04.11.2006

• Global beer giants
• InBev is the world’s largest brewer in volume terms.
• The other companies competing with it at an international level are Anheuser Busch (A-B), Carlsberg and Heineken.
• India’s beer market
• India’s annual consumption is pegged at 108 mln cases. Per capita consumption is about 0.8 litre, considered very low. This is for FY 2006.
• UB and SABMiller account for 80-85% of the beer market.
• M&A deals in India
• Touched about $24 bn in the first 10 months of 2006.
• There have been a total of 380 strategic M&As announced.
• Out of these 209 are cross border deals.
• Chief of Indian Army
• J.J. Singh
• Airline pilot requirement in India
• It is estimated that India would need about 17,000 pilots over the next 20 years.
• Credit growth figures
• For home loans it is growing by 54%, real estate 102% and credit cards 199%.
• Hence the finance minister warned the bankers against excessive growth.
• Microfinance scene in Andhra Pradesh
• The MFIs have covered about 8 mln women, or 80% of AP’s poorest of the poor into SHGs (Self Help Groups). There are now over 6 lakh SHGs in AP, over 28,000 village units and 910 mandal samakhyas, all registered under the Mutually Aided Cooperative Societies Act, 1995.
• AP accounts for more than a third of all SHGs in India.
• Rural banking scene
• About 48% of the households, 51% of farm households, and 78% rural, non-farm households still don’t avail banking services.
• The population per branch now is 23,000 while villages per branch ratio is about 19.
• Penetration of savings account in rural areas was low at 18%, but was as high as 104% in urban and semi-urban areas.
• Insurance industry
• Entire premium collected by general insurance industry last year was at Rs. 20,000 cr. which is a mere 0.5% of the GDP.
• The insurance premium from life insurance was just a shade better at 2.5% of the GDP. That translates to about Rs .1 lk crore.