Industrial segment

While KNP stands high and proud as the market leader in the industrial segment with a comprehensive 45% market share, it lags far behind the leader, Asian Paints, in the other key market – decorative segment – where it controls just a meagre 14% of the market. On an overall basis, KNP controls just 20% of the paints market in the country; a far cry from that of the leader Asian Paints, which holds dominance over 44% of the market pie. Even more alarming is the fact that the decorative paints segment (in which KNP has a poor presence) contributes an impressive 75% of total paints industry revenues.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007

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

Indiabulls Financial Services

Cut to today – the company in question, Indiabulls Financial Services, has the globe’s top rampaging bulls, namely Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Fidelity Funds, Merrill Lynch, Farallon Capital and Crown Capital Limited along with the bold & bountiful L. N. Mittal holding more than 1% of its stock individually. So what gives? How could this company – which started with an utterly hackneyed model (post the dot com crash imbroglio) of recruiting down market sales executives to sell their online trading site to retail investors hit it big?

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007

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

Naxalites and ULFA to strike

State intelligence agencies are in a dismal state, making it all the more easier for terrorist groups and especially the Naxalites and ULFA to strike at will. Moreover, the intelligence personnel oft en lack the motivation to carry on their work because of archaic compensation procedures. Unless IB and state intelligence are given more enforcement power and motivation, bribery, leakage and lethargy will make sure that perpetrators would always have the upper hand, like right now!

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Sea King Helicopters

Yet, it has is own set of problems. Its Sea King helicopters and reconnaissance fleet of Tu-142 is fast depleting. What is badly needed are the P-3C Orion type planes. INS Virat is barely surviving and the navy’s submarine capability is next to nothing when compared to that of China’s. And though its ships are being inducted with Brahmos cruise missiles, its submarine ballistic missile launch capability is severely restricted. For a country surrounded significantly by water and ‘loving’ neighbours, India’s navy cannot remain a mish-mash bonsai. Unfortunately, the powers that may be still seem to be in a daze about these issues that could well one day have the power to destroy India...

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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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Blackstone buys out Intelenet

Blackstone has bought HDFC and Barclays’ stake in Intelenet for nearly $200 million. A Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) has been launched for acquiring the stake. Blackstone would now hold 80% stake in the BPO operator. The board of Intelenet will now have two representatives from Blackstone India and two from Blackstone New York. However, as per the agreement, the management team of Intelenet would continue to lead the BPO and Intelenet would carry on providing services to its clientele including Barclays. Industry experts are of the opinion that this buyout is the largest Management Buy Out in the BPO sector.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007

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Get green or mean

Energetic, fresh and relaxed by definition happen to be abstract nouns, which means that they cannot be seen or touched. But 18 miles south of New Delhi is a place called Udyog Vihar in India’s mall capital Gurgaon, where one can actually see and touch these things; wondering where exactly? Well, you can see it on the face of 1,300-odd employees of Wipro Technology Development Centre at Gurgaon. Built on the Green Building concept, the Gurgaon campus of Wipro epitomises eco-friendliness and unmatched hospitable condition for its inmates. But first things first, what exactly is the Green Building concept and in what sense it adds to the environment positively.

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Quite far reaching

And the consequences have been quite far reaching. Land upto three kilometers on either side of the dam at Orathapalayam have been affected and adding to it the groundwater has also been seriously polluted. All of it has meant death to agriculture in that region and has made way for devastating and debilitating diseases. The water at the dam was blocked for a long 10 years & the silence was finally broken on August 22, 2005 when the Orathapalayam dam (which was filled with polluted water to the brim), was opened and the polluted water ran through Noyyal downstream and the water fl ushed into the Cauvery. The end result was that the toxic sludge settled on Cauvery’s river bed.

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

Mother Earth’s Angel!

Cameron’s out to prove that she’s not just a pretty face. This Charlie’s Angel is all set to rough it up, in a tour around the world with her close buddies to save the planet for MTV’s travel show Trippin’. Only this tour doesn’t involve palatial hotels in Paris or Switzerland but involves experiencing the wild in countries like Chile. Apart from giving a hand to Al Gore’s eco-drive, Cameron, the voice of Princess Fiona in the Shrek series, is also doing all she can to convince the producers of Shrek 4, to base the movie around an eco-friendly message! Well, the rather appropriately-hued Mr & Mrs Shrek could have a heart of green...

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Worldwide coverage

On the face of it, it’s only a concert, or well seven concerts being held in each of the seven continents, with pop icons on the stage and eager teens bopping to the music five feet away but with influential people like Al Gore, Kevin Wall and Cameron Diaz at the helm, the idea of Live Earth concerts being that first step, of making people informed about the impending catastrophe, is gaining ground. Intending to reach billions of people around the world, through the concerts and worldwide coverage via television, radio and wireless, Live Earth is indeed creating a history of sorts, with months of work going into the 24- hour concerts that will be held in Brazil, Shanghai, Japan, Johannesburg, London, Sydney, and the Eastern United States on 07/07/07.

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Laboratories on earth

The forests have been described as the most creative laboratories on earth, providing over half the pharmaceutical products used by humankind. Yet we destroy them. The great apes of the world could become extinct in the wilds within a single chimpanzee’s lifetime, which is about fifty years. The world’s oceans are being depleted. Industrial fishing has wiped out perhaps as much as 90% of large predatory fish species such as the biggest types of tuna. Right now the fate of the whales, big cats, elephants and many other species are increasingly becoming bargaining chips on the gaming board of global economics and international pawn-playing politics.

And because of social factors such as stress, feelings of worthlessness and loneliness of spirit, we are now, quite literally, killing ourselves. Suicides amongst our teenagers, the loudest cry for help of them all, have reached almost epidemic proportions in today’s world. All these tragic things are happening. I feel strongly though and embrace, the stirrings of discontentment within civil society today, and the collective demand for social and ecological sense to prevail. We the world over, have simply had enough. This is the dawning of an age of change from within our human hearts. Never before have we as individuals, or as a collective group, had such an opportunity to demand that our voices be heard strongly, forcefully. Politicians and big business of an outdated order are now skating on the flimsy ice of their own making. Our platform, in contrast is solid though. Simply because our very survival depends on it...

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Delhi Metro Rail Corporation

Keeping with stringent environment-efficient methods to minimise pollutants during its construction and re-aligning the ecological balance in the affected areas by reparatory afforestation, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) is perhaps one of the most eco-friendly constructions in Delhi. Right from day one, a detailed Environmental Impact Assessment was done and environment-friendly techniques like the judicial use of diesel- efficient generators, appropriate waste management and rainwater harvesting were adopted at all the metro stations. “We also substituted cement with fly-ash, which alone earned us around 20 million carbon credits”, says E. Sreedharan, Chairman, DMRC. Furthermore, due to design alterations in the underground sections, it reduced the utilisation of steel by thousands of tonnes. One of the cheapest metro rails in the world, is today at par with the best in the world. After all, what else would you expect out of an organization that gets tyres of all the construction trucks cleaned at day-end, so that the streets of Delhi don’t get dirty?!

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007

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Tempests trotting

One of the deadliest threats that the present generation would relate to, is the threat of category 4 and category 5 hurricanes all around the globe, especially in the Atlantic region. If we compare the number of these severe natural hazards from 1970-1985 and 1990-2005, we find that because of a supposed ‘insignificant’ rise in sea temperature of 0.5 degree Fahrenheit, the hurricanes have almost doubled – both in number and intensity! Fathom this: the energy released be a hurricane has increased by 70%, with 15% increase in wind speed in the past 30 years or so! And what’s more, these are estimated to increase exponentially in the near future!

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