Thursday, October 16, 2008

The World Economic Outlook (WEO, April, 2008) also specifically mentions that the emerging and developing economies face the challenges of taming infl

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Certainly, a more broad-based global economy is a healthy trend, but at the same time, their robust economic growth has also been pivotal in generating some negative repercussions for the global economy.


ECONOMY: GLOBALHowever, as compared to earlier financial disruptions, it is startling to note that the direct spillovers of the financial crisis that began in August 2007 have been contained to a large extent. The emerging and developing economies have been less affected by the turbulence in the financial markets. Nevertheless, on account of global integration of the markets (as they are not fully insulated) the financial markets have been jittery in these economies as well. Sample the performance of the last quarter of FY ‘08 in the key markets of emerging economies: Brazil, Thailand, South Korea, Russia, MSCI Asia, Japan, India and China have respectively given negative returns to the tune of 4.6%, 4.8%, 10.2%, 10.3%, 11.5%, 18.2%, 22.9%, and 25.1% respectively. However, despite some hiccups in the latter part of 2007, the growth in emerging and developing nations remained a robust 7.9% surpassing growth attained in 2006.

Moreover, the cumulative oil bill of developing countries (importers) has increased by $971 billion since 2003. The current account situation of these oil importing developing economies is deteriorating, inflation as well as interest rates are on the rise, GDP and exports are slowing; the fragile macroeconomic context of a few of them adds to the worries of negative impacts. The median inflation has surged to 7.6%, for a third of the economies inflation has exceeded 10% (India 11.63%, Vietnam 26%, Chile 16% & Russia 15.1%). Moreover, WEO estimates that consumer prices in emerging and developed economies during FY ‘09 will also grow by around 5.7%. Though the interest rates have increased, yet the financial condition of a majority of developing economies remains supportive by historical measures and liquidity is ample. The Outlook for Developing Economies precisely states that the expansion in developing countries is projected to moderate gradually to about 6% in 2009, with all regions slowing but continuing to record strong results. While in the midst of administrative restriction on investment & reduced import from US, the economic growth of China will come down to a more sustainable 8.5% by 2009, high interest rates and fiscal tightening will slow India’s growth story too.


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An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).


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Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Now taste the bitter coffee!!!

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Expansion proved a poison pill for Starbucks. Now for some silence!

STARBUCKS: JOB CUTS & STORE CLOSURESHaving wallpapered the world green with its ‘two star band and a crowned siren’ logo, having sold everything – from soft toys to CDs, having produced a box-office failure Akilah and the Bee, having bought a basketball team that never made it to the NBA, Howard Schultz, the globally renowned co-founder and current CEO of Starbucks Corp. has tried everything... besides selling coffee at a premium (does he still remember how to do it?)!

So how bad is the situation? Look at the plummeting share price on the NYSE and you’d never ask this question again. Its share price tanked to $14.95 on July 8, 2008 (even below the July 8, 2003 price of $15!) and its MCap has eroded by over 50% in the past year! And if you still thought that operational problems were far from reality, July 1, 2008 saw two announcements that proved optimists wrong – closure of 600 outlets in US (5% of US total) and a reduction of its workforce by 12,000 (a cut by 7%) explaining which, Schultz justifies, “The current economic environment is the weakest in our company’s history, marked by... rising costs that are directly impacting our customers.” But then, optimists also argue – “Starbucks is global, and the US problems shouldn’t have too many negative repercussions!” To put figures as alibi, 81% of its revenues (of $9.05 billion during FY ‘07-08) come from US alone! No negative effect? Really?!

Just two years ago, the company made tall claims of its thriving success story in US by opening two stores in one building in many locations (compromising on store location standards) and selling everything under one brand (dangerously misusing ‘umbrella branding’ concept). What’s more a slap, 70% of the stores that are destined to close were opened post-2005! Really, a strategic error! Competition is another issue, with McDonald’s and others coming out with affordable beverages as compared to Starbuck’s $4 standard foam latte.

Starbucks made a mistake by expanding too fast. For now, “Too many machines, spoil the coffee!” Burning a hole in customers’ pockets would only sound logical once recession is passé. And for that, expansions would have to wait.



