Showing posts with label Programmes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Programmes. Show all posts

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

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

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 Coke magnifies Tata Tea’s 30%!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