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Description Multi-pronged initiatives are envisaged for the India: Hydrocarbon Vision-2025 with principal objectives to (a) ensure oil security, (b) improve customer service, (c) develop a competitive industry, (d) enhance quality of life, and (e) assure energy security. The essential policy...

Description Every business’ profits and losses can be described in a spreasheet, and though the model of each is unique they all share one thing in common: at some point the number of customeris multiplied by the sale price of the good or service. Optimizing the value of each potential buyer is...

Description Vehicle insurance is generally considered a fixed cost with respect to vehicle use. Motorists do not usually perceive insurance cost savings when they reduce mileage. Distance-based (also called Pay-As-You-Drive and Per-Mile) insurance pricing converts insurance to a variable cost...

Description This month Citi economists made mostly minor changes to its outlook, with global growth now forecast at 2.9% in 2015. On a country basis, they downgraded 2015 growth forecasts for the US, UK, Korea and Australia, with larger cuts for South Africa, Turkey and Venezuela. For 2016, they...

Description Dont commoditize your customer. You should not treat every customer equally.Customers are different in many ways:Needs Capabilities Business economics and strategies Willingness to engage in business with you Demographic characteristics: size, profitability, participation in various...

Description “For over fifty years now, we in the Aditya Birla Group have been and continue to be involved in meaningful, welfare driven initiatives that distinctively impact the quality of life of the weaker sections of society, surrounding hundreds of villages that are among the poorest. Our...

Description Promoting old - fashioned values in a modern, competitive marketplace The H.E. But t Grocer y Company (www.heb.com) has a histor y of providing exceptional customer ser vice, low prices and a friendly shopping environment, all of which have helped it grow into one of the largest...

Description Ranbaxy Laboratories, India's largest pharmaceutical company, has taken on global majors as it seeks to dominate the generics market. N Chandra Mohan reports on the company's strategy to make it to the world's big five in the business 24 Corporate Profile S even years after Dr...

Description For a variety of reasons, many companies have underdeveloped strategies. Sometimes an underdeveloped strategy is effective — a single spectacular idea can carry a business a long way, even without an explicitly stated strategy. Management intuition and organizational willpower can...

Description Established in 18 86, Coca-Cola is the world’s most ubiquitous brand. The company and its subsidiaries are present in over 200 countries employing over 49,000 individuals and generating revenues to the tune of US$ 21 billion. The Coca-Cola Company markets four of the world’s top-five...

Description easyJet ® Airlines, which has emerged as one of Europe’s most successful low-cost, shorthaul airlines,has simple pricing structure. For a given flight,all prices are quoted oneway, single price prevails at any point, and in general, prices are low early on and increase as the...

Description The main objective of the Citizen's Charter is to improve the quality of public services. This is done by letting people know the mandate of the Corporation, how one can get in touch with its officials, what to expect by way of services and how to seek a remedy if something goes...

Description Construction chemical is one of the niche segments from the specialty chemical segment of the chemical industry. Construction Chemicals are specialty products that are used in structures to increase their life, and also to impart additional protection from environmental hazards...

Description The current shift in the marketing strategy is work by multinational pharmaceutical Companies .It is now high-end (rather than adaptive) development that is being carried out by leading companies. And, increasingly, other companies are finding themselves competing against, or working...

Description The Division of Capital Asset Management’s (DCAM) Office of Planning, Design and Construction (OPDC) is responsible for the cost throughout all phases of state building projects, from project initiation and Study to final Design and Construction. Architectural and engineering firms...

Description Mr. Anant Goenka, MD of CEAT Tyres Ltd. had just concluded hi s meeti ng wi th CEAT’s 2Wheeler Task Force. The objective of this strategy team was to set out a roadmap to achieve leadership in many areas of 2-Wheeler tyre segment. One of I ndi a’s youngest MDs, Anant had highlighted...

Description The Country Cooperation Strategy (CCS) reflects a medium-term vision of WHO for technical cooperation with a given country and defines a strategic framework for working in and with the country. The CCS process, in consideration of global and regional health priorities, has the...

Description Introduction KFC operates in 74 countries and territories throughout the world. It was founded in Corbin, Kentucky by Colonel Harland D. Sanders. y 1964, the Colonel decided to sell the business to two Louisville businessmen. In 1966 they took KFC public and the company was listed on...

Description Burmah Oil Refineries Ltd. was incorporated in 1952 as a joint venture between Burmah Oil Company, UK and Shell Petroleum Company by an agreement with the Indian Government to set up a refinery at Mahul in Mumbai, which went on stream in 1957. In 1976 the Indian Government...

Description  Flagship national oil company and downstream petroleum major  “Maharatna” status – another jewel in the crown  Contribution to Exchequer US$ 14.38 billion for FY 2013-14  Major supplier to core sector  Supplier of fuel to Government organizations i.e. railways, army, air force...