Priyanka Rajpal


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Monday, October 13, 2008

The Americans are insane!

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And B&E’s Karan Mehrishi analyses why...

http://www.businessandeconomy.org/29052008It was insane! I had five American companies with a combined loss above $80 billion (phew!) and not one of them – save Sprint ($29.5 billion loss) – ready to talk to me. While the $3.09 billion down Freddie Mac representatives (bouncers, I say) shoved a press release on my face, the $3.3 billion losing AMD’s US office had their PR guys (The PRactice; spelt that way, sounding totally out of a Grisham novel) call me up to question me on why I was doing this story “at this point of time,” (!!!) and that they’d never heard about B&E (I guess we don’t distribute B&E in Mars). The sub–prime hit Merrill Lynch US was even more hilarious, when they told me, “If this is related to the Bloomberg story, that’s incorrect!” And GM.

Nobody’s been picking up my phones in the US since I met Rick Wagoner (Chairman, GM) last year to get his exclusive quotes with respect to his $750 million investment in India (He’d been quite confident that “GM wanted to leverage its global resources” to succeed in “such a high growth market”). Sprint Nextel’s official global spokesperson James Fisher was quite to the point in his comments to me about why they’d suffered such a huge loss of $29.5 billion. “We have had problems with customer services, network reliability (which we have dealt with now). We have improved our services and it will take a couple of more quarters for a visible turnaround.” Dan Hesse, CEO, Sprint Nextel, spoke to the media, “Given current deteriorating business conditions, which are more difficult than I had expected to encounter, these changes will take time to produce improved operating performance.” With a subscriber base of 53.8 million subscribers in the United States, Sprint’s present losses are attributed to the writing down of the 2005 takeover of Nextel Telecom. Sprint’s market capitalisation is about $26 billion and in the last three years, the value has declined by a staggering $7 billion!


And news from motown hasn’t been worse. The world’s largest automaker, GM, has found itself in troubled waters again. As per 2007 results, GM’s reported net loss is at an astounding $38.7 billion! According to the company, the special charges, amounting to $38.3 billion in the third quarter towards valuation allowance against deferred tax assets, were the primary reasons for these astounding losses. Strong sales in emerging markets, however, led the primary business of automotive to grow substantially. GM’s revenues were $181 billion in 2007 as compared to last year’s $174 billion. According to Rick Wagoner, “We are pleased with the positive improvement trend in our automotive results, especially given the challenging conditions in important markets like the US and Germany, but we have more to do to achieve acceptable profitability and positive cash flow.”


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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).


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Friday, October 10, 2008

“The telecom scenario in India is already challenged with the availability of good HR to match the pace of domestic growth in telecom

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it’s a whole new world out there

Major forays by Indian companies into overseas markets:
RELIANCE

• Has consolidated its overseas telecom operations into a new business unit named Reliance Globalcom, to manage the consolidated operations of Flag Telecom, Yipes enterprise Services Inc and other global businesses of the company
• Bought UK- based Wimax operator and has plans to invest $500 m in eWave, to launch services in China and other countries.
• Plans to lay a submarine cable system through its arm Reliance FLAG and spend $1.5 billion in building a 1,15,000-km fully IP-enabled optic network to reach two-third of world population
• Reportedly planning to offer GSM-based MVNO services across 57 countries
• Acquired Uganda-based Anupam Global Soft (U) Ltd, and is investing up to $500 million to build a telecom network in the country BHARTI AIRTEL
• Currently is in a bid to combine strengths with South Africa-based MTN and tap markets in Africa & Middle East
• Invested $200 million over a time span of next two years in order to launch both 2G and 3G services in Sri Lanka. Present in Seychelles and Channel Islands too
• Has joined hands with 15 global telecommunications majors from South Africa, UK and US to construct a new high-bandwidth, sub-sea cable system linking UK and India



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• Investing over $2 billion in the next three years to support its global expansion plans in Sri lanka, South Africa, China and Egypt
• Will leverage the Tata Global Network to meet growing demand for IP solutions.
• Expanding its global VPN services to China in a tie up with China Entercom

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008

An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).


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