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Retail and fast moving consumer goods and durables (FMCG&D) sector together is likely to add 276,000 new jobs in the first six months of the current financial year following the entry of foreign retail giants, the report said. According to TeamLease Services biannual ' Employment Outlook ' report for the April-September 2019-20, the retail sector will witness a 2 per cent increase in net employment outlook, resulting in the addition of 166,000 new jobs while (FMCG/D) will see a 1 per cent growth adding 110,000 new jobs. With 27,560 new jobs, Delhi will top the list in retail followed by Bengaluru with at 22,770 new jobs, it said. The report revealed that the exponential growth witnessed by the sector coupled with entry of foreign retail giants, capacity expansion and acquisitions are some of the key drivers of the job growth. The report was done across 19 sectors and 14 geographies, surveying 775 enterprises in India and 85 businesses across the globe to evalu...

For a century, children in India have been brought up on malt-flavored powdered milk drinks that they thought would help make them healthy and strong. Now the $1 billion industry is set for a shake-up after two of the biggest producers, GlaxoSmithKline Plc and Kraft Heinz Co. put the businesses up for sale and consumers switch to drinks with less sugar. Malted milk drinks, which are as much as one-third sugar, have been breakfast staples of upwardly mobile families in India since soldiers brought GlaxoSmithKline’s Horlicks back with them after the First World War. Now, after a decade of double-digit growth, sales in India rose 8.6 per cent in 2017 and could drop to half that this year. By 2022, the market will expand by only 2.7 per cent, Euromonitor forecasts. “Their core categories are growing at a much slower rate than they have been in the past,” said Amnish Agarwal, an equity analyst who follows the Indian consumer products market for brokerage Prabhudas Lilladhe...