THE ADITYA BIRLA GROUP

A US $24-billion corporation with a market cap of US $31.5 billion and in the League of Fortune 500, the Aditya Birla Group is anchored by an extraordinary force of 100,000 employees belonging to 25 different nationalities. In India, the Group has been adjudged “The Best Employer in India and among the Top 20 in Asia” by the Hewitt-Economic Times and Wall Street Journal Study 2007. Over 50 per cent of its revenue flows from its overseas operations.

The Group operates in 20 countries – India, Thailand, Laos, Indonesia, Philippines, Egypt, China, Canada, Australia, USA, UK, Germany, Hungary, Brazil, Italy, France, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Malaysia and Korea.

Globally the Aditya Birla Group is:

• A metals powerhouse, among the world’s most cost-efficient aluminium and copper producers. Hindalco-Novelis from its fold is a Fortune 500 Company. It is the largest aluminium rolling company. It is one of the three biggest producers of primary aluminium in Asia with the largest single location copper smelter.
• No. 1 in viscose staple fibre.
• The fourth largest producer of insulators.
• The fourth largest producer of carbon black.
• The 11th largest cement producer globally.
• Among the world’s Top 15 BPO companies and among India’s Top 3.
• Among the best energy efficient fertiliser plants.

• A premier branded garments player.
• The second largest player in viscose filament yarn.
• The second largest in the Chlor-alkali sector.
• Among the Top 5 mobile telephony companies.
• A leading player in Life Insurance and Asset Management.
• Among the Top 3 super-market chains in the Retail business.

Rock solid in fundamentals, the Aditya Birla Group nurtures a culture where success does not come in the way of the need to keep learning afresh, to keep experimenting.

Beyond Business – The Aditya Birla Group is:

• Working in 3,700 villages.
• Reaching out to 7 million people annually through the Aditya Birla Centre for Community Initiatives and Rural Development, spearheaded by Mrs Rajashree Birla.
• Focusing on: healthcare, education, sustainable livelihood, infrastructure and espousing social causes.
• Running 45 schools and 18 hospitals.

Transcending the conventional barriers of business to send out a message that “We Care”.

TVS Motor Company Ltd

TVS Motor Company, the third largest two-wheeler manufacturer in India, is a part of the $2-billion TVS Group. The product portfolio of the company includes motorcycles such as the Apache series, the StaR series and the Victor series; scooters namely the Scooty Pep series and XL Super mopeds.

The company will also bring out the new TVS Flame, an electric version of the Scooty, and three-wheelers in three variants – Petrol, LPG and CNG. The company has manufacturing plants at Hosur (near Bangalore), Mysore and Himachal Pradesh that conform to world-class quality standards.

With international presence in more than 47 countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America, TVS Motor Company functions in India through a strong sales and service network consisting of over 490 authorised main dealerships, over 1,800 authorised service centres and other certified service points.

The Deming Award from JUSE, which the company won, is proof of its commitment to achieve total customer satisfaction through excellence in Total Quality Management.

The company’s high quality R&D talent pool, comprising over 400 engineers employed in new product development and advanced engineering, is backed by one of the most modern computer-aided labs.

Leading from the front, the company’s MD, Mr Venu Srinivasan, has won many laurels for TVS. The JRD Tata Corporate, The Star of Asia award by Business Week, The Jamsheji TATA Lifetime Quality Achievement Award and Emerging Corporate Giant – Times & Harvard Business School Association are some of the prestigious awards won by the company.

OIL AND NATURAL GAS CORPORATION (ONGC)

ONGC - Asia's best Oil & Gas Company

• ONGC is recognised as the Numero Uno E&P Company in Asia as per 'Platts Top 250' global energy company ranking 2007.

• It is 15th among Global Integrated Oil & Gas Companies by Market Capitalisation in PFC Energy 50.

• ONGC ranks 369th in Fortune Global 500; it's the first Indian company to figure in Fortune's 'World's Most Admired Companies' list for 2007.

• ONGC has discovered six of the seven commercially-producing Indian Basins in the last 50 years, adding over 6.4 billion tonnes of In-place Oil & Gas Reserves. ONGC has bagged 85 of the 162 Blocks (more than 50 per cent) awarded in the six rounds of bidding under the New Exploration Licensing Policy (NELP) of the Indian government.

• ONGC has recoverable reserves of 1.1 billion tonnes of Oil and Gas and produces more than one million Barrels of Oil Equivalent (BOE) per day, meeting around 80 per cent of India's domestic production of Oil & Gas.

• It is the single-largest operator of world's Biggest Deepwater Exploration Campaign.

• ONGC Videsh Limited (OVL) - ONGC's wholly-owned subsidiary - operates in 17 countries and is the biggest Indian multinational with committed investments abroad of over 5 billion US Dollars.

• ONGC was India's 'Biggest Wealth Creator' during 1999-2006 as per an objective survey by Motilal Oswal Securities & Trading (MOST). It is among the Most Valuable Companies in India with a Market Capitalisation of over 50 billion US Dollars (over 230,000 crore rupees). ONGC tops all Indian corporates in net profit and net worth.

