Ruby Bhandari's passion for designing began even as she was a teenager. Born in New York of Indian descent, the University of Texas, Austin graduate set up Silk Threads in northwest Dallas where she offers ready-to-wear or custom-designed dresses, custom bridal wear, Indian American styles, and fusion menswear. Her creations are...
Some of IBM's Biggest Successes Developed in India
New York-based IBM, runs four parallel research organizations: IBM Software Labs, IBM Research Labs, IBM Global Technology Services Labs and IBM Hardware Labs. All the four are present in Bangalore, India. The Global Technology Services (GTS), the most recent of these labs, was set up in November 2016, and is...
Warburg Pincus to Invest in India's Tata Technologies
New York-based private equity firm Warburg Pincus will invest $360 million in Tata Technologies for a 43 percent stake, of which 30 percent will be acquired from Tata Motors, the parent company, and 13 percent from Tata Capital. Tata Technologies provides outsourced design, research and development services to the automotive, aerospace,...
India Best Country for Wall Street Says Forbes
New York-based Wisdom Tree, that pioneered the concept of fundamentally weighted Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) and active ETFs, says that its India Earnings (EPI) Fund is up 12.8% year-to-date and is ahead of China, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, South Korea and Japan. Gaurav Sinha, strategist for Wisdom Tree said, "If you look...
KKR's New India Credit Fund Raises $160 Million
VCCircle reports that New York-based private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co Ltd., (KKR) marked the pre-close of its second India-focused credit fund at $160 million, with the aim of finally closing at $298 million in a few months. The company will invest in structured credit situations in either...
Revlon to Expand Retail Footprint in India
Operating in India since 1995, New York headquartered Revlon currently has 27 retail outlets across the country. The company will launch a significant number of exclusive stores in India to bring up this number to 100 by the end of 2017, reports CosmeticsDeisgn-Asia.com. Estimated at $10 billion, India's cosmetics market...