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www.ibef.org

The IBEF website received close to 30 million hits with one millionfirst-time visitors.The bulk of thesevisitors were from the US,Australia, Hong Kong, Singaporeand India.

• IBEF ran a small-scale 15-daypromotional campaign for thewebsite on NDTV 24X7 andCNBC.

• Several visitors to the websitehave been frequently writing to IBEF for reprints of articlesand reports.

• IBEF entered into a contentalliance with CNBC TV-18’swww.moneycontrol.com.

• An average of 8% of the first-time users added the website to their ‘Favourites’ list.

• IBEF website news was madeavailable on GPRS-enabledmobile phones through RSStechnology.

IBEF’s newsletters, INDIA NOWand INDIA INVEST NOWremained popular, with thesubscriber base crossing 15,000.

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Thank you for sending me this [newsletter] - Kalam.

H.E.APJ Abdul Kalam, President of India in an email to IBEF

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INDIA CD InfoPack

IBEF’s Brand India CD pack wasupdated every quarter, keepingpace with internal policydevelopments and external change.The CDs were distributed atimportant events including theADB Annual Meet at Istanbul, IndiaEconomic Summit in New Delhiand the Annual Meeting of theWorld Economic Forum in Davos, 2006.

I received from the Houston Consulate a copy of the IBEF package of materials.That is wonderful.

Kenneth A Cutshaw, Honorary Consul for Govt. of India,Atlanta, USA

The Brand India CD pack from IBEF containing comprehensive information on doing business in India

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India Opportunity andSectoral Reports

IBEF released a series ofpublications and updated last year’s publications with currentinformation and statistics.

• A new set of reports was addedon the India CD commissionedfor India’s participation at theWorld Economic Forum AnnualMeeting in Davos.

• 20 highly focused reports of 25-30 pages were prepared onselect industry sectors.Thesestudies were undertaken incollaboration with internationalconsulting firms and covered thefollowing sectors: Biotech,Cement, Consumption, FMCG,Healthcare, IT, Infrastructurecomprising Airports, Ports, Roads& Highways, Construction andSEZs, Oil & Gas, Power andPharmaceuticals.

• To project the India advantage inmanufacturing across a spectrum of industries, a set of 11 newreports showcasing the marketpotential and opportunities were prepared: A report on theIndia advantage in manufacturing;individual reports on thefollowing sectors - Automotive,Chemicals, Electronics,Engineering, Food Processing,Gems & Jewellery, Leather,Machine Tools, Metals andTextiles.

I read your fascinating piece on Indian Pharmaceuticals,featured on ibef.org.

Jennifer Asuncion Mund, Senior Economist – Asia, Deutsche Bank Research, Germany

Sectoral reports: Over 20 focused reports were prepared and published by IBEF

State Reports

20 reports on states of India wereincluded on the India informationCD.These studies showcased thebusiness environment and potentialin each of these states.

‘States of India’ series of reports: 20 reports were compiled and published by IBEF

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FDI Manual

A volume on Foreign DirectInvestment Policy & Procedureswas produced to provide anoverview of the investment facilitating institutions, modes of investment, FDI policy, includingincentives offered to industry.It was prepared in collaborationwith Ernst & Young.

Thank you very much for this investment news andinformation on India. Please continue to keep us updated.

Claire Sharp, FDI Magazine- The Financial Times Group, London

The FDI Manual was prepared with Ernst & Young as knowledge partner

Success Stories series

A growing number of multinationalsin a country highlight the interest in a market, but more importantlyare an indication of confidence in the stability of the market.

• UK Companies in India: SuccessStories was updated and morecase studies added to the CD for Davos.

• US Companies in India: SuccessStories and Fortune 500Companies in India Success Stories were two other titlesthat were published.

The IBEF publications, CDs, IndiaNow Magazine were sent toSwitzerland, USA, Singapore,Poland, Germany for specific conferences and seminars.In addition, IBEF continues to sendits publications to key targetedorganisations, Fortune 500companies, Embassies/HighCommissions both in India and overseas.

Thank you very much for all this information. I am sharingthis with many colleagues at all levels of government.

