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Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Voice? Or have you begun VAScillating?

With revenues from voice shrinking, valueadd services is the new million dollar baby
We’ve witnessed the death of the landline and the runaway success of mobile telephony in the country. Now India’s vast hinterlands are getting more connected everyday, and even before this last mile is achieved, the Indian wireless sector is already on the threshold of another revolution. This time the charge is being led by companies providing a host of Value Added Services (VAS) to keep you hooked to the mobile in your pocket. A dominant player in the VAS space is Bharti Telesoft (a Bharti Enterprise group company, started in 1999 as a back-end software provider). But, the dot-com bust in 2000 left it high and dry. Today, despite being an integral part of the billion-dollar Bharti Group, Bharti Telesoft is merely a $30 million company. However, with the advent of M-commerce and Live TV in the country, the company is like a caged tiger ready to pounce on the huge VAS potential. The company has come up with a three pronged strategy to reach the next level. Firstly, to build a world-class organization with the best people, capabilities, competencies, processes and quality systems. Second, to have a global footprint. And the third is to play the role of a consolidator when the inevitable consolidation in the VAS industry happens. In an exclusive interview with 4Ps B&M, Sanjiv Mital, CEO, Bharti Telesoft talks candidly about the VAS market in India, and how the company plans to cashin on this rapidly growing segment. A few excerpts from the interview:

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008

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

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BRAND : Real Twist
BRAND: Nokia
Don makes a ‘fair’ deal…
RCOM rings in the fabricating tone!!
The Noodle House comes to India
Re-cycle...
Cricket isn’t just cricket
Puravankara gets stuck in bad weather
Harry Potter strikes a million!
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Monday, May 05, 2008

Technology innovations

Technology is about enhancing the user experience by building innovations atevery level of computing technology; right from designing; to ease-of-use,” adds Ravi Swaminathan, VP – Personal Systems Group, HP India. Though all PC brands are trying hard to tap this niche segment, it is the Sony VAIO range of laptops that is a favourite amongthe top of the heap, even as the company recently launched its stylish VAIOL series. “Everything about the new L series has been designed with the user in mind. By combining the best of desktop and notebook PCs and putting them in a slimline, stylish frame, means there is no need to have desktop computers, notebooks, MP3 or CD players in your home – all you need is the VAIO L series,” says Sachin Thapar, IT Head of Sony India. Taking this lifestyle computing phenomenon to the next level is HP which has stormed the market with its concept of Fashiontronics. “Through Fashiontronics, HP attempts to reach out to customers who are looking at individuality and create a unique style statement.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008


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


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Along came HBO!
BRAND : Real Twist
BRAND: Nokia
Don makes a ‘fair’ deal…
RCOM rings in the fabricating tone!!
The Noodle House comes to India
Re-cycle...
Cricket isn’t just cricket
Puravankara gets stuck in bad weather
Harry Potter strikes a million!
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Monday, April 21, 2008

Wolfowitz on a sticky wicket

Things don’t look too good for World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz. If you remember Wolfowitz has been in a mess ever since it was discovered that he organised a promotion and a hefty pay raise for his girlfriend Shaha Riza three months after he took over the bank in June 2005. An investigating panel that is looking into the matter now says that this could cost him his job since he put his own interest above the bank’s and violated ethics. A detailed 52-page report that the panel has come out with recently squarely puts the blame on Wolfowitz for setting off a “crisis in the leadership”. Although the panel (comprising of seven World Bank directors) has not said anything conclusively, the signals seem pretty clear. So, what’s gonna happen to Wolfowitz? Wait and watch.

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Wednesday, April 09, 2008

T’ake C’are S’weetie!

TCS enhances its three year old technology partnership with Ferrari
The relation between the world’s most distinguished red car and India just became stronger. For all motor sports lovers across the subcontinent, it comes as a matter of some sort of consolation to see Indian participation on the world’s most watched and breathtaking motor sport event. However, we are not talking about Kartikayen’s blink and miss appearance at the circuit here as there is a business preposition hogging the limelight better. TCS, an Indian corporation has renewedits tie-up with Italy’s Ferrari which has unleashed the same level of pride among the countrymen as the forgotten hero once did. In an agreement, a first for an Indian company, Tata Consultancy Services and Scuderia Ferrari have entered into an alliance which requires the Mumbai based software moghul to provide an array of engineering solutions to Ferrari. It was in 2004 that the two companies first tested waters when they joined hands by means of TCS providing IT and engineering services to assist in developing F1 racing cars and the Ferrari sports cars.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008

