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The Race To $100 Billion In terms of market value, Indian companies are still puny compared with their international counterparts. Not for long though. Here are six reasons why the emergence of the Indian mega-corp is only a matter of time.
Business Today, March, 2007 by Mahesh Nayak
Tags: Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Business Today
When Warren Buffett, perhaps the greatest investor of all time, started acquiring the stock of Berkshire Hathaway in the 1960s-at that time a humble textile manufacturer-the company was worth just about $8 per share. When Business Today last checked the company's price on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), it stood at a mind- numbing $106,710.
Berkshire today is an insurance and banking behemoth, has an investment portfolio to kill for (Coca-Cola and American Express being just two of the marquee names on that list), and for good measure has some 50 subsidiaries that operate in varied areas ...
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