CISCO

Cisco Systems Inc. is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Today, networks are an essential part of business, education, government and home communications, and Cisco Internet Protocol-based (IP) networking solutions are the foundation of these networks. Cisco hardware, software and service offerings are used to create Internet solutions that allow individuals, companies and countries to increase productivity, improve customer satisfaction and strengthen competitive advantage.

The Cisco name has become synonymous with the Internet as well as with the productivity improvements that Internet business solutions provide. At Cisco, our vision is to change the way people work, live, play and learn.

Cisco was founded in 1984 by a small group of computer scientists from Stanford University. Since the company's inception, Cisco engineers have been leaders in the development of Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking technologies. This tradition of innovation continues with industry-leading products in the core areas of routing and switching as well as advanced technologies in areas such as Home Networking, IP Telephony, Optical, Network Security, Storage Networking and Wireless LAN.

MOSER BAER

Moser Baer, headquartered in New Delhi, is one of India's leading technology companies. Established in 1983, the company successfully developed cutting edge technologies to become the world's second largest manufacturer of optical storage media like CDs and DVDs.

The company also emerged as the first to market the next-generation of storage formats like blu-ray discs and HD DVD. Recently, the company has transformed itself from a single business into a multi-technology organisation, diversifying into exciting areas of solar energy, home entertainment and IT peripherals & consumer electronics.

Through its wholly owned subsidiaries, the company manufactures photovoltaic cells and modules by straddling multiple technologies, including crystalline silicon, concentrator, nano technologies and thin films.

Moser Baer Entertainment offers home video titles in various Indian languages at unmatched prices. The company has also initiated marketing of a series of IT peripherals and consumer electronics gadgets.

Moser Baer has a presence in over 82 countries, serviced through six marketing offices in India, US, Europe and Japan, and has strong tie-ups with all major global technology players.

Moser Baer's products are manufactured at its three state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities. It has over 6,000 full-time employees and multiple manufacturing facilities in the suburbs of New Delhi.

Website: www.moserbaer.in

ICICI Bank offers a wide range of banking products and financial services to corporate and retail customers through multiple delivery channels. The bank also has specialised subsidiaries and affiliates in the areas of investment banking, life and non-life insurance, venture capital and asset management.

To tap the unmet financial service needs of rural India, ICICI Bank is taking significant strides through technology-based financial innovations. These initiatives are accompanied by the bank's commitment to enhancing human development in fields like health, education, infrastructure, biotechnology and agriculture.

Selected recent awards and recognition:

• Reader's Digest Trusted Brand Gold Award in 2007.

• Excellence in Remittance Business Award, 2007 from Asian Banker.

• Asia's Best Financial Borrower 2007 - Euromoney.

• CNBC Awaaz Consumer Awards 2007 - Most Preferred Brand for
  - Auto Loans
  - Credit Cards
  - Financial Advisory Services
  - Home Loans

• The Economic Times Business Leader of the Year Award - Mr K.V. Kamath.

• Outlook Money NDTV Profit Best Private Sector Bank 2007.

• Winner of the annual CIO 100 awards for the bank's pre-eminence in Innovative Technology Deployment.

• Best Regional Private Bank - Asia Pacific Award at the 17th Private Banker International Awards.

BHARAT SANCHAR NIGAM LIMITED (BSNL)

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) formed in October 2000 is India’s largest telecommunications company, providing a wide range of telecom services. BSNL has installed Quality Telecom Network in the country and is focusing on improving it, expanding the network, introducing new telecom services with ICT applications in villages and winning the customer’s confidence.

Today, it has a customer base of about 68 million, which includes landline, mobile, WLL (Wireless in Local Loop) etc. In the Internet and broadband services, it has a base of about 3.5 million and 1.3 million valued customers. BSNL is the largest ISP in the country having the internet nodes operational in all district headquarters. All its landline connections are enabled for the Internet. It has India’s largest transmission network, comprising OFC (Optical Fibre Cable) Networks of 5.29 lakh route km, M/W (Micro wave) Networks of .50 lakh route km and 217 Satellite Earth Stations.

BSNL has the widest pan India cellular network, with an excellent coverage on national highways of over 51,645 km, state highways of over 58,030 km and railway route coverage of over 32,519 km.

BSNL has also set up a world-class multi-gigabit, multi-protocol convergent IP infrastructure that provides convergent services like voice, data and video through the same backbone and broadband access network. BSNL is planning to launch Wi-Max, 3G mobile, FTTH and NGN technologies in its network during the current year. The broadband, GSM & fixed networks are being made content rich by offering value-added services.

The company has a vast experience in planning, installation, network integration and maintenance of switching & transmission networks. BSNL has a huge reservoir of trained work force of about 3.2 lakh employees. Its world class telecom-training institutes are the best in the Asia Pacific region and are accredited with ISO 9000 certification.

Taj Hotels Resort and Palaces comprises 59 hotels in 42 locations across India with an additional 17 international hotels in the Maldives, Mauritius, Malaysia, United Kingdom, US, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Africa, the Middle East and Australia.

Taj Hotels further expanded its global footprint by securing management contracts at Palm Island, Jumeirah in Dubai, Langkawi in Malaysia and Thimpu in Bhutan. The most significant addition s to the portfolio ha ve been The Pierre, the iconic landmark hotel on New York's Fifth Avenue; Taj Boston in Boston; Campton Place in San Francisco and Blue, Sydney.