turnover by FY25, it stated. Focused on corporates, IoT (Internet of Things) enabled modern vending machines are manufactured at Roastea's own contracted factory. They offer fresh milk-based beverages with a unique selection of filter coffee and Indian masala chai and can serve over 20 beverages simultaneously. Roastea's co-founder Anurag Bhamidipaty said, "Vending machine business of Roastea is performing exceptionally well and serves as the primary growth driver

Meta prepares AI-powered chatbots in attempt to retain users: Report

The report comes as Meta executives are focusing on boosting retention on its new text-based app Threads, after the app lost more than half of its users in the weeks following its launch on July 5

Indians spent Rs 5,000 crore on cosmetics in 6 months, mostly online: Study

Kantar Worldpanel study reveals that working women leading the way of cosmetic purchases both online and offline

700,000 new gig jobs to come up between July and December: TeamLease

The upcoming festive season is expected to push demand on e-commerce platforms which will boost their need for gig workers like delivery and warehousing partners

Aditya Birla Group expands its portfolio, adds four restaurant brands

Aditya Birla New Age Hospitality (ABNAH) has added four restaurant brands, namely Hakkasan, Yauatcha, Nara Thai, and CinCin to its portfolio

Sebi's recent rules increase costs, compliance burden on companies

Companies are struggling to prepare themselves for the new regulations, some of which will take effect in a few months

Petronet LNG Q1FY24 results: Net profit at Rs 789 cr YoY; revenue down 18%

The total income for Q1FY24 came in at Rs 11,802.79 crore, compared to Rs 14,405.58 crore YoY

Pernod Ricard eyes premium spirit market in India with local brands

The second-largest distiller in the world has already produced an Indian single malt and may be expanding its portfolio in light of growing demand

Over 96,000 companies voluntarily wound up operations in last five years

From April 1, 2018 to March 31, 2023, as many as 96,261 companies exited voluntarily, invoking a section in the Companies Act

DGCA renews air operator certificate of cash-strapped Jet Airways

The airline had stopped flying on April 17, 2019, and its AOC expired over two months ago on May 19 this year

Reliance Capital posts consolidated net profit of Rs 444 crore in Q1

Debt-ridden Reliance Capital on Sunday reported coming back in black in the April-June quarter of 2023-24 with a consolidated net profit of Rs 444 crore for the period driven by the good performance of group companies. The financial services firm under the debt resolution process had a net loss of Rs 491 crore in the corresponding quarter of 2022-23. The company's total income during April-June 2023 stood at Rs 6,001 crore against Rs 3,604 crore in the year-ago quarter, Reliance Capital said in a regulatory filing. Its total expenses rose to Rs 5,560 crore, from Rs 4,068 crore in the first quarter of the previous year. The company has a presence in finance and investment business, general and life insurance, commercial finance and others. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on November 29, 2021, superseded the board of Reliance Capital in view of payment defaults and serious governance issues. The RBI appointed Nageswara Rao Y as the administrator in relation to the Corporate Insolve

Domestic drug makers Sun Pharma, Alembic recall drugs in US market

Domestic drug makers Sun Pharma and Alembic are recalling products in the US market due to manufacturing issues, according to the US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA). As per the US health regulator's latest Enforcement Report, the Mumbai-based drug major is recalling 12,336 bottles of Buprenorphine Sublingual tablets, used for treating opioid use disorder, in the American market. Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc, the US-based arm of the company, is recalling the affected lot (8 mg, 30 count-bottles) due to CGMP (Current Good Manufacturing Practice) deviations, the USFDA stated. The company initiated the CLass II voluntary recall on May 3 this year. Sun Pharma is also recalling 7,313 bottles of Methylphenidate Hydrochloride tablets, used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, in the US market. New Jersey-based Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc is recalling the lot due to the "presence of foreign substance: metal embedded in a tablet", the USFDA stated. The company

Fedbank Financial Services to raise up to Rs 1,400 cr from IPO this year

Fedbank Financial Services is aiming to raise up to Rs 1,400 crore through an Initial Public Offering (IPO) by the end of 2023, a top official at its promoter entity Federal Bank has said. The Non-Banking Finance Company (NBFC) arm of the South-based bank re-filed its Draft Red Herring Prospectus for an IPO last week, after the previous go-ahead lapsed as choppy market conditions prevented it from moving ahead. "They (Fedfina) are looking at an IPO of somewhere in the Rs 1,200-1,400 crore range... We are looking to do something in the course of calendar 2023," Federal Bank's managing director and chief executive Shyam Srinivasan told PTI in an interaction. He said the NBFC arm is growing well and has adequate capital to take care of growth requirements till early 2024. Capital markets regulator Sebi will take some time to go through the papers and issuance can happen in the next 90-100 days, he said. The retail finance-focused company plans to raise up to Rs 750 crore through a fr

Tredence eyes acquisitions in BFS, healthcare vertical by year end

In terms of size, Tredence will be focussing on acquiring companies with revenues in the range of $10-15 million, though it would be flexible in its approach, said Bhowmick

GalaxEye to launch world's first multi-sensor satellite next year

Chennai-based space start-up GalaxEye plans to launch the world's first multi-sensor satellite next year. The satellite would be capable of observing Earth night and day, even peering through dense clouds. In an interaction with PTI, GalaxEye Space co-founder and chief executive officer (CEO) Suyash Singh said the satellite -- Mission Drishti -- synchronises two complementary sensors, thus pioneering data fusion at its core. The new multi-sensor satellite will capture both Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data and data from optical sensors from the same satellite to improve the correlation and analytical utility of the data generated. Singh said the current optical sensors can capture pictures of Earth in quite detail, including identifying the vegetation level of crops, but these fail in cloudy conditions or at night. "We are trying to mix and match. The current sensors are not available in the absence of sunlight or if there is a cloud cover. SAR is a very good sensor, not dependen

Go First resolution professional seek NCLT permit for tickets refunds

Go First has approached the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) seeking permission to refund money to passengers who had booked their tickets for travel on and after May 3, the day when the cash-strapped airline suspended operations. The Resolution professional of Go First has filed a new application before the Delhi bench of NCLT, requesting "to permit the applicant/CD to make payment of refund to passengers of the CD whose airline tickets have been cancelled since May 3, 2023." Applicant here refers to resolution professional and CD refers to corporate debtor or Go First. The application is scheduled to be heard by an NCLT bench comprising Mahendra Khandelwal and Rahul P Bhatnagar on Monday. If permitted by the insolvency tribunal, this would be a significant relief for those air passengers, whose money is stuck with the Go First after the initiation of the Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP) against the air carrier. Go First had stopped flying May 3, 2023 and had ..

Macrotech Developers invests Rs 1,000 cr on construction in Apr-Jun

Realty firm Macrotech Developers invested Rs 1,000 crore during the April-June period on the construction of various projects and will pump in Rs 3,500 crore more by March next year as part of its strategy to ramp up execution capabilities. Macrotech Developers, which sells its properties under the Lodha brand, has a major presence in Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) and Pune. It has entered into Bengaluru market as well. In an interview with PTI, Macrotech Developers MD and CEO Abhishek Lodha expressed satisfaction over the operational performance of the company during the first quarter of this fiscal and was confident of achieving the targeted 20 per cent growth in sales bookings to Rs 14,500 crore. He said the housing demand has been very strong for the last two years on pent up demand post the COVID pandemic and people's aspiration to own better and bigger homes from branded developers. To encash this demand, Macrotech Developers plans to launch 22 new projects by March next ye

BPEA EQT set to acquire 60% stake in Indira IVF for Rs 6,000 crore

Boston, Massachusetts-based TA Associates is selling its 47 per cent stake in Indira IVF

Indian companies to soon directly list on IFSC bourses: FM Sitharaman

Sitharaman urges financial regulators to maintain a balance between light-touch regulation and full-fledged supervision

Fino Payments Bank Q1 net profit soars 85%, gets board approval for SFB

Fino Payments Bank on Friday reported an 85 per cent jump in net profit to Rs 19 crore for the June 2023 quarter on treasury gains. The Navi Mumbai-headquartered entity has received the board approval to apply for converting itself into a small finance bank, which will also allow it to undertake lending operations. For the reporting quarter, its total income grew to Rs 348 crore from Rs 289 crore in the year-ago period, which included a more than doubling of the income on investments at Rs 25 crore. The second payments bank to start operations reported an operating profit of Rs 23.28 crore from the treasury segment against Rs 13.38 crore in the year-ago period. At an entity level, the operating profit margin widened to 11.6 per cent from 8.2 per cent a year ago, it said. It had 14.4 lakh registered merchants and 82.9 lakh current and savings accounts as of June. The bank, which added 2.5 lakh customers per month in FY23, saw 7.7 lakh bank accounts being opened during the reportin