The India Expert

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 [...]

Bathing originated in India?

Gunjan — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:24:04 +0000

Most people know that talking a bath was not a common practice in Europe during the middle ages. For example Queen Elizabeth I bathed no more than once a month. If you were to ask most Americans where the concept of bathing originated, people would say the Greek or the Romans, around 2000 years ago. [...]

British Aerospace appoints new leader for India

Gunjan — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:58:26 +0000

UK defense company BAE Systems has appointed its CIO, Dean McCumiskey as Managing Director of its operations in India. BAE has formed two defense venture companies BAeHAL, a Bangalore-based software engineering joint venture with Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (owned by India’s Ministry of Defense) and Defence Land Systems India in partnership with automaker Mahindra & Mahindra, [...]