Fun Foods

From starting production in a meagre 300 square feet unit, the company has grown big enough to add a gigantic 50,000 square feel production plant in Uttaranchal. The beginning of the company was also fun-filled, informs the founder and Managing Director of the company, Rajiv Bahl, who initially was a Captain in the Indian Navy. The idea of Fun Foods occurred to him at a casual talk over dinner and drinks with his colleagues, when one of them pointed out a fact that no Indian company was present in the processed food segment. He elaborates, “Estimating the potential of the western processed food market – where no big players from homeland ever dared to foray – was adequate to enter this domain.”

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Source:- IIPM-Business and Economy, Initiative:- Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri - 2006

FANATIC FUN IN FOOD

WHAT BEGAN AS A FORTUITOUS VENTURE, IS NOW A MUST FOR YOUR PALATE

You’ll find them, err, rather taste them, at your favourite hangout. Hadn’t it been for this company, you would terribly miss the yum factor in your food. Be it a burger or a pizza, this company has tantalized the taste buds of many Indians – to be specific, all the frequenters of Barista, Pizza Hut, KFC and many other cafés and eateries. Thriving on the boom in quick-service restaurants, hospitality industry and the growing obsession of India towards fast food, this company has surely cashed-in on the opportunity. The name is Fun Foods! With a whopping growth rate of 50% for the past five fiscal years – which resulted in a turnover of more than Rs.20 crores for this quarter – and commanding an institutional market share of 70%, the company is scaling newer heights.

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Source:- IIPM-Business and Economy, Initiative:- Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri - 2006

World

Indeed, like he mentioned, the Catholic Cathedral, the Al Khulafa Al Rashiudin Mosque and the Nda Mariam Coptic Cathedral are the Asmarinos’ prefectures of pride and praise. Off the subject maybe, but I felt a sudden surge of gratitude for this thing called travel that is probably the simplest means to learning and more importantly, unlearning… The drive from the current capital to the former capital of Eritrea – Massawa – ought to be an itinerary agenda by itself. Such was the passage through panoramic precincts in Semhar province tiding many a twist and curve in an exhilarating getaway to the largest Eritrean port by the Red Sea. “While the Italians chose to shift capital to Asmara, this port city remained testimony to the grandeur and greed that trade tags along with it.”

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Source:- IIPM-Business and Economy, Editor:- Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri - 2006

IIPM Infrastructure > Campus

In terms of infrastructure, campus and technology support, IIPM is rated amongst the top institutes of the country. IIPM's academic campuses in Asia are based in New Delhi, the capital of India, Mumbai (the financial capital of India and one of the main industrial hubs of Asia), Chennai (the industrial capital of India), Bangalore (IT capital of India), Pune (academic capital of India), Hyderabad (technology city) and Ahmedabad. IIPM's Asian consulting and research centers, under IIPM's Consulting Cell (Planman Consulting) are based in New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Chennai (India), and the North American consulting and research center is based in Toronto (Canada). Chicago (USA) is the headquarters for the most resent research and consulting center that IIPM is setting up in North America. In the European continent, along with strategic partners International Management Institute (IMI) Belgium, IIPM is in the middle of the industrial capitals of Europe, namely Antwerp & Brussels. Further, the Global Opportunities & Threats Analysis (GOTA) programs of IIPM shift traditional campus learning to the live corporate arena where students visit organizations like Nestle S.A (Vevey, Switzerland), United Nations (Geneva), World Bank, ILO, Credit Suisse Europe, IMD Lausanne, etc.

IIPM's Asian campuses focus on various academic programs, namely, Full time and Integrated Programme in National Economic Planning and Entrepreneurship, Fellowship programs and on specific management training programs. In New Delhi, IIPM has the largest campus of all business schools. The IIPM Tower in Qutab Institutional Area is situated in one of the most prestigious institutional areas in South Asia. The area also has campuses of various international organizations like USAID, DFID (U.K), UN, ABB, and Ernst & Young. In Mumbai, the IIPM Tower in Bandra (West) has received many rave reviews in business magazines and news reports as being a designer's marvel and an architectural delight. As consistent with all of IIPM's international locations, the Mumbai campus is situated in one of the most highly valued locations in Asia. IIPM additionally also has another pristine campus spread across various acres of lush green landscape in South Delhi. This campus is exceptional because of the Scottish flavor of the ambience. The castle type buildings, mysteriously located between lush green landscapes and thick woods, provide the ideal setting for academic pursuits. A similarly huge and lush campus, focused now completely on rural development programs, is based in Gurgaon, adjacent to New Delhi. Interestingly, it was the Gurgaon campus where IIPM started its management programs in 1973.

All IIPM campuses have created standards in infrastructure, co-curricular, and extra curricular support. For example, students and participants, for their various projects and extra curricular activities, would regularly utilize services of air-conditioned auditoriums with seating capacities of over 1000, conference rooms with availability round the clock, computer laboratories with 24 hours online support, libraries extending across complete floors with some of the world's leading titles, classroom teaching infrastructure comparable to the most advanced in the world, sports facilities (Billiards, Swimming, Golf, Lawn Tennis, Table Tennis, Badminton, Cricket), and yes, the inimitable Canteen. World's leading organizations have provided, or currently support & maintain these high levels of infrastructure. Some of them are Microsoft, LG, Nestle, Hewlett Packard, Canon etc.

Whether for academic programs or for management training sessions across all its campuses, IIPM provides hostel accommodation for students and participants from various parts of the world. This adds phenomenally to group learning experiences, sustained by round the clock faculty interaction.

Upward Swing in Gold Prices

The weakening of rupee and non-availability of pepper outside the exchange resulted in the prices of this sibling of salt zooming up to Rs.7,150 from Rs.6,850 per unit (per 10 tonne) on June 26. Delhi Trade Forum’s Rathod further blames futures trading for the upward swing in gold prices from Rs.6,200 six months ago to Rs.11,500 per 10 grams last month, and silver from Rs.12,200 per kg to Rs.19,800. There are also allegations of some tainted stock market players like Ketan Parekh manipulating the commodity market to book heavy profits. The NCDEX Managing Director P. H. Ravi Kumar denies this. In any case the exchange itself imposes margins to ward off speculators. Recently, NCDEX imposed a margin of 45% on urad dal and 18.5% on tur dal to discourage speculators. Trading on mentha oil had to be suspended for sometime on July 9, “In view of very high volatility,” said another NCDEX official. But, other exchanges don’t put up such stringent safeguards. The basic issue now is how to strengthen the commodity regulator and speed up the physical delivery system.

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Initiative:- Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri

Spreading wings in Siggiewi…

The mighty eagles might soon be put up on display at a controversial site at ta’ Zgamardi in Siggiewi, two centuries after Napoleon evicted the Order of St. John from Malta to breathe life into the arcane art of falconry. With this grandiose measure, Rene Scicluna, the man behind the mission, hopes to bring back the talisman of a celebrated Maltese past. Hawking history with the high fliers, are we?

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Source:- IIPM-Business and Economy, Editor:- Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri - 2006

IIPM:- Canti Sena Foundation

But the opposition gave way to community support and help, leading to the realisation of the most positive potentialities of the experiment. The Canti Sena Foundation claims to bring holistic development of the child by making schooling a happy adventure for children, banking on their creativity and inventiveness. In the poverty stricken population of the island, this experiment has been a most cost effective option. In the strife-torn provinces of Indonesia, this experiment could go a long way in creating a non-violent human community as a counter to the simmering violence driven insurgency. Could India learn?

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Source:- IIPM-Business and Economy, Editor:- Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri - 2006

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