Hana Kanoo, Economic Development Board, Kingdom of Bahrain

FORTUNE 500 and UK Companies’ Success Stories were published by IBEF

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Compendium of PowerPoint Presentations

IBEF prepared a compendium of PowerPoint presentations withspeaking notes, which has beenmade available on CDs as well as posted on the IBEF website for public usage.These include presentations on all the publishedindustry sector reports of IBEF:

• India - The Business Opportunity• Automotive• Biotechnology• Healthcare• IT• ITES• Manufacturing• Oil & Gas• Pharmaceuticals• Power• Telecommunications

Tata Statistical Outline

IBEF collaborated with TataServices Limited, publishers of the “Statistical Outline of India2004-05”. Customised copies ofthese were sent to Indian missionsabroad, the foreign missions in India as well as government departments.

Collaboration with theInvestment Commission

IBEF collaborated with theInvestment Commission in providing its inputs and editorialsupport on the InvestmentCommission publication titledIndia: Opportunities in the World’s Largest Democracy.

IBEF partnered the Investment Commission in producing the printed and digital versions of the volume titled ‘Opportunities in the world’s largest democracy’

IBEF Research

IBEF continued to provide researchon demand for several visitors to the IBEF site:Economya. Who’s worried about

monsoons?b. Manufacturing Sector –

Capacity Expansionc. Indian Manufacturing –

A background paper

International Trade & Businessa. New streams driving import

growthb. IBEF survey on overseas

acquisitions by Indiancompanies: Findings

c. India’s Car Exports: One Millionby 2010

d. Oil Diplomacy:A NewMomentum

e. Impact of Indian IT industry in Australia

Servicesa. Insurance:There’s life in Indiab. Equity Research Outsourcing:

The Next Wavec. Travel Industry:Wanderlust hits

Indiansd. Global Mobile majors go locale. IT Parks:The temples of modern

India

Other Trendsa. VCs’ second coming:Why non-

IT investments are now hotb. Global B-Schools: India’s ever

growing army of BrandAmbassadors

c. Two billion people on the move:The India-China Story

d. Indian Institute of Science: India’scrucible for innovation

Research for Institutionsa. Kennedy School of Government

Harvard Universityb. Rand Corporation, USA

Sector specific research reports were made available at www.ibef.org

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India Now, a perspective

IBEF’s magazine, launched asquarterly in January 2005, became a bi-monthly, beginning June 2005,with an increased print-run of15,000 copies.A special edition was brought out to mark India’sparticipation at Davos 2006.

Multimedia Resources

90 second, 3 minute and 5 minuteversions of the multimediapresentation titled INDIA FASTESTGROWING FREE MARKETDEMOCRACY were made availableto stakeholders on CDs.A new 3 minute film titled YOUNG AND RESURGENT INDIA waspremiered at the India EconomicSummit in New Delhi and laterscreened at important eventsincluding Davos 2006. The film was screened by BBC World,Doordarshan,Aaj Tak, Zee (all international channels) andCNN-IBN on 26th January, free of charge. IBEF prepared 15 one-minute vignettes from the content it generated at the AIESECInternational Congress, held at Agra in September 2005.

“I wanted to thank you and to congratulate you for IndiaNow. I think it is extremely well done and I look forward to reading them”.

Colette Mathur, Director,World Economic Forum, Geneva

Responding to readers’ demand, ‘India Now a perspective’ became a bi-monthly magazine

India Posters

A set of 10 India posters coveringmultiple aspects of the India Storywas made available in high resolution downloadable format on www.ibef.org and also used at IBEF pavilions at major events.

India-ASEAN Rally Book

As a follow-up to the extensivebrand building exercise that IBEFundertook using the 1st India-ASEAN Car Rally as the platform,IBEF and Autocar India published a Coffee Table Book to capture theevent for future marketing efforts.The Book was presented by theHonourable Prime Minister to theHeads of all the ASEAN countriesat their summit in Kuala Lumpurlast year.

Thank you for sending me the India Brand Equity materialit is excellent and keep up the quality and the good work – it is an excellent idea as well – and long overdue! …

Zarir J Cama, HSBC Bank Malaysia Berhad, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

IBEF’s India posters were made available at www.ibef.org

‘Networking Neighbours’, a book on thelandmark INDIA - ASEAN CAR RALLY was published by Autocar India and IBEF