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Restocking, base effect boost two-wheeler sales in March
Besides, preference for personal mobility due to the pandemic as well as healthy rural consumption led OEMs to post healthy sequential growth numbers in March. Two-wheeler major Hero MotoCorp sold 576,957 units of motorcycles and scooters in March 2021, registering a growth of 72 per cent over 334,647 units sold in the corresponding month in the previous year.
Tesla says it produced 180,338 vehicles in Q1 2021
"We are encouraged by the strong reception of the Model Y in China and are quickly progressing to full production capacity," Tesla said in a statement. "The new Model S and Model X have also been exceptionally well received, with the new equipment installed and tested in Q1 and we are in the early stages of ramping production," it added.
'Nothing disparaging': German skincare brand Sebamed wins first round of ad war against HUL
USV Private Limited, which has the exclusive licence for marketing Sebamed's baby and adult care range of products in India, had dragged HUL's famous brands LUX, Dove, Pears and Rin into an acrimonious ad war. The USV Pvt Ltd. had erected a billboard right in front of the HUL head office in Mumbai in January of 2021.
99.99% RIL shareholders vote for scheme of O2C demerger
NCLT vide its order dated February 11 had directed Reliance Industries Limited as the Transferor Company to hold a meeting of its equity shareholders to consider and, if thought fit, to approve, with or without modification, the proposed scheme of arrangement between the Transferor Company and its shareholders and creditors and Reliance O2C Limited as the transferee company and its shareholders and creditors.
Google to invest over $44 mn in taxi-hailing firm Kakao Mobility
Google will invest in Kakao Mobility by acquiring new shares worth 56.51 billion won, according to a regulatory filing from Kakao. The deal, which places Kakao Mobility's total value at 3.35 trillion won, will give Google a 1.69 percent stake in the firm, which operates taxi-hailing service Kakao T and has 28 million users.
Bajaj Auto's Mar YoY overall sales up 52%
According to the company, total sales during the month under review grew to 369,448 units from 242,575 units sold during the corresponding month of 2020. Similarly, Bajaj Auto's total domestic sales rose. It stood at 198,55 units -- up 70 per cent -- from 116,541 units sold in March last year.
HDFC raises fixed deposit rates by up to 25 bps
The change came into effect on March 30. The housing finance major is offering an annual interest rate of 6.2 per cent on special fixed deposits up to Rs 2 crore and maturing in 33 months.
No plans to exit India business: Franklin Templeton
The statement comes at a time when media reports suggested that Franklin Templeton had requested for talks with the Indian Ambassador to the US over the capital market regulator SEBI's probe into six shut debt schemes of the fund house in the country. The reports also said that Franklin Templeton had threatened to exit India operations if it was not given a fair hearing.
Metal, auto, tech stocks top sectoral gainers in FY21
A report by Motilal Oswal Financial Services said that the theme of FY21 was high beta, cyclicals and value. Quality and defensive themes, the flavour of the past few years, took a breather. Noting that India recorded the highest ever inflow of foreign institutional investments (FII) of $37.6 billion in the last financial year, it said that the total inflow of FIIs in FY21 was greater than the cumulative inflows in the previous six years.
India posts record high YoY merchandise exports in March
The country's merchandise exports during the month under review increased to $34 billion as compared to $21.49 billion in March 2020. "In March 2021, the value of non-petroleum exports was USD30.79 billion as compared to USD18.97 billion in March 2020, registering a positive growth of 62.3 per cent," a Ministry of Commerce and Industry statement said on the basis of preliminary data.
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