• India has about 57 million urban and 136 million rural households

• India’s 60% of all goods and 80% of all passenger movement is on roads.

• World’s largest marketing workforce is LIC agent base of 1 million agents

• Privately held gold in India is worth Rs 9.2 trillion (4 times the amount held
in Fort Knox and about 1/5th of all gold ever mined in the world (source:
World Gold Council)

Healthcare:

• India spends Rs 1,030 billion on healthcare or 5.2% of its GDP.

• India’s beauty care market is Rs 2.2 billion (source: ORG MARG)

• India’s sanitary market is Rs 5.5 billion

• India’s soap market is Rs 41.75 billion (source: AC Neilson 2003)

• Branded toothpaste penetration is 76.8% in urban areas and 37.1% in rural

India (source; NRS 2002)

• Branded oil has a market of Rs 13 billion (includes coconut hair oil Rs 9.1
billion) and shampoo market is Rs 10.3 billion (source: AC Neilson 2003)

• Rubs and balms market in India is Rs 4.7 billion (source: AC Neilson 2003)

• Fabric wash market is 2.5 million metric tones of synthetic detergents at

about Rs 55 billion

• Prickly heat powder market is Rs 1 billion in India and talcum powder is Rs 5

billion

• Total analgesics market is Rs .25 billion (source: AC Neilson 2003)

• Total medicated throat drops (lozenge) market in India is Rs 430 million

(source: AC Neilson)

Food

• Market of health beverages is Rs 10.4 billion and about 48,000 tonnes

(source: AC Neilson 2003)

• Indian biscuit market is 1.1 million tones per annum at Rs 50 billion. About
90% of Indians buy and eat biscuits.

• Indigenously produced and branded edible oil market is 360,000 metric

tonnes per annum and is consumed by 29 million households (source: AC
Neilson)
 • Ketchup penetration is 13% in urban Indian and 3.7% nationally.
Consumption is 650 grams (annual average) and size of the market is Rs 1.2
billion. (source: AC Neilson)

• India is world’s largest producer and consumer of black tea. Total tea market
is 650 million kgs of tea (including branded at 232 million kgs) (source: IRS
data 2003-04)

• 80% of all beverage consumption in India is tea; 10% coffee and 10% others
like soft drinks.

• Pre-packaged iodized salt is worth Rs 10 billion (source: IRS data 2003-04)

Automobile Industry

• Indian lead acid battery market is estimated at Rs 21 billion (automotive at

Rs 13 billion and industrial at Rs 8 billion)

• India is the second largest two-wheeler market in the world. Two-wheelers

account for 79% of all automobile sales in India (source: Society of Indian
Automobile Manufacturers - SIAM).

• India’s tyre market is Rs 120 billion (source; SIAM)

• World market for bicycles is 108 million. Hero Honda of India is worlds
largest manufacturer of bicycles.

• 1 million passenger cars were sold in India in 2003-04 (source: SIAM).

Maruti 800 at US$4200 is the cheapest car in the world.

• Automobile lubricants market is Rs 55 billion

• Tata Automobile is the youngest passenger car company in the world, putting
India in the top 10 countries in the world for car manufacturing

Industry

• India uses 80 million rolls per annum, whereas USA uses 850 million and
Japan 400 million and China uses 200 million film rolls per annum.

• Indian hospitality industry is Rs 60 billion in annual revenues (source:

Department of Tourism). India has 85,000 hotel rooms.

• Indian courier (domestic and international) market is Rs 25 billion (source:

ORG MARG)
• Indian telecom industry has 42.58 million fixed line telephones as of March
2004 (source;TRAI)

• Indian jewelery market is Rs 500 billion, of which organized sector is Rs 10

billion

• India’s paint market is Rs 45.7 billion with sales of 567 million liters of paint
sold every year

• Plywood and allied products market is Rs 35 billion in India

• Writing instruments market in India is Rs 150 billion

• There are 5,638 dailies in circulation in 101 languagaes and dialects in 2002
(Source: Registrar of Newspapers in India). Times of India is world’s largest
read English newspaper with 7.4 million readers (source: IRS 2003)

• Indian watch market is 30 million watches perr annum (source: Horological

Fed of India)

• India’s Refrigeration and washing machine market is Rs 50 billion (source:

ORG)

• Total market size of 293 scheduled commercial banks (2004) was Rs 14.2
trillion for deposits (source: RBI)

• World’s first floating ATM is located on a barge on backwaters of Kerala

• TV channel market is expected to grow from Rs 111 billion in 2003 to Rs 292

billion in 2007. Subscription forms 70% and advertisements 30% of the
revenues (source: FICCI)

• Annual jeans wear is 24 million pairs in India

• 88 million shirts are sold in India annually and branded apparel market is Rs
40 billion