IIPM: October 2008

Friday, October 24, 2008

Fashion

This year’s Wills India Fashion Week in Delhi saw designers going for natural fabrics – Samant Chauhan worked with

natural silk and recycled junk jewellery; Ekta Jaipuria combined organic knits with Vanya silks. The first Indian designer to launch an eco-friendly line was Anita Dhongre who used eco-friendly fabrics and techniques for Grassroot – her collection which was launched at last year’s Wills India Fashion Week. “Along with eating healthy food, consumers are becoming aware of the clothes they wear. Being exposed to pollutants in many aspects of life, choosing organic fibres is another step towards natural living, both for ourselves, as well as our environment. Thus, the faster consumers adapt to a healthy lifestyle, they’ll adapt to eco-friendly fashion at the same speed,” says Anita. Come September and she will take her new eco-friendly collection to Paris for the Paris Fashion Week...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

Un‘family’ar

Nirula’s acquisition has brought in welcome change. But the true test of survival starts now...

Like most legendary Indian companies with quality offerings but sans the advantage of scale, this one, too, found the going tough when global sharks like McDonald’s, Pizza Hut and Domino’s swamped the market with their

QSR chains. And when Nirula’s found the going tough, it decided to take the M&A route with aplomb; but only as a target.

Nirula’s got off to a promising beginning in the 1930s, when the Nirula Brothers rolled out a restaurant in the heart of capital. Christened as ‘Hotel India’ it became the keystone of today’s Nirula’s. With lots of firsts to its credit, like introducing espresso coffee, snack bar, ice cream parlour – Nirula’s became the pioneer in introducing the QSR concept in India and created a platform for the modern QSR industry.....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

Get a life!

Are you one of the proponents of living life

king-size? Unless you’ve never been belted by John Lennon with his Instant Karma (…You better get yourself together/Pretty soon you’re gonna be dead/What in the world you thinking of…), you might still think high life is about fast cars and designer labels. But as per new trends, lifestyle is less about how much and what all you pay for; instead it’s more about the paybacks you expect to raise. On the occasion of our 3rd anniversary, we put together for our readers a collection of inspirational lifestyle trends......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 07, 2008

Agriculture sector lagging behind

Nearly 60% of the country's rural population is into farming

The agriculture sector has been chronically neglected by the Asia and Pacific region of the world, leading to 218 million people - a third of

the region’s poor and largely living in rural areas continue extreme poverty and broadening the gap between rich and poor. These are the conclusions reached by a 2008 survey conducted by United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). Roughly over half of the population in the region depends on agriculture and as the survey says it provides employment to 60 % of the working population.

Therefore this sector needs a serious attention and revitalisation. “Governments must show greater political will to address decades of policy neglect and failure in the agriculture sector” Noeleen Heyzer, the Executive Secretary of ESCAP, said. The Survey says that growth and productivity in the sector have slowed down and the Green Revolution appears to have passed millions.

“In South Asia, growth in agriculture dropped from 3.6% in 1980s to 3% in 2002-03,” the survey says and suggests that rural infrastructure needs to be improved so that the farmers are able to reach their products to markets. It further says that productivity and investment in this sector should also be increased....Continue

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

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