Western investors are keen on investing in the shares of growing Indian companies, a senior official of London Stock Exchange said on Thursday while inviting more domestic firms to raise capital from the world's premier bourse.
Mothercare, which is hosting an investor and analyst event in India, said it expected the total overseas network sales of the company to double to around 1 billion pound by 2014.
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London Stock Exchange-listed Essar Energy Plc plans to bid for coal-bed methane (CBM) and shale gas blocks in Indonesia next month.
Hexaware Technologies, a Chennai-based software company listed on Indian and London stock exchanges, has bagged a contract from German company Lufthansa Systems for providing maintenance services over a period of three years.
Belgium-based Hansen Transmission, a Suzlon Energy subsidiary, has raised euro 400 million (about Rs 2,300 crore) by issuing 164 million shares through an initial public offering (IPO) to fund plans in India and China.
The Oil and Natural Gas Corp has deferred investments in Imperial Energy Plc to raise crude oil production and will rather consolidate the western Siberian operations of the UK-based firm it acquired recently.
Russian bank VTB will open a $1 billion credit line to India's Essar Group.
Weighed down by the oil-to-chemicals (O2C) business, Reliance Industries (RIL) results for the April-June quarter (Q1) of 2024-25 (FY25) missed Street estimates. A 14 per cent fall in the O2C segment's operating profit compared to the year-ago quarter and a 22 per cent sequential decline pulled down the consolidated performance. The O2C segment accounts for a third of the overall operating profit and about 60 per cent of the attributable consolidated profit.
Observers say the transfer could be worth around 25 million pounds.
Vodafone's revenues for the third quarter have gone up by 16%, thanks to good performance in emerging markets including India.
Bollywood film distribution company Eros International, which raised Rs 189.6 crore (Rs 1.89 billion) through equity placement in the UK, listed its shares on the London Stock Exchange on Tuesday.
Police have identified the suspect as 28-year-old Usman Khan, inspired by the ideology of Al Qaeda terror group, was previously sentenced to 16 years in prison term for his role in the London Stock Exchange bombing in 1990.
Flag Telecom, a 100 per cent subsidiary of Reliance Communication (RComm), has mandated Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank as lead managers for the maiden initial public offering (IPO) on the London Stock Exchange.
"Tata Steel now anticipates that the effective date of the scheme of arrangement will be around the end of March or the first week of April 2007," it added.
UCP, recently incorporated in the Isle of Man, announced on Friday that it has placed 360 million ordinary shares of one pence each (face value) through the IPO as it aims to invest in the Indian real estate sector.
Close on the heels of the Tatas revising their bid for Corus to $9.2 billion by offering a price of 500 pence per share, the Brazilian steel firm CSN offered 515 pence a share for acquiring Corus.
Bankers and brokers allied to Brazil's Companhia Siderurgica Nacional scaling up their combined stake in the company to over 19 per cent.
The London Stock Exchange plans to conduct road shows in India from July for attracting technology and other high growth companies to list on its Alternate Investment Market segment.
BSE is world's largest exchange in terms of listed companies and figures among top 10 globally on various other parameters.
A leading newspaper group in Delhi is keen to list a planned new company on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange.
Network 18, the holding company of TV 18, Global News Broadcast, Web 18 and Studio 18, is investing $10 million in a new entertainment company -- The Indian Film Company, to be listed on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange.
Agarwal's is a classic story of a small trader becoming metal king. The secret, he says, lies in believing in himself and in the country's potential.
NRI business tycoon Anil Agarwal-led Vedanta Resources will pay $1.37 billion (about Rs 5,700 crore) for acquiring 71 per cent stake in India's biggest iron ore exporter Sesa Goa.
Tata Technologies Ltd is all set to acquire a UK-based INCAT International Plc.
Hirco Plc, a real estate investment firm floated by Mumbai-based Hiranandani Group,on Monday announced an investment of pound 47.9 million (about Rs 400 crore) to develop a township in Chennai.
India is massively underexplored, says Rahul Shir, CEO, Cairn India.
London Stock Exchange is all set to woo mid-size high-growth Indian companies to get listed on its fast growing Alternate Investment Market segment.
A company that plans to allow subscribers to stream Indian films onto their computers in real time is gearing up for a 50-million-pound listing on the London Stock Exchange early in the New Year.
