India Inc's bear hug with Russian consumers is getting warmer. From selling marquee cars to liquor, the relationship is heading into the next league -- joint ventures in diverse areas such as petrochemicals, telecom, pharmaceuticals and nanotechnology.
Revenue and profit contractions to continue till investment cycle does not revive.
'It might not have a direct impact on the domestic steel industry but will improve India's position in the global market.'
Law minister clears Sebi's regulation on put and call options.
Modern Indian women have come a long way from playing the stereotypical role of a housewife to donning the roles of CEOs in leading Indian and foreign companies.
Ashok Soota has cited 4 challenges that India Inc is facing. He stressed on a robust risk management strategy for Indian companies. He also stated responding to changes in market environment, resolving legal and regulatory differences and encouraging leadership and accepting cultural diversity as other challenges. Highlighting the challenges faced by the India Inc, experts said globalisation is essential to pursue growth opportunities and leverage comparative advantage.
'Increasing spends will lower project deferrals and protect project budgets'
Foxconn means serious business in India. Its delegation to India was led by its Chairman Young Liu who met Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
While asking firms not to worry about sharp volatility in prices, Birla said companies must make sure they do not get caught in 'comorbidities'.
Senior bankers point out that while they will eventually attract qualified professionals, onboarding them takes time.
Legal fees in such cases can go up to Rs 5 crore.
Industry chamber Confederation of Indian Industry said successive hikes in interest rates have had a dampening impact on industrial growth.
The depreciating Indian rupee (the currency touched a record low for the second day in a row and closed at 53.22/23 to the dollar on Tuesday) has brought the foreign fund-raising cost for India Inc on a par with the domestic borrowing cost.
According to a report by global research firm Dun & Bradstreet, the composite Business Optimism Index for the second quarter of 2008 has decreased to 153.7 from 168.9 in the previous quarter. This is a 9% fall. BOI measures the pulse of the business community and serves as a reliable benchmark for investors and is arrived at on the basis of a quarterly survey of business expectations. The optimism index for profits represents a decrease of as much as 21 percentage points.
Weighed down by a sharp rise in input costs and limited ability to pass on the burden to customers, India Inc's operating margins took a hard knock in the first quarter of 2008-09 even though demand was buoyant as reflected in zooming sales.
RBI has cut the rates thrice so far in 2015 by 25 bps each.
At present, when Indian corporates declare dividends, a dividend distribution tax is slapped at 15 per cent.
The market cap of the listed firms on the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange on Monday declined by a whopping Rs 125,000 crore (Rs 1,250 billion) to Rs 43,75,020 crore (Rs 43,750 billion), thereby falling below the GDP of Rs 46,93,000 crore (Rs 46,930 billion) at current market price, as per the real economy data released by the Reserve Bank of India on April 28 this year.
The market cap of the listed firms on the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange on Monday declined by a whopping Rs 125,000 crore (Rs 1250 billion) to Rs 43,75,020 crore (Rs 43750.20 billion), thereby falling below the GDP of Rs 46,93,000 crore (Rs 46930 billion) at current market price, as per the real economy data released by the Reserve Bank of India on April 28 this year.
The net sales growth declines 4.4% in September quarter, the second worst in eight years.
Corporate India's payout surged 22 per cent in 2006-07, with more than 50 per cent of the companies raising their dividends
Initial projections, at least, suggest that things are not looking good enough for India Inc, as margins are expected to soften further.
Rising commodity prices are set to hurt margins of India Inc in the on-going fourth quarter of FY 11, even though revenues are seen higher than the previous year, ratings agency Crisil said on Monday.
India Inc expects huge business opportunities to open up with the Nuclear Supplier's Group sanctioning an India specific waiver on Saturday.
Rising crude oil prices along with hardening interest rates in the domestic market have taken a toll on India Inc's growth outlook in the first quarter of the current fiscal.
The one-time restructuring of loans will help every firm and prevent cost-cutting measures such as lay-offs.
IT jobs constituted nearly 24 per cent of over 1.47 lakh vacancies listed on job portals and in newspapers during the period, followed by financial services at 14.5 per cent and sales and business development at 13.5 per cent, it added.
India Inc gave a thumbs up to the UPA-II's last Union Budget before the general elections next year and said Finance Minister P Chidambaram presented a "bold" and "growth-oriented" Budget.
CEOs have complained that high interest rates have blocked their investment decisions. At the same time, customers are also deferring their purchases for new consumer durables, cars, and homes.
Could the MPCE survey results be used as a basis of reconstructing the Consumer Price Index with new weights, asks Madan Sabnavis.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday asked private sector companies to clear dues to small businesses within 45 days and admitted that the central departments and enterprises are also not making payments to them on time. She conceded that the Centre, states and state-owned enterprises too have outstanding dues to micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs). The minister said that at a meeting with big businesses here two days ago, she had appealed to them to ensure that the dues of small businesses, who are the backbone of the economy, are cleared on time.
Order inflows during the quarter-ended September declined 31.5 per cent compared to the level a year ago. Companies are still not committing fresh capital expansion.
The new mantra was to align Apple's ambition with the government's, focusing on Modi's favourite themes of Make in India, employment generation and India as a high-tech export hub.
Corporate India's credit quality showed a sharp improvement in the second half of FY22, but high input prices and withdrawal of pandemic-related relief measures can pose pressures in the new year, rating agencies said on Friday. Crisil Ratings, which rates a large number of financial sector entities, reported an improvement in the credit ratio -- the number of upgrades to downgrade -- to 5.04 times in the second half of this financial year, from the 2.96 per cent in the first half of the fiscal. It attributed the improvement to a sustained rebound in demand, which lifted revenues of most sectors to pre-pandemic levels and proactive relief measures by the government that cushioned the pandemic blow.
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