BHP Billiton's Operations in Indian and Chinese Markets

International and Global Business

Introduction
 Started operating in the year 1885
 Headquarter at Collin Street, Melbourne
 Trades in coal, iron ores, natural gas and copper.
 Made its expansion in some of the Asian countries such as China,
Malaysia, Korea and India (Cottle & Keys, 2014).

Entry into Indian and Chinese
Market
 Operating in the Indian market
for over thirty years.
 One of giant suppliers of
energy coal to the Indian
market.
 Set its foot in the fields of
natural gas in modes of
liquefied gas and LNG (Ma,
2013).
 By 2050, the country will
eventually grow to be one of
the four largest economies
(Hurst, 2015).
 Chinese market is one of the
largest and sustainable
consumer base of the raw
materials.
 Over the course of 30 years,
the Chinese market has been
claiming to be of 15% of the
world consumption (Cottle &
Keys, 2014).
 Rapid urbanization and
infrastructural growth is the
primary driving force.