Industry Primers
Deep dive into key industries with our comprehensive primers. Understand value chains, growth drivers, and key players to ace your case interviews.
Airlines
Currently the fourth largest air passenger market, India is expected to overtake UK as number three by 2024
Automobile
The Indian automobile industry is the world's 5th largest auto market.
Banking
The Indian banking system consists of 12 public sector banks, 22 private sector banks, 46 foreign banks, 56 regional rural banks, 1485 urban cooperative banks and 96,000 rural cooperative banks in addition to cooperative credit institutions.
Cement
China, the world’s largest producer and consumer of cement is currently relying on imports from other countries such as Vietnam, UAE to meet their demand for cement due to the deficit they are facing. The environmental impacts of producing cement triggered new laws that do not permit production of cement beyond a certain point.
E-commerce
Electronic commerce or e-commerce (is a business model that lets firms and individuals buy and sell things over the internet.
FMCG
Fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) is the 4th largest sector in the Indian economy, majorly comprising of household and personal care segments which account for half of the sector. It also includes food and beverages (19%), and healthcare (31%) segments..
Healthcare
Healthcare industry comprising of hospitals, medical devices, clinical trials, outsourcing, telemedicine, medical tourism, health insurance and medical equipment, has become one of India’s largest sector, both in terms of revenue and employment.
Iron and Steel
India is the world's second-largest steel producer with an output of 10.14 MT in October 2021.
IT Enabled Services
IT & BPM sector contributes ~8% to India's GDP and is a major employment generator.
Logistics
The Indian logistics sector is estimated to be US$ 215 billion in 2020.
Oil and Gas
India is the 3rd largest energy and Oil consumer (5% of global consumption) in the world after China and USA.
Pharma
India is third in volume terms and fourteenth in value terms. Primarily due to being mostly a generics-dominated market.
Retail
Valued at $1200 billion in FY21 and is expected to grow to $1750 billion at 7.8% CAGR (2021-26) and $2 trillion by 2032. It makes up 10% of the GDP and is responsible for 8% of employment
Telecom
With 118 crore subscribers (Jun 2021) India has the second-largest telecom network globally.
Tourism and Hospitality
In FY20, 39 million jobs were created in the tourism sector in India accounting for 8.0% of the total employment in the country.