Companies that Changed India

Updated : Jun 6, 2012

Big Bazaar unveiled the power of organised retail in India

Kishore Biyani's Big Bazaar unveiled the power of organised retail in India, and that too without any foreign partner.

Updated : Dec 27, 2011

Zee TV fueled the rush into broadcast media

India's busy satellite TV industry traces its origins to a visit nearly 22 years ago by a Punjabi rice trader to the Mumbai office of national broadcaster Doordarshan.

Updated : Dec 27, 2011

Cafe Coffee Day ushered in is a wave of cafe culture in small towns

Besides introducing the taste of coffee to traditional tea belts, what the marquee chain quietly ushered in is a wave of cafe culture in India's small towns.

Updated : Dec 27, 2011

ICICI changed the face of Indian banking system

ICICI changed the Indian banking system with aggression in marketing, competitive pricing and doses of innovations.

Updated : Dec 27, 2011

Infosys stood out in the way it ran its business

Infosys stood out in the way it ran its business: sharing wealth with employees, refusing to grease palms, focusing on systems and processes to sustain business, encouraging meritocracy, and obsessing over quality of work and delivery.

Updated : Dec 27, 2011

The Maruti 800 model captured the imagination of middle-class Indians

Today, one in two cars sold in India has the Maruti badge. Not just that, the credit for a robust automobiles industry whose output makes for about five per cent of India's GDP is mostly with Maruti Suzuki.

Updated : Dec 27, 2011

The dozen Indian companies that also changed the larger universe around them

In most instances, this dozen transformed not only themselves, but also the larger universe around them.

Updated : Dec 20, 2011

Airtel pioneered the model to provide service at a low cost

Airtel pioneered a model that helped it to significantly lower down the cost of providing service.

Updated : Dec 20, 2011

Tata Tea's Tetley buyout set the stage for big-ticket acquisitions

The $450-million acquisition of Tetley in the UK in February 2000 by Tata Tea indeed set the stage for buyouts by Indian companies.

Updated : Dec 20, 2011

How GE laid the foundation for Indian BPO sector

Genpact is today a $1.5 billion business but GE's bigger contribution is India's $6 billion BPO industry.

Updated : Dec 20, 2011

NSE changed equity trading in India

NSE changed equity trading in India through clear rules backed with technology and risk-avoiding margins.

Updated : Dec 20, 2011

Jet Airways redefined customer service levels

In the mid-1990s, customer service levels were set by monopoly providers such as Indian Airlines or public sector banks. In such a market, Jet Airways redefined it.