BFW is the largest manufacturer of CNC machines and machine tools in India. The company manufactures full line of CNC vertical and CNC horizontal machining centers catering to different industry segments. The company has a strong engineering base owing to its German parentage.

Company’s customers include several leading companies across industry sectors like Honda Motorcycles, Maruti Udyog, Toyota Kirloskar, L&T, John Deere, M&M, Ashok Leyland, Cummins and Mico-Bosch.

The company adopts a solutions approach whereby it custom designs the machines to suit specific customer requirements and delivers an entire package including an efficient manufacturing process as well as the requisite tools. The company has designed low cost CNC machines for the small and medium enterprises making it one of the largest suppliers to this segment.

DRS is a front runner in the goods transportation and third party logistics business in India. “Agarwal Packers and Movers” - division of DRS Logistics is also the No. 1 provider of home relocation services in India. The Company has a robust infrastructure comprising of over 750 owned vehicles; nationwide network of over 100 offices and close to 1.3 million sq. ft. of warehouse space which supports transportation and logistics needs of clients like Coca Cola, Bridgestone Tyres, Samsung India, MRF, Lifestyle Retail, Perfetti, Cadbury’s India and Saint Gobain Glass.

Dynaspede offers turnkey solutions to the power and control engineering segment catering to the mid market space. With strengths in Mechatronics (mechanical +electrical +electronics) the company designs and manufactures a wide range of products and offers contract manufacturing services to global engineering companies.

Dynaspede designs, develops and manufactures a wide range of products in power generation, distribution and load-side management for industrial and consumer applications. It offers customized solutions in control engineering with a wide product range spanning electric machines, control electronics, distribution elements, electromechanical modules and high voltage component systems. Given its design and manufacturing strengths, the company also offers contract manufacturing services to global companies.

Dyanspede is headed by Mr.Dave Jeyaselvan, a techno-entrepreneur with over 20-years of international experience in power controls and plant engineering, having worked in organizations like Mitsubishi Heavy Engineering. Dynaspede currently has a 100,000 sq. ft. design and manufacturing facility at Hosur and design facilities in Chennai. The Hosur facility has state-of-the-art machine shop, tool room, sheet metal fabrication and surface coating and finishing facilities. The company also has a strong nation-wide service network with branches across eight cities.

Home Solutions Retail India Limited (“HSRIL”) is a subsidiary of Pantaloon Retail India Limited (PRIL). HSRIL is establishing a chain of dual-format stores modeled on the Lifestyle and Value segments, addressing Consumer Electronics, Furniture and Home Improvement and Building materials retail verticals.

Consumer Electronics
 is the Lifestyle format stand alone stores which are family centric and offer an experiential purchase form offering high end consumer electronics are the Value format stores that operate with a limited range and a price point led strategy. They are housed both on a stand-alone basis and also within the Hypermart Format of Pantaloons i.e. Big Bazaar.

Furniture
is the Lifestyle format aimed at offering the widest range of designer furniture for the entire home segment and the stores would be aligned to the changing aesthetics of the aspirational yet value seeking customer who have a lifestyle orientation. The stores are designed around ideas and would be segmented in sections such as Bedroom, Living Room, Children room, Recreational room, Designer Kitchens, Multi purpose sections etc.

is the Value format stores would focus on functional and utilitarian furniture products and will be priced competitively.

Home Town is India’s fastest growing chain of home improvement stores providing a single point destination for all consumer needs to build, equip and decorate their homes including offering professional advise on interior decoration and services related to carpentry, plumbing, painting etc.

INX is a new age media house founded by a highly experienced and proven team of professionals from the media industry. The company recently hired Peter Mukerjea, the ex-CEO of Star India – promoted by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation – to lead the company. Peter was with the Star Group since 1993 and was its CEO since 1999 until late 2006.

INX is initially offering 3 new channels - 9X (quality entertainment for India’s mainstream audience), 9XM (music channel for India’s youth) and NewsX (a quality contemporary news channel of international standards).

Sabare is India’s leading manufacturer of home furnishings in the non-terry towel category. The company offers a wide range of products across categories including kitchen and dining, bed, bath and rugs. Promoted by Susindran, a first generation entrepreneur, the company caters to Fortune-500 customers such as Wal-mart, Target, J. C. Penny, Kmart/Sears, Home Depot, Kohl’s, Asda etc.

The company has pioneered an innovative “Global Procurement and Manufacturing Model” adopting an innovative solutions approach and positions itself as a Total Retail Solutions Provider, whereby it provides a gamut of services to its customers including gathering market intelligence, new product trends, display strategies and continuous advice on product mix.

The company has manufacturing facilities at Karur, Panipat and Noida in India, at Atlanta and Phoenix in the USA and in China. Sabare's product range includes curtains, pillows, quilted bedding, table cloth, place mats, runners, chair pads, kitchen rugs and shower curtains.

Siro is India’s largest local full service contract Clinical Research Organization (CRO) providing clinical development solutions to support Phase I-IV clinical trials in India. Equipped with strong clinical data management and clinical project management capabilities, SIRO is successfully managing contracts for some of the leading global pharmaceutical and biotech companies in various therapeutic areas.

Paramount Airways is a Chennai headquartered leading full-service carrier operating in South India with a unique model of offering frequent connectivity between two destinations with business class service at economy prices. The airline operates a fleet of five Embraer 70-75 seater jets connecting eight destinations with about forty two flights per day and enjoys market leadership in these sectors.

The company has been the launch customer in India for Embraer’s new generation jet aircrafts which offer excellent cabin experience with longer leg space, wider seats and no middle seats.

Metahelix is India’s emerging Ag-Biotech company focusing on developing technologies for crop improvement, mainly through trait development, utilizing plant genomics and informatics and improving genetics by developing hybrid seeds.

