Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Expansion Time

It’s expansion time at Marico! After SEBI recently gave a green signal to the Qualified Institutional Placement (QIP) route of raising funds, the FMCG major has quickly hopped on to this route to finance its latest acquisition plans. Marico, has raised Rs.1.5 billion through the issue of 2.9million fresh equity share on private placement. Pricing its offering at Rs.522 per share, the company is the first to raise equity through the QIP route. The issue, which opened on November 30, was over subscribed3.4 times. Kotak Investment Banking and Citigroup Global Markets were the joint global coordinators and joint book runners.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2006

An IIPM and Management Guru Professor Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative

Tuesday, December 26, 2006

THE SPY WHO LOVED ME(N)?

DRIVING HOMO... ER, HOME THE POINT OF BOND'S BONDS
Smooth, stylish Sinfully sexy… the core attributes of womaniser who virtually personifies the mythical (you bet!) irresistible man. Whether the girl be hot, likes playing hard-to-get or just another plain Jane, if he fancies her, even in the slightest, he’ll seduce her. Meet Bond James Bond. It takes no less than the super- sleuth to achieve the notorious yet covetable reputation of the Don Juan of the twenty first century. Driving a sleek Doc Marten, or was it an Aston Martin (who’s looking at the car, anyway?!) and armed with the most mind-blowing of gizmos, James Bond has bewitched one too many of the super- babes.

Almost every woman who joins hands with Bond on a mission ends up giving him company through the action- packed days and ahem..nights! Jinx, a spy from the National Security Agency; Dr. Holly Goodhead, an undercover CIA agent, Miss Goodnight, a Secret Service staffer, Kissy Suzuki, an agent of the Japanese Secret Service have all fallen for the charms of this sleuth. The villains pursued by Bond need to devote equal attention to the whereabouts of their gorgeous girlfriends, whom Bond can easily woo and in the course of a short hot affair elicit all the information he desires!

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2006

An IIPM and Malay Chaudhuri – Arindam Chaudhuri Initiative

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Monday, December 18, 2006

Indian Two-Wheeler Industry


Trendsetters – the Munjal family has been at the epicenter of the colossal change brought in the Indian two-wheeler industry, so much so that today their company owns a staggering 52% of the Indian two-wheeler market, and is the world’s single largest two-wheeler company by volumes. Today, the erstwhile bicycle company has six different models in its range of nine product diversifications with the Splendor becoming the most popular motorcycle of all times (across the globe) selling more than a smashing 1.3 million units in the year 2002.

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Source:- IIPM-Business and Economy, Editor:- Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri - 2006

Monday, December 11, 2006

THE CHIC SAMSUNG P310!

A sleek handset with finer portability is what Samsung is offering you this time. Samsung’s P310 is all about style with a chrome and black exterior. The handset’s novel design is all set to lure professionals who believe in creating a chic style statement. Priced at just Rs.21,499, what’re you waiting for? Grab this slim gadget and carry it with class!

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Source:- IIPM-Business and Economy, Editor:- Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri - 2006

Thursday, December 07, 2006

BRAND : Pepsi

AGENCY : JWT

BASELINE : Phir Aayega India

DESCRIPTION: An emotional old man throws the Indian cricket team’s jersey outside his window with tears in his eyes. The jersey goes flying when an aircraft passes over it. Then with a pant of guilt of throwing the Indian jersey, he ran to check out its whereabouts. He feels relieved when he sees the jersey land in a small boy’s hand. The ad ends with smiling face of the old man when he hears the boy screaming ‘Phir Aayega India’.

4Ps TAKE : Even after the failure of the Indian cricket team in the recent Champion’s Trophy, the famous blue billion campaign of Pepsi still continues with the Blue billion ‘Phir Aayega India’ campaign. The core benefit to the brand is its strong emotional connection with the Indian consumers. The single-minded focus of the message is to make Blue-billion campaign a part of the cricketing world fraternity and carry it forward to the forthcoming World Cup event. It is visually captivating as the ad shows the contrasting generation’s emotions for their motherland. May the Indian cricket team perform better in the near future as just as the likely fate of this Blue-billion campaign of Pepsi seems all set to indeed touch the sky!


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Source:- IIPM-Business and Economy, Editor:- Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri - 2006

Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Cover Feature


It has four budget hotels under Ginger brand at the moment, and plans to roll it out across the country. Raymond Bickson, MD & CEO, IHC says, “Priced at Rs.950 for a single room and at Rs.1,175 for a double room, Ginger hotels have created a new category in the domestic hospitality landscape.” Foreign players are also invading this territory. Accor, Best Western and Days Inn are some of the players looking to go for a kill. Hoteliers are eying budget segment as a stream to diversify their hotel business, with the Indian chains not only steaming up things locally, but also in the global markets. Unlike the other industries, overseas invasion by the Indian hoteliers was initiated almost five decades back.


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Source:- IIPM-Business and Economy, Editor:- Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri - 2006

Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Kingfisher Airlines


The moment seems to have arrived for Jet to make merry by digging deep into this 3-million passenger market to and from India, a market which is slated to grow by 10% per year. Well the competition seems to be very much on the cards as another airliner from India, Kingfisher Airlines, is also gunning to follow suit as reported by sources. But what these hitherto domestic competitors can do in the international aviation arena, remains to be seen. For Indian flyers, more and more options are opening up. So, ladies and gentlemen, please fasten your seat belts!!

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Source:- IIPM-Business and Economy, Initiative:- Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri - 2006