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Chinese market The Chinese soft drink market is one of the fastest growing and both the cola makers have tailored their strategies to make the most of this boom. Coca-Cola’s long time strategy has been to make its product inexpensive, widely available and tasty. As far as taste is...

Is the growth of retailing industry and retailing giants in india killing the business of small kirana general stores???

Today's top technology companies had humble beginnings. Apple was born in Company's CEO Steve Job/s spare bedroom which was a garage attached to his home. Hewlett Packard was a discovery in a tree lined street near Stanford University, where college friends Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard...

Google's Freemium Disruptive Business Model of Google Maps & Android threatens Giants I recently came across the Google's Freemium Disruptive Business Model that could threaten giants like RIM, Redmond giant, Nokia and the likes. An interesting read at Google Redefines Disruption: The ?Less...

Part 1: INFLATING THE BUBBLE First bubble element - sub prime mortgages Every great bull market that turns into a bubble has similar characteristics. It starts with a reasonably good idea. Using long-term mortgages to pay for homes is a good idea, with a few important caveats. These are...

Federally chartered mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae have recently lost $11B. ... Mae are very important institutions," Bush said. Bush, the first U.S. president with an MBA degree, may have been assured, but investors apparently weren't. They dumped stocks in response ... More...

The manner in which leading Indian software firms have weathered the currency appreciation storm, which has revalued the rupee against the dollar by around 10 per cent and still rising, gives a measure of their changing business models and long-term prospects. Rupee appreciation hit all the...

Inspite of the ban being imposed on elephants in the city, the animals are still spotted in and around chembur begging for alms. Inspite of the ban on elephants, for the past one week one could see two elephants in the area around the Chembur market begging from the shopkeepers, in the midst of...

It’s turf war with the Maruti-Suzuki combine set to produce more sedans after SX4, while Honda will soon be driving in its own small cars to challenge Suzuki India is poised to be a battlefield for the two sumos of the autoworld – Suzuki and Honda – who are completing their portfolio journey...

Ten years ago, on the back of over 7 per cent GDP growth in successive years, the big Indian companies (and some small ones too) were announcing grandiose projects. Companies of even modest size said they wanted to get to Rs 10,000 crore (Rs 100 billion) revenue by 2000. Few of them did, for...