India Inc to step up investments, increase hiring in 2018: BS CEO Survey

CEOs expect higher sales in 2018 as GST, note ban effect wanes

Despite a lukewarm year that’s gone by for Corporate India, chief executive officers (CEOs) are optimistic about 2018. They expect higher sales growth and, as a result, a majority of them are planning to hire more people and increase investments.

In a nationwide survey carried out by this newspaper of 40 CEOs in December, 60 per cent of the corporate leaders said the roll-out of the goods and services tax (GST) had made their lives easier though almost 72.5 per cent of them said they were still awaiting more clarity on the various issues emanating from the one-nation one-tax rolled