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The business leaders, who form part of the UN Global Compact, urged the G-8 leaders to take urgent action on the emerging water and sanitation crisis across the world. It is estimated that approximately one billion people lack access to safe drinking water, and 2.6 bn do not have access to adequate sanitation. Global Compact pledges participating businesses to observe principles regarding human rights, labour rights, environmental sustainability & the fight against corruption
Sarah Brown, wife of the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, flirts with Indian fashion.
Business should be pleasure, not pressure, believes Thrissur-based T S Kalyanaraman.
CII plans business events across China, a 'Made-in-India' show in the booming Guanzhou city, a CEOs meet and visits by 1,000 young Indian businessmen -- all aimed at increasing India's market share in China and spurring Indian entrepreneurs to invest in the world's fourth largest economy. On its part, the CII would expand its Shanghai office and open one more in Beijing, CII Chief Mentor Tarun Das told PTI.
The UK's Marks & Spencer (M&S) has plans to position itself as a mid-market mass retailer in India and is eyeing a chunk of its revenues from India in the next few years. M&S has severed its partnership with Planet Retail and has entered into a deal with Reliance Retail. Its existing stores will be absorbed in the current partnership eventually. M&S will be positioned as a mid-market retailer in India. It chose Reliance as it moves quickly in its line of businesses.
Making his ambitions clear, Ambani said the company is "well equipped to be a national leader".
Today around 317 million EU citizens use the euro as their currency.
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The Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur (IIT-KGP) and Vinod Gupta School of Management (VGSOM), for instance, recently introduced an initiative -- the Deferred Placement Programme (DPP) -- to provide a safety net to students willing to take up the challenges of entrepreneurship. Under this programme, students interested in starting entrepreneurial ventures will be allowed to push back their participation in campus placements for a maximum period of two years.
Howard County delegates will meet Bangalore firms to explore possibilities of business expansion of Indian companies in Howard County.
India's state-run aircraft maker Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd is making efforts to get a substantial 'offset' business from Airbus Industrie in Indian Airlines' order for 43 aircraft.
Reliance Communications brings all its global initiative under a single brand name of Reliance Globalcomm and renames FLAG Telecom as Reliance FLAG.
German engineering giant Siemens is likely to follow in IBM's footsteps by selling off its mobile phone business to a Chinese company, says the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung.
The Ambassador or Amby was the first car manufactured in India.
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According to the study, the corporate space would witness a gradual but sure advent of aggressive hiring in the first quarter of FY 2010-11.
London Business School will host a one-day global forum for senior business leaders here on November 20.
While the company would expand footprint of its existing products, there are several markets where the per capita consumption of Pepsi's products is low.
In a bid to strengthen economic ties with India, Japan is planning to open a business centre in Mumbai.
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Citigroup is all set to acquire direct custody, securities clearing and fund services business of ABN AMRO in select European and Asian markets, including India, for an undisclosed sum.
Yunus will teach India Inc why and how social business is not charity but business wherein a surplus is passed on to the target group of beneficiaries in the form of lower prices, better service and greater access
"We are developing the cash and carry model with an overseas partner," Future Group's CEO Kishore Biyani told PTI here, without giving details.
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Brokerage firm Motilal Oswal Financial Services on Monday said it has received the final approval from the Securities and Exchange Board of India to set up mutual fund business in the country.
The rhetoric by politicians, labour unions and media against outsourcing of jobs to countries like India is having the opposite effect, as the campaign has opened the eyes of small businesses to the possibilities of offshoring.
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