Yassir A Pitalwalla
Yassir A Pitalwalla is the Senior Editor (Corporate Affairs) of Financial Chronicle. Based in Mumbai, Yassir covers all major business houses of the country such as Tata Group, Aditya Birla Group etc. Just 32, he is a business journalist with over 10 years of experience and has been writing for a range of media — both Indian and foreign —, including the 'FORTUNE' magazine. He has worked and written for different formats of print media from daily business newspapers to afternoon city dailies to magazines, news wires and a web-based academic journal. He loves movies and has strong interests in travel and food.
With corporate India bracing for an economic slowdown companies have started tightening their belts. First to come under the axe tend to be
- Feb 06 2012, 2239
Piramal Healthcare plans to borrow Rs 1,800 crore from mutual funds through an issuance of commercial papers (CPs) to fund its Rs 3,007 crore purchase of an additional 5.5
- Feb 05 2012, 2256
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), among the world’s top 10 software services exporters by revenues, is relatively sanguine about the prospects of its Europe operations despite the crisis facing the EU.
- Jan 29 2012, 2231
Tata Global Beverages, the world’s second largest branded tea company, has reorganised the regional president structure it had created around three years ago as it aims to cut costs and
- Jan 26 2012, 2120
Birla Corporation, the flagship of the MP Birla group of companies, plans to spend Rs 1,500-1,600 crore in capital expenditure to enhance its cement manufacturing and handling capacity and hike
- Jan 24 2012, 2257
The Rs 32,000 crore liquidity infusion by the Reserve Bank of India will boost India Inc’s sentiment somewhat, but it is not enough to trigger a resumption in capex cycle,


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