De‘cement’ing the environment?

The government as well as Indian cement companies need to address mining related environment hazards

On one hand, Holcim, Lafarge & the Birla Group are fighting it out for control of India’s cement sector. But what is alarming on the other hand is that no matter who wins in this war, environment may most certainly turn out to be the loser. That’s because it’s one of those industries, which has by far got one of the worst track records in terms of drastically altering the environmental balance in India.


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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007

An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative

Multi brand outlets

The multi brand outlets have more than tripled to 579 currently while the business partner network is now present in over 366 cities with 2,076 partners currently. But Lenovo is also taking its relational business model (with large corporates) very seriously. According to Neeraj, the company looks at segment- wise leadership like government, education et al. And Rahul claims the transition to Lenovo was very smooth, as he says they lost “practically no one” from their key corporate customers. Two years and many brand building initiatives later, Lenovo is still not a patch on the market leader. But it has survived, and retained the legacy of its parents.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007

An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative

Star's parent company

According to the results of Star’s parent company, News Corp., for the quarter ended March 31. 2007, its television segment’s operating income has shown a decline of $13 million. The reason, to quote the statement is “...as increased contributions from the FOX...were more than off set by lower contributions from Star...” Analysts reckon that even Star’s South Asia operating profits have declined by more than 30% in the same period. Rewind two years and the network was miles and oceans ahead of competitors (read Sony & Zee) and looked invincible. So when a few Zee soaps topped ratings charts in early 2006, the whole thing was treated as a fl ash in the pan. When this reporter had asked Star’s Ajay Vidyasagar (Now President, Content and New Media at Star) about the resurgence of Zee, his disdainful retort was, “No one has been able to overtake Star in the last six years.”

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007

An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative