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Monday, May 26, 2008

BRAND PERFORMANCE

So what exactly is brand performance?
No rocket science really. It’s the consumer’s perception of how a brand has been able to stand out amidst the clutter, due to various brand building exercises it undertakes, including distribution, word of mouth publicity, ad campaigns, promotional activities and other marketing initiatives, as opposed to close competitors. No surprises then that Pepsi with its strong below the line activities, coupled with a healthy brand portfolio and shout-out loud advertising, has climbed up the ladder of the Brand Performance index. If rival Pepsi is there, Coke cannot be far behind. But Coke lands 7th position, and not surprisingly, with Thums Up being the flagship Indian cola for the Atlanta behemoth. Airtel, with its ever-expanding subscriber base has also joined the club. Godrej, Infosys, Maruti and Tata Group are also no surprises to be a part of this group, as they remain clear market leaders in their respective sectors.

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Monday, April 28, 2008

The Taj is fast losing its luster

A parliamentary committee report has revealed that the great monument of love, the Taj Mahal, is losing its sheen due to pollution. The committee, headed by Rajya Sabha MP Sitaram Yechury, has recommended that steps should immediately be taken to stop this decay and that the Taj should be restored to its former glory. “The committee expresses its concern that Taj Mahal, the world-famous monument at Agra is becoming yellowish due to the deposition of Suspended Particulate Matter (SPM),” says the report that was tabled in Parliament. “The deposition of SPM on the shimmering white marble of the Taj Mahal imparts yellow tinge to the marble surface. To restore the pristine glory of the Taj Mahal, as a conservation measure, the clay pack treatment, which is non-corrosive and nonabrasive, is carried out for the removal of the deposits.”

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Thursday, April 10, 2008

Picture perfect

This Digital Sill Camera is Samsung’s i70 model and the 7.2 megapixel camera comes with a 3x optical zoom and 3-inch pixel wide LCD with a sliding cover. It’s a multi-functional digital camera that offers 6 functions – of a cam-corder, MP3 player, portable multimedia player, text viewer, voice recorder and portable disk – inside a slim body. It provides an expressive and dynamic user interface and is priced at Rs.23,990.

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Friday, March 07, 2008

The Asian Juggernaut Rolls On

More good news for the Third World. The latest Ernst and Young European Attractiveness Survey, 2007 says that emerging economies will almost certainly overtake the developed economies by 2050. The survey states that India & China will become increasingly popular destinations for global investments. In contrast, North America & Europe will become less and less popular. According to the Ernst and Young Survey, the emerging economies are the five BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China & South Africa) plus Indonesia, Turkey & Mexico. A few years ago in 2003, Goldman Sachs had launched the new Asian mania by forecasting that China & India will become the largest and third largest economies of the world respectively by 2050.

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Thursday, February 21, 2008

Let’s simply call SEBI our favourite

Irregulator...
..rather than keeping on criticising it, eh!
One look at the bloopers that are being committed by my favourite current punching ‘hag’, SEBI, in the recent past is perhaps enough justification for my statement above; for I keep wondering how much can one regulator get wrong? It was a few months ago that SEBI had announced its ostensibly ‘meritorious’ IPO grading system, which it claimed would play a decisive role in helping retail investors take ‘informed’ decisions. So what if no other regulator in the world had ever started such a truant IPO grading system? Let’s see where has it led our dear old IPOs – two recent examples exemplify the issue. Based on SEBI’s IPO rating diktat, Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision Ltd. went to one of the leading rating agencies, Crisil. Imagine its surprise when Crisil awarded it a below average grading of 2 out of 5. So what happened? The scrip listed at a premium of 18% and ended its first day with a rewarding premium of 42%. Currently, the stock is trading at a smashing Rs.378 against the issue price of Rs.160, defying SEBI’s rating logic hands down!

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Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Both handset makers and service operators are dressing up for the ‘festival’ mega-kill. It’s business as usual!

Arpita Pal Agarwal, Associate Director, PwC, agrees, “The buying mood is in the air, so if companies launch new phones with added features at the same price points, it could add more to the current festive season.” Even history stands proof to the fact that this is the season to experiment. Don’t believe us? Well, what about the record sales that Nokia slammed across on October 19, 2006 after introduction of two new models – Nokia 1110 & Nokia 1600 – targeted at first time buyers? Right – during the very festival season when the Finnish mobile handset manufacturer sold a record 400,000 handsets – largest ever in the history of mobile telecommunications… all on one day! Th is year too, not surprisingly, Nokia officials disclosed to B&E their intentions to launch four new handset models - N95, N81, 5610 & 5310 – in the forthcoming season.

