In Mumbai, India, Amazon has set up Amazon Tatkal a specially designed studio-on-wheels offering a suite of launch services including registration, imaging and cataloguing services, as well as basic seller training. This service will allow Mumbai-based shop keepers to sell products like apparel, electronics, and books, through Amazon.in., reports the...
CapGemini to Make India "Backbone" of its R&D
In India to inaugurate a 50-acre campus in Mumbai, Paul Hermelin, CapGemini group chairman and CEO said the company will set up a new innovation center within the campus with focus on more R&D work. Called The Applied Innovation Exchange, the center is expected to focus on enhancing Capgemini’s service...
McKinsey: Emerging Demographics Are the New Emerging Markets
“Urban World: The Global Consumers to Watch”, a report by the McKinsey Global Institute says that global urban consumption is expected to grow by $23 trillion over 15 years, at a compound annual growth rate of 3.6 percent. 32 cities globally, including two from India - Delhi and Mumbai –...
India’s Wine Business Flourishes in Nashik
110 miles from the western megalopolis of Mumbai, in the city of Nashik, more than 3000 acres of land are covered by vineyards that produce 80 percent of India’s total production of wine. Nashik boasts of an annual output of 13 million litres of wine, and given that India is...
Bosch Siemens Localizes for India Market
In an interview with Forbes, Gunjan Srivastava, the CEO and managing director of Bosch Siemens Home Appliances recounted how his company differentiated itself in the competitive market of washing machines. The prevailing front load washing machine market in india was dominated by machines that could wash 13 pounds of clothes....
Can English Brothers Sell Chapatis in India?
Brothers Charles and William Eid from the United Kingdom set up Signature International in 2011 – a production facility making flatbreads in the city of Nashik, 200 miles north of Mumbai. Built to European standards, the vision at that time was to set up twenty factories in India by 2020....