According to Indian government data, micro, small and medium enterprises accounts for about 45 per cent of the manufacturing output of the country and 40 per cent of the total exports.
Indra Nooyi, chairman and CEO, PepsiCo has topped the Financial Times list of top 50 women in world business.
With increasing growth in demand by companies for environmentally sustainable services, millions of job opportunities are in the offing for people having the skill sets related to green services, experts say.
At least 30 per cent of 2,742 business executives surveyed across the world regard Indians among the most corrupt when doing business abroad to 'speed things up', according to a report by an NGO Transparency International India.
Businessworld stole a lead over Business Today in All India Readership as per National Readership Survey 2006.
Korean electronics giant LG will re-enter the laptop business in India with plans to launch mini notebooks by the end of this year.
Senapaty indicated that Wipro's acquisitions, whenever they are made, would be large, saying the company generally avoided very small companies because "the impact is not going to be felt."
Forbes has come out with a list of the world's 20 youngest billionaires under 40. Here we carry eight billionaires under 30 who made their fortunes by the virtue of inheritance and hard work.
Standard Chartered Bank appears to lead the race to acquire Barclays Bank's credit card business in India, six months after the British lender decided to sell it, three people familiar with the development said.
Ventures in areas such as insurance, financial services and logistics valued at Rs 4,500-5,000 crore ; company in talks with PE giants KKR and JP Morgan.
The US-based aircraft manufacturing giant will expand its manufacturing presence, launch subsidiaries and strengthen research and development (R&D) programmes in the country. Jeppesen, a subsidiary of Boeing, is close to setting up an office in Hyderabad, while another, Aviall, the company's spare parts subsidiary, already has operations from Noida.
State-owned power company PowerGrid Corporation Limited has been awarded the national long distance (NLD) license by the department of telecom for its proposed foray into the telecom business.\n\n
The first centre will be set up in New Delhi later this year, followed by Mumbai soon after with the ultimate aim of establishing up to six such facilities across the country by 2017.
With mounting fears that the city is in danger of losing the tag of leading IT-hub, the software industry-- led by bellwether Infosys - called for development of world class infrastructure and continued government support to maintain its credentials.
Multinational healthcare and pharmaceutical major Bayer Group said on Friday it is planning to sell its diagnostics business to Siemens AG, Germany for euro4.2 billion.
DoCoMo's exit from Tata Teleservices highlights the struggle of smaller operators even as the outlook improves for bigger players.
Mahindra & Mahindra gets the biggest impact of the Supreme Court's ban on sale of vehicles in Delhi with diesel engines bigger than 2,000cc.
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Citicorp has managed to pare net credit losses from its Indian consumer credit business, comprising cards and consumer banking, by over 38 per cent to around Rs 400 crore by June-end compared with Rs 653 crore in the previous quarter.
Mithileysh Sathiyanarayanan, 29, research scientist from London, UK tells us about his first salary.
Debt-ridden realty player DLF on Tuesday said it will sell more land and wind power business this fiscal to raise Rs 1,900 crore (Rs 19 billion) and lowered the sales figure for flats.
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The government has identified 846 products for which the business community could have a partnership with panchayats for establishing rural business hubs based on Chinese model.
The minister said a premium service for container movement with assured transit time was under consideration for time sensitive cargo.
The report finds it is easiest to start and operate a business in Ludhiana, Hyderabad and Bhubaneshwar, the report 'Doing Business In India 2009' said. Besides these three cities, Ahmedabad, New Delhi, Jaipur, Patna, Chennai, Indore, Mumbai, Ranchi, Guwahati, Kolkata and Kochi are some other cities where setting up and operating a business is easy, the report added.
India Inc has projected a better performance in the next six months on the back of a booming economy.\n\n
Japanese two-wheeler maker Yamaha on Friday announced its foray into the racing kits business in India and has tied-up with racing equipment maker Daytona for import and sale of the merchandise.
Chopra was an assistant professor at the Stern School of Business Administration at New York University before going to Kellogg.
Moreover, many feel that distorting the company's financial performance is 'justifiable' in the current economic turmoil. The latest European Fraud Survey by global consultancy firm Ernst & Young revealed that 'unethical business behaviour' is gaining more acceptability.
Will any of these corporate bigwigs be the next Steve Jobs, the iconic Apple CEO who just stepped down from the company's helm of affairs?
Acquires 50 per cent stake for $36 million in United National Breweries.
Sunil Mittal will become executive chairman.
The unilateral pressure by US administration on India, at the behest of US Business Associations lobby through US International Trade Commission investigations and request to USTR to enlist India under Priority Foreign Country under Special 301 review, lacks legitimacy under WTO framework, the signatories to the letter said.
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