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Ayush: Fast moving consumer goods behemoth
HLL may have missed its target of 50 Ayush centres and 1.5 lakh
customers (16 and 100,000 are the actual numbers), but it insists
that it has been able to successfully brand Ayurveda and that more
centres are on the way.
Bartronics: Its biometric solutions
(for managing queues, typically) have become the rage in temples
across India, but the company is focussing on radio frequency
id and has gotten into the business of manufacturing point of
sale systems for retail chains. 2004-05 Revenues: Rs 18.25 crore.
2003-04 Revenues: Rs 12.5 crore.
Care Hospital: Its revenues increased
by Rs 22 crore to Rs 107 crore in 2004-05, and the hospital is
expanding into the diagnostic- and pharmacy-chain business and
hopes to have 50 outlets by April 2006.
Indiagames: Early this year, Chinese
mobile content firm TomOnline acquired a majority stake in it
at a (company) valuation of $22 million (Rs 96.8 crore). With
access to the largest mobile telephony market in the world, the
Vishal Gondal-promoted firm couldn't have written a better future
for itself. Revenues: $3-5 million (Rs 13.2-22 crore) Last year:
Rs 10-15 crore.
Mocha: The Impresario Group, that
runs Mocha, has had a busy year. Three international master franchisees
have been appointed for Sharjah, Dubai and Indonesia. Meanwhile,
four more outlets are up in India; the group's doughnut chain,
The Doughnut Company, has grown to 12 outlets in Mumbai; and it
has forged an alliance with an Italian firm to make and sell gelatos
in India. 2004-05 Revenues: Rs 18 crore. 2003-04 Revenues: Rs
9.6 crore.
Proalgen: The company (its main
revenue stream is the production of beta carotene from algae)
has managed to acquire the land (some 140 acres) it was trying
to when it featured in this listing. 2004-05 Revenues: Rs 1.5
crore. 2003-04 Revenues: Rs 1 crore.
Quest: Its revenues haven't increased
from the Rs 95 crore they were at last year, but Quest has added
some 300 people to its workforce and stands to gain from the fact
that the outsourcing of design engineering has grown from a $7-billion
(Rs 30,800-crore) business to a $12-billion (Rs 52,800-crore)
one.
Tantra: Here's another of last year's
listers that has gone global (France, the UK, West Asia, Australia
and New Zealand). The next frontier: the US. Meanwhile, revenues
have grown 25-30 per cent over last year's Rs 5-6 crore, and Luxembourg-based
design hotshop Nico, which tracks and showcases innovative garment
prints across the world, has picked just one Asian entry for its
lastest listing, Tantra.
Toonz Animation: With new films,
including several small ones for Disney, Toonz, the pioneer as
far as original animated content from India goes, hopes to close
2005-06 with Rs 48 crore in revenues. That's a leap from the Rs
18 crore it closed 2003-04 with. Also on the cards: a new studio
either in Pune or Bangalore.
Varma Corp: Well, it hasn't released
a motion pic a week, but with six releases in a year, auteur Ram
Gopal Varma's strategy of treating films no differently from beverages
(both are brands, see?) seems to be coming along fine. 2004-05
Revenues: Rs 29.67 crore. 2003-04 Revenues: Rs 27 crore.
Vascular Concepts: The stent maker
has doubled revenues to Rs 70 crore and will soon enter Europe.
Xenitis: From one city, the company
has expanded its operations (it sells low priced PCs) to 22, exports
to Bangladesh, Nepal and New Zealand; and grew revenues from Rs
23 crore to Rs 178 crore. This year's target: Rs 500 crore.
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