researchas: Dear BritishEmpire. Thanks for the comments, I do agree with you with respect to leyland and enfield. They were already running fine in india whereas in UK ,they were unprofitable and unmanageable.But even then if you look at the innovation and research in two stages pre british and post british with respect to the number of patents filed ,in the pre stage its 1/10 of the patents filed after post stage. But with recent cases its different. Corus steel still exists intact , no jobs in netherland and UK have been shifted out to india. The segments that corus caters to is different and what tata steel has in india , its different. Then comes tetley tea, its popular in europe and usa not in india at all. It sells more in poland than india.Then comes to land rover and jaguar, you will be surprised, there is no market for it in india coz import duty is 266% and people are not intrested in forgiegn brands thats why puegout, citroen, fiat are all out from indian market. Even more strange, our neighbouring country pakistan has dealers of JLR but not in india. There are many more companies like that may be one of your popular newspapers is also a takeover target from india. My point is when british and polish hate us so much, what is the point in seeking our investments to rescue your industries?. We are investing everwhere now. The outward FDI is more than the inward FDI now. In 2008, british investment in india is many times less than the indian investment in UK, which is number 2 after US. Dont forget that there are cultural and social issues also in involved in globalisation and investments. For example :Why africa and cis countries are weak in attracting investments despite of being rich in natural resources? its cultural. Partly the other reasons you have given are also correct but you know with chinese its valid not with us see the case of MG rover, nanjing closed all of sudden and outsourced it to china. We acquired many companies in europe and usa but did not outsource it to india. So the main purpose was to keep the jobs intact at the parent location which was met with. Now one of the commentors here i think a british lady was really very angry with us. So thats why i had to answer it. I dont think , it to be offending. It was surprising at least from a brit. I think that your missing the bigger picture, if your country can come to the uk and take over a company but the reverse is very difficult then it will be no surprise that we will see more companies from the uk taken over than indian. Even if it was more level playing feild it would still be difficult to compete in industries that are low tech/ low skilled which is why you will see many developed countries moving towards service sector (banking) or high tech/high value end products. This is globalisation but on the plus side it atracts new investment, but lets be honest here just because someone is willing to invest in you doesnt mean you have to like them, thats life!. Once the demand grows in there home markets india and china will move more of these companies to feed there markets which dont really exist at the moment. You have to remember that we became industrialised about 200 years ago so its very difficult to keep things going so what your experiencing is this process, yes you will have many profitable and successful businesses but as time goes by you will have many that fail which is inevitable.
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