Keen competition will make the going tough even for market leaders in the segment.
Electronics, IT goods makers HCL Infosystems, HP, LG Electronics and Zenith are raising prices of personal computers (laptops and desktops), LCDs and plasma TVs, and IT peripherals for the first time this year by as much as 13 per cent to offset higher cost of inputs triggered by a falling rupee. The move may nudge inflation further crimping consumer spending.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
How Bajaj, Colgate, Raymonds, Zee lost out.. Strategic errors have hurt many companies, says adguru Sandeep Goyal.
Passenger vehicle sales continue to drop in June; Maruti, Hyundai, Tata Motors, Toyota witness decline. Mahindra & Mahindra, however, reported a 4 per cent growth.
'Businessmen like Rajiv render public service when they speak truth to power,' observes Virendra Kapoor.
A restaurant in St Petersburg has struck a chord with the hordes of soccer fans in town for the World Cup by serving up pizzas featuring the faces of some of the tournament's biggest stars.
The list of companies which believe that Brand Tendulkar doesn't work for them anymore has grown further. After Fiat, TVS and Airtel, beverages and snack food maker PepsiCo has decided to end its long relationship with the 35-year-old cricketer.
With the CTV market likely to cross 15 million sets this year, the gap between supply and demand is likely to widen. According to CEAMA, the import duty on picture tubes accounts for around 45 per cent of the final product.
Changing lifestyles and the increasing number of working women are prompting two-wheeler companies to look beyond offering just two-wheelers targeting the women's segment.
The screen does the job, the speakers don't.
A majority of CEOs from top Indian companies including ICICI Bank, Bajaj Auto, TVS Motor GE India, and HUL, do not foresee any production slowdown in this fiscal, even as rising input and interest costs are affecting the net profit margins, a CII survey has found.
Tata Motors' Nano, the world's cheapest car that costs slightly more than some premium bikes available in the country, is unlikely to wean away buyers from the two-wheeler segment, an industry official said on Friday. "I don't ascribe to the idea that the introduction of low priced cars in the market will affect the two-wheeler segment," S Balasubramanian, executive vice-president for operations & marketing, TVS, Srichakra Ltd said.
Auto stocks led the rally with Tata Motors, Hero MotoCorp and Maruti Suzuki leading the gains.
Gadget Guru this week focuses on mobile personal technology.
'Demand in India has been outstripping supply.'
Besides electric vehicles, some start-ups present are working in the area of bike customisation, motorsports, auto gaming arena, autonomous vehicle and so on
For starters, mobile TV (or streaming of live television on to mobile phones) will grow out of its infancy and overcome its numerous technical and legal hurdles.
Two wheeler sales dropped in the past quarter as leading banks put two wheeler finance under high risk category.
Japan's veneration for order has been fully transplanted to this TVS factory in the city of Hosur.
A year later, land for the landless scheme is changing the face of rural Tamil Nadu
Mutual funds pared exposure to auto, cement, metal, FMCG, telecom, sugar, and power stocks in January.
The ongoing credit squeeze in the sluggish two- and three-wheeler markets may affect the March sales targets of the three leading domestic players in the country. Taking the cue from a buoyant FY07 where the two-wheeler industry grew by a healthy 11.42 per cent, companies such as Hero Honda, TVS Motors and Bajaj Auto were hoping to surpass the FY07 target of 7.8 million units this year.
The hubs will feed Europe, US and the Gulf.
In-Stat predicts that over 60 million households will have at least one wide screen, high-definition TV display in their home by end 2007
The first half of 2019-20 will be under pressure, since prices are expected to go up by Rs 7,000-8,000 at a time when sentiment is poor.
This one's just like a solid television of yore!
Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India (HMSI), Suzuki Motorcycle India (SMI) and Yamaha Motor India (YMI) are building motorcycles and scooters to suit the Indian market. The models will be manufactured at the company's research and development centres in Japan and will use new platforms.
FMCG players -- Dabur, HLL, PSU BPCL, Korean car maker Hyundai, liqour barron Vijay Malaya's Mcdowell and TVS motors -- are among the major companies found to violate Advertising Standards Council of India code.
Bajaj Auto, which commands a market share of 26.70 per cent following Hero Honda (the country's largest two-wheeler maker), has decided to launch a bike in the executive segment (125cc) in the second quarter of the current financial year.
It's Diwali time for marketeers in the online space, who are wooing the 37 million strong Indian online community with festival packages and Maha Diwali sales
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani's retail venture will soon start selling electronics goods like refrigerators, TVs and computers, even as it prepares to open its 100th fresh food and vegetables outlet in the country.
Declining sales and sliding margins are compelling two-wheeler makers such as Bajaj Auto, Hero Honda and TVS Motors to rejig strategy, to cope with the slowdown.
The price war in the motorcycle market is all set to worsen with large production capacities at tax-free locations in the north ready to go on stream.
Come the rains and two-wheeler racing fanatics line-up for the popular off-beat challenge. The latest edition was on Sunday, August 8. There were entries from Mumbai, Nashik, Pune, Thane, Bangalore, Bhopal, and Jodhpur. Like previous years, this time too Sportscraft chose the backwoods of Navi Mumbai to give riders a chance to test their driving and racing skills in a safe environment.
If you are are shopping for new models of consumer durables at lower price points, you are unlikely to find many options.
Companies featuring in the Next 500 list are mostly mid-sized and termed as the 'small wonders' by the magazine.
Higher disposable incomes, rural push and infra push to boost auto sector
