Spreading The Spirit Of Sharing

Pernod Ricard’s Guillaume GirardReydet says the French firm is in the business of ensuring quality moments of ‘sharing’ a good drink— with family, with friends, with colleagues. He thinks India needs more places where people can do that.

Road To Recovery

A year after it was hit by the biggest banking scandal in the country’s history, PNB chief Sunil Mehta is steering the bank towards financial stability. But the country’s third-largest state-owned lender isn’t completely out of the woods yet.

The Big Bag Revamp

VIP Bags, earlier synonymous with bulky suitcases, has undergone a makeover and is now targeting the young Indian family that loves to travel.

Steely Resolve

Jsw Steel Is On An Expansion Spree With Demand Expected To Outstrip Supply In The Next 10 Years.

Highway To Heaven

A Unique Project In Varanasi Is Pushing For Modern Development In The Heartland Of Indian Antiquity. Personally Supervised By Prime Minister Narendra Modi, The Project May Well Become A Model For Historic Precincts In The Country As India Develops Economically.

The Spy Inside Your Car

Digital assistants may be a convenience for drivers, but they also raise serious privacy questions over the information they collect.

Hitting A Hat Trick

Inside Royal Milliners Lock & Co., Who Have Been Making Hats For More Than 300 Years, And How They Deal With Fat Heads.

Checking Into the Big League

The world’s largest hotel chain, Marriott International, shot into the big league in India in 2016 soon after its high-profile acquisition of rival Starwood Hotels, which already had a significant presence in the country. It has used its global asset-light business model to expand its footprint in the highly competitive domestic hospitality industry, where oldtimers such as the Taj and Oberoi still have a big hold.

Street Smart

Motilal Oswal started as brokers and proprietary investors at a time when the market was like the wild west. Nearly three decades later, the duo who started the firm have built one of the leading broking businesses in town. and they have also diversified into housing finance and private equity investment to keep business on an even keel during times of market volatility.

The Point Of Owning A Purdey

In The Realm Of The World’s Most Exclusive Shotgun Maker, A Favourite Of The Royals, It Is Always Hunting Season.

Silver Lining For Indian Steel

Steel Minister Chaudhary Birender Singh Believes The Future Of India's Steel Industry Lies In Innovation. He Talks To Fortune India About What Had Been Ailing The Sector, How It Is Doing Now, And Long-term Policy Measures Taken By The Government To Make It Globally Competitive.

Waiting For A Marvel

With films such as Fan and Baahubali, the spotlight is now on the Indian visual effects industry which is poised to churn out Hollywood style content for Indian films soon. But why aren’t our visual effects Hollywood-style already?

The Last Straws

A problem polluter, but one easy to replace, the humble plastic drinking straw’s days are numbered.

The Future Of Conglomerates Is Conglomerates

Are Conglomerates Making a Comeback or Have They Completely Lost All Relevance? They’ve Never Really Gone Away, at Least in India. Here’s Why They Are Unlikely to Vanish in Future Either.  

Mettl Finds Its Champion In Mercer

The online assessment platform is looking to grow about three times after its acquisition by the global consulting major.

Space Mining Comes Down To Earth

No other industry is as high-risk, high-reward as asteroid excavation.

A Temporary Truce

The finance ministry and the RBI might have stepped back from the brink, but simmering tensions between the two over autonomy could boil over again.

We Want To Be The Largest Indic Language Platform

Daily hunt president Umang Bedi on his company’s efforts to capitalise on the growth in the number of local language consumers of the Internet in India.

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Binny Bansal’s decision to quit as group CEO just six months after Flipkart’s deal with Walmart was a bolt from the blue for the startup world in India. Observers now expect a complete shake-up in the way business is done at the e-tailer.

The Bigger Picture

With more than two decades in the country, Samsung India has a finger in every pie, and is fighting intense competition to stay on top of the game with innovation and a strong distribution network on the ground.

Shifting Gears

Uber’s India and South Asia head Pradeep Parameswaran says the company is going beyond just being a car-hailing service in India and considers itself a complete transportation platform.

The Game Of Thrones

India’s three surviving telecom giants —Vodafone Idea, Bharti Airtel, and Reliance Jio— are fighting a bruising battle for the top spot in the market. The jury is out on who will win the price war unleashed by Jio’ s rock-bottom rates.

Powered By Proton

Under Suneeta Reddy, Apollo Hospitals Has Grown Its Revenue and Become India’s Largest Healthcare Chain Operator. The Group’s Latest Offering—the Proton Therapy Centre for Cancer Care, the First in South Asia—will Give It an Edge Over Peers and Help People From India, South Asia, and West Asia, Says Reddy.

For Which Wich, Success Is In The Bag

Ordering on brown paper bags is a gimmick at JeffSinelli’s sandwich chain— just one idea from a dynamo with hard work in his DNA.

Making The Best Of Hard Times

Braving the ups and downs of the industry, watchmaker Breitling has been quick to respond while keeping core values intact.

Ted Goes Corporate

The conference host and purveyor of ideas is providing more and more services to big companies. Clients crave TED’s elixir of innovation—but the strategy poses risks to the nonprofit’s brand.

Brick By Brick

The real estate market is depressed, but Oberoi Realty has bucked the trend because of its financial discipline and its adoption of best practices.

The Alchemy Of Growth

From 10 clinical labs in 2005, Dr Lal PathLabs has become the largest diagnostic chain in north India and is looking to expand to the eastern and southern markets. Can it sustain its momentum? The company thinks it can.

Thinking Out Of The Bag

With a portfolio that caters to everyone from a commuter on a local train to a high-flier at the first-class lounge, the luggage major plans to repeat its feat of quadrupling net profit in the next five years.

Exclusive! L&T's Legendry Boss 'Naik' Names His Heir

L&T's legendary A.M. Naik finally confirms his successor in an exclusive to Fortune India. But he won't have the luxury of an easy retirement.