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Pharmaceutical Outsourcing: Opportunity for India!

The global pharmaceutical markets were estimated at US$712bn in the year 2008 growing at 6.4 percent over 2006. This has grown at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10.7 percent for the period 2002-07. The market size of USA is estimated at US$295-305bn with an estimated growth rate of 4-5 percent. It is followed [...]

Now its our time: INDIA INC. GOING GLOBAL

The words still ring in my ears….”We must
fasten our seat belts…. Our economy is set to
open to the world…..” These were the words
said by the then Prime Minister P V Narasimha
Rao while he was addressing the nation in 1991, opening India’s closed economy, till then, to the world.In the next two years we saw thousands [...]

Legal Offshoring: India’s Pie!

In this highly competitive global market every corporation requires to work on minimal margins and they required adopting cost cutting measures and that is where outsourcing became imperative.
Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) is the third big Leap of outsourcing industry in India, after Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) & Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO). LPO is an activity [...]

The Outsourcing Catch

In his first address to the joint session of the US congress President Obama said that his government will not give tax breaks to US companies that ship American jobs abroad. If this move is made legislation it will hurt India’s BPO sector. India Inc is reacting to these statements very cautiously. Will these moves [...]

Economy Slowdown: Effect on Industry Verticals

Sampling Research conducted online survey with 1500 professionals and according to almost 34% percent of respondents; export sector would get affected most followed by IT sector as these two verticals are mostly dependent on countries abroad. The least affected sector would be education. ITES and KPO would also be affected according to 20% of respondents. [...]

Layoffs in India: Aftermath of Recession

We are hoping the Indian industry has the resilience to cope with the problem. Some sectors may feel some jolts, but largely we are hopeful that there won’t be any such layoffs in India” said the Commerce Minister on the 18th Nov 2008. This makes us wonder whether we are aware of reality or are [...]

Healthcare sector in India

Sampling Research Pvt. Ltd. had conducted a research study on healthcare in India and the perspectives on Intellectual Property Rights in the Pharmaceutical sector. This study was done by conducting in depth interviews of highly placed people (ministers/ directors/ beneficiaries/ NGOs) across all strata of the healthcare system.
Not surprisingly most of the respondents rated healthcare [...]

Concrete Cement Poles: Indian Industry Analysis

Concrete is a mixture of cement & stone aggregate. When mixed with a small amount of water, the cement hydrates to form a microscopic opaque crystal lattice structure
encapsulating and locking the aggregate into its rigid structure. An artificial stone-like material used for various structural purposes. It is made by mixing cement and various aggregates, such [...]

US Presidential Election – Outcome for India

The American presidential elections attract a great deal of media attention in India compared to any other election in the world. This can be attributed to a couple of reasons. American democracy is second only to India, and the US has a large Indian American population (it has touched a whopping 2 million mark as [...]

The financial market crisis: Ripple on Indian Economy

Powerful financial institutions going down one after another in the world’s most powerful and economically strong country “The United States of America”. How did all this happen? Did it all come down without any warning? Can this happen to India’s financial institutions ever? What will be the effect of the ongoing financial crisis in India? [...]