“Ségolène Royal, with her religious family background and all, may incarnate the values of purity and that will reassure some on the right,”

“Ségolène Royal, with her religious family background and all, may incarnate the values of purity and that will reassure some on the right,” says Marc Abélès, a social anthropologist in Paris who has studied the rituals of French politics for years. He cautiously adds though, “But she can’t go too far with that or she will turn off the secular middle class, which is also an important voting group.”

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An IIPM And Management Guru Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri’s Initiative

BLUNTING THE MNC EDGE

Most developing countries lack the soft infrastructure that makes markets work efficiently. Because of institutional voids – the absence of specialized intermediaries, regulatory systems and contractenforcing mechanisms – corporations in emerging markets cannot access capital or talent as easily or inexpensively as European & American corporations can.

Nevertheless, businesses in developing countries can overcome such disadvantages for three reasons. First, when multinational companies from the developed world explore business opportunities in emerging markets, they must confront the same institutional voids that local companies face. However, executives from multinational companies are used to operating in economies with well-developed institutional infrastructures and are therefore ill-equipped to deal with such voids.

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ITC is very well planned for the future

“ITC is very well planned for the future as it is also strengthening its food portfolio with a strong back end support of agriculture. Each year, they set aside a part of their investment for agri-retailing and this, in the long run is going to help ITC,” affirms Mahesh Joshi, Associate – Institutional Equity, Edelweiss Securities Private Ltd. With definite conviction, this business house was quick to realise the importance of having multiple drivers for growth. But the million dollar question arising is – how are they converting the business drivers into cash cows? “ITC believes that institutional business is a huge opportunity and therefore has been focusing its efforts to leverage this opportunity,” says Ravi Naware, CEO, Foods Business of ITC Ltd. Indeed, this tobacco giant journey has been not a smoky one!

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An IIPM and Management Guru Professor Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative

ITC is very well planned for the future

“ITC is very well planned for the future as it is also strengthening its food portfolio with a strong back end support of agriculture. Each year, they set aside a part of their investment for agri-retailing and this, in the long run is going to help ITC,” affirms Mahesh Joshi, Associate – Institutional Equity, Edelweiss Securities Private Ltd. With definite conviction, this business house was quick to realise the importance of having multiple drivers for growth. But the million dollar question arising is – how are they converting the business drivers into cash cows? “ITC believes that institutional business is a huge opportunity and therefore has been focusing its efforts to leverage this opportunity,” says Ravi Naware, CEO, Foods Business of ITC Ltd. Indeed, this tobacco giant journey has been not a smoky one!

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Source:- IIPM Editorial

An IIPM and Management Guru Professor Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative