Jobs may be largely credited with rescuing Apple from the brink of oblivion during the late 90s, but he wasn't alone in doing so.

Ratan Tata spent his first ten years at the helm of the family company tidying up its rambling and often decrepit Indian businesses before turning his attention to foreign markets in the late 1990s.

The market in China is forecast to grow by 15% a year to 2015, reaching $43 billion by 2019; India’s is galloping at 23%, and should top $10 billion by the decade’s end.