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Monday, January 21, 2008

Counting on...and on

Coming to software firms, a record in terms of amount slammed was created by the Federal authorities in February 2007, when it handed down a $1.5 billion fine on Microsoft Corp. for patent infringement (against Alcatel-Lucent). During the same month, it shelled-out another $1 billion when it lost a patent legal-war against at&t. Then there was Sun Microsystems which had to shell-out a deafening $1 billion in 2004 (against Eastman Kodak), eBay – $35 million (against Merc Exchange in 2007), Blackberry – $613 million (against RIM in 2006)… and the list including most revered names involved in the ‘litigation lottery’ goes on. Recently, Texas Republican Congressman Lamar Smith proposed the Patent Reform Act, 2007 in US Congress which suggested the ‘first to file’ system – a step to reform the system of patents just as Brad Smith, Sr. VP, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Microsoft Corp. asserts, “The proposed reform is most likely to create meaningful, lasting impressions by ensuring high patent quality and curbing excessive litigation and litigation abuse...” The bill is being backed by Microsoft , Intel, Apple Computers, Hewlett-Packard and other high-tech litigation-weary giants who spend millions annually in the name of patents.

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Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Nothing official about it

Cricket is the only game in India that enjoys a mass following. No wonder, when marketing honchos of consumer product and service companies draw up plans to reach target consumers, cricket matches become an irresistible vehicle for advertising. Inevitably, the lack of choice leads to frequent wars between sponsors & advertisers. For more than a decade, Coke and Pepsi have fought protracted and often vicious wars over Brand Cricket. Perhaps the most remembered is the 1996 World Cup that had Coke as official sponsor. In a masterful display of sneak attack, Pepsi took the fizz out of Coke by simply running the famous ‘Nothing official about it’ campaign! Nike & Adidas, too, have been similarly embroiled in many a battle, as have dozens of other rival brands. Perhaps the most telling example of how corporate warfare affects cricket dates back to 1990s, when it was rumoured that Rahul Dravid didn’t find a place in the one day team because he endorsed Cok instead of Pepsi. Expect more controversy as the ICL-BCCI battle heats up.

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Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Divine gains...

... from a loss making company!
At the outset, some investment moves look quite illogical, even amusing! Consider the instance of a $50 million Fine Violins Fund (to invest in old violins) in the UK. Or, consider (in the UK again) the investment by BC Partners Ltd. Who bought 76% stake in Intelsat Ltd. for $4.6 billion on June 19. Raymond Svider, a managing partner of BC Partners stated, “Intelsat and the FSS sector are in the midst of a cycle of strong performance.” However, the first reactions of onlookers would be of utter shock.

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Sunday, November 25, 2007

DEFENCE : INTELLIGENCE

Coordi-nAtIoN
The state of internal intelligence

The first strike against your enemy in war is to know when the enemy would strike you. In more conventional words, those are the intelligence agencies that are the mainstay dark horses who decide who would be the victor. While the efficacy of gun totting foot soldiers in a battle can never be underestimated, without adequate backing from a technology driven intelligence division, they are as good as sitting ducks. While there’s a plethora of intelligence agencies starting from RAW, IB, Army Intelligence, Air Force Intelligence et al, the lack of coordination between them is legendary, be it in information on Kargil or even in controlling relentless terrorist activities.

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Thursday, November 01, 2007

VANDANA SHIVA

Globalisation and climate change
In the era of climate change, India is at an energy crossroad
The latest report of U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), by 2,500 scientists from 130 countries, has confirmed that man-made climate change is threatening life on Earth. Temperatures are likely to rise by 1.10 C - 6.40 C by 2100. Sea levels will rise by 18-59 cm by 2100. Arctic ice could disappear in summers by 2100. Global warming would impact 5,018 glaciers in the Himalayas. Pundari Glacier is retreating at 13 metres a year, and the Gangetic glacier; the source of the Ganga is retreating at 30 metres annually. In two decades, Himalayan glaciers will shrink from 500,000 sq.km. to 100,000 sq.km.

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Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Warming up for doomsday?

From an apt mix of heat and water paving the way for new life forms to this present state of global warming, human needs and technology have consistently given the earth an increasingly deadly makeover ever since we started rolling the first wheel. Are we drawing our doom closer?

Mumbai Monsoon Madness
Although many fingers were pointed at Bombay Municipal Corporation for bad maintenance of sewage lines, it is unlikely that any amount of preparation could’ve helped on July 26 ’05. 37.2 inches of rain, all in a matter of 24 hours, brought the entire city and other parts of Maharashtra to a standstill. Such was the magnitude of the downpour that parts of Bengalooru and Rajasthan too were affected. Pune based Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology did a study and found out that although the average rainfall in India remained pretty similar, rainfall patterns have changed drastically over a period of around 50 years. It showed increase in heavy rain events and its frequency and a decrease in moderate events, especially in central India.

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Thursday, October 18, 2007

The green Raja of our times

Raja epitomises hard-work, loyalty, dedication to duty and a fine mind ever ready to innovate
One doesn’t have to be a diehard environmentalist to head Ministry of Environment. But Andimuthu Raja, who was Union Minister for Environment and Forest till recently, has keen interest in the subject. So much so that within two years of his appointment, he brought out a comprehensive National Environment Policy (NEP) besides taking several steps for conservation of wild and endangered species like tigers & elephants. Raja also triggered off a series of legislative changes for management of environment and natural resources. He devolved some of his powers to give environment clearance to certain non-dangerous industrial projects to state governments. Now clearance of chemical, cement and aluminium industries only are left with the Union Environment Ministry. During his stint in the ministry, Raja formulated National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) and set up Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) too.

