KACHARAGADLA

Among BRICS nations, India is the only country to have witnessed an increase in its brand value with all others --Brazil, Russia, China and South Africa -- seeing a dip in their respective brand valuations.  India has moved up one position to become the world’s seventh most valued ‘nation brand’ as per the annual report on world’s most valuable nation brands compiled by Brand Finance. The report says that India has registered an increase of 32% in its brand value to 2.1 billion dollars. The US remains on the top with a valuation of 19.7 billion dollars, followed by China and Germany at the second and the third positions respectively. The UK is ranked 4th, Japan is at fifth position and France is sixth on the list. While India and France have moved up one position each since last year, all the top-five countries have retained their respective places. However, the surge of 32% in India’s ‘nation brand value’ is the highest among all the top-20 countries on the list. Ch