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Titan is betting that India’s appetite for mechanical watches has further room to run, with its automatic-watch business expected to reach ₹350–400 crore this fiscal, up from ₹265 crore last year. The business has grown nearly five-fold from ₹50 crore in FY22-23, as younger and increasingly discerning consumers show greater willingness to trade up. Kuruvilla Markose, Chief Executive Officer, Watches Division, Titan Company Ltd, told businessline that the premiumisation opportunity extends well beyond metros, with about 70 per cent of consumption coming from breakout towns and Tier 1 and Tier 2 markets, against 30 per cent from the top eight cities. Titan’s portfolio is still heavily weighted towards watches below ₹25,000. How do you see that changing over the next three to five years? The shift towards ₹25,000-plus is already visible. The segment is growing at around 35 per cent, compared with about 15 per cent for the sub-₹25,000 segment. For Titan, the above-₹25,000 segment grew nearly 50 per cent in FY26-27, compared with around 20–22 per cent for the below-₹25,000 segment.

The insurer's vendor-agnostic hub is already live in five entities, with AXA XL among those building claims and email applications Among insurers, the gap between those that have industrialized AI and those still running isolated pilots has widened materially in the past 12 months, according to research from Datos Insights published earlier this year, which found nearly 80% of large insurers have rolled out AI-assisted or autonomous processing workflows. AXA's partnership with Publicis Sapient is an example of what the industrialized end looks like. The agreement focuses on scaling AXA's Global AI Hub, a group-wide infrastructure layer for deploying and governing AI agents across the organization.