International and Emerging Markets Blog
Friday, October 12, 2012
| Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
India,
India Watch Issue 18
| Tags: India,
investment,
infrastructure,
FTSE,
India Economy,
Real Estate,
FTSE AIM 100,
India economy 2012,
India Watch Smaller,
Caps Index 2012,
index figures,
reforms 2012,
India's Power sector
The year to date performance of the Grant Thornton India Watch Index continues to remain strong, although this quarter saw underperformance against its peer indices. Investors’ concern over the slowing down of the Indian economy, depreciation of the Indian Rupee and the political uncertainty surrounding economic reforms was reflected in the third quarter.
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012
| Posted by: Barry Knight
Categories:
China ,
Thought leadership
| Tags: China,
UK,
infrastructure,
retail,
market,
JV,
franchise,
retailers,
product,
joint venture,
China, UK, retail, retailers, product, disposable income, Chengdu, market, infrastructure, franchise, joint venture,
Chengdu,
disposable income
Head of Retail Barry Knight reviews the numbers, opportunities and challenges for UK retailers seeking to tap into the vast and growing Chinese consumer market.
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Tuesday, March 06, 2012
| Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
India,
Thought leadership
| Tags: India,
business,
economy,
links,
report,
infrastructure,
insight,
technology,
tech,
Real Estate,
employment,
HR
Don’t miss our latest focus reports and sector insights covering HR, employment, tech, real estate, infrastructure and a special India country report…
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Thursday, November 17, 2011
| Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
China
| Tags: China,
UK,
infrastructure,
trade,
regulation,
financing,
Nick Farr,
London,
banks,
Chinese,
renminbi,
subsidiaries,
caps,
deregulation,
Infrastructure Summit
As Chinese banks gain a foothold in the City, this is creating opportunities for financing UK infrastructure and regeneration projects, says Nick Farr, Head of Grant Thornton’s China Britain Services Group.
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Wednesday, September 21, 2011
| Posted by: Nick Farr
Categories:
China
| Tags: business,
China,
growth,
UK,
M&A,
infrastructure,
technology,
retail,
sectors,
mergers and acquisitions,
opportunities,
Five Year Plan,
cost
What’s your five-year plan for doing business in China? Following the ratification of China’s 12th Five-Year Plan in March 2011, we predict the five best opportunities for UK business with operations or interest in China.
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Thursday, April 21, 2011
| Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
China
| Tags: India,
business,
tax,
Grant Thornton,
economy,
China,
growth,
global,
UK,
infrastructure,
mergers,
IT,
BRIC,
mergers and acquisitions,
acquisition
2009 was an important year for the China automotive industry. This was the year that China exceeds the United States and Japan in becoming the top car manufacturer by production volume. 2010 saw China produce just under 14m units, a 33% increase from 2009 and therefore consolidating its position as the world’s largest automotive manufacturer. Into 2011, China’s position in the automotive market remains strong and this is unlikely to change for the foreseeable future.
As well as being the largest manufacturer, China is recognised as the largest automotive market in the world, given the size of the population where only one in five owns a car. The forecast is that by 2015, the demand for cars in China will reach 25m - 30m units. Foreign car manufacturers are therefore naturally drawn to such an exciting market where the number of potential consumers is staggering.
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011
| Posted by: Grant Summers
Categories:
India,
India Watch Issue 12
| Tags: India,
business,
tax,
finance,
Grant Thornton,
economy,
governance,
growth,
UK,
India Watch,
infrastructure,
GDP,
economic,
Capital Markets,
inflation,
Alex Wright,
Indian Economy,
IT
Over the first quarter of 2011, the World’s economies witnessed a number of significant set-backs in their growth stories. The recent natural disasters suffered by Japan and New Zealand, coupled with the on-going political turmoil in the Middle-East, have created an unsettled start to the year.
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011
| Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
India,
India Watch Issue 12
| Tags: India,
business,
tax,
finance,
investment,
Grant Thornton,
economy,
governance,
growth,
global,
UK,
India Watch,
infrastructure,
South Asia Group,
Grant Thornton India,
GDP,
South Asia,
economic,
inflation,
IT
The Union Budget 2010-11 was tabled in the backdrop of an improving economic scenario both within India and globally, but fiscal consolidation and expenditure discipline have still been rightly treated as the foremost priorities in this budget.
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| Posted by: Grant Summers
Categories:
India,
India Watch Issue 12
| Tags: India,
business,
finance,
investment,
Grant Thornton,
economy,
growth,
UK,
India Watch,
LSE,
infrastructure,
South Asia Group,
Grant Thornton India,
aim,
South Asia,
Fiona Owen,
Capital Markets,
FTSE,
IT,
India Economy
For the first quarter of 2011, the Grant Thornton India Watch Index* made a 1.19% gain, which proved to be the only index to perform positively in the quarter in comparison to the FTSE100, FTSE ASEAN, FTSE AIM All-Share, FTSE AIM 100 and FTSE AIM UK 50.
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Friday, January 21, 2011
| Posted by: Sajeev Gandhi
Categories:
| Tags: India,
investment,
Grant Thornton,
economy,
China,
growth,
global,
UK,
India Watch,
risk,
infrastructure,
international,
South Asia Group,
Grant Thornton India,
deals,
South Asia,
economic,
Indian Economy,
sectors,
Cross border
India’s economy continued to demonstrate strong growth during 2010. There was significant liquidity in the market with both corporate profits and the sensex posting strong gains for the year. The BSE sensex closed 2010 at 20,509 a respectable 17% uplift during the year. Our view is that this positive trend is likely to be maintained in the medium term given the robustness of the domestic Indian market albeit against a backdrop of western economies which clearly still face some economic challenges.
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