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

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Tuesday, April 08, 2008

PLTs versus PLUs

In other words, People Like Them (PLTs) versus People Like Us (PLUs); the classic refrain of those handful of people going to malls to really ‘buy stuff’ and getting highbrowed about PLTs spoiling the upscale atmosphere. The pathetic fact of it all is that a majority of Indians are, in one word – poor. And till the time India as a nation ensures that PLTs slowly but surely get converted into PLUs, there’s no ghost of a chance that industries can be profitable. Look around – from automobiles to cold drinks, sectors after sectors are suffering smashing losses, despite having top line growth. In a US city, people drive down miles in their cars to the outskirts to visit malls like Wal-Mart. Would that ever happen in India? So, when was the last time you went across the city to specially visit a specific mega-mall? When? A long time back, if at all? But then, we might be proven wrong. Indian governments might get the equation right & might force the growth multiplier down the throat of the hundreds of millions waiting for years for India Shining to show up. But like we said, till the time that happens, we’ll be happier reading Iacocca’s autobiography, and believing in his father, and opening up restaurants after restaurants!

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Wednesday, April 02, 2008

People Movements

•Hari Krishnan has joined JWT as its Vice President and will head the Pepsi business there. Krishnan was the Brand Head at Grey Worldwide and was associated with it for the last 4 years. He has replaced Hemant Misra at JWT, who has joined Public is India as its COO.

• Arun Mahajan has been roped in by Bates David Enterprise as VP – Account Management. Prior to joining Bates, he was the COO of Arms Advertising. Meanwhile, grapevine is ripe with rumours that Ashutosh Khanna, COO, Grey Worldwide is bidding adieu to the agency.

• Kaushik Tiwari has recently joined Publicis Ambience as Executive VP and will oversee the agency’s operations in the South. Also Harsh Grandhe has joined Rediffusion DY&R as Vice President and will handle its Mumbai operations. Grandhe has a strong background in digital marketing and has been previously associated with Blue Interactive in Singapore and iContract, Bengalooru.

• Amy Fernandes, Editor of Femina, the women’s lifestyle magazine has put in her papers and plans to quit after a suitable replacement is found. Manini Chatterjee has joined The Telegraph as its Editor – Kolkata.

• Ashok Nath, Partner Genesis PR, is returning back to the advertising industry and is joining O&M, Bengalooru as Client Services Director. MTV International has elevated Amit Jain to the post of Executive VP and MD – India, China and South East Asia.

• Sharat Dhall has quit Indiatimes as Director (e-commerce) to join travel portal Expedia.com as Head-India operations. Walt Disney Television International (India) has appointed Aparna Bhosle as Director (Programming and Production), who will lead all the channels.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008

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

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BRAND: Ford
Private emotion… ...As private jets become big bus...
Mackenna’s Gold
Tennis’ ace for humanity
Olay Olay for P&G in India!
Mahindra goes all out in used car segment
Committing for a lifetime…
The ‘democratic’ route to self-destruction?
Nine Jersey Nights...
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Cannes this year

Also, a silver came to Grey Worldwide India for an exceptional campaign targeted at honeymoon couples for Travel Corporation of India. McCann Erickson was awarded two bronze Press Lions for Nerolac and Cocco’s CafĆ© campaigns. Moreover, O&M won a bronze for Indian Association for Promotion of Adoption and Child Welfare campaign. In the Film Lion’s category, McCann Erickson bagged two Lions, one silver for Happy Dent (palace ad) and a bronze for the best use of music in the same campaign. Code Red Films was awarded a bronze Film Lion for Blind Welfare Organisation campaign. However, some came back not very happy as all their expectations were not met. Two entries, JWT’s Monte Carlo jeans and O&M’s Hutch came very close to winning an award but missed out. Despite the fact that the Indian performance was better than last year’s, many feel that most of the entries that went from the Indian side, were not creatively very impressive and the presentations made in front of the jury were not up to the mark. At the end of the day, the fact remains, though our advertising is slowly getting recognised, there is a world waiting beyond the twelve Lions...

