NEW DELHI: FMCG shares were trading higher in Thursday's morning session.

Shares of Jubilant Foodworks (up 0.68 per cent), Britannia Industries (up 0.58 per cent), Godrej Industries (up 0.55 per cent) and Hindustan Unilever (up 0.46 per cent) were trading with gains.

Marico (up 0.43 per cent), GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare (up 0.36 per cent), Colgate-Palmolive (India) (up 0.27 per cent) and Procter & Gamble Hygiene & Healthcare (up 0.18 per cent) too were trading higher.

The Nifty FMCG index was trading 0.01 per cent up at 29,817.10 around 10:54 am.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 42.75 points at 11,959.50 while the BSE Sensex was up 123.64 points at 39,962.89.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 32 were trading in the green, while 18 were in the red.

Shares of Vodafone Idea, YES Bank, Dish TV India, Bank of Baroda, Indiabulls Housing Finance, PNB, Adani Power, Adani Enterprises, IDFC and Bank of India were among the most traded shares on the NSE.