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Tupperware takes off in emerging markets
Harvard Business Publishing: The Daily Stat 8/20/2010
by Bain Global Consumer Products practice
Tupperware is making big gains in emerging markets, which now account for 56% of the company's sales, according to Bain & Company. In India, where nearly 100,000 women host Tupperware parties, sales of the company's plastic kitchenware have grown 30% per year since 1996.
Independents' day: private equity entrepreneurs
Forbes India 8/13/2010
by Shishir Prasad and Rohin Dharmakumar
The biggest concern for limited partnerships is that in spite of a few blockbuster exits here and there, the aggregate returns from private equity investing in India over the last decade is abysmally low, possibly in single digit percentage points. Add to this that, according to consulting company Bain & Company, the amount of "dry powder" in India, or capital committed by LPs that are yet to be invested, is enough to fund the next 2-4 years of private equity activity in India. The presence of over 300 funds in India - at least on paper - completes the conundrum: too many funds sitting on too much capital, delivering very poor returns. Not exactly the ideal market.
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Succeeding a success
The Economist 8/11/2010
If India were a nation of gamblers, the betting on who will succeed Ratan Tata, chairman of the Tata group, would be furious. Since Tata Sons, the holding company for India's second-biggest conglomerate, announced last week that it was seeking Mr Tata's replacement, there has been a whirl of speculation about whom it will appoint. Recent research by Bain & Company found that most Indian companies at no point discuss how chief executives will be appointed.
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Indian groups failing to plan for successor
Financial Times 8/6/2010
by James Lamont
In a country where corporate leaders and politicians enjoy extraordinary professional longevity, lack of succession planning is a key failure of boards at many family-owned businesses in India, leaving them highly vulnerable after the retirement or death of their leaders. According to research by Bain & Company, the US management consultants, more than 75 per cent of company boards in India do not discuss chief executive succession planning at all.
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PE firms now look for pros within
The Economic Times 7/27/2010
by Mahima Puri & Paramita Chatterjee
Between 2004 and 2008, PE and VC firms invested nearly $43 billion in India and have funded around 1,400 companies, as per consulting firm Bain & Company. The rapid growth in such a short span of time led to a dearth of trained professionals in the senior level said a CEO of a PE firm who asked not to be named.
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