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008
An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative
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Tuesday, April 01, 2008

BRAND: HSBC

HEADLINE: Live your dream by planning
for it
BASELINE : The world’s local bank
AGENCY : Saatchi & Saatchi
4Ps TAKE : Quick, how can you live your dreams? Answer: By planning for it! And HSBC, the world’s local bank, is here to help you. The power idea of this ad is to target the parents of all growing children who dream to study in the best institutes abroad. The product offering is a unique feature called ‘Personalised Financial Review’, which advises the parents to plan for their children’s future through HSBC’s Power Vantage account. The body copy tells you how this helps kids to evaluate their risk profile and needs, and how it even helps them to create a financial plan using a combination of deposits, mutual funds and insurance schemes. We got it: dream big but plan even bigger is the mantra, right???

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008


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


Read More:-
The Sunday Indian - Greatest News weekly
IIPM, GURGAON
Maya jaal spreads far & wide!
RCOM rings in the fabricating tone!!
The Noodle House comes to India
Re-cycle...
Cricket isn’t just cricket
Puravankara gets stuck in bad weather
Harry Potter strikes a million!
Serious dangers
Colourful
Hazards related to kidney, liver and lungs
Stock ‘boom’!
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Friday, March 28, 2008

‘Spice’ing up the sky! Way to Go

Wherever he went, Thiagarajan has either created or broken records, and now he wants to acquire not one but two airlines
Pilot-turned businessman, M. Thiagarajan of Paramount Airlines is the youngest airline CEO & MD in the world. He was just 27 when Paramount’s first flight took off. But that’s an old story. According to the latest figures of CAPA, Thiagarajan controls 2% market share of the Indian aviation industry. That’s small, isn’t it? Now, suffix a 6 to that figure – 26%, that’s Paramount’s market share in the South which makes it the market leader in that part of the country. However, that is not the only and real reason why he is 4Ps B&M’s Newsmaker of the Fortnight. After the high-profile acquisition of Sahara Airlines by Naresh Goyal’s Jet Airways and the purchase of a strategic stake in Air Deccan by the flamboyant Vijay Mallya (Kingfisher Airlines), Thiagarajan too has ambitious (mark that word!) plans up his sleeve. Grapevine has it that the young entrepreneur plans to acquire a 51% stake in Spice Jet for about $158.53 million and a similar stake in Go Air for $24.4-$36.6 million. With the two deals coming by, Thiagarajan will become the third ‘private’ pillar of the Indian aviation industry which is right now in the consolidation mood.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008

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

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Thursday, March 27, 2008

Convergence of diversification

Now, Nokia wants complete dominance
The dawn of the New Year 2008 will mark Nokia, the world leader in mobility and operating in 130 nations across the globe, adopting a new company structure. That’s when the company will have two reportable segments viz - Devices & Services and Nokia Siemens Networks. The current business group and the horizontal group structure in the device business will be replaced with Devices Services & Software and Markets. The strategy is meant to create an organisation which will be well aligned with future growth opportunities around converging internet and telephony services. “The convergence of mobile communications and internet industries is opening up new growth opportunities for us,” professes Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo. The basis of the CEO’s prophecy is perhaps based on Nokia’s expectation that the newly proposed structure will prove to be effective in managing the device portfolio and streamline the marketing and production efforts. Perhaps Nokia is treading the same trodden path as traversed by the likes of Motorola and Apple. Nonetheless, it is a rational step as far as its endeavours to change with the changing times is concerned. Plans to divorce the supply chain, sales channel and marketing activities from the product division and further realign them into one unit are also on the anvil. With the focus clearly on the trio, the dream of Nokia, though in its infancy, is to be able to own the entire value chain and then sell it in entirety as a complete package to its customers.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008

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

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Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Cannibalise or crash!

Shorter brand product life-span is in vogue
Feels great to watch people get excited with their newly bought mobile handsets, doesn’t it?! The shine, the oh! so wonderful colour that gives a form to the very magic of telecommunication & the sparkle in the eyes of the owner is indeed worth a watch. Well, that’s not the end of the story though... If you ever catch a glimpse of the same customer, with the very same mobile handset even a month later, you’ll see no change... well, nothing really except the sparkling eyes! And so are the strategies of players in the modern business scenario. And whoa! They challenge the very traditional concept of ‘extending’ a branded product’s life span, and pretty well at that, only proving the concept of dynamic preferences that modern day customers have. He/she doesn’t like common colours, or the very same shapes, or simply, the very same product, no matter how renowned the brand is. Think of it. Nokia walks into the market with its product ‘X’ priced at Rs.25,000. And it’s a hit! The next month, you discover a reduction in the handset price to Rs.15,000! You aren’t surprised for even you know that it’s just a part of its business exercise – to skim the market first, then kill the product and play with volumes... ultimately killing the very product!

