Archive for September 10th, 2008
The uncomfortable future of competition
Business Standard Globality – This book from three Boston Consulting Group (BCG) consultants suggests that the future of competition is far more complicated and unpredictable. Companies in the BRIC countries may certainly be emerging strong contenders to the hegemony of western multinationals, but they’re not the only ones. Whether it’s Mexico, Chile, Egypt, Hungary or [...]
Six firms vie for huge India telecoms order
Reuters Telecoms equipment makers Ericsson and Nokia Siemens Networks [NSN.UL] are competing with four other firms in a tender potentially worth $9 billion to provide wireless infrastructure to India’s Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL). Bidders in the tender for a total of 93 million GSM lines, the world’s largest such order, include Huawei Technologies, Alcatel-Lucent [...]
India’s Larsen and Toubro gets $160 mln order from Petrobras
Reuters Larsen & Toubro Ltd, India’s top engineering and construction company, said on Wednesday it had received an order worth $160 million from Brazil’s Petrobras. The order, for 10 reactors and 12 coke drums, is expected to be delivered in 2010/11, it said.
‘India’s medium-term prospects still look bright’
The Hindu Business Line Prof Arvind Subramanian, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington DC, has written extensively on growth, trade, development, institutions, aid, oil, India, Africa, the World Trade Organisation, and intellectual property. He also holds a joint appointment at the Centre for Global Development and is senior research professor at Johns Hopkins [...]




