The fifth BT-Cirrus survey reveals which CEOs, companies and groups got the best press in 2007. Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Group emerges as the leading newsmaker. 

They spent their youth scrounging for stray scraps of the good life in the wilderness of the pre-liberalisation days. But that’s okay: Today, a chunk of this generation is older, wiser, richer—and furiously catching up with life as it should have been.

The economy is slowing down, but the long-term story remains intact.

It’s all about thinking big. That’s what drives Venugopal Dhoot, Chairman and Managing Director of the Videocon Group, who is in the race to acquire the London-based Burren Energy, valued at nearly $4 billion.

If its builders deliver on time, then the Tata Sons-promoted Infiniti Retail will have 100 plus Croma outlets all across the country by 2010.

It has been more than a decade since the first wave of consumer marketers came to India in the wake of a newly liberalised economy. Talk to them, and they’ll tell you that they are still searching for the promised El Dorado.

The Godrejs’ property business has the potential to propel the group—so far best known as a maker of soap—into the elite league of India’s most valued businesses.

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Showing early signs of slipping back into recession, Indian industry recorded dismal growth for the April-September 2007 period with almost 60 per cent of the 91 sectors surveyed recording a low growth rate of below 10 per cent.

It’s a bit of a stretch, but then Venugopal Dhoot has never hesitated taking a long shot. Last fortnight, the consumer durables-to-oil and gas giant—via its retail arm, NEXT—snapped up Bennett, Coleman & Co (which publishes the Times of India)-owned music retail chain Planet M for Rs 200 crore.

This Diwali has brought happy tidings for the Rs 22,000-crore consumer durables industry.

As the festive season kicks off, it’s time to go discount shopping.

The market's valuation has soared to an all-time high. Now is the time to look for undervalued gems in the unfolding growth themes.

Last fortnight, when the Board of India Today Economists (BITE) met for a brainstorming session on the Indian economy and its general direction, there was broad consensus that a slowdown seemed to be developing, though the board members were divided on the nomenclature— a definitive slowdown or an anticipated soft-landing? But regardless of the language, the Board expected economic growth to moderate to 8.5 per cent from 9.4 per cent.

For over a year now, the only significant buzz emanating from the House of Onida has been that of gnawing differences between the promoters, with at least two of them reportedly actively thinking of getting out of the company by selling their stakes.

Even as overseas funds continue to rush into India, Indians themselves are wondering what is happening to the economy?

Expect the unexpected. While the economy continues with its upward march quarter after quarter, the latest BT-TeamLease Employment Outlook Survey reveals that the business confidence and employment prospects are at an all-time low in the last one year.BT-TeamLease Survey in graphics

For months now, pundits have been expecting the stock market to tank. And, if only to prove them wrong, the BSE Sensex has defied these predictions and hovered around the 14,000-mark for the last few months.

Societe Generale Consumer Finance opts for Kolkata.

After virtually abdicating its position in the consumer electronics market to nimbler rivals, Philips India is coming back with a radically different, more inclusive game plan. Will it work?