India needs to promote its business houses to evolve into Zaibatsus and Chaebols Binod Chaudhary is the rest and sole billionaire from the neighbouring Himalayan nation of Nepal. He is the chairman of the Chaudhary Group (CG), a multinational conglomerate with a portfolio of 122 companies spread over ve continents and with 26 renowned brands in the global market. A respected figure in the fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry, he is best known for

Leading From The Front Deb Deep Sengupta, the president and managing director of SAP Indian Subcontinent, is credited with putting SAP, the world’s largest business software provider, on a high-growth trajectory in India. He has been an integral part of SAP India’s leadership team for over a decade and is responsible for doubling SAP’s enterprise business in the country as well as taking the SAP brand to new heights in the region. He is also

The shift from unorganised to organised will drive our growth Dr lal Pathlabs, one of the country’s largest diagnostics services providers, is in expansion mode. Founded in 1949 as a simple blood test lab in central Delhi’s hanuman Road by Dr Major S K lal, the company today has grown into a pan-India chain of 172 clinical labs, 1,554 patient service centres and over 7,000 pick-up points. Its catalogue, perhaps the largest by any player,

Direct Plans Will Revolutionise Mutual Fund Investments 2 years ago, school friends Mohit Gang, Anil Bang and Puneet Mehta, while discussing the shortcomings hampering the mutual funds industry, came up with the idea of starting a nancial advisory service that cuts out the middlemen (distributors) — thus doing away with their in-built commissions, trail fees and distribution costs — and brings the bene ts to the clients/investors. They co-founded Moneyfront, one of the country’s first

We try to emulate the way Indian consumers love to shop locally In January this year, online marketplace ShopClues took its rivals, analysts and the business community at large by surprise when it became the country’s newest ‘unicorn’, valued at $1.1 billion in a fresh round of fundraising. Only Flipkart and Snapdeal among the Indian online marketplaces had made it to the coveted $1-billion-plus club so far. Just over 2 years ago, after ShopClues co-founder