IIPM-INDIA: August 2007

Thursday, August 30, 2007

The brand is Chinese & the American spirit of IBM endures. Will Lenovo be able to go the distance to the crown?

For Lenovo, it was a giant leap ahead from nowhere. Its global revenues

in 2006 leapfrogged an unfathomable 359.1% yo- y to touch $13.2 billion! Approximately two years are going to pass, and Lenovo has left no stone unturned all this time in trying to prove that it retains the original IBM character. As Neeraj Sharma, Managing Director, Lenovo South Asia, states, “Innovation is at our very core, but simultaneously we are working extensively on our cost structures to ensure best possible prices.” He contends that for Lenovo, the key strategic objective is “to grow faster and more profitably than the industry.” And with its extraordinary Sino-American lineage, one would indeed expect that Lenovo would have unleashed mayhem in the Indian PC market by now.

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Source: IIPM Editorial, 2006

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Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Coke magnifies Tata Tea’s 30%!

A new alliance between Coca-Cola and Glaceau will involve $4.1 billion as the former (world’s largest aerated

drinks producer) has agreed to acquire the latter (US energy drink maker). This deal is a boon to Ta t a Group led Tata Tea – as it will bestow a windfall gain of about $1.2 billion for the 30% stake it holds in Glaceau. Tata Tea had acquired 30% stake in Glaceau for $677 million in August 2006. The deal in all probability will close in by the summer of 2007. Coke’s move has been primarily connected with portfolio expansion plans in order to compete more effectively with rival PepsiCo Inc.

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Source: IIPM Editorial, 2006

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

Monday, August 13, 2007

Another victory for the PE firms!

The dominance of

private equity firms in the global market got a further fillip as Corporate Computer Seller (CDW) agreed to be acquired by Madison Dearborn Partners for $7.3 billion. Apparently, CDW’s strong financials (with zero debt and $500 million of cash) lured Madison Dearborn Partners to buy the company. Shares of CDW soared to a new 52- week high on the news of the deal with Dearborn, rising by 10% to $7.55.

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Source: IIPM Editorial, 2006

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

Thursday, August 09, 2007

Remarkable Raro!

All you

sleeping beauties beware, as this bed from Raro will render you sleepless until you finally own it! The Salvador Bed is a perfect blend of Veneered bed in ‘Ebony Macassar veneer’ with sculpted ‘African Ebony wood’ with detailing accented by zericons set in silver. This dark-brown beauty is all set to grab eyeballs and guarantees to add oodles of class to your bedroom. Price on request.

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Source: IIPM Editorial, 2006

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Wednesday, August 08, 2007

“Starve the poor”

Increasingly, biofuels are likely to “starve the poor” around the world, as staples are converted to ethanol production for the privileged – cassava in sub- Saharan Africa, to take one ominous example. Meanwhile, in Southeast Asia, tropical forests are cleared and burned for oil palms destined for biofuel, and there are threatening environmental effects from input-rich production of cornbased ethanol in the US as well.

The high price of tortillas and other, crueler vagaries of the international order illustrate the interconnectedness of events, from the Middle East to the Middle West, and the urgency of establishing trade based on true democratic agreements among people, and not interests whose principal hunger is for profit for corporate interests protected and subsidized by the state they largely dominate, whatever the human cost.

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Thursday, August 02, 2007

To become a profitable world leader it is not enough to have lower costs

When asked about the importance

of brand building, Hans asserts, “To become a profitable world leader it is not enough to have lower costs. Building up of a strong brand is a vital asset to a consumer durable company like us.” He feels that while manufacturing is getting commoditised, products are not. In fact, people are getting more and more personalised with products and want to own brands they aspire for. Hans illustrates with an example, “For people who aspire for a Mercedes or an Audi, Kia is never the brand to buy.” And he wants Electrolux to be the brand people aspire for. The company wants to be, as Hans says, the “BMW of consumer electronics”.

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