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40 Years Ago...And now: Padmini helped Premier drive around hurdles

Despite government controls, Walchand Hirachand Group cracked the market

40 Years Ago ... and Now: Ratan Tata increased dare quotient of Tata group

Ratan Tata has welded a ragtag, slumbering conglomerate into a battle-ready global entity, delivering outsize earnings along the way

40 years ago... and now: Dhirubhai Ambani changed the idiom of doing business

Remember his famous statement in an interview to India Today magazine that he was "willing to salaam anyone" in the government as the most "important external environment is the Government of India"

40 Years Ago and Now...Voltas emerges as MNC challenger

From a juggernaut of Licence-Raj days it transforms itself into a focused player

40 Years Ago... And Now: Adapting to a new environment

The seventies were a time for great change in the business environment; for Dabur it was time to reconfigure the way it reached out to consumers

40 years ago... And now: ACC: From a leader to first among equals

40 years ago...And now: SBI and the big bank theory

Despite taking the initiative in several areas, the country's biggest bank does not meet the aspirational needs of the younger generation. Work is on to change this

40 years ago... And now: Cipla: The crusader for affordable drugs takes the patent battle to MNCs

40 years ago... And now: Shifting sands of time

The influx of high quality MBAs brought about a seismic change in the advertising agency business in India in 1970s

40 years ago...And now: Advertising helped insure LIC against competition

For the state life insurer aggressive marketing wasn't on its mind in the 1970s. But it soon changed

40 years ago...And now: Putting the lighting effects back on Philips

The brand, which began with lighting, did well with TVs till the eighties, but lost out to nimbler competition. The focus now is back on lighting

40 years ago... And now: Ashok Leyland - The 66-year - 'young' company readies self for the future

The company shot into the limelight when it became the powerful and secretive Hinduja group's first acquisition in India

40 years ago...and now: Per capita income presents a grim picture

According to this series, based on 1990 Geary-Khamis dollar PPP, India's per capita GDP was $3,372 in 2009-10

40 years ago...and now: Still a lot of ground to cover on social indicators

At the aggregate level, life expectancy in India rose from 58.5 years in 1990 to 66.2 years in 2012

40 years ago... And now: ITC's journey of transformation

The tobacco major's diversification strategy has been fraught with challenges but as the numbers show, its plan to derisk the portfolio was executed successfully

40 years ago...And now:: Luna is dead, long live Chal Meri Luna!

The Luna moped may have disappeared from the market but the trend-setting ad campaign that was designed in the mid-1980s still lingers

40 years ago...And now: LIC - From Big Daddy to Big Brother

As a government-owned behemoth, Life Insurance Corporation managed to stay ahead of the competition when the sector was thrown open - but only with some painful changes

40 Years Ago...and now: How Bata put its foot down

The shoemaker has proved to be resilient, despite being bogged down by labour issues, dated product designs and rude retail staff over the years

40 Years Ago... and now: Pushing for growth

It was in the last seventies that the Muthoot Group first stepped out of its comfort zone - the markets of southern India

40 years ago... and now: Birlas - A family that hit the headlines over a will

A contested will of a widow, a long-serving family confidant, the fierce litigious fight for little-known Birla Corp marked the first major controversy for this storied and reserved biz family