MARUTI

It moved the nation. And now the brand has moved itself to the second position

At number one last year, Maruti has slipped a notch to sit perched atop the number two slot in the 2006-07 rankings. Reason: aggressive competition from most domestic and foreign brands, including Hyundai, Tata and now GM. Nevertheless, the brand, which made possible the middle class dream of driving four-wheelers, has rightfully emerged as the most powerful car brand in the country ever. Domestic sales hovered close to 549,317 units in April-March 2006-07 (SIAM), boosting market share to an unbeatable 51%. Consumers always expect a ‘better and bigger buying experience’ from Maruti and the company has not disappointed. The JD Power Survey has ranked Maruti as the best performer in terms of customer satisfaction and over all sales experience, for two consecutive years. But though Maruti is a powerful brand when it comes to small cars; it finds itself in cold waters when it comes to the niche ‘brand conscious’ higher segments of the industry. To fight consumer apathy, the company has unleashed the spanking new SX4 this year. A phenomenal brand, but will it be able to reign supreme in its current weak spot (the mid-size segment) with the ravishing sedan SX4?

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The Gold & The Beautiful!

What if on your next wedding anniversary, your well read wife quite sweetly tells you to gift her jewellery in the form of a mutual fund, & that too in a demat form?!?! Yes, we know, you’ll think she’s finally gone off her rockers completely. Not that you would have required such an intellectual reason to accuse her of that infirmity, but we’d still advise you to delay calling your marriage lawyer that fast dear cowboy Clint, for your horses might quite not be that well lettered.

For it’s not just investing in gold with mutual funds that’s jiving up the domestic Indian markets currently, but also that of doing the same in a dematerialized form. And for starters, there are three in a row to do the honours for your wife in the gold Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) arena – Benchmark Asset Management Company (the first to launch a gold fund), UTI Asset Management Company, followed by Kotak Asset Management Company.

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Russia should concentrate its efforts on the development of its economy

Nearly all areas of policymaking have been in flux since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Defense strategy, as Zolotarev explains, is no exception. For example, in 1992 then President Boris Yeltsin created a special government agency, the Russian Security Council, to help formulate the country’s national security strategy. It was supposed to be a group with a broad vision, charged with considering everything from the country’s defence priorities to citizens’ civil liberties. But its influence was short-lived, and the task of formulating security and defence policy quickly shift ed to the Ministry of Defence. Instead of balancing multiple interests, Russia returned to the Soviet notion that the priorities of the state trump everything else. Both the old establishment and the new political elite could agree on one thing: they were unhappy about Russia’s loss of superpower status and the fact that Western powers were penetrating the space that “legitimately belongs” to Russia – the former Soviet republics. If early Post-Soviet defence doctrines stressed threats of domestic terrorism or breakaway provinces, then more recent versions stress an external threat – the United States. Zolotarev’s article is a sober assessment of the present thinking in Moscow, and it goes a long way toward explaining the fiery Russian reaction over the US missile defence plans in Europe. There is no doubt that Russia’s policies, particularly its combative stance on defence issues, are more than reminiscent of the Soviet days. Putin’s government is an impressive one. Liberal? No. Democratic? Hardly. But Putin and his team had a plan to restore Russia’s great-power status & they have executed it consistently & conscientiously...

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“If the farmers abdicate their responsibility, moksha is impossible for even saints.”

Bemoans Devinder Sharma, noted food and trade policy expert, to B&E, “The government’s agriculture policy should be more aptly termed as the ‘farmer exit policy’. The official vision envisages to ensure that by year 2050, about 400 million poor framers should quit their farmland and be deprived of their livelihood, in order to hand-over the agriculture to the corporate sector.” That the government is paying only lip service to agriculture is amply proven by the fact that more than half of the cultivated area in India is devoid of irrigation facilities. Not surprising, as agriculture has only 0.8% and irrigation a mere 0.13% share in the 2007-08 budget. The combined expenditure on agriculture, animal husbandry, dairying, irrigation, cooperatives and agricultural R&D is a paltry 1.6% of the total expenditure. Compare this to the fact that agriculture’s share of the European Union’s budget is a massive 34% (from year 2007 till 2013).

Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, the brilliant leader of India’s Green Revolution, had shared with us in the past the critical problems facing this sector. Interestingly, he and the eminent farm-sector expert, Abhijit Sen, brought out the lopsided agricultural development policy of the government in their latest report.

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‘Guru’ takes on the ‘Pirates’!

Imagine being thrown into a shark infested ocean without any semblance of an effective defence. Sharks that are mean & powerful, & show no mercy. What would be your chances of survival? Might we suggest the obvious – absolutely zilch!!!

Allow us to introduce the sharks in this feature – Disney, Fox, MGM, Paramount, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal & Warner Bros. Together, one would agree that they are a very potent force in the Hollywood film fraternity, and yes, they are known to exploit their power quite ruthlessly. Imagine being an adversary in their territory, and then consider your chances of making it. You already know the answer.

That’s the kind of predicament UFO Moviez, a venture of Raaja Kanwar (son of the legendary O.P. Kanwar, Chairman, Apollo Tyres), would find itself in, if it tried to pitch its MPEG-4 based content digitisation technology into American movie market. Using their dominance in the market, these Hollywood sharks are ensuring that all cinema houses in the US, in fact, across the world, must have their digital projection technology confirm to the DCI standard (which they have helped develop & hence vehemently support), to be able to exhibit their movies.

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The real and reel Sivaji jhooms

South Indian superstar Rajnikant’s recently released Sivaji: The Boss has created waves in the country and also abroad. Sivaji is the country’s most expensive film till date (Rs.600-800 million) and had a record breaking advance booking which accounted for Rs.20 million. In many parts of the country, people paid between Rs.1,000-1,500 to watch it. The mania is not restricted to the country alone. It featured at number 9 in UK Top 10 list (quite an achievement for a regional Indian film). The movie attracted a full week show in Chicago too.

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Offside football coffee table – 307,524.8 INR

The FIFA World Cup in South Africa might be three years away but football fever refuses to die down in-between. For those of you who keenly follow the English Premier League or European Football, a new product is about to light up your living rooms. A coffee table with a top made of glass, sheltering a mirrored football arena below, and a body made of oak and possessing a stainless steel frame – the Off side Football Coffee Table – is the ideal furniture for any avid football fan to lay his hands on. Designed to perfection by Howard Bushell in his practicum at Worcestershire, this offering is all set to turn the tables...

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Don’t look any further; we have Indian banks

Harder to digest are the declared profit figures of foreign banks operating in India. Stanchart (with a 51% jump in profits), HSBC (a 64% rise), Citibank (27.5%) swamped the profit growth list; and the reality was that a significant portion of the growth came from non-consumer finance segment. For example, while a third of HSBC India’s profit comes from treasury operations, the remaining came from corporate banking. And the reason for tub thumping is the same for almost all foreign banks – Indian M&As. Not that foreign banks should not be allowed to make profits (in fact, it’s creditable that they’re operating with such supreme world-class efficiency in India), but of crying shame is the attitude of Indian banks that has ensured that they’ve simply not marketed themselves well in an opportunity where they could have ended up with humungous profi ts and net worth growth. And at a time when the customers themselves were none other than Indians. Ignominious is how I describe it! I’m sure analysts won’t be that lenient...

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You can’t run a business without winning trust of your subordinates and that is why many leaders fail...

Sure, these remote leaders attend meetings and other requisite functions, but they’d rather be staring into their computers. And if possible, all the messy, sweaty people stuff would be delegated to HR managers on another floor. Like know-it-alls, this breed of leader is dangerous, but for a different reason. They don’t engage, which means they can’t inspire. That’s a big problem.

A third category of lousy leadership is comprised of bosses who are just plain jerks. As a New York reader wrote us recently, “My boss is abusive, by which I mean disrespectful, finger-pointing and sometimes even paranoid.” Such leaders are usually protected from above because they deliver the numbers. But, with their destructive personalities, they rarely win their people’s trust.


