Archive for November, 2008
Indian Cleantech firms gearing up for bigger opportunities
The Economic Times The Indian cleantech sector is broadly divided into three areas: clean energy, clean water and sustainable agriculture. Energy includes both generation and efficiency management companies while water has companies that are into filtration, desalination and conservation. Sustainable agriculture involves the use of hybrid seeds, organic farming practices, cleaner pesticides and fertilisers. One [...]
Indian Government changes customs duty on steel, soyoil
The Economic Times In wake of the recent fall in international prices of commodities and with a view to safeguard interests of domestic producers, the Indian government has announced certain changes in customs duty rates effective from Nov 18. The government has withdrawn full exemption of customs duty on few industrial and agricultural commodities. Iron [...]
‘India to record economic growth rate of 7.3-7.8% in 2008′
The global recessionary environment does little to dampen India’s domestic demand for goods and services.Business Standard Playing a major role in dispelling the financial gloom in the Asia-Pacific region, India will record an economic growth rate of 7.3-7.8 per cent in 2008, global rating agency Standard and Poor’s (S&P) said today. “Factors such as intraregional [...]
CLIMATE CHANGE-LATIN AMERICA: Frightening Numbers
IPS The countries of Latin America and the Caribbean need billions of dollars to deal with the economic impact of climate change — funding that is not easily found on the international market. Some of the immediate effects of climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean are a 0.1 degree Celsius rise in temperature [...]
Medical Tourism to India, All Expenses Paid
- Comarow On Quality (usnews.com) In January, Serigraph Inc., a West Bend, Wis., manufacturer, will become the first U.S. company of any size to embrace medical travel or medical tourism, offering employees the option of having certain nonemergency operations, such as joint replacement, in India. The company will pay all expenses, including travel and lodging [...]
India’s Future group bets on in-house brands for growth
- Retailing-Services-News By Industry-News-The Economic Times Future Group, the country’s largest retailer, announced that it targets to earn Rs 10,000 crore [US $2bn] from the business of its own brands inFMCG, household consumer durable and electronics and apparel categories by 2012. “Having achieved stupendous success in some of our consumer brands, such as Tasty Treat, [...]
EU-Andean Community trade talks fall apart
.::. Latinamerican Press ::.. The European Commission announced on Nov. 11 that talks for a trade pact between the EU and the Andean Community were officially over. E.U. External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Walder said that last-ditch efforts to forge a region-to-region agreement had failed, and that it was moving ahead with separate agreements with Colombia [...]
India International Trade Fair turning focus on B2B
The Hindu Business Line India Trade Promotion Organisation (ITPO) is making a serious bid to convert its flagship global trade fair from a consumer-oriented thrust to a business-to-business (B2B) fair largely because Indian industry is maturing, the Chairman & Managing Director, Dr Sheela Bhide, said today. In an interview to Business Line here as the [...]
California leads fight against climate change on global level
This is like saying ‘Artillery crew leads fight against gunshot wounds’.California leading the fight is a little rich since it consumes more fuel than Indialargely because of its auto-centric transportation system.Instead of California leading the charge, maybe India should given its favorable position on emissions per capita and energy intensity per capita (See graph above). [...]
Taco Bell in India?!
Selling Mexican food in India is a no-brainer. Last year, in Bangalore, I bought taco shells and stuffing imported from Sweden! Grupo Bimbo, where are you? Mexican operators like Taco Inn, Coco Express, El Fogoncito and El Tizoncito should follow Taco Bell’s foodsteps. It is still early days. Yum Brands Bets on Taco Bell To [...]
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