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| Why India |
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India offers investors a resilient economy, macro economic reforms, huge demand potential, global competitiveness, effective productivity, strong manufacturing base, strategic location, intellectual capabilities, outsourcing haven, leadership in commodities and a most attractive emerging market in retailing. |
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| Positive Projection |
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A Morgan Stanley study estimated that with rising incomes and a better demographic profile, flows into the equity market from Indian households could rise from 0.2 per cent of GDP in 2005 to 5.4 percent of GDP by 2010. Household savings have moved on to a higher growth trajectory from the 17% of GDP in 1990s to 29% at the beginning of 2006. |
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The boom in services will result in invisible exports of US $150bn by the end of the decade. India holds a share of 44% of the global offshore outsourcing market for software and back-office services. |
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India is moving towards becoming the manufacturing hub for global sourcing with 4 hubs of 25,000 acres each, coming up near Mumbai, with an investment of US $50 billion. Skill-intensive offshore manufacturing will yield US $1.6 trillion annual opportunity. |
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According to A.T. Kearney's Global Retail Development Index, India ranked first in 2005 and 2006 among emerging countries on the urgency for retailers to enter the country with a US $ 350 bn. retail market. This will be a tremendous boost for the Plastics and Packaging Industry vis-à-vis the FMCG sector. |
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As opposed to other BRIC countries like Brazil, Russia & China who depend on coffee, oil and utilities respectively, India offers a wider range of industrial segments for investment purpose. India is now the third most favoured destination for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), behind only China and the USA. India has moved up a good three notches to its highest ranking ever. While global enterprises like Posco, Mittal Steel, SemIndia, Microsoft, Nokia, Boeing, BMW & Samsung have committed to invest US $ 26 bn., FII's have brought in US $10 bn. In 2005. |
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India has moved up 10 notches in world competitiveness ranking from 39 to 29 ahead of South Korea according to Switzerland based international institute of Management Development (IMD). |
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There is enormous scope for expansion and development in the Indian Plastics Industry. The processing industry in fact offers a huge potential for upgradation in terms of innovative technological advances. Some of the areas with huge investment potential for the plastics industry are: |
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Sophisticated and world-class higher capacity machines. |
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Enhanced design capabilities, moulds, tools and dies and technological know-how. |
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Increasing use of intelligent manufacturing to improve productivity and asset utilization |
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Global practices in manufacturing excellence, quality management and design |
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Development of new products and applications |
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Technology & Consultancy |
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Foreign Direct Investment in the downstream sector |
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