After 80 years in business, the Shreveport, Lousiana-based accounting firm Heard, McElroy & Vestal, LLC has gone multinational with an office in Ahmedabad, India. The Indian office, which opened Aug. 3, will join the growing company's roughly 170 employees in Shreveport, Monroe and Longview. Ahmedabad is the largest city in the western...
India Remains an Attractive Destination for Investment: Big 4 Report
According to a survey conducted by multinational professional services network, Deloitte, a large proportion of international business leaders remain confident in India's short- and long-term prospects and are readying plans to make additional and first-time investments in the country. The India FDI Opportunity survey of September 2021, which questioned 1,200...
American Companies Jump in to Help India
Corporate America has sprung into action to help the people of India grapple with the devastating second wave in the Covid-19 pandemic. Here is a small sample of announcements from the last 24 hours: Air Products is allocating resources and assets from its operations around the world to support and maximize...
India to Become Unilever's Largest Global Market
U.K.-headquartered Anglo-Dutch company Unilever is bullish on India's conusmer market. Sanjiv Mehta, chairman and managing director, Hindustan Unilever Ltd., said, "For Unilever, India is currently the largest market in volume terms and the second largest in value terms, and in the very near future we clearly see a day when...
India Improves Investor Appeal
You may want to take a fresh look at business opportunities and investments in India, if a new World Bank report is to be believed. In November 2001, Goldman Sachs published a landmark paper where they identified India, along with Brazil, China, and Russia as the four “BRIC” economies that...
9 U.S. Companies among Top 25 Best Workplaces in India
Based on LinkedIn's study of actions, nine American companies are listed among the 25 most desirable companies for employees in India. At #2 is Amazon: With more than 10,000 employees in India Amazon is rapidly expanding its Prime Video offerings in the country, investing $5 billion in 2016 with plans to...