According to the Economist Intelligence Unit list of top 120 HotSpot global cities, 12 American cities make the cut, led by New York City. The first Indian city that figures on the list is Delhi at #68, edging out Mumbai at #70 and Bangalore at #79. Other Indian cities on...
Becton Dickinson expands R&D capability in India
India's HCL Technologies has signed an engineering and R&D services deal with Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD). BD manufactures and sells medical supplies, devices, laboratory equipment and diagnostic products. The New Jersyey based multinational will focus on creating solutions by leveraging HCL's capabilities and service expertise like sustenance engineering and...
Chennai a viable location for global engineering, product development
Many large foreign companies have chosen Chennai over other locations for their engineering staff. Visteon, Caterpillar, Nissan-Renault, Vestas, Kone, FLSmidth, Nokia, Ericsson, Flextronics, Alcatel, Tessolve, Sanmina-SCI corporation have R&D or product development centers in and around Chennai. For example Visteon India MD, A Viswanathan said that the Visteon technical and...
BMW starts production of 5 Series luxury cars in India
There is a market for any product at any price in India. Most stories in the West have focused on the Tata Nano, the lowest cost car in the world, and while other low cost cars such as the Suzuki's Maruti line, entries from Hyundai, Renault, and even GM/Ford are...