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BUSINESS TODAY: July to December
2000
 December
21, 2000
The Lure
Of Leisure
With an entire new generation of customers deciding that it's alright
to pay for fun, entrepreneurs are realising that there's big money-Rs
5,000 crore by 2003, if it's specifics that interest you-to be made in
amusement parks, theme restaurants, up-scale shopping malls, golf clubs,
go-karting rinks, bowling arcades, and multiplexes.
 December
06, 2000
Inside
The $ 1-Billion GE India
The world's most admired company has quietly cobbled together a billion
dollar empire in India-$1.75 billion, including global gains in productivity
and intellectual capital. Now, CEO Scott Bayman must grow this number
proportionately as he targets $2.5 billion in sales and close to $2 billion
in productivity and IC gains. An exclusive behind-the-scenes look at GE's
Indian operations..
 November
21, 2000
IIM-B's
Great Turnaround
Time was when IIM-B was considered a hunting ground for recruiters from
laid-back public sector enterprises. Circa 2000, it’s the best business
school in India. Just how did the underdog go about reinventing itself?
BT goes inside a corporation called IIM-B.
 November
06, 2000
FIs HFCL
For Real?
Here's the refrain and you'll hear it again: Rs 90 crore in profits and
a valuation of Rs 10,000 crore. That's HFCL's story and it include chapters
on the promoters' ambitions and on the interest of Australia's No. 2 media
family, the Packers, in the company (that's the largest chapter in the
book). Still, the ending hasn't been written...
 October
21, 2000
Market
Mayhem
Forget fundamentals, there are forces beyond the common man’s ken at work
behind the volatile behaviour of the stockmarket. For one, there are speculative
forces. Then, there are macro- economic ones, like the oil crisis. And
then, there is the behaviour of international bourses.
 October
6, 2000
Re-Inventing
For Growth
That’s what the top 10 companies in this year’s BT-500 are doing: changing
radically to stay where they are. On top of the value-listings. But money
and an opportunistic bent of mind aren’t the only things they’ll need
to do so.
 September
07, 2000
Rediff's
Next Click
Its shares are quoting below the issue price on Nasdaq; competition is
breathing down its neck; and expected revenue streams are yet to kick
in. BT takes a surf-side view of what CEO Ajit Balakrishnan has planned.
 August
22, 2000
Indian
Advertising's Millennial Boom
It was a long time coming, but growth is back in the advertising business.
And this time round, it may last: with international affiliations in place,
agencies have access to the best tools and techniques, and clients are
open to cutting-edge creativity.
 August
7, 2000
Slippery
Roads
Maruti CEO Jagdish Khattar has to steer his firm through a period marked
by declining margins and intense competition. Will his new turnaround
plans of marketing the 800 in smaller cities, launching new models, and
entering business like auto-finance work?
 July 22,
2000
Too Much
On His Plate
Subhash
Chandra is a worried man. His English channels haven't worked. His sports
channel probably won't. And his satellite telephony project and other
convergence initiatives will require an investment of at least Rs 3,000
crore. To become the media mogul he wants to be, Chandra will have to
weather the biggest crisis of his career.
 July 7,
2000
South's
Savvy Survivors
Shaken
up by new global competition, the four big groups of South India Amalgamations,
MRF, Murugappa, and TVS are shedding year of conservatism to turn themselves
into a aggressive corporations. The inside story.
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