IIPM: August 2007

Thursday, August 30, 2007

So is Wal-Mart truly cleaning up?

Doubts persist as on one hand, it talks of reducing CO2 emissions by 2.5 MMT by 2013, on the other, its planned additions of 680 stores by 2008-end alone would add 1 MMT of CO2! Considering how Wal-Mart is consistently lambasted for issues related to employee & community welfare, the company can’t afford any complacency on the green front. There are other marauders, but the biggest will always be the easiest to target!

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Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Even China couldn’t resist this!

The state investment agency of China has announced plans

to invest $3 billion in US private equity firm Blackstone in a landmark deal for the industry and the government. The agency, which was only established in March, will acquire the stake at 95.5% of the price to be set in Blackstone’s flotation, which is planned for later this year. Th e purchase of a stake, which will be just under 10%, values the whole of Blackstone at $30 billion. The Chinese government typically invests most of the reserves in more secure though lower-yielding US Treasury bonds.

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Thursday, August 09, 2007

They could, pun unintended, Just do it!

On a different note, while American and

Japanese brands continue to parade their dominance on the world stage, back home the scenario could, and will, positively change. While the regular mega-league brands pave their path slowly and surely into global rankings of the likes of Fortune and Forbes, there hardly exists an indigenous brand that could stake claim to being a champion on the global stage when pure awareness and recall are taken into consideration. Sure, Indian Oil Corporation, ONGC, Infosys, Satyam Computers, ICICI and HDFC are big in their own right. But I feel it is the emerging breed of entrepreneurs and enterprises that need to stake their claim to brand glory and strike when their time is ripe. That would directly imply a commitment to proactive branding, meaning not merely a promotional manoeuvre here and there, but an approach that attracts customers to your organization, to your products and services, without conscious thought or question on their part. And which in turn leads to a kind of ‘internal branding’: why talented people are drawn to work with you and who in turn disseminate the company’s brand message outward to consumers and the world.

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Wednesday, August 08, 2007

The long & short of it

So that was about the

year bygone, what’s in store for the coming year. Coming back to the point of a possible turn in business cycle; what are the challenges that await India Inc. and what’s in store for individual investors in the coming financial year, considering that all hell has already broken lose, from inflation to rupee appreciation, dwindling stock markets to a slowdown in lending.

While there a few sectors that have underperformed, there are some which have scored well. Sectors such as cement, banking and real estate, which have trailed Sensex in the past few months offer a good investment option for three to six months. All the sectors mentioned above are fundamentally strong, but have suffered because of inflation. Once price concern eases, which most analysts feel will happen soon; these are the sectors which will rally the most. The current valuations of banking, cement and real estate is significantly lower and are an attractive buy at the current moment. According to Shubhada Rao, Chief Economist, Yes Bank, “Higher inflation, inflationary expectations and elevated levels of monetary parameters prompted the RBI to tighten. Going forward, we believe that interest rates are likely to stabilise in Q1-FY08.

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Tuesday, August 07, 2007

THE ARION RESORT & SPA, ASTIR PALACE BEACH, ATHENS

The first world

class award winning luxury hotel of Athens has ample in store. Features like private beaches and pools and a floor (the Excelsior Club floor) dedicated to accommodating complete privacy with exclusive services to guests is descriptive enough of its hallmark.
THE VIEW: Basking in a corner spot, spread across 75 acres of rich sun-kissed land, and a to-die for view of the Saronic Gulf in the Mediterranean Sea situated in the heart of the Athenian Riviera. You can sit for hours together awing the ambience.
ARCHI-TYPE: The hotel moulded in modern architecture

with rooms for business and pleasure oriented interiors. Spacious, with mostly rounded furniture, they offer breathtaking views of the landscape and the ocean. Nothing much left to imagination.
BON APPÉTIT: The hotel’s acclaimed gourmet restaurant ‘The Club House’, serves variety of fish and seafood delights, coupled with live music and the most wondrous view of the Saronic Gulf. Make sure you savour it good; they’ll love you for that.
AROUND THE CORNER: If you hear the allure of the ancient, Athens’ historical sites and archaeological temples of Cape Sounion are already calling. Reverting to civilization isn’t tough either, as the c

ity centre of Athens and the shopping spot of Glyfada is nearby. Other cultural treasures, the Acropolis and the Olympic Stadium...
FROM UNDER THE CARPET: Luxury unlimited, it might leave you craving for more; make sure you recuperate before returning back home.
IN ESSENCE: The deep blue ocean so vast that it seems as if the ocean is fl owing upwards to paint the sky blue! Surrounded by modern and ancient extravaganza, that too with such easy accessibility, there is nowhere else you’d rather be then.

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