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FEB 27 2005
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Indian
Pharma's
Mid-Life Crisis

A new patent regime, fierce
competition in US generics,
and rising R&D costs threaten
to reshape Indian pharma.
Surprise: The future
doesn't look bad at all.

EDITORIAL
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad World

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BT SPECIAL

India's Biggest Newsmakers

The second annual
BT-CIRRUS image
review of CEOs and
companies that managed
to get the best press in ../2004.
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BT EVENT
Governing Corporates
The fourth BT Boardroom Breakfast, held in association with Cisco Systems at the
Taj Palace, Mumbai, offered plenty of food for thought.
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Steel Is Hot
The Indian steel industry has lined up big-ticket expansion plans, even as global majors begin to take a closer look.
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Make Mine Ethanol
Indian automakers are scrambling to
develop vehicles that can run on just about anything but oil.

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Mergermania ../2005
M&A activity in India is like never
before, as Indian companies gear
up for billion-dollar, global-size
transactions.
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Happy Days Are Here Again
With the economic skies clearing
again, and no one doubting the
bigger, long-term India story,
consumer sentiment, as measured
by BT-IRICS, is at a 30-month high,
and set to zoom. That should make
marketers happy.
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Boy Meets Girl
The $57-billion merger between
P&G and Gillette will create the
world's largest consumer goods
company, but it'll be a while
before any major impact is felt
in India.
more...

  60 Minutes
Shelly Lazarus, Chairman and
CEO of advertising agency
Ogilvy & Mather (O&M), speaks to
Business Today on trends in
advertising and O&M in India.
more...
 

From Start To Finnish
Finland, like India, has 0.7 per cent of world trade. It leads in communications technologies, from paper to phone handsets, and nearly owns the entire market for such niche products as ice-breakers. It has the hardware competence. India, the software. It is inviting Indian firms to joint hands to map the entire technology value chain—from start to finish.

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F&B Mythbusting
Just what is happening in India's booming food and beverages (F&B) business space? One helluva lot, according to Sujit Das Munshi, ED, ACNielsen South Asia. Log on for an exclusive column by him that doesn't just look at 'share-of-appetite' trends that F&B professionals cannot afford to miss, but also junks some preconceptions of the Indian palate.


McSwoop
McDonald's, with a new CEO back at heaquarters, is lowering a price bait to lure the budget-conscious Indian on-the-move bite-grabber. This fits into a broader strategy of multiplying customers that includes reaching out to McSceptics.

Turning One
National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange (NCDEX) has turned a year old. And what does it have to boast? Some 550 members and 5,500 users in 400 cities and towns in India. The average trading volumes are in the range of Rs 2,000 crore a day, and increasing numbers of people are getting interested in commodities-especially agricultural-trading.
 
Reinventing The Debt Basket
Clinging to just a single savings avenue won't earn you real returns any more. You need a more comprehensive, across-the-board debt strategy.
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The Music Never Stops
It hasn't, for DNA Networks founder T. Venkat Vardhan, and it hasn't for Indian fans who have to almost exclusively depend on the man for a chance to see their favourite gigs live. A rockstar's life may be replete with sex, drugs, and rock & roll, but Vardhan's chosen vocation is nothing but a mix of blood, sweat, toil, even tears. The music is the saving grace. more...

I Blink, Therefore I Am
Daring books on snap judgement and market creation, plus an endearing one on tear control. more...
 

Millionaire Cars
Great, you've broken into the rarefied echelons of corporate hierarchy. Do you have the wheels that befit your status? In case you don't, or are looking for an upgrade, here is a little guide to India's best Back Seat Rides.
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People
Starring Microsoft's Rajiv Kaul, Neil French of WPP, Harsh Mariwala of Marico Industries, B.K. Modi of ModiCorp, and Formula One's Narain Karthikeyan.
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Leadership Secrets by Alok Kejriwal

Hour Of Reckoning
For India's communist parties, Budget ../2005 will prove if they are still a force to reckon with.
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Q&A: Chad Kymal
The quality whiz speaks to BT on the state of India's auto-components industry.
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Bright, Brighter, Brightest
Results of 1,800 companies for Q3, ../2004-05 confirm that the niggles of the previous quarter have been left behind.
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Policy Watch: Supercop In Limbo
Thankfully, the proposal for a super regulator
for the financial sector is still just that-a
proposal.
more...

Time To Sober Up
India's BPO units no longer want to be seen as fun places to work. How come?
Help, Tarun!
High Tech, Low Touch
High Skies, Low Cost
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