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Friday, October 12, 2007

Protecting the environment

“There seems to be a great deal of interest in protecting the environment from the central government in China. There’s innovation around issues like green building & solar power. But China is also building a lot of coal plants. And in the province, rapid economic development and job creation take precedence over environmental protection. So the picture is very mixed,” said Marc Gunther, a senior writer at Fortune & the author of Faith & Fortune: How Compassionate Capitalism is Transforming American Business. As the government is now starting to realise the importance of environmentally sustainable economic growth, so are the MNCs operating in the manufacturing capital of the world. “China has long represented the last frontier for MNCs to escape environmental regulations. Many took full advantage of the opportunity to pollute with reckless abandon. Result: Their reputations are now suffering! In the new world of transparency & accountability, there is no place for MNCs to hide,” adds Clark. Consequently, neither these MNCs nor Beijing can afford to brush the environmental malaise that is afflicting the nation under the carpet any more, because it is now beginning to show.

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Thursday, September 06, 2007

AIR INDIA

Scaling heights beyond the blue sky and making it to the top 100
‘Your palace in the sky’ – Air India! Reaching high in the sky was not easy for an Indian planning to go abroad without India’s first international airline – Air India. It acted as a stepping stone for many other international airlines that came quite later in the nation. The ever-smiling Maharajah, the popular mascot of the airline, communicates impressively the endearing symbol of Indian hospitality and has been the most successful brand icon of all the times. According to Veera Khambatta, Dy. Commercial Manager, Advertising and Special Promotions: “This is our 75th year of operation as the flag carrier of our nation, most of it as an international airline, we are justifiably proud of the long and glorious history of brand Air India.”

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Monday, September 03, 2007

L’OREAL

L’Oreal launched a new shade to celebrate the Abhi-Ash wedding, but the pricey image stays
What’s common between Garnier, Maybelline, Lancôme, Ralph Lauren, Cacharel and Matrix is not only their standing as the one of the most distinguished brands of the world, but also that all of them are from one stable – L’Oréal. L’Oréal’s sojourn to success started in 1907, when a young French chemist, Eugène Schueller, crafted a safe hair colour recipe. Years later, bringing a hair colour, other than black, for the first time in India was perhaps the only hurdle it needed to cross to root itself deep into the market!

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Wednesday, August 29, 2007

MRF

The tyre major must focus more on its image-building exercise to extend its already acquired lead over peers
MRF’s mascot ‘Muscle Man’ (born in 1964) is still scoring high for this brand, much like its celebrated ambassador Sachin Tendulkar. However, this brand’s image is not solely built on its exceptional marketing strategies, but also on its world-class product portfolio and high customer satisfaction. The tyre major acquired the number one rank for the fifth time in J D Power Asia Pacific Customer Satisfaction Index (Indian tyre industry) released on May 3, 2007. Says Mohit Arora, Sr. Director, J D Power Asia Pacific: “MRF’s industry-leading performance is driven by particularly high ratings from customers in all five factors, the brand posts year over-year improvements in all factors, and their customers note particularly high advocacy and loyalty intentions.”

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Wednesday, August 22, 2007

NDTV

The man and his faultless vision have helped this brand to continually break new ground
If there are few TV programmes which people still remember in today’s deluge of news channels, from the good ol’ days of Doordarshan, then The World This Week definitely stands a class apart! The legacy dates back to 1988; and the man who made it possible with his savvy and intelligent persona: Dr. Prannoy Roy, who virtually built up the media behemoth NDTV from scratch. Today, NDTV stands tall in the news channel genre and is gung-ho on entering the entertainment channel stakes too, with Sameer Nair (of Star Plus fame) and Karan Johar joining his fledging empire.

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Tuesday, August 21, 2007

HINDUSTAN TIMES

A decade ago, Home TV had demonstrated that HT will leave no stone unturned to strengthen its brand portfolio!
Those were the days when K. K. Birla was at the helm of the Hindustan Times... the Group carried a different image and a different legacy. Times changed dramatically when Shobhana Bhartia took charge and brought Vir Sanghvi on the floor. The brand gradually acquired a more youthful image. Over the last year specifically, the brand took a slew of initiatives to sustain its position in the Indian market, the most talked about among them being the launch of its daily business tabloid – Mint – earlier this year.

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Monday, August 20, 2007

MAGGI

We’ve grown up on the ubiquitous Maggi, but will the brand survive the ‘health’ onslaught?
“Just 2 minutes...” Of course, you’d never be able to forget something as tasty as this 2-minute treat! And it all started with Maggi Noodles! When someone asked your preference for noodles, pat came the answer – “I love it”, or “I don’t like it”! That’s the kind of power that this 2-minute punch, called Maggi, began to command. And Nestlé was shrewd enough to leverage the prowess of the brand name; it extended it to soups as well, which are selling well in the Indian market. But, where, as on one hand, Maggi may be a market leader, competition is coming in fast and furious from the likes of ‘Wai Wai’. No wonder Maggi has slumped 5 places to a lowly 33rd position.

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