Strong Brands make a strong nation: So Why are Indian brands still lagging behind?

we should not hope for any improvement till corruption is removed from our country.you cant name any indian brand with quality because every body is interested in making money.even company wants to provide good qualty service our agents ,dealers do not allow to do so .in our present education system we are only producing quantity engineers and not quality a student with 40 to 50 percentile marks in cat gets admission in best b school same every where what you can expect from them,we can never compete in market

Even developing countries like ours do make strong brands, Lakme, Thums up, Limca etc are all Indian brands. Whatsoever Coke tried to kill Thums-Up, it could not do that. Unfortunately now these brands are owned by foreign MNC's due to one or other reason but at present, if now we have the audacity to buy brands like Jaguar & Landrover, we do have the potential of not only  creating brands & but required intensity for making them global too.

Brands are built over years of continuous efforts to connect with the consumers by firing all the cylinders you have got. After surviving and moving ahead the onslaught of multi nationals post liberalization, Indian companies has realized the need to connect on longer terms with the consumers and alongwith doing product branding, they are also doing social marketing. Apart from that Indian companies never really looked byond India boundries in pre liberalization era. But they have now taken it up in a big way with Tata acquiring Corus and JLR, outside world has started noticing the might of Indian compnies. So, I think that very soon we will also see very strong Indian brands.  

Really we got good brands but the problem is other countries have inoculated their business into our economy and finally made us to forget our country brands. In IT sector we've had good brands and also in bio-tech industry (biocon) and I need to dig more on this...India is a developed country and we are ignorant...

Though India opened its borders thru liberalisation it allowed companies to enter its market this was not reciprocated. The indian brands did not venture out to the outside world. Very recently is this being observed with indian companies buying out foreign brands & incresing its operations & presence.It will take some time till the results start to show

For me both go together. Most strong brands are form developed countries. On the other hand we are still developing country. We have got together as a country only 60 years back. We opened our economic polices only by 1990-91. In this way we have started very late. Now we do have world class brands (TATA, Reliance, Wipro, Bharti, UB group to name a few) 
Since the economy is doing well we are able to put better infrastature in place, which is very essential for industries. This also reduces the cost of production. Which money can be utilized in other mode of Brand building.   

Very simple, developing countries only think of today and whats the earning factor for today. So we choose the services factor. We dont budget good amount for the RnD, Why ..because ministry need to address lot more things than RnD , which could be a true representation of countries tomorrow. So the poverty line makes lot of difference. Our own counties top notch guys are the imp part of the so called developed countries brands. I dont say we can never make it, but there should be a mindset change happenning.. im sure we are in this line, we just need to be patient for some more time.WE HAVE BRIGHT FUTURE AHEAD.

Developing Nations extended their Brands to other Nations when Sales from their parent Nations were stagnant. However,they had to adapt their Brands as per local conditions. India is a young nation as far as globalization is concerned, but last 18 years were enough to lay a strong foundation.There was huge influx of global Brands in India because of its huge Market size. The fact that many India brands like Air Tel emerged during these 18 years, and the fact that Indian Brands are equally competing with global brands is a tribute to our Desi Companies. Now is a take off stage. With Indians acquiring more and more companies overseas, Indian Brands will be more visible in the International Market in the years to come. Moreover, with strong competition in the IndiaN market, leading Indian companies will feel the need to extend their Brands Internationally to survive. By the above logic, you will see more global presence of Indian Brands Internationally in the next 10 years. To sum up, Indians are not lagging behind, but catching up

India itself is a strong brand and as per Dr.AbdulKalam india will be a global power to reckon with
in another 10 to 15 yrs time.

I believe the opposite. Strong nations make strong brands!! By strong I mean nations which are on the economic growth map. Nations which have the basic infrastructure to shape large conglomerates with an export potential. Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Indonesia, South Africa, New Zealand, Spain etc are known nations but not strong enough in their infrastructure to PRODUCE indigenously. Most of these countries thrive on industries like Dairy Development, Tourism which are not industries that allow you to build an economy!!

So I believe that it is nations that have strong, growing economies that have the capacity to build stron brands!! Thanks for the referral Jayant!!

Two more important things they do is 5) faster resolution of consumer complaints like a Small Claims Court the counterpart of our Consumer Forums resolves a consumer complaint in 15 minutes.6)Strong emphasis on 'innovaton of new products and enhancement of existing ones. for this a strong supervised skill transfer mechanism through University education and research is designed all over the Nation. 
Then ofcourse last but not the least a well disciplined work force which follow democratic culture and belief in welfare for everyone as a culture.

nexttally we'll be in

I think it has to do with the cost factor. To get good brands it will mean doing research, etc to ensure that is differs from what is already in the market. 

India is a developing country wheras US/UK are already developed . Of course one day we will be the best among all in international level.
Retail sector is booming now . So is the infrastructure,IT industry, AD agencies, Hospitality ,Fashion industry.etc. We have a lot of young enterpreneurs rising in our country. These younger ones are hunting for the best skills to build the best brand.
Definetely it takes time.

There are many reasons why America has more global brands than others. Some of them are 1)efficient commercial laws, like one cannot vend a product that is not fit enough for the standard purpose 2)"fair exchange" in transactons base on the economic adage of "getting something for nothing", let me explain, in a 'fair exchange' in a transacton one pary don't get better off than the other or the other party here the vendor don't get 'unjustly enriched'. So the vendor sells to make the consumer feel that he got "something for nothing". This is achieved through "marginal pricing" and proper design in the transfer of "idiosyncratic risks" and "mutuality principles".3)To accomodate the above two every vedning space has both replacement and return windows or options where by a customer can return the brought even after 6 months if he is not satisfied with the product and he will get his money back with interest for the time in between which he returned the product3)efficient economic environment based on welfare where the "redistribution" well designed and "competiton" allocates resources to the most effcient and the inefficient gets preempted and cannot survive.4)Presence of stron Institutions which ensures wellfare oriented regulations and commercial practices.

One of the reason for that is Globalization.....

Globalization in India started in the early 1990's not in a full flow though. Indian Brands have started competing internationally & are facing hurdles to compete with them in terms of image, technology & quality.

Indian counterparts also have a wrong notion that brand building always have to cost lots of money. Contrary to common perceptions in companies, branding is more than advertising and marketing communications alone. Nice company logos or modern design identities are not key ingredients for branding. Instead, successful branding is strategic, involves all aspects of a company and must be deeply embedded throughout the entire organization. This ensures a successful balance between brand promise and brand delivery. In the future, this requires companies to become more cross-functional, to manage and measure results through multiple marketing metrics, and work in teams to play an important part of brand building.
 
Corporations also must realize the importance of moving up the value chain..... 

Thanks for sharing shiuli :)