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007

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

Read More:-
The Sunday Indian - Greatest News weekly
IIPM, GURGAON
Maya jaal spreads far & wide!
RCOM rings in the fabricating tone!!
The Noodle House comes to India
Re-cycle...
Cricket isn’t just cricket
Puravankara gets stuck in bad weather
Harry Potter strikes a million!
Serious dangers
Colourful
Hazards related to kidney, liver and lungs
Stock ‘boom’!
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Growth is good... But then comes the tougher part... hiring!

In a fast pace business scenario, getting talent on board is a real tough ball game...
Q: My company will double in size over the next year, which means we need to bring in lots of employees (as in hundreds) very quickly. Hiring is hard enough at a normal pace. Any suggestion on getting it right while going so fast?
– Lars Dalgaard, Palo Alto, Calif.
A: To start with, congratulations are in order. First, on your success. And second for facing the reality that you could blow it. If there is one way that rapidly growing businesses tend to self-destruct, it is by taking on hordes of new people who cannot deliver the “goods” that made the companies take off in the first place. You seem to know that. Now you just need to know how to stop yourself anyway. Look, we know growth is thrilling, especially when you’ve worked for months, or more likely years, laying its groundwork. If you’re starting something inside a company, maybe it feels like your whole career depends on your new product or service, going from gamble to money-gusher.

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Monday, March 17, 2008

A toothache for Colgate!

Counterfeit toothpaste tubes – being packaged as Colgate – are being flooded in discount stores across the US, in places like New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland, according to a statement issued by Colgate-Palmolive. And the world’s biggest toothpaste-maker is working closely with the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) to get to the bottom of this shady business. These fake products, the company says, may contain diethylene glycol – a chemical substance that can harm children and people suffering from liver or kidney disorders. Colgate- Palmolive’s statement adds that the fake products can be distinguished by their packaging: The label says that the goods were made in South Africa. Colgate maintains that it does not import toothpaste from South Africa. Also, there are typographical mistakes on the label in the form of incorrect spellings such as “SOUTH AFRLCA” & “South African Dental Assoxiation”. Recently, the FDA issued a warning to avoid using toothpaste that were being sold with the ‘Made in China’ tag – as it was felt that these too contain substances that could be health hazards. And now this! There seems to be some kind of toothpaste hazard in the American marketplace!

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Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Home run...

...towards social awareness!
Those were the days when most baseball players’ life revolved around their performance statistics like batting averages & strike-outs but today they are uniting to unfold all different kind of statistics. Today, most of legendary players are involved in spreading awareness about the Deep-Vein Thrombosis (DVT) blood clots, which kill up to 200,000 people in the US & have started a campaign against DVT called ‘Know The Stats, Know Your Risk’. This game of Whites which is now predominantly a game of Blacks, is a best example in bridging the cultural gap in the US. To promote the game, around $18 billion was donated by major leagues for direct & indirect support for Boys & Girls Clubs of America. The Major League generated more than $3 million in aid for hurricane victims & donated the same to the American Red Cross. In a match to raise funds for the Prostate Cancer Foundation, almost all top players came together for Home Run Challenge & contributed $2.5 million for research. These initiatives collectively raise the stature of the game among the youth & also help in intensifying its presence in almost all major countries. Moreover, the team members of this game comprise players from almost all races... A mini world in itself.

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Monday, March 10, 2008

Snowy abode to turn aqua soon

The ‘Paradise on Earth’ proudly View of Aquarium Bagh- I- Bahu announced the commencement of a ‘paradise’ under water in the Bagh-I-Bahu area in Jammu & Kashmir. This exotic aquatic world is the largest underwater aquarium in the subcontinent. The aquarium-cum-awareness centre harbours about 550 species of fish in its 24 aquarium caves and fully geared laboratories & museums. The phase I of the project has generated Rs.200,000 within the first week of its inauguration. Phase II of the project, where a sea world will be constructed is underway. Aft er Singapore, it’s now India’s turn to get the dough rolling in with this promising tourist attraction.

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Monday, March 03, 2008

‘CELEB’RATIONS!!

When glitter, light, sweets, joy & family come together, they make a memory. And a special festival only accentuates that memory! B&E spoke to various stars in the horizon to discover what festival rings a bell for them....

