How Kunal Bahl's Snapdeal scaled a valuation of $1 billion in two years Economic Times Snapdeal started off as an e-coupon company, on lines of Groupon, but after a year of waiting outside restaurants and convincing them to come on board, Bahl and his partner decided that their company was losing track.
Ready to go as deep as we can in rural market: Coca-Cola VP Hindu Business Line With the summer season at its peak, beverage company Coca-Cola India is pushing sales in the country, especially in the rural market.Offering Coca-Cola through on-the-go trucks with fountain machines at Rs.5 is a strategy for sampling and offering a refreshing drink in villages at a great price point.
Government mulls steps to discourage milk product exports to contain rising retail prices Economic Times The government is considering steps to discourage exports of milk products in the wake rising retail prices. The issue figured during the high-level meeting convened by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to discuss issues related to inflation and and price rise of essential commodities.
How Infosys' HR practices diluted meritocracy and accountability Business Standard Sometime in the middle of July 2012, a mid-level Infosys employee sent an email to media houses listing out the reasons for her frustration over what's going on in the company.Ć
FMCG cos eye rural creamy layer for growth; Shifting focus to tap 10,000 premium villages Times of India With some marketers like Hindustan Unilever (HUL), Dabur India and Godrej Consumer Products (GCPL) reaching the bottom of the pyramid, the focus is now on extracting growth by upgrading consumers in the 'creamy layer' of rural India use premium products.
Feel-good factor opens exit route for PEs in India Business Standard An upbeat market, a stable government at Centre and opportunities to raise second or third funds are cited as reasons for boom in momentum.
Insight
{jd_file file==983} Management theory often separates strategy formulation (the plan) from strategy execution (putting the plan into action). But in reality separating strategy formulation with execution does not work and can be harmful.
{jd_file file==767} Mr Amit Bhatia, Sr. Vice President (ET&D), Raychem RPG, speaks about the company's expertise and experience in the power equipment space, in an interview with Monica Chaturvedi Charna.
A luxury firm depends on the perception that its value is steadily increasing. In contrast to other sectors, which can vary their prices based on the market situation, luxury goods can only trend in one direction: upward.
At the moment, mobile banking is yet to gain comprehensive, widespread traction, primarily due to user apprehensions around security and lack of adaptability.
The traditional deal marketing process is rapidly being augmented and transformed by leveraging technology, social media and community-based deal networks to speed deals and reach the biggest possible target audience. M&A professionals need to bear this in mind.
Preliminary reports indicate that tiger numbers in India have declined sharply from 3642 individuals in 2002 as per Project Tiger estimates to somewhere around 1,500 tigers in 2007, a drop of a whopping 60%! The range of the tiger is reduced to a mere 7% what it was a hundered years ago. Indeed, wild tiger numbers may have reached a level from where recovery may be near impossible if drastic measures are not taken on an urgent basis. The time has come when every concerned citizen stands up in support for tigers in the wild.
To muster the support of citizens across India and the globe WWF-India, the country's largest non-governmental organization working for wildlife conservation has started a signature campaign. To know more about WWF-India you may visit our website at wwfindia.org.
If you care for wild tigers and feel that they belong to the forests, where their original home is, please lend your voice for their cause by signing online at wwfindia.org/tiger.
If you wish to make a contribution to this cause, please follow the link given on this page.
Waiting In the calm of desolation Wanting to breakFrom this circle of confusion
Sleeping In the depths of isolation Trying to wake From this daydream of illusion
How can I feel abandoned even when the world surrounds me How can I bite the hand that feeds the strangers all around me How can I know so many Never really knowing anyone
If I seem superhuman I have been Misunderstood
It challenges the essence of my soul And leaves me in a state of disconnection As I navigate the maze of self control Playing a lion being led to a cage
I turn from a thief to a beggar From a god to God save me
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How can I feel abandoned even when the world surrounds me How can I bite the hand that feeds the strangers all around me How can I know so many Never really knowing anyone
If I seem superhuman I have been Misunderstood
Playing a lion being led to a cage I turn from surreal to seclusion From love to disdain From belief to delusion From a thief to a beggar From a god to God save me
How can I feel abandoned even when the world surrounds me How can I bite the hand that feeds the strangers all around me How can I know so many Never really knowing anyone
WARSAW (Reuters) - Red tape is preventing a Polish man from returning from the dead.
Piotr Kucy, 38 and from the city of Polkowice in southwest Poland, was wrongly identified by authorities last August as a drowned man, only to show up a few days after his own funeral.
Despite pointing out the fact that he was alive to government officials, Kucy still remains dead in official records, stopping him from working and paying social insurance.
But on the bright side, a local newspaper reported on Tuesday, he no longer needs to pay taxes. read more...
"Johnny, Johnny" "Yes, Papa" "Eating sugar?" "No, Papa" "Telling Lies?" "No, Papa" "Open your mouth" "I think if you are actually questioning my integrity ..., you should not be standing here."
The movie is Any Given Sunday (Oliver Stone). But the fire that burns in every word spoken comes from Mr. Pacino's own insatiable fury....similar to the last scene in Scent of a Woman........ my blood just started boiling....
and here is the speech
I don't know what to say really.Three minutesto the biggest battle of our professional livesall comes down to today.Eitherwe healas a teamor we are going to crumble.Inch by inchplay by playtill we're finished.We are in hell right now, gentlemenbelieve meandwe can stay hereand get the shit kicked out of usorwe can fight our wayback into the light.We can climb out of hell.One inch, at a time.Now I can't do it for you.I'm too old.I look around and I see these young facesand I thinkI meanI made every wrong choice a middle age man could make.I uh....I pissed away all my moneybelieve it or not.I chased offanyone who has ever loved me.And lately,I can't even stand the face I see in the mirror.You know when you get old in lifethings get taken from you.That's, that's part of life.But,you only learn that when you start losing stuff.You find out that life is just a game of inches.So is football.Because in either gamelife or footballthe margin for error is so small.I meanone half step too late or to earlyyou don't quite make it.One half second too slow or too fastand you don't quite catch it.The inches we need are everywhere around us.They are in ever break of the gameevery minute, every second.On this team, we fight for that inchOn this team, we tear ourselves, and everyone around usto pieces for that inch.We CLAW with our finger nails for that inch.Cause we knowwhen we add up all those inchesthat's going to make the fucking differencebetween WINNING and LOSINGbetween LIVING and DYING.I'll tell you thisin any fightit is the guy who is willing to diewho is going to win that inch.And I knowif I am going to have any life anymoreit is because, I am still willing to fight, and die for that inchbecause that is what LIVING is.The six inches in front of your face.Now I can't make you do it.You gotta look at the guy next to you.Look into his eyes.Now I think you are going to see a guy who will go that inch with you.You are going to see a guywho will sacrifice himself for this teambecause he knows when it comes down to it,you are gonna do the same thing for him.That's a team, gentlemenand either we heal now, as a team,or we will die as individuals.That's football guys.That's all it is.Now, whattaya gonna do?