Times Private Treaties Puts Shine In The Sunrise Sectors

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Times Private Treaties has created a strong portfolio in India’s sunrise sectors and hopes to drive growth through them.

India’s sunrise sectors such as retail, wellness & healthcare, media & entertainment and IT & IT-Enabled services are receiving a lot of attention from Times Private Treaties which has created a strong portfolio in these sectors and hopes to drive growth through them.

The client list includes Manhattan Communications, Percept Picture Company and Nimbus Communications (through it Nimbus and its associate company NEO Sports Broadcast) in media & entertainment sector and Birla Life Sciences, HCG Oncology, Thyrocare, Apollo Clinic, Richfeel & more in the healthcare sector.

Few of their portfolio companies in the retail space are Abee Shope, Archies, Delta Corp, Indiabulls Retail (Piramyd Retail), Nik Nish Retail, Pantaloon Retail (India) Ltd, Pampered Home (Identiti), Welspun Retail Ltd and Today’s Writing Instruments. The IT & ITES client portfolio includes Access Atlantech, Adrenalin eSystems Ltd, Allied Digital Services Pvt Ltd., Indiamart and Micro Technologies, to name a few.

Indian retail is abuzz with investments, from both local market and global players. According to an ASSOCHAM report, investments worth Rs. 27, 550 cr are expected to be made in the Indian retail sector. Another recent report by AT Kearney mentions that inspite of the downturn; India still heads the list for retail investment and is number two in the emerging opportunities for global retailers.

A recent report released by Ernst & Young “Tune in to emerging entertainment markets: spotlight on Brazil, Russia, India and China,” highlights that in India, there is an increase in the number of channels and adoption of digital distribution platforms; the country has also become a hot bed for media content outsourcing and is the largest film-producing nation in the world. Satellite television subscribers in India, which currently account for 15% of the total 130 million television sets, are set to double in the next 2 years.