Article: India begins to attract more foreign investment

BIWADI, India Gillette razor blades by the thousands formally began rolling out of a modern new plant here last week as the Boston-based multinational company began its climb into the second-biggest shaving market in the world.

Visiting chairman of the board Colman M. Mockler Jr. could not help but smile when he thought of the 2 billion razor blades sold annually in India, second only to the U.S. market of 2.4 billion. His smile grew when he thought of the possibilities of expanding beyond Gillette's 7 o'clock blades, as they are called here, to other shaving products or to the company's line of writing instruments.

After years of being shunned as hostile territory for foreign ...

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