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Dun & Bradstreet India (D&B India), continuing its commitment towards supporting the development of small and medium enterprises, has launched the inaugural edition of Emerging SMEs: Pune 2008. The publication is the second in the cluster series dedicated exclusively to the SMEs across the country. The publication seeks to profile the emerging SMEs in the Pune cluster and attempts to provide a platform for the profiled SMEs to showcase their achievements.

Over the last few decades, Pune has proved to be a viable option for setting up SMEs in terms of infrastructure, financing and technology. Emerging SMEs: Pune 2008 focuses on SMEs whose manufacturing units are situated in Pune and nearby areas. The publication covers three prominent sectors in terms of number of units and employment – Engineering, Food Processing and IT & ITeS-BPO.

For the purpose of inclusion in the publication, over 4,000 companies were contacted and screened on the basis of turnover, investment and employee size. The end result is a repository of authenticated information on SMEs that have a turnover in the range of Rs 10 million – Rs 1,000 million for engineering and food processing while Rs 5 million – Rs 100 million for IT & ITeS-BPO. A total of 299 companies have been covered and profiled in the publication. The publication also includes the cluster insights that have been collated from the direct responses from SMEs highlighting their various activities and the cluster related benefits and hindrances.

Private limited companies formed the dominant category in all the three sectors accounting for 71% of the engineering sector; 54% from the food processing industry and 83% from the IT & ITeS-BPO sector. Light Engineering manufacturing was the most popular product category in the engineering industry with around 56% of the companies involved in light engineering segment. In the food processing sector, 16% of the profiled companies are involved in the processing of fruits & vegetables while in the case of IT & ITeS-BPO, 38% of the sampled companies were engaged in IT services segment.

A majority of the companies profiled were pursuing or interested in deploying various growth strategies in the near future. Likewise, with respect to future growth plans, 84% of the engineering companies envisaged strategies for future growth with 42% interested in modernising their plants. 97% of the companies from food processing segment and 91% from IT & ITeS-BPO sector have future expansion plans. In terms of the benefits derived from being part of a cluster, manpower training and technology availability were the top two elements. In terms of manpower training, 17% of the engineering companies, 24% of the food processing companies and 26% of the IT & ITeS-BPO companies in the sample claim to have benefited from being part of the cluster. Many more such insights are present in the following pages.

With the SME segment poised to play an important role in the growing economy, D&B India is confident that Emerging SMEs: Pune 2008 will provide the right platform for SMEs to tap global opportunities and tackle emerging business challenges.

Kaushal Sampat
Chief Operating Officer
Dun & Bradstreet India