RITU BERI
"It has to be Diwali... It's what Christmas is to the world. I love the spirit of the festival. You see everybody dressed in lovely clothes, celebrating, exchanging gift s... it’s beautiful. I look forward to Diwali also because we celebrate my dad’s birthday on the same day. So the entire excitement for the day is doubled... and we make sure that every Diwali, the entire family gets together to rejoice and celebrate

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Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Knipschildt’s Madeleine, 106,301 INR (a pound)

DesirƉE
If the festival of lights was a prayer to Goddess Lakshmi foran obscenely large amount of money, here are ways to burn it all away… (of course only if, ahem, the Goddess was kind to you :-)

Knipschildt’s Madeleine, 106,301 INR (a pound)
Not many would believe that this humble looking ganache, is perhaps the costliest chocolate that man has ever made or tasted. Created by Fritz Knipschildt, every piece is made out of the freshest natural ingredient right from French Valrhona Chocolate, Vanilla pods and pure Italian Truffle Oil. With a French Perigold Truffle rolled inside it and the whole dusted with cocoa powder, each ganache is whipped and folded by hand for as long as possible to make the silkiest blend and in a refrigerated room – so you know that the price tag is not only about its constituents.

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Monday, February 25, 2008

FEAT OF CLAY

A once glorious art form tethers on the path of oblivion
Sachin Pal coughs as he talks, “I was nine then. While playing in these narrow lanes of Kumartuli, my eyes fell upon an aged potter. With a whimsical style, he was shaping Maa Durga, as if a musician was playing his instrument. I was startled to see his eyes. They were looking more beautiful than those of Maa Durga. I went to him, touched his arms and said, ‘Kaka, amay thakur gada sekhabe? (Uncle, will you teach me how to make idols?)’ He smiled and perhaps his smile told me, for years to come, this will be my life!” Pal cannot really remember whether he is 60 or 65 now. His black, thin, naked body has only a gamcha wrapped around the waist, his face marked with week long stubble as he sits on the mud floor, two arms resting on the knees, fingers full of mud, and a half finished beedi sprouting from the left corner of the lips, talking to himself, “This profession enabled me to support a family of eight members. Now two of my three daughters are married, one still remains. Yet, these days, it’s so tough to handle! My son says, this is a ‘worthless’ job. He sells lottery tickets! This generation doesn’t understand it at all….”

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Wednesday, February 20, 2008

And caution bit the dust...

Retailers could even go beyond their means to gain a large share of your wallet this season
At the turn of the century, few would have even imagined this tsunami hitting Indian shores. But with the likes of Reliance Industries and a plethora of others blazing the track with gargantuan expansion plans, the excitement building up in this sector is truly unparalleled, as the scope for growth is tremendous. Comments Raghu Pillai, Chief Executive & President, Reliance Retail, to B&E, “The retail sector is growing faster than India’s GDP growth rate at around 11%. Organised retail will be around $60 billion in the next five to ten years, which will still be only about 15-20% of the total retail space in the country.” The competition is highly intense on two fronts. In the first phase, the hunt is primarily for quality real estate. And while that battle rages on, the players are simultaneously also keen to ensure that they achieve those elusive sales per square foot figures and stay put on the winning side

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Friday, February 15, 2008

Sales & Marketing

Watch majors are in the race too. If Seiko Watches is sounding the battle cry with a range of 100 new watches under three lines; Timex has ‘small town’ plans for the season. Salil Sadanandan, Senior VP – Sales & Marketing, Timex told B&E, “Festival marketing is flat in metros, so our focus will be on tier-I & tier- II cities. We will have new launches and 40% discount scheme for the upcoming festive season. Also we will be opening 5 new showrooms, of which two will be in Kolkata.” To garner a bigger share of the pie, greeting cards makers such as Archies Gallery, Expressions and Hallmark are in the process of chartering their individual plans. The big daddy of the segment, Archies promises to do it differently this season, even as the retailer is all set to launch a high-end range gift items targeted at the fiercely growing corporate gifting market. Called Gift Works, the company hopes to create a monopoly in the segment. But Archies may have a tough time, as the segment remains largely dominated by myriad unorganised players. Be it the hand picking bulk gift s for your prized clients; or handing out tangible symbols of love to your near and dear, the season for gifting is definitely here and cajoled by the vast potential, marketers are taking very trick out of their magic bag. You only have to visit your nearest mall to witness this fierce battle for consumer mind space raging amidst the festive decorations and gaiety surrounding the market place!

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