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    Time for India to get garment exports spinning

    2018-05-18T13:02:56+00:00September 20th, 2017|2018/2017, Cover Feature, India Investment Journal September Edition, Year|

    A country-specific export strategy could turn the tide in India’s favour in the sector, explains an industry expert.

    The world apparel trade stood at $445 billion in 2015 down by 8 per cent from previous year. India’s apparel exports grew by 3 per cent in 2015 whereas that of Bangladesh and Vietnam grew by 8 per cent and 16 per cent respectively in the same year. After the phasing out of quotas in 2005, Bangladesh and Vietnam grabbed the opportunity and their apparel exports increased rapidly. Bangladesh surpassed India in apparel exports in 2008 and Vietnam in 2012 as can be seen from the chart below and their apparel exports have been consistently growing and have been higher than India’s exports throughout.

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      A collaboration for socially relevant enterprise

      2018-05-18T13:02:56+00:00September 20th, 2017|2018/2017, Flagship Scheme, India Investment Journal September Edition, Year|

      The man behind a unique social enterprise initiative bringing together young talent from the UK and India explains what Modual: Mumbai is all about.

      I’m writing this from day three of the Modual: Mumbai workshop. Already the ideas are flowing through a cultural collaboration that has exploded into more energy than even we experienced Modual-ers had anticipated.

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        The counter-balance within a volatile landscape

        2020-12-17T14:17:37+00:00September 20th, 2017|2018/2017, India Investment Journal September Edition, India-Japan, Year|

        Arun Jaitley significantly ramped up India’s ties with Japan in one of his last major foreign visits before handing over the defence portfolio to Cabinet colleague Nirmala Sitharaman.

        India’s outgoing defence minister, Arun Jaitley, left no doubts about India’s close ties with its neighbour Japan during a recently concluded tour of the country in early September.

        The bilateral Defence Ministerial Meeting in Tokyo saw Jaitley and his Japanese counterpart, Itsunori Onodera, clinch a range of significant tie-ups in the field of defence cooperation, combat exercises and exchanges and counter-terrorism. The significant ramping up of ties is undoubtedly being viewed as a counter-balance to the increasingly volatile situation in the region, with India’s continued tensions with China over Doklam and North Korea’s increasingly belligerent overtures with missile tests.

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          Designing an intricate growth strategy for the future

          2018-12-31T12:00:15+00:00September 19th, 2017|2018/2017, Cover Feature, India Investment Journal September Edition, Year|

          The Indian textiles sector has received much-needed attention but its future continues to hang in balance unless bold initiatives begin to pay off. The Indian textile industry is the country’s oldest, going back five millennia, and its modern day avatar employs more than 45 million people, making it the country’s second largest employer after agriculture. Over the last couple of decades, however, this industry has been facing global and domestic headwinds that are threatening its continued wellbeing. But governmental and [...]

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            France and Karnataka: A lasting partnership

            2018-12-31T12:00:37+00:00September 19th, 2017|2018/2017, India Investment Journal September Edition, State Focus: Karnataka, Year|

            With its tremendous untapped potential, Karnataka is an appealing locus for French companies. France and India have always been very close. The ties between our two countries have nevertheless been strengthened over the years: whether it be culture, defence, the economy, education, politics or science, our relationship has now grown into a full-scale partnership. While our bilateral trade in goods is expected to come near the $10 billion mark this year (€8.6 billion in 2016), it bears reminding that our [...]

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              Smriti Irani: The politician weaving her own magic

              2018-12-31T12:02:22+00:00September 19th, 2017|2018/2017, India Investment Journal September Edition, Profile, Year|

              Feisty, determined and courageous are just some adjectives that define one of India’s most dynamic young ministers. Smriti Zubin Irani has been a model, Miss India contestant, a McDonald’s worker, a top TV actress, India’s favourite small screen daughter-in-law, a multiple award winning actor, feisty politician and the youngest Cabinet minister in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Cabinet. And all this before she turned 38. Along the way, she has faced and overcome many hurdles, sparked several controversies and faced two [...]

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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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                    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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                      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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