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Hublot’s Big Bang Watch -- 40,550,000 INR

Did you say 'watch'? Functionally, it's probably that, but at the given price tag, how do you convince someone it's only that?! The timepiece, a culmination of efforts by brilliant clock maker Hublot and exquisite diamond setters Bunter SA, would require a minimum level of social standing to even look at it! Covered with innumerable diamonds, it renders the surface of the dial in absolute sheen, making the base metal impossible to see. The strap is made of vulcanised rubber and the clasp is encrusted with diamonds too! So you know what's your sour-grapist excuse if you can't afford it – too bling-bling!

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We’re Stronger Than Before

Till the times robot are far from mainstream actions, its human soldiers that are working beyond the call of the duty. They perform under severe extreme conditions and their physical & mental capabilities are tested lot of times. Therefore, maintaining human combat performance and restoring combat capabilities after severe injury is of prime importance. Vaccines are being created to ensure that soldiers can survive for hours in case of fatal injuries, till proper aid can be provided. Nations are working towards revolutionary limb prosthesis that are akin to normal limbs in terms of functioning & sensory capabilities. This will enable a soldier to perform work with artificial limbs as the limb will interact with brain like any natural limb. DARPA is expected to deliver an upper limb for clinical trials to the US forces that is not only superior in functionality, but also is controlled by the brain and provides full sensory feedback, in four years from now.

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'Dam’ those Chinese Three Gorges

China’s Three Gorges dam has been toasted by its planners as the engineering marvel of the 21st century. As the world largest hydroelectric river dam, the project is expected to produce more than 100 billion kw of electricity after its completion; and is simultaneously expected to end the requirements for irrigation in the Yangtze-Kiang river basin region, and even the problems of flooding. This postmodern project has the potential to really help China; but unfortunately, the project has also raised high geological, social and ecological concerns.

Yangtze, according to scientists, adds close to 530 million tonnes of silt to its reservoir. Thus, though the dam might address short-term concerns, in the long run, it might result in the death of the unriver itself. Furthermore, the 600 km long reservoir is likely to inundate close to 1,300 archeological sites and displace up to 1.9 million people.

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Multilateralism is not the panacea to promote global trade

The end-June deadline is prompted by the fear of US Trade Promotion Authority Act, expiring on July 1, 2007. The revolutionary Act allows US President to enter trade negotiations. This is however questionable as Congress finds its role limited in the process – it needs to either reject or approve such treaties within 90 days of signature, without the possibility of amending them. “The fears get accentuated by the realisation that the US is just not in a hurry to revive the sagging WTO – refusing to cut the agricultural subsidies offered to its farm lobby,” says Dr. Paroma Palit of PHDCCI, talking to B&E. And till the time US takes the initiative, other major players like EU, India & Brazil too refuse to relent on issues of reducing industrial tariff s; export subsidies & opening up the service sector.

Despite EU showing great zealousness to rejuvenate the negotiations before mid-April, the prospects don’t look bright. But what if the talks fail to revive; will the world be a loser? Certainly not. Irrespective of WTO dictates, the trade will continue to flourish because it doesn’t need crutches to trot the globe.

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“Annual automobile production capacity in India will be ‘doubled’ to 100,000 units by the end of 2007”

Honda Motor President and CEO Takeo Fukui had announced earlier that the company will launch a small car in India as it goes for a new plant to expand capacity in India. As per our estimations, the new Honda offering will be the Jazz compact and will be positioned in the B+ segment. Honda is upbeat about its India operations and would like to expand its portfolio here after the stupendous success of products like the Civic. Fukui exclaimed, “Annual automobile production capacity in India will be ‘doubled’ to 100,000 units by the end of 2007.” Honda is apparently doubling the capacity at its Greater Noida plant with an investment of Rs.400 billion, and now, is scouting for a location, possibly to be used for the small car.

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THE 9TH NAIL!

The 9th Schedule: Created in 1951 by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, this was a schedule made to escape judicial intervention with respect to critical reforms (13, at that time); that was then... As of today, our “most respected” governments have shrewdly succeeded in placing a massive number of 284 laws within the 9th Schedule. Fortunately, the Supreme Court has struck back

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