From around India JP Morgan launches escrow services in India Through this, the company will now be able to provide an important complement to the cash management and trade finance products already offered in this key market, a press release WorldSpace eyes launch of radio by mid-2010 WorldSpace, US-based satellite radio company, is targeting middle of 2010 for launching car radio in India. Although the company had earlier planned to roll out car radio sets in the country by 2004, ….. Cautious and tightfisted As the downturn tightens its grip, consumers shy away from spending. Consumer confidence takes a beating in India and the world over. Samsung Launches Touchscreen Phones in India Korean mobile phone maker Samsung has recently introduced on the Indian market a series of new full-screen touch phones, including the Samsung Star and Samsung Star 3Gm, as well as the Samsung BEAT DJ….. Mr. Paul de Voijs, Managing Director, Volvo Car India It is clear to us at Volvo that the luxury market is going to grow much faster as a percentage than the segments that are on the lower end of the market. The demand for luxury and super luxury cars are increasing continuously and is set to double in India over the next two years Demand curve: Indicus-Mint Series How multiple-income family types differ across cities As India and Indian consumers change rapidly, there is one churn that has already played out in urban India. The joint family is dead and the extended family is dying. It is now the era of nuclear families. Households in India can be classified into three types: nuclear families where one married couple lives with, in some cases, unmarried siblings; extended families which have more than one married couple from different generations; and joint families where more than one married couple of the same generation live together, which are essentially multi-income families. That the joint family system is out of mode in urban India is clear from the fact that only 8% of the households belong to this category in India’s top 112 cities. Nuclear households dominate the urban landscape with almost 70% of households falling in this category, while extended families take up the remaining 23%, a sizeable share. This reflects, to some extent, the lack of housing capacity to accommodate nuclear families, a status that upwardly mobile urban Indians seem to aspire to.

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Consumer Markets
May 2009
From around India
JP Morgan launches escrow services in India
Through this, the company will now be able to provide an
important complement to the cash management and
trade finance products already offered in this key market,
a press release
WorldSpace eyes launch of radio by mid-2010
WorldSpace, US-based satellite radio company, is
targeting middle of 2010 for launching car radio in India.
Although the company had earlier planned to roll out car
radio sets in the country by 2004, …..
Cautious and tightfisted
As the downturn tightens its grip, consumers shy away
from spending. Consumer confidence takes a beating in
India and the world over.
Samsung Launches Touchscreen Phones in India
Korean mobile phone maker Samsung has recently
introduced on the Indian market a series of new full-
screen touch phones, including the Samsung Star and
Samsung Star 3Gm, as well as the Samsung BEAT DJ…..
Mr. Paul de Voijs, Managing Director, Volvo Car India
It is clear to us at Volvo that the luxury market is going to
grow much faster as a percentage than the segments that
are on the lower end of the market. The demand for
luxury and super luxury cars are increasing continuously
and is set to double in India over the next two years
Demand curve: Indicus-Mint Series
How multiple-income family types differ across cities

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As India and Indian consumers change rapidly, there is
one churn that has already played out in urban India. The
joint family is dead and the extended family is dying. It is
now the era of nuclear families.
Households in India can be classified into three types:
nuclear families where one married couple lives with, in
some cases, unmarried siblings; extended families which
have more than one married couple from different
generations; and joint families where more than one
married couple of the same generation live together,
which are essentially multi-income families.
That the joint family system is out of mode in urban India
is clear from the fact that only 8% of the households
belong to this category in India’s top 112 cities. Nuclear
households dominate the urban landscape with almost
70% of households falling in this category, while extended
families take up the remaining 23%, a sizeable share. This
reflects, to some extent, the lack of housing capacity to
accommodate nuclear families, a status that upwardly
mobile urban Indians seem to aspire to. more

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India Beyond the Metros
Opening Address at 101 Markets
how are the next 100 markets different from the large
8-10 metros and million plus cities? The answer is, of
course, very different.
Almost all major Indian cities are close to large water
bodies and located on a trade route. Delhi, Mumbai,
Kolkata, Indore, Pune, Jodhpur, Coimbatore, Trivandrum
etc. etc. all were some type of trading centres. If we go
back in history we find that each of these cities specialized
in one of two types of economic activities in their initial
phase of growth – whether they were manufactured
items, agri commodities, or even services. They were
quite specialized at some point. But as a city grew larger
and larger, gradually more and more activities got added
to the cities’ portfolio. In other words, as a city grew
larger and larger, it became less and less specialized.
Conversely some cities grew smaller and smaller, and
they became more and more specialized.
This is of course a generalization, and there are many
idiosyncracies built-in each city. But it helps us a lot in
trying to figure how smaller cities are different.

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The largest Metros are the least specialized; conversely
they have the most heterogenous consumers. And so
they are by far the easiest to service because they have
enough numbers of all types of consumers. The
probability of not finding enough demand is therefore
lowest in the larger cities. And for this very reason these
cities are the first point of entry for most marketers. This
makes them highly competitive markets. In other words,
the demand is there, but so is the competition. …….. more
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