Wednesday, January 23, 2008

UFO has given a new face to digital movie distribution in India. Can it break the stranglehold of Big Daddy as well?

“We are not even talking to them… for us, the world is a bigger market”, says an exuberant Raaja Kanwar, without a hint of nerves, when asked whether he approached the aforementioned Hollywood studios with his technology. And he can well afford this nonchalance… after all, UFO Moviez has adopted one basic rule of survival – never confront the enemy where he’s in a position of strength.

Consequently, UFO Moviez has totally focussed on revolutionising the Indian film industry with its technology and business model. Out here, Hollywood sharks remain as mean & merciless, but sans the quintessential power they enjoy back home. Hollywood garners just around 4-5% of box office collections in India.

The Indian film industry, which is the largest in the world, churning out approximately 1,000 films every year, stands nowhere near to the Hollywood, when it comes to revenues. The Indian film industry today is valued at about Rs.68 billion. The major culprit for such a low turnover of a robust industry is piracy & inability to release films across the country at one go because of high print costs. That’s where the role of digital cinema comes in. As Kanwar proudly points out, “We opened our first theatre in October 2005 & today we are at 750 theatres in India growing at about 60-80 theatres every month.”

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Source: IIPM Editorial, 2008

An IIPM and Management Guru Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative


Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Minions at work to face the reality!

Few fortunate ones among the children who neither starve to death nor are victims of stary bullets, essentially end up beingMinions at work to face the reality! slogging for two meals a day. This at a time when they are supposed to enjoy the most of their childhood. For the unholy profit seekers, it makes to employ them as they would not protest about unhealthy working conditions, long working hours or poor pay. What is more horrifying is that 126 million children are engaged in horrendous work environment in mines, chemical industries & kilns. Regional estimations show that Asia Pacific region has the highest incidence of child workers (127.3 million, 19% of children work in the region).
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Source: IIPM Editorial, 2008

An IIPM and Management Guru Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative

Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Dan’ makes ‘one’ foodie venture...

French food group Danone offered $16.8 billion for Dutch rival Numico to create Franck Riboud, CEO, Danonethe world’s largest health and nutrition company - indeed a tasteful venture! Danone’s allcash offer worth US$75.3 a share for Europe’s largest maker of baby food showcases twister consolidation in the sector. The decision is sudden after Danone agreed to sell its biscuits business and three weeks after talks with the Dutch maker of Milupa, Nutricia & Cow & Gate Baby Foods, began. The Chief Executive of Danone, Franck Riboud feels that the duo will be able to click a real friendly deal. For starters a fair price for a unique company with an exclusive combination, is what makes this deal look all the more lucrative!

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Source: IIPM Editorial, 2006

An IIPM and Management Guru Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative