Fast-moving consumer electronics are a type of FMCG and are typically low priced generic or easily substitutable consumer electronics, including lower end mobile phones, MP3 players, game players, and digital cameras, which have a short usage life, typically a year or less, and as such are disposable. Cheap FMCG electronics are often retained even after immediate failure, as the purchaser rationalizes the decision to not return the goods on the basis that the goods were cheap to begin with, and that the cost of return relative to the low cost of purchase is high. Thus low-quality electronic FMCG goods can be highly profitable for the vendors.
Global leaders in the FMCG segment are Anheuser-Busch InBev, Nestlé, ITC, Hindustan Unilever Limited, Reckitt Benckiser, Unilever, Procter & Gamble, L'Oréal, Coca-Cola, Carlsberg, Kleenex, General Mills, Pepsi, Gillette etc.
FMCG (fast moving consumer goods) is a term that is used to refer to those goods which are sold through retail stores. These goods have a short period of shelf life and as such are used up within days, weeks, or months. At the most it lasts for a year. However there are also durable goods which people replace after using the same for many years. For example we can cite kitchen or other household appliances.
Some FMCG products perish within a short time while others have a shelf life of more than a year. Nevertheless the turnover rates for both these categories are very high depending on customer demand and brand loyalty.
FMCG products are made by companies that also make other products as well.