CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Manufacturing output – about 74 percent of total output – posted a 0.1 From a year ago, manufacturing output is up 2.4 Manufacturing utilization was unchanged at 79.5 Overall, industrial output fell in October while manufacturing output rose on a gain in motor vehicle production; many other areas were weak.

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CFO News

JUNE 2, 2025

Tesla is unlikely to manufacture in India soon, according to Heavy Industries Minister Kumara Swamy, despite securing showroom space and job listings. India plans to invite applications under a new EV policy offering lower import duties (15% vs 70%) to automakers investing $486 million in local production.

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Navigator SAP

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Three essential types of outsourced contract organizations are at the core of the pharmaceutical and life sciences global ecosystem: contract manufacturing and development organizations (CDMOs) , contract manufacturing organizations (CMOs), and contract research organizations (CROs).

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CFO Talks

MAY 8, 2025

How Savvy CFOs Evaluate Investment Risks As a CFO, you know that investment decisions can be a game of high stakes. But lets be honestevaluating investment risks isnt just about spreadsheets and financial models. Spotting the Risk in Every Reward Every investment decision carries an element of uncertainty.

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Global Finance

JANUARY 31, 2025

Saudi Arabia is experiencing a boom in IPO activity, signaling the liberalization of its economy and a shift away from government-led privatizations that once dominated its investment market. The final offer price is set to be announced on February 19, 2025, with listing expected soon after.

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Global Finance

APRIL 5, 2025

trillion of investment-grade and $419.8 Investment-grade bond volume is down 14% thus far across the globe and global high-yield volume is 16% lower. So far in 2025, the bank has served as a bookrunner for Mars substantial, eight-part investment-grade bond issue, aimed at financing the acquisition of Pringles maker Kellanova.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The government wants new domestic companies to set up their manufacturing units in India fast and hence the concessional tax rate of 15 per cent has been extended by a year till March 2024, Revenue Secretary Tarun Bajaj said on Friday. Companies opting for these new tax rates will have to forego all exemptions and incentives.

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The QIA (Qatar Investment Authority) is the wealth manager of the State of Qatar. QIA invests across nine sectors: retail and consumer; technology, media and telecoms (TMT); liquid securities; infrastructure; financials; funds; healthcare; industrials; and real estate. Key investments aiding the energy transition: QIA invested €2.4

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Global Finance

MARCH 5, 2025

As US investment declines, China and India are rapidly expanding their presence across Latin Americas key industries. With US investment in Latin America shrinking, China and India are seizing the opportunity to expand their economic reach in the region. And 75% of that amount in Brazil is indeed invested in the energy and oil sectors.

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CFO Dive

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The company unveiled a four-year plan to develop in-demand skills, expand data center capacity and build a server manufacturing hub.

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Navigator SAP

AUGUST 5, 2022

It requires not just R&D capability, talent, and strong capital investment over the long term, but also the need for a strong digital infrastructure. As such, cloud ERP is critical for pharmaceutical operations today given this environment.

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 28, 2024

None of which, however has thus far discouraged foreign direct investment. A leading foreign company operating in Togo is Heidelberg Material, which is planning new investments in environmental and industrial sectors and funding sustainable solutions in cement production using alternative materials. GRP growth (2023): 5.4%

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Global Finance

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

At the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Peru last November, Indonesias new President Prabowo Subianto, who began his term in October, emphasized that foreign investments would be protected by a solid legal framework, and highlighted incentives and a commitment to liberalizing ownership laws. Itll get to $3.65

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CFO News

DECEMBER 22, 2024

A Quickbase report reveals that 90% of manufacturers face production challenges due to labour shortages, with 41% struggling to transfer knowledge from experienced workers. While 49% plan to adopt automation, only 39% currently use it.

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Global Finance

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

That goal will depend partly on the success of an associated Foreign Direct Investment Strategy aimed at significantly boosting FDI across the board. Turkey will invest more than $100 billion by 2035 to increase its renewable capacity and modernize its infrastructure, says Dagliogku. The goal is for Turkey to account for 1.5%

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Global Finance

JUNE 9, 2025

Most Innovative Financial Technology Company in Middle East | GEIDEA The first payment provider in the Middle East and North Africa region to offer instant merchant onboarding, Geidea enables businesses to start accepting payments within minutes, thanks to substantial investments in automation, AI, and digital verification.

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Global Finance

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Global Finance spoke with Laziz Kudratov, Uzbekistan’s Minister of Investment, Industry and Trade. billion investment from ACWA Power for 9.6 GW wind and solar power projects, and we partnered with Masdar for 2 GW green projects with investments of $1.7 Laziz Kudratov : The changes that started in 2016 continue.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Keep your game going with a golf simulator from Shop Indoor Golf, and be sure to add @HelloExtend product protection to protect your investment. In addition, Levin said Extend is also going vertical by managing manufacturer's warranty programs and even catalog-specific parts failures, which can enable companies to do supplier clawbacks.

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Centage

JUNE 12, 2023

For manufacturing and distribution organizations, this can be especially challenging. Manufacturing facilities must consider their production line capacities, their customers’ end product projections, and fluctuating material costs as they design their revenue goals and inventory requirements. That’s a lot of moving parts.

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Musings on Markets

AUGUST 19, 2024

In fact, the business life cycle has become an integral part of the corporate finance, valuation and investing classes that I teach, and in many of the posts that I have written on this blog. Tech companies age in dog years, and the consequences for how we manage, value and invest in them are profound.

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Global Finance

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Botswana’s eligibility for benefits under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) has further bolstered its competitiveness, granting duty-free access to the US market for most locally manufactured goods, including diamonds. This has spurred business reforms, improved the investment climate, and strengthened bilateral trade ties.

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CFO News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The Production Linked Incentive (PLI) Scheme has transformed India’s manufacturing sector, elevating output to ₹10.90 lakh crore, creating over 8,50,000 jobs, and significantly increasing exports and foreign investment, says the Ministry of Commerce & Industry.

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CFO Talks

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

. “We’ve had a 40% reduction in carbon dioxide, an 80% reduction in nitrogen oxide, and a near 100% reduction in particulates,” she shared during the CFO Club podcast, emphasizing the tangible impact of GDC’s clean energy initiatives on Cameroon’s manufacturing sector. Our last two wells cost over $100 million,” she noted.

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CFO News

MAY 17, 2024

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman flagged the need for India to boost its manufacturing sector to achieve self-reliance and increase its share in the global value chain. She highlighted the importance of policy support and sophistication in product manufacturing to attract investment and reduce dependence on China.

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CFO News

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Highlighting that global companies will continue to divert investments from China to other parts of Asia Pacific (APAC) and the rest of the world, it said: "Asean and India could be attractive because they are receptive to foreign investments and their manufacturing competitiveness is increasing"

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CFO News

JUNE 5, 2025

​While sharing details of the survey, Rockwell Automation India Managing Director Dilip Sawhney told PTI that in a survey on smart manufacturing conducted two years ago, about two-thirds of organisations said they would either have already invested in AI or planned to do so in the next 12 months or thereafter.

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Global Finance

MARCH 6, 2025

Despite a sluggish economy, Latvia is positioning itself as a prime gateway to the European Union, as foreign capital is flowing into key sectors, and recent reforms underscore its ambitions to become an investment hub in the Baltics. The countrys foreign direct investment (FDI) stock rose by 4.4% The IMF projects GDP growth of 2.3%

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Future CFO

JUNE 9, 2025

According to TMF Group 's annual Global Business Complexity Index (GBCI), investment strategies, spearheaded by entities like the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation and Temasek, focuses on diversification across sectors like fintech and logistics, ensuring continued growth and resilience amid global volatility.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Continuing the same spirit in defence allocations, 68% of the defence capital procurement budget for domestic players will also go a long way in strengthening the domestic hi-tech manufacturing ecosystem. However, the government should ensure effective spectrum pricing to enable maximum investments in digital infrastructure.

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Global Finance

APRIL 3, 2025

The set-up process was seamless and ADGMs legal and regulatory framework offers transparency and predictability, which appeals to global asset managers, says Zia Uddin, president of Monroe Capital, a US-based investment manager that is in the process of establishing a presence in ADGM. The emirate manages some $1.7

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CFO News

JUNE 4, 2025

India's foreign investment landscape has transformed since 2014. The digital economy and manufacturing sectors have seen significant growth. FDI equity inflows have surged, especially between 2019 and 2024. Government reforms like Make in India and Digital India have boosted investor confidence.

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Manufacturing Investments Technology 40

Bramasol

JANUARY 15, 2025

Although these topics have been on our radar in past years, the outlook for 2025 holds a common thread as the accumulated innovation and investment in each of these areas morphs into tangible acceleration, scalability and productivity payoffs going forward. We firmly believe that knowledge and skills are important.

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Global Finance

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Brenda Lovcik is senior vice president and CFO of Trex, a manufacturer of wood-alternative composite decking, railing, and other outdoor items made from recycled materials. To do that, I have spent the last year learning a new industry while drawing from 30-plus years of manufacturing experience in other industries. If so, how?

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CFO News

DECEMBER 21, 2024

This funding, part of the Strengthening Multimodal and Integrated Logistics Ecosystem (SMILE) program, will support policy reforms aimed at enhancing efficiency, attracting private investment, and improving supply chain resilience. The program will also promote sustainable economic growth and job creation.

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CFO News

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Business confidence improved in February, with firms expecting demand strength, new product releases and investments to bode well for growth prospects, S&P Global India survey showed on Wednesday.

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CFO Thought Leader

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

We serve as the connective tissue of modern society, providing the foundational infrastructure that enables enterprises, schools, airports, museums, hospital systems, and manufacturing environments to function seamlessly.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The softer expansion is consistent with the ISM manufacturing-sector survey results (see top of first chart). Manufacturing new orders also ticked down in January and have weakened noticeably since March 2021 (see bottom of first chart). The manufacturing employment index posted a 0.6-point percent from 62.1 percent in December.

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