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| July 02, 2008 | | Cairn expects a 6-fold growth in revenues
Cairn India, a unit of UK-based Carin Energy, will have the potential to account for 20 per cent of India's oil production in the next decade once oil starts flowing from its three fields in Rajasthan.
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| June 30, 2008 | | 'To curb inflation, focus only on food prices'
As common people grope for means to counter the ever-increasing prices of essential commodities, the economists and financial analysts fear that the recent hike in fuel prices would soon push inflation past 9 per cent. In an interview to rediff.com's special correspondent A Ganesh Nadar, Economic advisor to the Tata group Siddhartha Roy, shared his thoughts on the vexing issue of India's inflation.
'Inflation, rates to rise further'
The Indian market has corrected a lot already. Valuations are clearly more attractive than they were earlier this year.
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| June 27, 2008 | | 'Once Nano is here, we'll all have a lot to learn'
K K Swamy is between jobs. After spending a little over a decade running Toyota Kirloskar Motors as its deputy managing director, he made a quiet exit a month ago to move to Volkswagen India as its first managing director. He is moving lock, stock and barrel from Bangalore to Pune, where he is set to take charge on July 21.
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| June 21, 2008 | | 'Employers are not being transparent in good times'
When the International Labour Organisation appointed Assane Diop as executive director to kick off its social protection initiative in 2000, it couldn't have found a man with better credentials for the job.
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| June 20, 2008 | | 'Bill Gates' strength is his curiosity'
He is truly fascinated with advances in science related to computing. And he has a good eye for seeing how those advances can be integrated together in powerful ways in a combination of software and hardware, says Steve Hamm.
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| June 14, 2008 | | Malaysia beckons Indian tourists
Visa on arrival applies for all Indians, except for people coming in from Chennai. Anyway, if you get a visa in India itself, it works out cheaper, and what's more, you get a visa for multiple entries.
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| June 10, 2008 | | 'India is the world's value creation centre'
The entrepreneur is endlessly curious. He will not give you copybook answers. He is in constant search of all the things he can do better than others, says Bill McDermott.
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| June 06, 2008 | | ESPN MD on the Tata Sky spat
With its three sports channels - ESPN, Star Sports and Star Cricket – getting dropped from the basic bouquet of direct-to-home (DTH) operator Tata Sky, ESPN India is exploring legal options against the DTH operator.
'We're cheaper and better than DTH or cable'
Consumer mindset and lack of awareness and also the fact that the existing players -cable and DTH -will make life very difficult for us. They are very aggressive and create confusion on IPTV, through newspaper articles.
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| June 05, 2008 | | 'Luxury spirits have a huge potential in India'
Credited with introducing eight new brands from the stable of the world's largest liquor maker Diageo Plc, Asif Adil, the managing director of its India subsidiary, Diageo India Pvt Ltd, has set himself a target of achieving a sales turnover of over Rs 4,000 crore (Rs 40 billion) in India in three years.
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| June 04, 2008 | | No slowdown, growth is robust: HSBC
Naina Lal Kidwai, group general manager and country head for HSBC India, does not seem to be too perturbed about the slowdown or the rising delinquency levels.
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| May 30, 2008 | | 'SMEs, retail clients can't borrow at current rates'
It's a difficult time for banks both at home and abroad. But Sanjay Nayar, Chief Executive Officer, Citi India, shrugs off Citigroup's problems in the US saying they haven't really impacted the Indian operations. Nayar admits there have been a few problems with the consumer finance business but tells Business Standard that Citi's India operations are well-positioned to see double digit growth over the next few years.
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| May 27, 2008 | | 'Indian retailers must stop imitating the West'
Paco Underhill says traditional advertising no longer works as effectively as it did in the 1990s, and retailers need to focus a lot more on point-of-sale shopping experience.
'Indian consumers want organised & unorganised retail'
Even if our findings are not to the liking of our sponsor groups, we always stand by them, Icrier Director and Chief Executive Rajiv Kumar tells <I>Business Standard</I>. The study took a long time to come and the perception is that the data have been 'fixed' to arrive at tailor-made conclusions that suit the government (the sponsor of the study).
