The India Expert

Three great speakers at Cerritos event: Mark Masten, Ravi Chatwani, Ravi Renduchintala

Gunjan — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:43:35 +0000

I am privileged to host three good friends at the February 15 meeting of TiE Southern California, The Indus Entrepreneur. The event, at the Sheraton Cerritos hotel promises to be a unique treat and I encourage you to register right away since seating is limited. Register at www.socal.tie.org My friend and client, Mark Masten who [...]

Professional Hiring in Engineering, R&D and IT continues at rapid clip in India

Gunjan — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:52:17 +0000

The focus for captive R&D centers in India has gone up this year and expected to grow between 12-20 per cent in 2012 depending on the source of the estimate. The country is an emerging destination for automotive R&D; Renault- Nissan, Suzuki and , Honda have recently set up their engineering centers in India. In [...]

Medtronic to design low-cost pacemakers for India, China, Bangladesh

Gunjan — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:55:58 +0000

With 46 percent of its $16 billion in annual revenue hailing from foreign shores, Medtronic, the world’s biggest medical devices company has an ambitious goal to develop new and cost-effective products such as pacemakers for the poor, while simultaneously selling its existing ones to the growing middle classes in emerging markets. The company’s new CEO, [...]

Procter & Gamble’s Gillette Unit wins with 30 cent razor

Gunjan — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:05:30 +0000

In India, the Unilever towers over all other consumer product brands. Procter and Gamble is starting to make some gains having responded to the needs of the Indian mainstream. Its Gillette Guard razor, for example sells about 44 million units a year. At a retail price of just 30 cents per razor. Blades cost 10 [...]

Petulant Brit Whines about Losing MMRCA to the French

Gunjan — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:53:36 +0000

Earlier this week, India announced that the French built Rafale had beat out the runner-up Typhoon in a $10 billion fighter aircraft contract. The Typhoon, built by the Cassidian unit of EADS would have sustained thousands of jobs in Germany and the United Kingdom. Instead the work and jobs will go to Dassault Aviation, Safran/Snecma [...]