Best Emerging Companies of India 2014

Updated : Dec 31, 2014

Ram Vilas Paswan delivers the keynote address at Emerging Companies Awards 2014

Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Ram Vilas Paswan congratulates winners of the Excellence Companies Excellence Awards. Calling them the backbone of the small and medium enterprises Paswan stresses on the need for these emerging firms to utilize the Indian labour force to move forward on the path of growth.

Updated : Dec 31, 2014

Emerging Companies Excellence Awards for 2014

Business Today, in association with YES Bank, presents the Emerging Companies Excellence Awards for 2014, which celebrates the star companies of today that will be the corporate biggies of tomorrow. The Chief Guest for the event Ram Vilas Paswan, Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, presents the awards to the winners.

Updated : Dec 31, 2014

How Anmol Bakers applied new business techniques for growth

Since setting up a plant in Greater Noida in 2001, Gobind Ram Choudhary, MD of Anmol Bakers, has learnt and implemented new techniques of business. These new tools, especially in the area of financial managemnet and efficiency, helped spur the company's growth.

Updated : Dec 31, 2014

Balaji Wafers banks on 40 years of experience

With a strong presence in 5 states for over 4 decades and with 15 different products to offer, Balaji Wafers founder Chandubhai Virani believes that with a few minor changes in strategy, the company will be able to attain market-leader position in other states too.

Updated : Dec 31, 2014

Know more about Dodla Dairy and its future plans

Dodla Dairy, which was started in 1998, is now worth Rs 1,000 crore in revenue. Managing Director D. Sunil Reddy says the dairy company, which recently acquired an African entity, aims to become a home-grown multinational with US $1 billion in revenues.

Updated : Dec 31, 2014

Laurus Labs CEO talks about the 4 'P's of sucess

With its focus on people, processes, plants and products, Laurus Labs has grown substantially over the past 6 years. CEO Dr Satyanarayana Chava says the company's focus on improving the softskills of employess makes it a good workplace.

Updated : Dec 31, 2014

'We are thoroughly inclined towards proper corporate governance'

Alongwith showing a keen interest in corporate governance right from the inception of the company, PEBS Pennar's MD PV Rao says, the company is inclined towards expanding its board to include industry and legal experts for greater transparency.

Updated : Dec 31, 2014

Know more about the presence and scale of Senco Gold

Starting with a store in Kolkata, Senco Gold now has the largest retail chain in Eastern India. With an aim of establishing pan-India presence by end-2016, the company's chairman Sankar Sen talks about how the company manages its finances being in the capital-intensive business of gold.

Updated : Dec 31, 2014

Why Sentiss Pharma is the most innovative company of 2014

Investing 7-10 per cent of sales in research and development, Sentiss Pharma pushes its employees to pursue innovation through competitions/awards for best innovative products. MD Deepak Bahri says the company plans to grow into different markets and introduce therapeutic products, among others.

Updated : Dec 31, 2014

Swati Menthol's dedicated team is its strength: MD

Despite a decline in the company's profit, Swati Menthol registered a 40 per cent increase in sales. MD SK Gupta take pride in the fact that the company added a total of 33 products to its basket of offerings and hopes that in another 2-3 months the company will get back on track of accumulating high profits.

Updated : Dec 31, 2014

Innovation in VLCC is driven by R&D, says Vandana Luthra

Providing a holistic approach to beauty, slimming and fitness, VLCC has become a household name says founder Vandana Luthra. Apart form being and innovative techno-commercial brand VLCC takes pride in being a women-friendly company.

Updated : Dec 31, 2014

There is no limitation to the growth in CMS Infosystems, says its CEO Rajiv Kaul

Rajiv Kaul, CEO of CMS Infosystems speaks on the philosophy of his company, it's journey till now and how the dedicated workforce have helped company grow and prosper over the years.

Fluid dynamics: Oren Founder and CMD Rizwan Ahmad (Photo: Jaison G)

Updated : Nov 28, 2014

Oren Hydrocarbons has over the years developed a niche in drilling fluids

Oren Hydrocarbons has operations in 12 countries including the US and Canada, and in West Asia.

Leading from the front : Nrupendra Rao (centre) flanked by his son Aditya Rao (left) and Managing Director PV Rao (Photo: A Prabhakar Rao)

Updated : Nov 18, 2014

PEBS Pennar aims to touch Rs 550 crore in current fiscal

The company aims to touch Rs 1,000 crore in revenues in the next three years.

Moving with speed: Shri Lakshmi Metal's Chairman Sanjay Gupta (Photo: Vivan Mehra)

Updated : Nov 17, 2014

Shri Lakshmi Metal Udyog has grown rapidly under Sanjay Gupta's leadership

Since its buyout, there's no looking back for SLMU. Today, the company has an annual capacity of 100,000 metric tonnes with almost 70 per cent utilisation.

All in the family: (From left) Sanchit Gupta, S.K. Gupta, and Nitin Kumar Gupta at the company's Rampur plant (Photo: Shekhar Ghosh)

Updated : Nov 14, 2014

Swati Menthol eyes US presence by March 2015

Swati ramped up capacities in last 2 years at a cost of Rs 48 crore. Its second unit became operational from January 2014 and more than doubled its production capacity.