Case Histories
Below you find the experiences and stories of companies who are doing business with India or have done business in the past, and some stories of new generation entrepreneurs in India.
Foreign companies in India
Software development in India
Software development in Asia is not outsourced to large parties like IBM, EDS, Capgemini or Atos-Origin. Smaller companies, even those at the lower end of the MKB (Small and medium size enterprises), have software developed in, for example, India. There are not many companies yet that dare to take such a step. But increasingly, questions are heard from this segment regarding the possibility of having their software developed in foreign countries.
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Indian companies
Turning wastes into bottomline
In this article, the focus is on innovation for sustainable development by a manufacturing company — Brakes India Ltd -- Foundry Division (BI Foundry). With the world becoming evermore environmentally conscious and technologies having to conform to increasingly stringent environment norms, BI Foundry’s breakthrough assumes an increased importance.
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KPMG New Generation Entrepreneurs in India - Case Studies
This casebook, prepared in conjunction with TiE, showcases the achievements of individuals who have made their mark on the Indian retail space over the past decade or two. It is also intended to highlight the opportunities available to others.
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Nirmal Jain - India Infoline Ltd. - Leveraging people and technology
- Emerged as one of the leading players in the retail financial services space in India
- In early 1999, when Internet penetration in India was in its infancy, the company decided to do away with its earlier business model and embrace the Internet
- It invested aggressively in cutting-edge technology over the past 3 years and made its debut on the NSE and BSE on May 17, 2005
- Awards received by the company include 'Best of the Web'; The Web Wiz Awards; Chip Dishnet DSL Web Awards in Critics choice as well as popular categories
The number of its branches has increased from 73 in FY05 to 177 in FY06. During the same period, its customer base increased from 5,500 to 75,000 - It has emerged as one of the leading online players in broking, accounting for about 20 percent of all of India's online equity-trading volumes
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Anupam Mittal - People Group - Leveraging the Internet Opportunity
- Pioneered the Web match-making business in India People Group's shaadi.com had a subscriber base of 9.1 million in 2006
- Shaadi.com was rated among the top 1,500 sites in the world by Alexa, the Internet rating company owned by Amazon.com. It was also rated among the top five sites in India
- People Interactive has also won a series of awards including Red Herring 100 Asia Award and CNBCTV 18's Emerging India Award for being the most promising SME in the Information, Communications, and Entertainment and ITeS category, the Deloitte Fast 50 India Award
- People Group's business unit Shaadi Point was given Franchisor of the Year Award (Consumer services segment) for its business unit Shaadi Point.
- The Group has seven regional offices in India and a presence in UAE, the UK and the U.S.
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