BUSINESS
Mercedes-Benz tackles tough market with wide portfolio, transparent pricing
The Latest Rs 60-lakh entry-level C-class pushes premium pricing
BUSINESS
Volkswagen bets on local content, sedans for turnaround
The German player placed a contrarian bet on the sedan segment that most rivals had forsaken
BUSINESS
India is fourth largest market for cars and very important to our overall plan: Yuichi Murata, Honda Cars
Yuichi Murata, Director – Marketing & Sales, Honda Cars India Limited shares insights with Moneycontrol on the state of the car industry, how the present is a turning point for the Japanese giant and their plans around a volume-driving SUV that will be launched next year.
AUTOMOBILE
Maruti’s dominance in multi-purpose vehicle segment fuels SUV aspirations
Having multiple models in the SUV space is a priority for the company and it has to be done quickly, says Maruti Suzuki executive director Shashank Srivastava
TRENDS
“Our plan is to expand our brand footprint in India by more than 70% by 2023”: Hyatt's Peter Fulton
"The hospitality sector in India has bounced back quickly and the recovery has been dynamic with some numbers being even better than 2019."
BUSINESS
Veterans Unpacked | Harish Mehta: "Spend 10% of your time on building and growing your industry"
"Growing the overall pie has a compounding effect on growth of your share of the pie."
BUSINESS
Veterans Unpacked | "Digitalisation has overtaken the world. This is a huge change": B. Muthuraman, former vice-chairman, Tata Steel
"I don’t like the word 'retirement’. It is not in my dictionary. I have just moved from one phase of life to another phase—one that is even more fulfilling."
BUSINESS
What sets Mercedes-Maybach S-Class apart from rivals?
Merc has sold close to 700 S-Class and Maybach sedans in the last six years and is in an enviable position of not being able to meet demand fast enough
TRENDS
Mainstream Indian artists enter the NFT World
Paresh Maity is the first senior artist to issue non-fungible tokens.
TRENDS
Finding Raza: The science of building an art collection
After Ajay Piramal had experimented with collecting a few works by multiple popular artists, he dove deep into S.H. Raza's work.
TRENDS
Veterans Unpacked | Narotam Sekhsaria: I would be on top of AI and data mining today
"So much is happening in artificial intelligence, data mining, etc. If I was running a large firm today, I would be on top of it all, harnessing its benefit for the company and the shareholders."
BUSINESS
Veterans Unpacked | Sudarshan Jain: “Adopt technology very fast and find the time to understanding it as much as possible”
"Because the world is changing fast, so you have to be in learning mode: learn, unlearn and relearn."
BUSINESS
The mystery of the missing CEO at Tata Motors
The carmaker will need strong leadership to drive its electric vehicle ambitions and keep competition at bay, experts say.
TRENDS
Veterans Unpacked | Rakesh Sarna: "The leader's job is to ensure a robust workforce not just a robust balance sheet"
"Empathy has become a buzzword today but it has always been there and has been defined differently. My parents would say treat others like you want to be treated."
BUSINESS
"Our overall plan is focused on quality as opposed to quantity": Mercedes-Benz India MD and CEO
Martin Schwenk says the company will launch ten brand new cars this year, enhance the company’s AMG or sports sub brand presence nationally, and the third wave notwithstanding expects the industry to remain steady.
TRENDS
Veterans Unpacked | "Today, age is not the criteria to be a leader," B.S. Shantharaju, former CEO, Indus Towers
"My focus and investment in people stay with me even today. I am proud to know 18 of my team members are CEOs today and more than 75 of them are CXOs in various companies."
BUSINESS
Art World Sees World First With Ballet NFTs
Auction house Bonhams sells three digital pieces by Natalia Osipova
BUSINESS
IREO | How India's largest private equity fund imploded
IREO's meltdown points to mismanagement of billions.
BUSINESS
BMW wants to reduce carbon footprint of every car by 40% by 2030: Ilka Horstmeier
Ilka Horstmeier, a member of the board of management at BMW AG (Worldwide), spoke exclusively to Moneycontrol.
TRENDS
Veterans Unpacked | Sanjay Kapoor: Your next competitor can come from anywhere, and the winner can't take all
"Customer experience and not customer service will decide the winners; great talent will have supply constraints and will command high premiums."
LUXURY-LIFESTYLE
Rado CEO Adrian Bosshard: "Meeting the demand that has rebounded has been our biggest challenge"
Adrian Bosshard on why smartwatches are good for the mechanical timepiece industry, Rado prices in India, watch movements and experiments with coloured ceramics.
BUSINESS
Why piloting Air India won’t be easy for Tata’s Chandra
The acquisition of Air India raises questions about the strategy and the airline’s relevance for Tata.
TRENDS
Veterans Unpacked | "This is the age of the ‘never satisfied customer’": Sandip Das, former MD & CEO, Reliance Jio
"The pandemic has universally changed our perspectives at work and put us on the fast track to some seminal changes."
TRENDS
Veterans Unpacked | Sangeeta Talwar: "Getting to the consumer today is all about embedding experiences"
"On leadership, my concept is 'flyvision': fly with the birds at 20,000 feet and recontextualise where you are from there."