The company has a strong product pipeline of Genetically Modified (GM) seeds in cotton, rice, cabbage, maize and tomato with specific traits like insect control, drought and salinity resistance and is expected to be the first indigenous company to commercialize GM technology.

The company also provides its clients, including international seeds companies, Ag-Biotech and research institutions, a broad range of contract research services towards identifying traits of particular genes and markers that can be used to distinguish among cell types, and enabling technologies to incorporate such traits into a wide variety of seeds.

The company has a wholly owned subsidiary, Dhaanya Seeds, which produces and commercializes hybrid seeds and also acts as test centre and distribution channel for Metahelix’s new technologies.

VLife discovers and develops small therapeutic agents capable of multiple mechanism of action for unmet needs and diseases with limited drug options. VLife is developing a balanced pipeline of a mix of New Chemical Entities (NCE) and New Indications (NI) for FDA approved drugs. The company has a lead NCE compound for Pancreatic Cancer and a NI candidate for diabetic wound at various stages of clinical investigations. As a faster and significantly less expensive alternative to conventional high-throughput screening, the company has developed VLife Amadeus, a virtual screening technology for automated interaction studies among multiple biological targets and chosen chemical space at a structural level, providing it with a critical differentiation in its drug discovery approach

VLife has recently announced successful completion of pre-clinical trials for its breakthrough small molecule investigational drug Galnobax for treatment of diabetic wounds. In the preclinical trials, Galnobax has demonstrated 42% improvement in time in curing wounds in diabetic patients. The clinical trials for Galnobax are intended to begin in the first half of 2008 fiscal.

In order to rapidly progress Galnobax and company’s oncology program through clinical trials, VLife has recently demerged its research division into a separate company, NovaLead Pharma Pvt. Ltd. The business model of NovaLead would be to develop its discoveries up to the proof of concept in animals and then out-license or partner with the pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to generate revenues which are milestone and royalty driven.

VLife will continue to focus on providing cutting edge discovery software solutions to Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology, Chemical, Agriculture industries, Research Institutes and Academia.

Four Soft is a leading software products and solutions company offering enterprise solutions built on contemporary technologies to the transportation and logistics (T&L) industry and supply chain execution solutions to the manufacturing industry. With 10 of the top-20 3PLs (3rd party logistics service providers) as its customers, Four Soft enjoys leadership in this space.

After its IPO in 2004, the company adopted an acquisition led growth strategy to expand its client base, leading to the acquisition of Netherlands based Cargomate International B.V., Singapore based Comex Frontier Pvt. Ltd, T&L division of U.K. based DCS Group Plc., Shipping Solutions division of FWL, U.K., and Denmark based Transaxiom Holdings. 4Soft, with headquarters in Hyderabad, India, has a global footprint with offices in Pune, Singapore, Japan, Australia, UK, Netherlands, Denmark and USA. While the development team is based in India, the regional offices drive account management and business development. The company has about 950 employees in total, with about 660 of them in India. It has a 400 member strong product development and R&D team focusing on developing cutting edge enterprise solutions.

The National Stock Exchange (“NSE”) is India's leading stock exchange offering three services, capital market trading, debt trading, and futures and options segment. NSE is also the third largest exchange in the world based on the number of transactions, fourth largest in index futures and eighth largest in equity futures.

NSE presently accounts for about 66% of the total turnover in cash markets and a 99% share of the futures and options trading in India. NSE also has strategic investment from New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”), one of the world’s largest stock exchanges.

Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd ("MCX") is India’s leading commodities exchange. MCX offers futures trading in over 70 commodities including bullion, energy and base metals, plastics, fibers and agriculture commodities,. MCX presently accounts for about 70% of the total turnover in commodity derivatives in India. In terms of number of contracts traded globally, MCX ranks first in silver futures, second in natural gas futures and third in gold and crude oil futures.

MCX has forged strategic alliances across the world, including with Tokyo Commodity Exchange, Chicago Climate Exchange, London Metal Exchange, New York Mercantile Exchange, New York Board of Trade, Bursa Malaysia Derivatives, Berhad and regional alliances with the likes of Bombay Bullion Exchange, Bombay Metal Exchange, India Pepper and Spice Trade Association and the United Planters Association of Southern India. MCX also holds a strategic stake in Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange ("DGCE").

Icomm Tele Limited is one of India’s leading players in the telecom and power infrastructure segments. With its strong R&D capabilities and integrated manufacturing facilities, including World’s largest tower manufacturing facility, IComm offers comprehensive network management solutions from design, fabrication, erection and commissioning of telecom, power transmission and power distribution networks. Icomm has a full-fledged R&D center recognized by Department of Scientific & Industrial Research (DSIR) and is focused on development of indigenous products and technologies. It designs and manufactures a wide range of high technology communication equipment for the Telecom and Defence sectors.

Icomm caters to several customers including Bharti, Reliance Communications, Tata Tele, Idea and Vodafone in the telecom sector and players such as Power Grid Corporation, National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), Reliance Energy (BSES) and many State Electricity Boards (SEBs) and utilities in the Power Transmission and Distribution (T&D)sector. It also supplies to Bharat Eletronics Limited and Defence Research and Development Laboratory (DRDL) in the Defence sector.

BVG is India’s leading Facilities Management Service provider. The company offers services related to mechanized cleaning and facilities management services, waste management services; turnkey plant relocation; maintenance and construction of utility plants at industrial units; landscape design & development.

The company operates in 12 states across the country through a network of 20 branches with trained workforce of over 7000 people. It presently maintains 15 mn sq. ft. area through mechanized cleaning and 8 mn sq. ft. of landscaping and garden space. Its key clients include a mix of several prestigious public sector institutions and private sector clients.