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    Cooking up a new fast-food strategy for India

    2018-12-31T12:08:01+00:00September 19th, 2017|2018/2017, India Investment Journal September Edition, Sector Focus: Food Retail, Year|

    UK-based Southern Fried Chicken is looking at setting up 200 outlets in India over a 10-year period. The company’s Franchise Development Manager, Andrew McNair, talks ‘India Investment Journal’ through his plans for a very important future marketplace for the fast-food company. What makes Southern Fried Chicken bet on the Indian market? Southern Fried Chicken have a development plan to franchise across the world and see the successful Indian economy as a very important future marketplace. The country has a growing middle [...]

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      Food processing is India’s sunrise sector

      2018-12-31T11:59:33+00:00September 19th, 2017|2018/2017, India Investment Journal September Edition, Sector Focus: Food Retail, Year|

      Harsimrat Kaur Badal, as the minister in charge of India’s Ministry of Food Process Industries, has been on a worldwide mission to attract investors to the country’s $915bn farm-to-fork ecosystem. During a recent visit to London, ‘India Investment Journal’ was given an insight into her plans for India’s first-ever World Food India summit this year. What is the investment update since your last visit to the UK? From our last meeting, all the big retail chains were hoping for some [...]

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        UK university project to build solar power stations in India

        2018-12-31T12:11:14+00:00September 18th, 2017|2018/2017, Flagship Scheme, India Investment Journal September Edition, Year|

        A consortium of 12 British and Indian universities led by Swansea University in Wales has won £7 million of UK government funding to build five self-sufficient solar-powered buildings in remote Indian villages. A new solar project, called SUNRISE, will develop printed photovoltaic cells and new manufacturing processes which can be used to construct solar energy products in India. These will then be integrated into buildings in at least five villages of India, allowing them to harness solar power to provide their own energy and run off grid. The programme is part of [...]

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          Housing for all is slowly picking up pace

          2018-12-31T12:08:49+00:00September 18th, 2017|2018/2017, Flagship Scheme, India Investment Journal September Edition, Year|

          The Indian Prime Minister’s Housing for All initiative has got off to a slow start but latest trends provide hope for a rapid ramp-up. Of all the flagship schemes undertaken by the Narendra Modi government, the Housing for All programme, which envisages providing pucca (brick and mortar) houses for 20 million Indians by 2022, is, arguably, the most evocative and the one most likely to make a dramatic difference to the lives of millions of poor Indians. After a relatively [...]

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            Short Takes

            2018-12-31T12:03:58+00:00September 12th, 2017|2018/2017, India Investment Journal September Edition, India-Japan, Year|

            Japan’s NTT eyes India growth Japan’s NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com), an ICT solutions and international communications business within the NTT Group, has announced the launch of its international data network services in India through its affiliate NTT Communications India Network Services (NTTCINS). The acquisition of this licence in India follows the initiation of construction of the company’s two new data centres in Mumbai and Bangalore, through Netmagic, a subsidiary of NTT Com and one of the leading managed hosting [...]

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