Strategies for SMEs in India BY Madhuchhanda Karmakar Department of Human Resource Management Army Institute Of Management‚Kolkata Judges Court Road Opposite Alipore Telephone Exchange Kolkata-700027 India e-mail: mkarmakar4@gmail.com Introduction: In the post liberalization and opening up of the economy business era‚ ease in international trade barriers‚ economic liberalization‚ globalization‚ privatization‚ disinvestments and deregulation have thrown several challenges
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the size in terms of sales from 2002 to 2007. £ million 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 RTE cereals 1‚210.39 1‚244.81 1‚279.53 1‚300.37 1‚326.25 1‚349.78 - Family breakfast cereals 870.99 885.11 907.25 924.17 945.54 964.88 - Children ’s breakfast cereals 339.40 359.70 372.29 376.20 380.71 384.90 Hot cereals 65.90 70.18 82.57 106.89 126.34 147.00 Breakfast cereals 1‚276.29 1‚315.00 1‚362.11 1‚407.25 1‚452.59 1‚496.78 Source: Euromonitor International Just to give a feeling
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Air India began its services in 1932 and has been operating in India for the last 78 years. It is the oldest passenger flight of India. The government of India holds 49% of Air India’s share with an option to acquire 2% more since 1946. This made Air India a public sector thus enabled it to operate flights internationally. In spite of being a public sector company Air India has been running in loss for the past 10 years. A SWOT analysis was conducted to analyze the strength of Air India that sets
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For all the talk about companies coming to an emerging market like India and setting up shop‚ no one has been more passive aggressive then the Volkswagen Group. VW is most famously known for its Beetle – one of the best selling cars of all time at over 21 million units. In a bid to move beyond the Beetle‚ VW in the 90′s started to acquire many brands and their complete portfolio is quite impressive: Audi‚ Bentley‚ Bugatti‚ Lamborghini‚ SEAT‚ Skoda and VW. The VW Group also owns 49.9% of Porsche and
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Strategy In The Top Spot In the highly competitive $3 billion mobile phone market in India‚ Nokia has managed to make its brand the phone of choice for millions. It currently has a market share of over 70 per cent. Abhijit Joshi tracks the Finnish company’s strategy for success. W A DISTRIBUTION NETWORK DOUBLE THAT OF ITS RIVALS: Nokia’s Sanjeev Sharma hen mobile phones were introduced in India in the mid-90s‚ US based Motorola‚ Sweden’s Ericsson and Finland’s Nokia dominated the handset
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POSITIONING Positioning the process of designing an image and value so that consumers with the target segment understand what the company or brand stands for in relation to its competitors. It also refers to the place an offering occupies in consumers minds on important attributes related to competitive offerings. Positioning is not actually something that is done to product; rather it is something that is done to minds of consumers by marketers. It relates to now consumers perceive the product
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CODE GALORE CASELET 1. What are some of the emerging IT security technologies that should be considered in solving the Problem related to the case? Ans. The Problem areas in this case are: 1 The employees from the newly acquired company Skyhaven can have access to sensitive data of Code Galore because both servers have vulnerabilities that could allow an attacker to gain unauthorised remote privileged access it can be solved by using biometric security or face recognition methods as access
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Volkswagen India & VGSIPL. Volkswagen India – Volkswagen branded cars. VGSIPL – Audi and Skoda. Marketing strategy in India – Product‚ Place‚ Price‚ Promotion. ISSUES Caters mainly to luxury segment. Higher price range – except Skoda Fabia. Lack of brand awareness among Indian consumers. Lack of aggressive marketing in earlier phases. Lesser sales than BMW‚ Mercedez‚ etc (SIAM). Lack of consumer knowledge – what Volkswagen stands for. Perceived value v/s Perceived price
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Pepsi’s Entry into India: A Lesson in Globalization Case summary: The case discusses the major strategies adopted by Pepsi Co (Soft drinks & snack food major) to enter the Indian market in the late 1980s. Initially the company found it very hard to sell itself to the Indian government as the Indian economy was highly regulated. So to lure Indian government Pepsi Co made promises of working towards enrichment of the rural economy Punjab by getting involved in the agricultural activities. Pepsi
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*** Get Off Of My Case‚ Version 2.0 *** Kellogg School of Management Northwestern University December‚ 2003 Edwin Van Dusen‚ Brian Fox and David Welch (MBAs 2004) prepared this document under the supervision on Professor Sonia Marciano. Copyright © 2003 by the Kellogg School of Management. No part of this publication may be reproduced‚ stored in a retrieval system‚ used in a spreadsheet‚ or transmitted in any form or by any means – electronic‚ mechanical‚ photocopying‚ recording‚ or otherwise
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