New Delhi, Delhi, India
Business Wire India has been appointed as the Official News Distribution Partner for the 12th annual Wharton India Economic Forum. The one day event is scheduled for 22nd March at Park Hyatt Philadelphia, Philadelphia, USA. The conference theme for the year 2008 is "India Imagine". Business Wire India will wire all the news release on the event on a real time basis to the relevant audiences in India as well as internationally. The releases can also be viewed on www.businesswireindia.com.
The Keynote speakers at the event include Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, Former President of India, Mr Vinod K Dham, Founder and Executive Managing Director, NEA-IndoUS Ventures, Mr Tejpreet S Chopra, President and CEO, GE - India. The forum this year focuses at discussing, not just India's economic prospects in the world, but also how it can be a politically active and socially responsible power. It also aims at exploring new frontiers for India as it establishes itself firmly on the world stage. The panel discussion aims to dialogue on various aspects of India's economic growth including the investment environment include private equity and capital allocation. The discussions will also explore widening gap between India's ever rising middle class and its underprivileged majority and examine measures that can be taken to alleviate the situation. The event will also have discussions on the development of Organized Retail as one of the fastest growing industries from an FDI perspective. It will shed light on the impact of rising incomes, increasing consumerism and rural consumption on the evolution of the retail industry.
Speaking about the forum, Anurag Mittal, Business Head, Business Wire India said, "India is poised for the next big leap. A continuous churning is essential, at each milestone, to understand our evolving role in the global economy and accordingly map the future path. Wharton India Economic Forum has been consistently providing the platform to address the needs of the changing business environment on a global scale, to ensure India's lead in the knowledge economy."
For more information about the event, please visit the website http://www.whartonglobal.com/india.
About Wharton India Economic Forum:
Wharton India Economic Forum (WIEF) has been, and continues to be, the leading business forum focused on India in the United States. WIEF was launched in 1996 at The Wharton School with a mission to engage the world's attention, on India's enormous potential and the limitless possibilities the country offers. Since the first forum, WIEF has stimulated energetic dialogue between current and future leaders from various walks of economic, social and political life, and has been covered in over twenty-five leading global newspapers and magazines. Most recently, in 2006, WIEF attracted over 500 attendees, including prominent business figures, policy makers, professionals and students, to debate pertinent issues, relevant to the Indian economy, under the expansive theme "Realizing the Indian Dream".
About Business Wire India:
Business Wire India is the definitive platform for corporate news dissemination. Business Wire India is the exclusive Indian affiliate of Business Wire, a Berkshire Hathaway company (Fortune 12). Business Wire India disseminates full-text corporate news to more than 4,000 media points, a large financial community, national and international news agencies, managers of corporate information databases, and information portals, in India and thousands of key media and financial points across the globe. It is also effectively positioned on popular search engines, ensuring that the information is easily accessible to a wider range of information seekers, on a real-time basis. In recent years, Business Wire India has also actively forayed into news dissemination in the financial markets, transposing Business Wire's global experience to India. Business Wire India strongly advocates greater freedom for the financial markets and need for greater transparency through open channels of communication, in the corporate sector.
Source: Business Wire India (Business Wire India)
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