By judiciously growing markets, nibbling away at shares, creating new growth engines and going international, Marico has been able to do something few FMCG companies have been able to pull off—21 per cent cumulative average growth over the last five years. BT's T.V. Mahalingam tells us the success story.

Marketers are finding new havens in non-metro India.

Along with airports will come hotels, townships, theme parks.

By turning its weaknesses into virtues, Bharti changed the telecom industry paradigm. Result: In a booming industry, it’s still ahead of the pack.

The financial logic apart, HDFC Bank will gain massive management bandwidth from its merger with Centurion Bank of Punjab.

Nearly two years after it acquired Aircel from C. Sivasankaran, Malaysia’s Maxis Group wants to become a pan-India player, with $4 billion in investment over the next two years.

Hate traffic snarls? Avoid the most congested cities of Asia

State Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda wants to turn the $30-billion local economy into a $130-billion behemoth in 10 years. Investors are eager, but Haryana has several challenges to overcome. Shalini S. Dagar and Saumya Bhattacharya tell us why the state is by far the best destination in India.

HDFC Bank has emerged as #1 for the 5th year running. What is the secret formula that keeps it ahead, year after year?

The world is, indeed, your oyster. Travelling to the farthest corners of the globe is just a click of the mouse and a drive to the airport away. But sometimes, in venturing out to see the wide unknown, we ignore our backyards.

BT More sent its team of reporters to the five corners of the country to talk to experts as well as travel the length and breadth of the cities and beyond, to find out things that a visitor to these cities may not really know about.

The mixed sentiment of the last quarter continues into the New Year, reveals the sixth quarterly BT-TeamLease Employment Outlook Survey.

We live in extraordinary times. Never before in the last three centuries has India received the kind of attention that she is getting today. Whichever conference I attend in the world, India’s growth is always talked about.

Performance of 20 companies to watch in 2007 in alphabetical order.

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

Unprecedented wealth creation in the last few years has not just pushed up the number of wealthy individuals in India, but it has managed to change some of the consuming and investing behaviour of this privileged and distinguished lot.

The 4th quarterly Business Today-TeamLease Employment Outlook Survey shows that the bullishness of the previous three quarters has remained constant.

According to a report, marketing spends in tier-II and tier-III cities by infotech companies have risen 100 per cent over the last two years.

As elsewhere in the world, Airbus and Boeing remain the two big aircraft vendors in India, but a few smaller players are also angling for a share of the market.

Few marketers can afford to ignore the non-metros, but there are those who are seeing the virtues of starting with the small towns. The big cities can wait.