COVER STORY
Remaking Lever
There are signs that the consumer product behemoth has bitten the bullet, finally. As growth stalls for the fourth year running, HLL’s new top team is finally investing in growth — and is willing to take a short term hit in profits to achieve it. So is the worst over for Lever?

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IN DEPTH
One level up
Indian manufacturing has achieved a breakthrough with Toyota Kirloskar Auto Parts. Its mandate is to make the R-150 gear box for nine Toyota plants worldwide. With this, the auto component industry has broken into the coveted Tier I club.
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IN VOGUE
Trucking on auto pilot
Business is pleasure for truck drivers bound from Mumbai to Mangalore with the extension of Ro-Ro service to Suratkal station. A look at how Ro-Ro trains lighten the truckers workload.
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WEB EXCLUSIVES
Banking
Anatomy of a bank bust
A first-person account of what happened before the RBI’s restrictions on withdrawals from the South Indian Co-operative Bank.
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IT services
IT alternatives to Bangalore
Karnataka looks at developing new IT hubs in Mysore and Mangalore to decongest Bangalore.
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Wavelength:
P. Hari
Reviving the research wave
Introducing a monthly column on science by P. Hari, senior editor, BW.
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EDITOR'S NOTE
Ahead of the curve
Deputy Editor Indrajit Gupta has every reason to say, “I told you so,” to anyone who is disappointed with HLL’s performance these days. He has done three covers on HLL in the last four years, and the headlines tell the story much better, and much earlier, than HLL’s share price does.
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Changing market structures
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BW OPINION
This inflation is foreign
This inflation has come from abroad; the remedy for it is duty reduction or currency appreciation, or both
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