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| May 26, 2008 | | Computerisation of I-T dept a major gain
Computerisation of the Income-Tax Department has played a key role in raising tax compliance and higher tax collections over the past few years.
Mittal on why the MTN deal was called off
We will continue to look for opportunities around the globe, says Sunil Mittal.
'India has the highest number of hungry people on earth'
'Food grain availability for India's poorest is now approaching levels that haven't been seen since the British left. This has everything, sadly, to do with the rapacity of India's elites,' says Raj Patel, author, Stuffed and Starved.
'Indian ad professionals are thought leaders'
Prasoon Joshi, executive chairman, McCann-Erickson India, who will chair the outdoor and ambient media jury at the 55th International Cannes Lions 2008 in France to be held next month, talks to Business Standard about the performance of the Indian advertising industry at Cannes and his vision for McCann India.
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| May 23, 2008 | | 'Audi won't be made in VW's Pune facility'
Despite a general slowdown, Audi India has posted a dizzying growth figure of 123 per cent, selling 321 units in January-April 2008. All set to launch the new A4 sedan in July, Benoit Tiers, managing director, Audi India, tells Business Standard about the company's objectives.
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| May 22, 2008 | | NGC Network plans 4 new channels
After a decade-long presence in the country, National Geographic Channel (NGC) India, part of the NGC Network, is set to add four new channels including Nat GeoWild, Nat Geo Adventure, Nat Geo Music and Nat Geo HD (high definition).
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| May 20, 2008 | | CK Prahalad's tips on CSR
CK Prahalad, professor of corporate strategy at the University of Michigan and author of books on innovative business models that can help end world poverty, talks about corporate social responsibility in an interview with Business Standard.
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| May 15, 2008 | | 'Diesel car option for India under study'
Honda Siel Cars India President and CEO Masahiro Takedagawa, in an interview with Business Standard, shares the company's India strategy, including the launch of hybrid technology (a first on Indian roads), small cars and
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| May 14, 2008 | | Will he succeed Kamath at ICICI Bank?
Corporate India is not bothered about the subprime crisis. I have not seen any large business house walk away from a deal on account of lack of funding.
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| May 13, 2008 | | Why firms must treat employees better
Companies are going to realise that employees do not have just financial needs. They have spiritual, health and financial needs. They have long-term needs. People always want to be valued and respected for what they like to do.
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| April 30, 2008 |
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Managing
inflation is top priority: Reddy
Reserve Bank of India
(RBI) Governor Y V Reddy, who presented his last Annual Policy
Statement on Tuesday, spoke to Sidhartha on the challenges the
central bank faces in balancing growth and
inflation.
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| April 23, 2008 |
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'Ranbaxy
will gain from Orchid's R&D'
Ranbaxy Laboratories
on Tuesday announced a business alliance with Orchid Chemicals
and Pharmaceuticals across multiple geographies and therapies,
for finished dosage formulations and bulk drugs. The new
alliance will explore new products and markets without
disturbing the existing alliances. The deal is independent of
any commitment related to management control and is a pure
arm's length, independent strategic biz alliance. Ranbaxy will
benefit from Orchid's future products
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| April 19, 2008 |
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'The
35 per cent growth pattern is history now'
On Friday
(April 18), Premji in a clear signal of giving more powers to
the management, elevated Girish Paranjape and Suresh Vaswani
as joint CEOs of Wipro Technologies, which reported a topline
of $4.3 billion. Read excerpts of an interview with Girish
Paranjape and Suresh Vaswani, joint CEOs of Wipro.
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| April 09, 2008 |
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'We'll
wait and watch on interest rates'
Three years after
IDBI became a bank, Yogesh Agarwal, bank's third chairman and
managing director in as many years, is trying to put the
pieces in place. After all, as he pointed out in an interview
with Business Standard, the erstwhile development financial
institution is grappling with a unique situation, where IDBI
and the two commercial banks it acquired since 2005 offer
loans at different interest rates.
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| April 02, 2008 |
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How
Raghu Menon plans to put Air India on track
"I recently
flew on one of our aircraft and I was pleasantly surprised.
Our aeroplanes are brand new and a pleasure to travel on. They
can give any airline a run for their money," says Raghu
Menon.
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