Imagine plugging 
in your favourite MP3 payer or your iPod into your car system and enjoying all that favourite music while driving. Sounds cool, eh? With the automotive accessories sector attempting to stay abreast with changing customer needs, tastes and preferences, this is no more a dream. Given that the industry is solely dependent on the volume of cars sold, the accessories industry stands vulnerable to unpredictable market trends. To maintain an edge, the industry is synchronising with complementary sectors such as consumer electronics and auto ancillaries.
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in your favourite MP3 payer or your iPod into your car system and enjoying all that favourite music while driving. Sounds cool, eh? With the automotive accessories sector attempting to stay abreast with changing customer needs, tastes and preferences, this is no more a dream. Given that the industry is solely dependent on the volume of cars sold, the accessories industry stands vulnerable to unpredictable market trends. To maintain an edge, the industry is synchronising with complementary sectors such as consumer electronics and auto ancillaries.For Complete IIPM Article, Click on IIPM Article
is for naught. Senior Bush aides, Newsweek tells us, are “dismissive, even condescending” toward James Baker, the Bush family consigliere who is the dominant force in the study group, and the report. Of course they are. That’s how bullies always treat their hangers-on. Even now, it seems, the wise men of Washington can’t bring themselves to face up to two glaringly obvious truths. The first is that Americans are fighting and dying in Iraq for no reason. It’s true that terrible things will happen when US forces withdraw. Bush was attacking a straw man when he mocked those who think we can make a “graceful exit” from Iraq.
aside the phenomenal growth story of the telecom sector, there are plenty of other reasons for the global majors to make India as their prime destination. The very fact that the calling rates are on a constant decline has acted as a propellant to the growth of the mobile handset market. Since the year 2000, the mobile tariff rates have fallen by more than two-thirds, all thanks to the increasing competition between telecom service providers like Airtel, Hutch, Reliance, Idea Cellular & Tata Indicom. According to telecom analyst Shushmul Maheshwari of RNCOS, “At present, India has the lowest average phone call prices in the world (merely 0.25 cents per minute).The projection is that due to falling call rates & competitive handset prices triggered by the competition, cell phones are becoming affordable gizmos.”
nation is Iraq, which Bush and his army can forcefully grip in their regime. Every country is vibrant with its own culture and custom. And forcing a country to fi t in the cocoon of the other tantamount to a disaster. This is very much applicable in the corporate domain and Wal-Mart from Bush’s country is a classic example of cultural mismatch. Ever since Wal-Mart kicked off its operations in 1997 in Germany, it was unable to match the price sensitive Germans, who prefer driving to multiple stores in the hunt of the cheapest deal, instead of travelling outside urban areas – where the retail behemoth had plopped its stores.
hyperventilating about how Wal-Mart will revolutionise Indian retail; about how it will stomp triumphantly and trample upon competition; and about how the entry of Wal-Mart (along with the launch of Reliance retail) signals the beginning of the end of mom and pop stores – just as it happened in the United States. Says S.P. Oswal, Chairman of the Textile Committee of CII, “Entry of Wal-Mart will mean a better service for the customer as the entire industry will become competitive and all the players have to give best service to the customer”. Yet, scratch the hype and conduct a cold, sober and objective analysis and the hoopla over Wal-Mart starts looking like…well, simply hoopla. The reality is: there are even chances of the Wal-Mart invasion of India turning out to be a loser, a campaign that started with a bang and perhaps ended in a whimper.
industry which is growing at a robust rate of 20-25% annually and is estimated to be Rs.750 billion strong. The growth of the private security industry is a factor of the demand and supply matrix. With the liberalization of trade, there was a concomitant increase in demand for protecting private property. Obviously as ever, the government was unable to meet the growing needs, added to that the government’s mis-governace in protecting law. Resulting thereon, there are now more than 10,000 small and large private security firms in a largely unregulated market.