M&A: Financial crisis spells curtains for India’s ailing media firms

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M&A: Financial crisis spells curtains for India’s ailing media firms

In the heady days of galloping GDP growth and expanding equity markets, companies piled into India’s media businesses. But with advertising revenues drying up, companies are firing employees and searching for investor bail-outs. The upshot is: closure or consolidation. Ruth David reports.

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