When the fizzy lot turn dizzy!

The colas have finally realised the need for a healthy future!
Summertime is harvest time for the cola majors, a time for raking in revenues like never seen before during the year, right? Wrong!!! Look at the manner in which both Coca Cola and Pepsico have suffered in the country’s summer, and the manner in which they are sweating it out… really unanticipated, but very very true indeed! As per Beverage Digest, the market of carbonated drinks during the period dried up by an alarming 0.6% globally. And if that surprised you (it’s huge when you say – globally!), here’s a bigger shocker – cola sales in India for the period April-May 2007 nose-dived by a shocking 15-17% against the same period during 2006!

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007

An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative

Intel chips up!

As Barcelona is about to launch,
Intel looks well prepared
It’s a fight to cram more and more electronic circuitry in the least available space. It’s a fight to deliver better performance at fewer bucks. It’s Intel v/s AMD yet again. Though the war was never over, the competitors were only waiting for the right moment to unleash their plans. At a time when AMD’s answer to Intel’s Quad Core, Barcelona, was just about to be unveiled, Intel has once again emerged as the biggest roadblock to defer AMD’s aspirations. Interestingly, this time, Intel has opted to hurt itself to make AMD bleed. The world’s largest chipmaker has announced a 50% price cut for its top-end Core 2 Duo chips. Such is the fierceness of competition between these players that despite AMD incurring a net loss of $166 million and In experiencing a 42% decline in net profits due to price cuts in 2006, the companies continue to deploy this price cut strategy.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007

An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative

THREAT : NAXALITE

The enemy within...
...is the government, because of whom the Naxalite problem exists
It’s been a long time since the days of Charu Majumdar and Naxalbari movement. India has changed much from those days and though disparities, inequalities and discrimination still prevail in many of the pockets of the country, the movement that is going on in the name of Naxalism today is far from the ideology of Charu Majumdar. Ironically, today Naxalites have literally become an anti-thesis of what essentially was the reason for the initiation of the movement. In the last few years, more people have died due to their mayhem than in wars or in, say, Kashmir. Those are oft en the hapless and poor foot soldiers of CRPF and State police along with innocent villagers who are the victims of their atrocity. Critics say that given the millions they collect annually through extortion, they could have literally changed the landscape of rural India if they wanted.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007

An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative

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And kiss ‘n make up with Pakistan?

In other words, why India has no answer to the Pakistan issue
Pakistan perennially remains the emotionally disadvantaged Siamese sibling of India whose existence is a predicament more for itself than for India. It took more than sixty years for India to reach the trillion dollar mark in GDP. Would India have taken lesser time if Pakistan had been more, ahem, loving? One guesses not. But born on the pretext of a separate nation for Muslims, the fact cannot be wished away that Pakistan has not digested the existence and success of a secular India whose Muslim population is bigger than its own. Over the years, as it witnessed the increasing stability of India against all odds and its rising economic and strategic prominence in the global arena (while Pakistan’s slide continued), the powers within the nation become hell bent on killing India’s social harmony. But with that dream going sour, like the Kashmir dream, a desperate Pakistan has let loose all its fangs in all corners of India.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007

An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative

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The army’s fallen behind China
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The Man of Steel gets his hands in Oil
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Delicious divorce!
11/19/2007
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Going going . . .gone?!
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Taking Taj to places...

The hospitality industry will see more inflow of funds as Taj Group of Hotels will invest about Rs.10 billion for developing four hotels in Bangalore. Sumit Guha, Vice President-Development, Indian Hotels, owners of the Taj Hotels chain expressed his views as “We will invest around Rs.10 billion for building four hotels in Bangalore, of which two are already under construction, while the ones in Devanahalli and Yashwantpur will take three years to complete”. Beyond domestic presence, the Group is also foraying into overseas market in Maldives, Mauritius, Colombo, Boston and Sydney. The company has also expressed interest in modernisation of Delhi airport and to build a hotel in the national capital.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007

An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative

Kellogg: Not for children under...

Kellogg Company, popularly known as Kellogg, has decided to block marketing of certain products to children. The voluntary initiative would see the introduction of ‘front of pack’ nutrition labelling. As per Kellogg Global Nutrient Criteria, a new internal standard, the company would adhere to certain norms while deciding what and how to market to children via all the channels. According to the company, ‘those products that don’t meet the criteria (which is almost 50% of Kellogg products currently marketed to children worldwide) will either be reformulated to meet the ‘Nutrient Criteria’ or they will no longer be marketed to children under twelve by the end of 2008.’ Later in 2007, the company would introduce Guidline Daily Amounts (GDAs) in the US, Canada and Mexico on the front labels of ready-to-eat cereal packages on sale.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007

An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative

Google’s spoilt party!

eBay has decided to go offline from the US network of Google’s AdWords, signaling the fading relations between the former partners. AdWords is the major source of revenues for the search engine company. The online auctioneer justifies this move as a continual initiative to look at their marketing across different media channels. Sources however believe that Google’s announcement of Checkout Freedom Party was the primary source of disdain. Competitor eBay Live, apparently launched the same day, is a conference where different sellers on the site meet. Though Google has cancelled the party, the two internet giants are not comfortable with each other’s competing products. A rapprochement is now awaited though.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007

An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative

Fur-trimmed jackets

What have been your efforts to further the cause both in your daily personal life and to make others aware?
For starters, I never eat meat. And I don’t buy leather shoes or fur-trimmed jackets or buy lipstick that was tested by blinding rabbits. It’s not hard, it just means being aware of what I’m buying and supporting, learning which cosmetics brands are cruelty-free, and reading labels to find leather – not leather – boots and bags. I really believe in teaching by example: If others can look at me and see how easy it is to take simple steps to reduce suffering, they’ll be inspired to make kind choices too.

How is it possible for you to make a style statement without contributing to animal ill treatment?
My friend Stella McCartney doesn’t use a stitch of fur, leather, or merino wool in her designs. That’s the trend: The most innovative designers are refusing to work with animal skins, and they’re proving that it’s easy to create a look that kills without killing animals.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007

An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative

The wrath of poseidon

As the poles melt into the ocean and the rising sea levels consume coast line, is the world ready to holocaust to come Starting from the Antarctica glaciers like Ururashraju, Grinnell, Portage (Alaska), Rhone glacier in the Kanton of Valais, Switzerland, The Pasterze – Austria’s longest glacier, which has now completely vanished, the 1,600 sq. km Larsen A ice shelf broke off in 1995, The Wilkins ice shelf (1,100 sq km) parted away in 1998 and Larsen B (13,500 sq km) broke off in 2002. San Francisco, Manhattan, major parts of Florida, Costa Rica, Buenos Aires (Argentina), Greenland, London, Venice, Iceland, Netherlands, parts of Norway, Hamburg, Sierra Leone, parts of Saudi Arabia, India (Chennai, Mumbai and Calcutta), Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, China (Shanghai, Beijing), Manila, Malaysia could all become submerged soon.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007

An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative