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| Nov 10, 2023
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Ralph Lauren’s growth plans are focused on expanding its women’s business, including apparel and handbags, as well as broadening its reach in China and India. The context: Personal luxury sales soared in 2021 and 2022 as younger and middle-income consumers splurged on high-end goods.
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| Aug 3, 2023
Last quarter, they lost 4 million subscribers in India. This quarter, the number went further up. The impact has been so heavy that they have even considered selling off Star India, which was one of the major assets they acquired when they bought 20th Century Fox several years ago. So, just to give you a sense of how important sports is, especially in that market.
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| Aug 22, 2023
LinkedIn debuts campaign-creation tool powered by generative AI: Platform is out to address unique challenges in reaching B2B decision-makers.
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| Oct 3, 2023
And India partnered with Nepal on wallet interoperability. These partnerships—most of which involve state-backed entities—could severely limit Alipay’s growth potential in regional markets. Alipay touts about 1.3 billion users worldwide, per Enterprise Apps Today, but 900 million of those users are in mainland China.
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| Aug 14, 2023
For example, it has doubled down on India and signed a deal in September to buy the remaining stake of South Africa’s Massmart. We expect total retail sales will rise 13.0% in India and 13.2% in the Middle East and Africa this year. International sales feel the pinch from rising costs.
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| Nov 21, 2022
The US and China (and India) tend to lead the world in every digital category when it comes to aggregate user figures, but it’s less common to see Mexico so high in our rankings. As growth and penetration rates settle in around the world, total national listenership will increasingly mirror overall population scales.
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| Nov 8, 2022
Reserve Bank of India. The United Nations. Visa. Western Union. World Bank.
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| Feb 9, 2022
To Find First-Time Digital Buyers, Look to India. Although China is still adding nearly as many new digital buyers per year as India, China’s scope for further growth has dwindled. India, on the other hand, will be adding hundreds of millions of new digital buyers in the coming decades. Retailers should focus on finding these consumers now.
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| Jul 29, 2022
Meanwhile, the EU is expected to launch a pilot program in 2022, and India reportedly will begin trials for a digital rupee by the close of 2021. Prediction. India will beat others to the punch in becoming the next major market to launch a CBDC in 2022. The coming year is a favorable time for India to launch a digital rupee.
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| Dec 8, 2021
In the meantime, advertisers have dug in their heels: In India, 82% of advertisers increased cookie spending for 2023. Advertisers are not thrilled that cookies have to go away, and the two prior delays have led nearly half (47.8%) of advertisers to believe that there will be yet another delay, per DoubleVerify.
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| Jul 24, 2023
Respondents were from: UK, US, France, Spain, China, Japan, Australia, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, India, Poland, UAE, Netherlands, Germany, South Africa, and Thailand.
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| Jul 27, 2023
The UPI reached a record 7.829 billion payments in December alone totaling INR 12.82 trillion ($163.1 billion), up 71% year over year (YoY), per the National Payments Corporation of India. Right now, only debit cards and select credit cards powered by RuPay can use the UPI.
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Snapchat is growing in India, with an expected 183.6 million users this year, largely as a result of the country’s TikTok ban. This year, over a fifth (21.7%) of the world’s population will be users of TikTok or its Chinese counterpart, Douyin. However, a potential ban could hurt future US growth. Use this chart:. Effectively distribute budgets for social media ad campaigns.
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| Jul 19, 2023
In previous years, the leaders in this category were India and the Philippines, so Mexico’s ascension to the throne represents a change. The country has led Latin America in music streaming and gaming since 2019, and in podcast listening since 2020. It is also close behind regional leader Brazil in online TV/streaming and print media.
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| Oct 20, 2022
Thanks to its acquisition of Hotstar, Disney+ in India (officially called Disney+ Hotstar as of 2020) will reach 56.5% of the country’s sub OTT viewers in 2023. That’s only 10.6% of the population, however, so there is plenty of room for growth.
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| Dec 12, 2022
The opportunity: By adding the Hindi language in its apps and website, LinkedIn can quickly amplify its presence in India and gain access to over half a billion global users, offsetting its losses in China. Other companies are following suit. Apna, a startup job site in India, conducted a survey that revealed 57% of users in India prefer using their native language over English.
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| Dec 3, 2021
In India: Revolut is adding a company that served over 15,000 users in 2021—a number that it anticipates will increase significantly. The neobank, which rolled out in India in April 2021, stressed that the Arvog deal is an early move in its market presence. Revolut India CEO Paroma Chatterjee called it “the first step toward our aspiration to usher in a digital financial revolution in India.”.
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| Feb 16, 2022
Prediction 1: India will beat others to the punch, becoming the next major market to launch a central bank digital currency (CBDC) in 2022. India kicked off its wholesale CBDC pilot in November with participation from nine banks—including the country’s largest bank, State Bank of India. It launched its retail CBDC pilot on December 1.
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| Dec 21, 2022
In India, TikTok was banned in 2020, leading to a higher rate of penetration for Snapchat. Additionally, the penetration rate for social users in India is relatively low due to the country’s more rural population and slower adoption of devices with internet connectivity. Social users in India will grow 6.9% in 2023, outpacing the region as a whole by a wide margin.
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| Jun 29, 2023
The EV transition in India, however, hinges on mopeds and rickshaws rather than passenger cars, which The New York Times notes could be a template for other developing nations. Banks have been reluctant to give loans for EV passenger car purchases in India at a time when the cost of insuring these vehicles is high and the resale market remains small.
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| Sep 21, 2022
In India, there’s a large gap between credit and debit cardholders: As of September, India had about 65 million credit cardholders versus 920 million debit cardholders, according to data from the country’s central bank. Uni’s underwriting technology, coupled with growing appetite for buy now, pay later services in Asia-Pacific, could set it up for long-term growth.
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| Dec 17, 2021
Quick commerce booms in India: Even as investors cool off on rapid delivery in other markets, Indian startups are raking in cash as they vie to dominate the country’s nascent but booming food delivery industry. As in China, quick commerce is easier to execute profitably in India due to high population density in urban centers and lower labor costs.
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| Jun 28, 2022
In recent years, countries such as India, Egypt, Nigeria, and Indonesia frequently experienced annual increases of 10% or higher. This year, growth in those four countries will range from just 3.2% to 7.0%. This year, 23 of the 36 countries in our forecast will see growth of 2% or less. By 2025, only one country—India—will grow faster than 2%.
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| Jan 18, 2022