India as a Market: A Times Group Presentation

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Presentation on India - Times Group
India and China
Engines of growth China and India continue to expand with positive implications for the global economy. Significantly, while China and India complement each other in many ways, they also compete with each other in many areas. As India's Finance Minister rightly said, "India has often been compared with China...I invite comparison with China."

Rating agency Standard & poor (S&P) has included 8 Indian companies in its annual 'Global Challengers List' of 300 firms, while only 4 Chinese firms were included in the list.

India has ousted Taiwan from the second place in the Asia-Pacific private equity rankings with PE deals worth US$ 2,433 million in the first half of 2007, according to Thomson Financial. China has been ranked fifth with deals worth US$ 678.7 million.

Indian companies account for 10.5 per cent of the total syndicated loans by BRIC nations, with borrowings of about US$ 8.28 billion till June 2007. This is higher than China's 7.9 per cent or over US$ 6 billion.

More than 100 Chinese pharmaceutical manufacturers have lined up major India expansion plans via joint ventures, strategic alliances, research collaborations and wholly-owned subsidiaries.

China's automobiles market is double that of India, India leads in terms of exports: China's auto exports -- 340,000 units in 2006 -- were less than half of India's total vehicle export tally of 970,620 units (including two and three wheelers).

India and China have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) allowing oil and gas companies of the two countries to engage in mutually beneficial cooperation in acquiring hydrocarbon assets in third world countries without undercutting each other.

The Asia-Pacific region is set for a technology boom with China and India leading the pack in terms of information technology: China is expected to account for 32 per cent of the region's technology market in 2007, India makes up 23 per cent, according to International Data Corp.

India and China have emerged as the preferred destinations for global retail majors increasingly looking to spread their businesses across the world according to a report titled, '2007 Global Powers of Retailing' by international consultancy firm Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu.

India and China's jewellery market will grow to equal the US market by 2015: in the global scenario, China has 8.9 per cent market share and India 8.3 per cent.

Driven by high trading volumes for equities and good presence of global banking and financial services firms, Mumbai has secured a place in the world's top ten financial flow hubs list, beating Hong Kong and Beijing in China, according to a survey compiled by Mastercard Worldwide.

Despite massive Government support and huge visibility on the global arena, China's software offshoring market has not taken off as expected and still has a long way to become a potential alternative to India, technology research firm Forrester said in a report released in May 2007.

GSM operators in India serve 300 per cent more subscribers per mega hertz (MHz) than operators in China, a criterion that reflects growth of a telecom network. Using the same benchmark period of 12 years of existence, Indian GSM operators served 3.36 million subscribers per Mhz by December 2006, while China had served 0.85 million subscribers by December 1999. China had introduced mobile services seven years before India.

India topped the global chart for total amount raised through American depository receipts (ADRs) beating China and Taiwan. In 2006, India raised funds worth US$ 2.09 billion while China collected US$ 2.18 billion and Taiwan US$ 1.47 billion through this route.
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