After clocking a blistering 13.8 per cent in terms of growth rate for calendar year 2017, India's $50-billion (or Rs 3.25 trillion) consumer goods market appears to be slowing as far as retail offtake goes. The latter is industry parlance for actual sales growth seen in stores.
This is tracked closely by Nielsen through its retail audit of various categories. Retail or consumer offtake, say experts, is considered a more accurate barometer of the health of the market vis-a-vis company shipments. The latter are basically goods pushed by firms into trade channels and do not necessarily ...
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First Published: Wed, May 30 2018. 00:38 IST
