Marketers in China will find their biggest consumers among the urban and the affluent

IIPM MBA Institute

By and large, affluent urban dwellers already own a fair amount of what they want: Televisions and mobile phones are ubiquitous. Accordingly, opportunities in this market spring more from upgrades than from first-time product sales. And though marketers may still use the first time-sale approach in rural areas, many affluent city dwellers will be persuaded by brand share and word of mouth….

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Source :- IIPM Editorial, 2006

The true pluralist

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Great ideas, magnificent passion, remarkable achievements; Yashwant Sinha’s race has just begun
The dilemma faced by former Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha is a classic manifestation of good intentions and great opportunities not finding the right political outlet. His quest for political space and relevance in an increasingly fractious BJP also symbolises the existential pangs of the party. In power and looking comfortable – possibly even smug – till May 2004, the return of Congress to the seat of power at Delhi seems to have cast a mesmerizing spell over Sinha and BJP. There is a sense of many momentous things left undone, halted by the inherent cruelty and ruthlessness of electoral fortunes; there is also a sense of drifting and looking seriously at rebuilding without the firepower and the mandate to do so.

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Maintain High Growth and Competitiveness - IIPM Knowledge Centre

The bottom line is, in order to maintain high growth and competitiveness, there should be a sizeable increment in highway investments from the current level of less than 1% of GDP to at least 3%. Private financers in conjunction with government can play an enormous role in construction and maintenance. Maintaining a comprehensive database on the road condition and increasing the user charges by road maintenance fee, highway transport management fee can vastly improve the condition.

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Weapons of Mass Destruction - Publication and Research, IIPM

When weapons of mass destruction were not found, the US and its small (and dwindling) “coalition of the willing” conjured up a new rationale – the struggle for democracy. But if that were the objective, clearly a long list of countries should have been drawn up, and it is hardly certain that Iraq would have come out on top. Replacing repressive dictatorships would, in fact, represent a vast expansion of the UN’s mandate, one that I suspect the US would not support.

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IIPM Business & Economy

Sweet... Very sweet. You can spread out your horses wider hustler, but how's it gonna help you get the dough?" growls an unshaven, tough looking, ciggy smokin' Clint Eastwood at his partner in crime Lee Van Cleef in one of 'em western cowboy great train robbery movies of the late '70s. Times might have changed; but honey, the 'sweet' worry remains the same for ITC Chairman Y. C. "Clint" Deveshwar and his strategic business unit heads; they might've spread their horses far and wide enough, but how are they going to really get that dough?......

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According to T. V. Ramachandran (IIPM PUBLICATION)

COAI director general, “Mobile phones are fast moving from a class service to a mass service for the common man fuelled by continuously falling tariffs and increased coverage by mobile service providers.” These are times when consumers want entertainment anywhere, anytime.

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As an example, Nandan Nilekani, CEO, Infosys, at a press conference before the previous quarter, had said, “On a quarterly sequential basis, we expect earnings to be flat.” But in stark contrast, Infy’s earnings for the quarter ending September 2005 have actually increased by 31.16%, and revenues have already crossed the $1 billion mark in the first half of the current financial year….

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Source :- IIPM Editorial, 2006