 HDFC's New Growth Architecture
Deepak Parekh always
wanted to make HDFC a financial services supermarket. Now with a federal
kind of structure and diversifications into mutual funds, brokerage
services, insurance, call centres, and credit intelligence, he's finally
doing so.Corporates
MTNL's
Millennium Plans
A fully-owned subsidiary
that will function in the convergence space and cellular aspirations are
part of Narendra Sharma's gameplan to make MTNL a hot scrip.
How
Khattar Showed It To Those Ones
The story of how Maruti
actually showed a rise in productivity while its employees were striking.
The
Pharmacist Just Went Corporate
An international
pharmacist-chain, Medicine shoppe, hits Indian shores. Its first target:
Mumbai.
Tracking
Tractors
The Indian tractor
industry is in for some troubled times. Demand's flagging, there's surplus
capacity, and transnationals are eyeing the market.
Amara
Raja's Act II
The company's industrial
batteries are a big hit; now can it repeat that feat with its automotive
batteries?
Fab
India Ups A Gear
On the face of it, Fab
India Inc. is just upping its stake in the Indian company, but there are
expansion and diversification plans ahead.
Three's
Company For Electrolux
You could call the
white-goods major the Lever of the refrigerator business. Here's how it
manages its three-brand portfolio.
New
Coke
Sorry, cruel joke. But the
Indian arm of the beverages major goes in for an ambitious organisational
restructuring exercise to put its house in order.
Thomson
Presses Ahead
The French television
company that is the second-largest CTV marketer in the world has just got
a new CEO who (why aren't we surprised?) has new plans for India.
Is
This A Cellular Cartel Or What?
Delhi's cellular users pay
the highest for airtime and they get no freebies. Worse, both companies
offering the service in Delhi charge the same. Something's not alright...
Interview
"India
Is Our Second Home"
Two chats, one with Baan's
founder and another with its present CEO on what went wrong for the ERP
king.
Policy Watch
Keep
Out! Restricted Access Only
The
new auto policy seeks to protect existing players from competition, but
not everyone is happy.
An
Uneasy Camaraderie
Despite
several differences, India and the EU can work together on
multilateral trade issues.
Features
The
Cars Of 2001
2001 will be another year
for India's car manufacturers as they beef up their product lines with new
offerings that somehow make strategic sense.
Who's
Driving The Services Boom?
Happening services like
healthcare, insurance, retail, and convergence will need at least
half-a-million professionals to hire from. With nowhere to poach from,
companies in these areas are pulling out all stops in the scramble for
people.
The
Middle's Slimming
A BT-Omam survey throws up
the finding that salaries at the middle-management level grew at just
about 14 per cent last year.
Here's why.
Born
To Be Wild...
...but with Japanese
precision. Yamaha's CEO Takehiko Hasegawa discusses his company's plans
for the Indian market in a free-wheeling ride.
Personal Finance
Look
Before You Leap
There's
more to mutuals than just the fund-managers. Here's a jackpot-manual on
how to pick up your sort of scheme and strike gold.
45,
Retired, And Lots Of Money. Wow!
Fine,
you've taken the plunge and opted for a VRS. But do you know how to make
that money sweat for you? Check this out.
Case Game
The
Case Of Team Reward
How
can Total best tie up its reward system to performance? M.
Parker of Sap India, R. Pandey of Marico, and T. Prasad of NITIE
discuss. Send us your solution which scrutinises the problems in companies like yours. We'll
showcase the best solutions on-line.
Readings List
Trends
Your link to the world of policy
development, corporate happenings, industry news,
and market trends
BT
dot.com
Cover Story
The country's national internet
backbone project is a non-starter. And at stake is the dream of
connectivity.
Legal
E-agles
The art of managing domain name
disputes.
Doctor
Online
Every healthcare site worth its
steth is scrambling to build an online community of medicos.
What's
Hot
Connectivity blues in Cyberabad,
an interview with india.com's chief executive Digvijay Singh, the
convergence bill, and more happening stuff.
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