Friday, October 24, 2008

Travails of the comeback kid

Dell’s success mantra till date had been “customised product building” an approach that worked immensely wellDell with professional and corporate clients, which soon became a cut throat market as these people had a good knowledge of products and prices. The need to find new customers had Dell changing its direct selling philosophy and entering the retail mode. Starting from June this year, Dell began to sell its PCs through Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club stores in US and in important emerging markets like India (through 40 Tata Croma stores) and in China (where it intends to open 3,500 retail sites) to complement its direct sales business. The retooling drive also focuses on paying more attention to detailed designing and colours.....Continue

Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).

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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Bus(c)h: SOLD!!!

20% premium makes a great sell...

Did you miss this space in B&E’s July 24, 2008 issue? Well, for the uninformed, B&E had advised using sound research that Anheuser-Busch (AB) should not accept the “fair-value” $65/share takeover offer made by InBev during the first week of July and that it should wait for the premium to rise, which InBev did!!! There was another piece of advice – that AB should wait for “some weeks” till the offer price shoots northwards and the premium level touches about 20% (considering these low liquidity times].

Cut to the present and we have the “increased fair value” of $70/share or $52 billion takeover from InBev being accepted by AB on July 18, 2008 (2 weeks later), marking a premium of 18.23% as compared to its July 6, 2008 Mcap of $43.98 billion! The new company would be known as Anheuser-Busch InBev. For AB’s shareholders, there could be no better news....Continue

Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).

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Saturday, October 11, 2008

The more we are, the harder we...

Did you say ‘fall’? India’s population grows, and JSK is the new tactic
Art Hoppe had once rightly said, “We all worry about the population explosion, but we don’t worry about it at the right time.” With the population of India hovering at around 1.3 billion, this sure is a time to deter the exponential growth of the Indian inhabitants. Well, isn’t that something people knew already? But what people do not seem to know is that India has managed to attain this burgeoning population figure despite the incorporation of various Population Stabilisation Programmes. In fact, India was very much a signatory to the Improved Pyramid Construction Design programme, by the virtue of which various family planning programmes were implemented, and consequently imploded and destroyed.

One forgets that India was supposed to be a nation of 1.26 billion by 2015; a figure we’ve crossed already. And now, there’s a new initiative round the block, the Jansankhya Sthirata Kosh (JSK). This programme, which is an outcome of Government and civil society put together, seeks to achieve its goals through different social sectors. Interestingly, JSK has already undertaken many initiatives, like the National Rural Health Mission, Janani Suraksha Yojana, GIS Maps, call centres, virtual resource centres and workshops for adolescents and youth....Continue

Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008
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Tuesday, October 07, 2008

The rape of base Okinawa

Will the guilty US marines ever be brought to book?
This is not the first time that an American marine is accused of raping a local girl in Japan's Okinawa base camp – that houses nearly half of the 50,000 The rape of base OkinawaUS troops stationed in the country. And as in the past, it is unlikely that the furore that followed the February 10 incident will cause the guilty to be nailed.

The popular perception is that the Japan-US Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA), which alone is empowered to deal with such problems, exists solely to protect US interests. For instance when, soon after the February 10 incident, Okinawa Governor Hirokazu Nakaima called for revising SOFA, Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura countered with familiar evasions. He told the Diet four days later that the act, if "properly implemented", would do the job as well as any other measure being proposed by critics of Japan's post-World War II Constitution. Article 9 calls for Japan to be a "pacifist, non-war-making country" – and leaves the task of defending it to the US..........Continue

Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008
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