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Infocom Network Ltd. – celebrating 20 grand years of trust and success
Today we are a 20-year young company and as every day we are raring to go ahead and script a story of success, trust and celebrations. Over the past decade we have built a formidable reputation of putting Indian SMEs on the global map. Our enviable track record of being the only profitable B2B porta...
Credit rating for SMEs - why not?
With the government exploring ways to facilitate easier credit to small and medium enterprises (SMEs), I feel SMEs too should make some effort so that they are able to get loans easily without running from pillar to post. And one such initiative which they can take up is getting themselves rated.
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RBI key rate hike more than expecte...
It was no surprise that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) raised interest rates more aggressively owing to the fact that runaway inflation was above 10 ...
Staying the course
The outlook on inflation, says the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), will be shaped in the near term by three factors: the monsoon at home, trends in global energy and commodity prices, and domestic demand...
'Eurozone crisis hits Indian SMEs'
The lingering sovereign crisis in eurozone is hampering the business growth of Indian SME exporters and making them apprehensive about their profitability.
Although there has been an indication of recovery in India's overall exports, which have surged by 35.1 percent year-on-year to $16.1 billion (...
Kerala SMEs – Is there fire in the belly?
The last few weeks saw me get involved with the Small and Medium Establishments in the Coir sector in Kerala. Cluster Pulse, a nodal agency funded by a consortium of international and national financial institutions, is spearheading the efforts to bringing in professionalism, business acumen, market...
Strategy for sustained growth
Ashok Handoo | 25 Jun, 2010
A leading economic think-tank, the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), has estimated that the Indian economy is set to grow at 9.2 percent in the current financial year. This is much higher than the estimates made both by the Government and the Reserve Bank of I...