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Continue reading →: NZ FTA: ₹1.4 Lakh Crore Food OpportunityMSME Briefing Bureau Zero duty opens doors; market size, price and compliance decide entry. New Zealand is opening a food market to Indian exporters: 100% duty-free access from 20 October 2026. The bigger question is commercial: how much of that market can an Indian MSME capture? New Zealand’s food retail…
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Continue reading →: ₹6,500 Crore: Which Valves Make Profit?By Haresh B. Jhala: OIL & GAS IS THE BIGGEST MARKET. GREEN HYDROGEN COULD BE THE NEXT STATION. India’s industrial-valve industry is entering an interesting phase. The market is growing. Demand is coming from oil & gas, refineries, petrochemicals, water infrastructure, power and increasingly automated industrial plants. New opportunities are…
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Continue reading →: India’s Advice Economy Is Booming TooMSME Briefing Bureau More Indians are starting businesses. The bigger challenge is choosing who to trust. A factory owner struggling with margins. A professional leaving a corporate career to start a venture. A woman building a business through WhatsApp. A second-generation entrepreneur taking the family firm online. India is producing…
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Continue reading →: The Ultimate Leadership Test: Trim or Trust?MSME Briefing Bureau Sunday Musing When Satyam collapsed, Mahindra chose people over spreadsheets Imagine entering a corner office where the brand is toxic, cash is scarce, clients are nervous and 51,000 employees fear for their livelihoods — despite having done nothing wrong. The conventional response might be to cut costs,…
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Continue reading →: TVS: Four Generations, One Shared LegacyMSME Briefing Bureau How a century-old family business changed ownership across generations TVS began with two buses in Madurai in 1911. More than a century later, its businesses span two-wheelers, automotive components, finance, logistics and mobility. Yet the more instructive story is inside the family itself. As four generations entered…
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Continue reading →: The 30-for-30 Truce: Strategy Meets JobsMSME Briefing Bureau US protects strategy; China protects factories, jobs and exports. A tariff deal is rarely about tariffs alone. Behind every product list lies a negotiation over jobs, technology, factories, supply chains and political priorities. The emerging US-China 30-for-30 framework offers a useful lesson for business leaders: countries do…
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Continue reading →: WHEN BUSINESS BECOMES GEOPOLITICSMSME Briefing Bureau Everyone wants everyone at the table. But nobody wants to be dependent on anyone. That may be the most important shift in global geopolitics today. Defence alliances still matter. Strategic partnerships still matter. But increasingly, markets, tariffs, energy, technology, capital, minerals and supply chains are becoming instruments…
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Continue reading →: INDIA’S CORPORATE AMERICA MOMENTBy Haresh Jhala: Indian capital is moving from selling to America to building inside America India may be entering a new phase in its corporate relationship with the United States. Essar-backed Mesabi Metallics is planning an approximately US$18 billion steel and mining programme linking Minnesota and Iowa. Reliance Industries is…
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Continue reading →: The Financial Decision That Can Buy a Turnaround TimeMSME Briefing Bureau Finance Early, Before Options Disappear. Financial distress rarely arrives with a warning that says the money is about to run out. It builds quietly — inventory accumulates, customers take longer to pay, margins narrow, debt repayments approach and operating cash begins to disappear. By the time the…
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Continue reading →: The Scientist Who Took Research to MarketBy Haresh B. Jhala How 20 years of water research became an industrial deep-tech venture. For two decades, Professor Swati Ghosh Acharya worked where discovery begins: the laboratory. Research papers, materials and patents built a career, but one question remained: what happens after research is published? Her answer was not…
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