PE investments forecast to reach $17 bn by yr-end
The Economic Times 7/20/2010
According to 'India PE Report 2010', released by global consultancy Bain & Company, there is renewed confidence among the leading PE investors about the Indian market. "The number of PE firms--both foreign and domestic-continues to grow. This increasing population of hungry deal makers is wielding a lot of dry powder and they're eager to put it to work", Bain & Company's head of the private equity practice India Sri Rajan said.
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Buy-out groups reshape India's M&A landscape
Financial Times 7/20/2010
by Betts, Paul Lamont, James
In 2006, Bain & Company predicted that India's private equity market would reach $7bn this year. Today, the US consultant is predicting it will be $17bn. Bain is expecting the past "quiet influence" of private equity investors to gain strength. The rationale behind the potential of private equity growth in India is unchanged. There is a growing Indian consumer class. Indian skills have developed strongly in technology and services, and opportunities arise in a wide sectoral spread including healthcare, telecoms, engineering and pharmaceuticals.
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Indian private equity investments may touch 2007 peak this year
The Economic Times 7/19/2010
by Paramita Chatterjee
At a time when global markets, such as US and Europe, are still crawling out of economic slowdown, private equity (PE) investments in India are expected to gain momentum and hit the previous peak of 2007. "Action is heating up in the PE space and a host of limited partners from the global market, especially the US, are now looking at India as an investment destination," said Sri Rajan, partner and head of the PE practice in India at Bain & Company.
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A brief history of online shopping
Time 7/16/2010
by Kayla Webley
More than 150 million people - about two-thirds of all Internet users in the U.S. - bought something online last year. Even famously resistant designers and luxury retailers are putting goods online. According to Bain & Company's 2009 luxury-goods study, while the luxury-goods industry overall lost 8 percent worldwide in 2009, luxury sales online grew 20 percent.
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Politicians should not prescribe pills
Financial Times 7/14/2010
by John Gapper
Politicians lack the expertise to judge whether drugs should be withdrawn. Presenting themselves as seekers after truth, they publish tiny extracts to embarrass executives. Bain & Company, the consultancy, estimates that post-launch studies by the FDA and other regulators reduce the value of drugs to companies in 70 to 80 per cent of cases. After the experience of Vioxx, the painkiller that Merck withdrew from sale in 2004, doctors are wary of prescribing drugs under such scrutiny.
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