Pip Edwards Backs the Booming Business of Perimenopause and It Could Change Everything for Women

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Pip Edwards Backs the Booming Business of Perimenopause and It Could Change Everything for Women

The perimenopause supplement aisle used to be a dusty corner of the pharmacy, avoided by mainstream retailers and largely ignored by serious FMCG investment. When commercially sharp consumer entrepreneurs start backing the category publicly, something structural has shifted. Pip Edwards, co-founder of activewear label P.E Nation and one of the more commercially literate voices in … Read more

How Gujarat’s Fishermen Cooperatives Along the Saurashtra Coast Are Fighting Chinese Fish Imports

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How Gujarat's Fishermen Cooperatives Along the Saurashtra Coast Are Fighting Chinese Fish Imports

In Veraval’s crowded fish auction yard in Junagadh district, a kilogram of locally caught ribbonfish fetched ₹85 last monsoon season. Three years ago, the same fish commanded ₹140. I spoke to cooperative members along this stretch of Gujarat who told me the culprit isn’t overfishing or a bad season — it’s containers of frozen Chinese … Read more

ADX Achieves 98% Disclosure Compliance in 2024 as Listed Companies Report Profits Exceeding AED 200 Billion

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ADX Achieves 98% Disclosure Compliance in 2024 as Listed Companies Report Profits Exceeding AED 200 Billion

A 98% disclosure compliance rate sounds like a bureaucratic milestone, but for the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange, it signals something far more deliberate about where the capital market is headed. When nearly every listed company files on time and collective profits surge past AED 200 billion, the numbers start to tell a governance story that … Read more

List of State Cooperative Federations in India with Contact Details

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List of State Cooperative Federations in India with Contact Details

India’s cooperative movement is one of the largest in the world, touching the lives of over 290 million members spread across more than 800,000 cooperative societies. Behind this vast network, state cooperative federations serve as the backbone, coordinating activities between primary societies and national-level apex bodies. I’ve put together a detailed resource covering these federations, … Read more

Etihad Adds 28 Weekly China Flights in Bold Gulf Route Push to Capture $2 Billion Market

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Etihad Adds 28 Weekly China Flights in Bold Gulf Route Push to Capture $2 Billion Market

Twenty-eight new weekly flights to five Chinese cities is not a cautious bet. For Etihad Airways, it is a declaration that the airline intends to close the gap on rivals who have owned the China-Gulf corridor for years. The Abu Dhabi-based carrier plans to expand its mainland China operations to 35 weekly services spanning six … Read more

Why This Rural Business Idea Is Quietly Creating Crorepatis Across India

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Why This Rural Business Idea Is Quietly Creating Crorepatis Across India

In Sanosara village, Mehsana district, Gujarat, a farmer named Rameshbhai Patel poured 400 litres of buffalo milk daily into his local cooperative collection centre last winter. His annual household income from milk alone crossed ₹18 lakh — a figure that would have seemed absurd to his father, who sold milk to a private middleman for … Read more

A Dalit Cooperative in Marathwada Did What No Government Scheme Could — Broke the Moneylender’s Grip

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A Dalit Cooperative in Marathwada Did What No Government Scheme Could — Broke the Moneylender's Grip

In Kaij taluka of Beed district, a landless Dalit sugarcane cutter named Bhimrao Waghmare once paid ₹60,000 in interest on a ₹25,000 loan he had taken three years earlier from a local moneylender. By the time I visited this corner of Marathwada in early 2024 while reporting on agrarian credit, Bhimrao had not only cleared that debt — he had a savings account, a crop loan at 4% interest, and a small poultry unit financed entirely through a Dalit-led cooperative credit society. No government scheme had managed to reach him. A cooperative run by his own community did.

This is not an isolated anecdote. Across Marathwada’s eight districts, a quiet revolution in cooperative credit has been unfolding among Dalit communities — one that challenges everything we assume about who gets to participate in India‘s cooperative movement. I have spent months tracking these stories, and what I found deserves far more attention than it has received.

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The Amul Story Keeps Repeating Itself — And That’s a Beautiful Thing

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The Amul Story Keeps Repeating Itself — And That's a Beautiful Thing

When a small group of farmers in Anand, Gujarat handed their milk cans to a barely-organized cooperative in 1946, they weren’t launching a brand — they were staging a revolt. That act of collective defiance against exploitative middlemen became the seed of what is now India‘s largest food products organization, one whose annual turnover has … Read more

Aussie Tea Startup East Forged Claims Prestigious Global Innovation Award Beating Hundreds of Competitors

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Aussie Tea Startup East Forged Claims Prestigious Global Innovation Award Beating Hundreds of Competitors

Beating Coca-Cola and PepsiCo to a global drinks award is the kind of result that cuts through the noise for category buyers and retail teams alike. East Forged’s win as Best Drink Innovation at the World Food Innovation Awards in London is a concrete signal about where no-sugar, low-alcohol beverage innovation is heading — and … Read more

How Tamil Nadu’s Cooperative Spinning Mills Created an Entire Industrial Town in Coimbatore

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How Tamil Nadu's Cooperative Spinning Mills Created an Entire Industrial Town in Coimbatore

On a damp morning in Singanallur, a suburb that bleeds into Coimbatore’s sprawling industrial belt, I watched Ramasamy Gounder, a 72-year-old retired mill worker, point at a row of concrete buildings stretching along the Noyyal River. “Every one of those structures,” he told a local reporter in 2023, “was built with money that belonged to … Read more