Vocational Training – Teamlease Style
Forbes India has an article on how staffing services firm Teamlease is transforming the vocational training firm IIJT that it acquired in March 2010. If the term “university” evokes images…
Ashish Dhawan to move on from ChrysCap in 2012
Leading India-focused Private Equity firm ChrysCapital – two time winners of the “Best Private Equity Firm of Year” award at the Venture Intelligence APEX Awards – has announced that its…
Profile of Pharma Retail chain Guardian Lifecare
From the profile in Economic Times: According to him,45,000 crore worth medicines are sold by largely fragmented small pharma shops controlled by about 7.5 lakh chemists across the country.I found…
Snapshots: APEX’11 Summit; Feb 10, Mumbai
India’s Premier Investor/Entrepreneur Interface Raj Kondur of Ascent Capital speaking as part of the Inaugural Panel: “Private Equity: The Road Ahead” Raj Kondur, Director, Ascent Capital, said that his firm…
Snapshots: APEX’11 Awards – Top Advisors
Among corporate law firms, AZB & Partners topped the Venture Intelligence League Tables as the Most Active Legal Advisor (for both Private Equity and M&A transactions) in 2010. Behram Vakil…
Snapshots: APEX’11 Awards – Top PE/VC Funds
Satish Mandhana of IDFC PE receiving the Best PE Investor – 2010 Award from Mr. Gurcharan Das The latest award represents the second time that IDFC PE is receiving the…
Snapshots: APEX’11 Awards – Feb. 9, Mumbai
Speech by Chief Guest Gurcharan Das Describing himself as a cheer leader of the PE industry, noted author and former-CEO of P&G India Gurcharan Das said he probably learnt more…
Deal Alert: StanChart PE invests Rs 46-Cr in Innoventive Industries Ltd
Edited Extracts from Press Release: Standard Chartered Private Equity (“SCPE”) has invested Rs. 460 million in Innoventive Industries Limited,(“Company”) a multi-product engineering company based in Pune, India. The investment includes…
“Private Equity-backed cos. outperform their peers”: Study
PE/VC-backed companies fare better in terms of growth in sales, profitability, wages, exports and R&D investments, a study by Venture Intelligence shows. According to a new study by Venture Intelligence,…
Crunching Food Court Numbers
From the article in Businessworld: The young and the restless view it as a “cool” place to hang out. Poovili Manan, a commerce graduate from Chennai, says it “allows us…