Akshay Varma, Aditya and Anuj Ruia: Making eco-friendly choices easy

At times, you don’t plan to get into a business. You just stumble upon it. This is exactly what happened with three friends in Mumbai. On a regular weekend beach clean-up in 2019, Akshay Varma, Aditya Ruia and Anuj Ruia discovered a plastic wrapper of a chocolate brand. Well, nothing unusual about the litter. Right? But there was something alarming. The wrapper happened to be of a brand that stopped production in the 1990s.

Meet the organic foods brand that distributed stocks worth half a million dollars to its employees

Increasingly, consumers are gravitating towards brands that are working towards a greater good. More and more people are choosing brands that are helping people and communities in whichever way they can. Two Brothers Organic Farm, an organic foods brand based out of a village in Maharashtra manufactures products like peanut butter, groundnut oil, traditional wheat flour, ghee jaggery, jowar among other things and has consumers spread over 45 countries.

Innerwear firm Bummer raises Rs 75 lakhs on Shark Tank India’s latest season

Bummer, an Indian comfort wear brand, announced that it has raised Rs 75 lakhs on Shark Tank India’s latest season. Judges of Shark Tank India panel, Aman Gupta – Founder, Boat Electronics, and Namita Thapar of Emcure Pharma, invested against a total equity of 7.5 percent. This comes as the second round of funding for the brand, after it bagged $180K funding from the Singapore-based BeeNext.

How D2C Ayurvedic Brand Amrutam Posted 240% YoY Growth By Focussing On Community Building

Set up in 2006 by Ashok Gupta his wife Chandrakanta, Amrutam started as a brick-and-mortar healthcare malt selling business, offering authentic ayurvedic products After a financial setback in 2016, the founders’ son and daughter, both second-time entrepreneurs, took the helm and gave the brand a digital makeover