TITLE - COMPETITVE ANALYSIS AGROCHEMICALS

TITLE - COMPETITVE ANALYSIS AGROCHEMICALS

1. Introduction

The Chemical Industry of India forms the vertebrae of the manufacturing and agricultural growth of the country and offers structuring chunks for downstream businesses. Moreover, India stands fourth in the production of agrochemicals internationally, after China, United States and Japan (The Hindu Business, 2012). Moreover, the agrochemicals industry has a noteworthy influence on the Indian economy. Furthermore, the Indian agrochemicals market rose at a rate of 13% from USD 1.50 billion in FY10 to an around USD 2 billion in FY11 (The Economic Times, 2012). Moreover, it is estimated that the Indian agrochemicals industry will cross around $ 5-6 billion in 2017 (The Economic Times, 2012). In addition, the consumption of agrochemicals in India is one of the lowest in the world with per hectare consumption of just 0.60 Kg compared to US (4.8 Kg/ha) and Japan (12 Kg/ha) and the maximum share of the consumption of pesticide is around 30%, followed by cotton consumption of around 22% (Pub Articles, 2012) .

2. Objectives of the Study

The study has following objectives:

Ø  To analyze and study the secondary data available on Indian Agrochemical market

Ø  To examine the key trends as well as key challenges and opportunities in the Indian Agrochemical market

Ø  To do competitive analysis and complete bench marking to understand their sustainable competitive advantage

3. Literature Review

3.1 Structure of the Indian Agrochemicals Industry

The Indian agrochemicals market is differentiated and categorized by low capacity utilization. The total installed capacity in FY10 was around 152,000 tons and total production was 90,000 tons leading to a low capacity utilization of 59% (DnB, 2012). Additionally, the agrochemical industry of India undergoes from high inventory (due to irregular and seasonal demand on account of monsoons) and long credit interludes to farmers, therefore creating operations ‘working capital’ rigorous and exhaustive.

India due to its intrinsic strength of low-cost production and skilled low-cost manpower is a net exporter of agrochemicals (for example, pesticides) to countries such as USA and Europe & Africa. Moreover, exports produced are around 55% of total industry revenue in FY10 and have attained a multifaceted Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of around 32% from FY08 to FY11 (DnB, 2012).

3.2 Competitive Background

The agrochemicals market of India is extremely sectioned in environment with over 900 formulators. The competition is severe with huge amount of players of structured segment and considerable allocation of specious pesticides (agrochemicals) (Pan-UK, 2012). Moreover, the market has been observing acquisitions and mergers with big players buying out petite producers (companies).

Key market participants include, Rallis India Ltd, Meghmani Organics Limited, PI Industries Ltd., United Phosphorus Ltd, Gharda Chemicals Ltd, Bayer Cropscience Ltd, BASF India Ltd, Syngenta India Ltd, etc. (Indian Chemical Council, 2012). Top ten players manage approximately 85% of the market share ((DnB, 2012).The market share of big players is principally dependent on product portfolio and introduction of new products. Strategic alliances with other players are frequent to decrease threats and provide a broader consumer base.

3.3 Key Trends

3.3.1 Market Trends

Ø  Focus on producing environment friendly and secure agrochemicals by the industry as well as the Government. Moreover, the Department of Chemicals has commenced a national programme for “Development and production of neem products as Environment Friendly Pesticides (agrochemicals)” with monetary support from United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) (PIB, 2012).

Ø  Focus by bigger organizations on brand building by carrying out camps for farmers in order to create awareness and provide absolute solutions for critical problems.

Ø  Rise in strategic alliances among big companies for bigger reach in the market and acquisitions of smaller players internationally in order to expand their product portfolio (Biotech Monitor, 2001). For example: Rallis has a marketing agreement for key products with FMC, Bayer and Nihon Nohayaku, Dupont and Syngenta. Additionally, Meghmani has a series of petite acquisitions internationally to penetrate new geographies and achieve product proficiency.

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Title - Business Plan

Title - Business Plan

Business Activity

The business activity would be a proprietorship company dealing in various consulting services. The name of the company is kept as “Smart Solutions”, which denotes smart solutions to various business and professional problems. Smart Solutions is a startup company, which will offer a wide range of consulting services to other companies, professionals as well as students or interns. Smart Solutions is a team of diverse personnel. Each specializes in a fastidious regulation including management, funding, technology, sales and marketing, human resources and operations. The services of Smart Solutions includes seminars, conferences, workshops, internships, research advisors, education consultant academic writing, resume or CV building, online tutoring, exam preparation, corporate training, etc.

Vision and Mission Statement

The mission of the company is to offer and provide unique consulting solutions to various other startup and established organizations. The aim of Smart Solutions is to offer comprehensive services as well as to provide personal and focused services to meet the requirements of its clients. The primary objectives of the company are focused on offering the inclusive requirements of businesses in the complete choice of the business succession. With an intellectual team of skilled professional and a joint and corporative approach to most consulting tasks, Smart Solutions will be able to proffer a more reasonable quality service than other players in the market. The vision of the firm is to establish itself as a biggest player among all the consulting firms in the market of India. The preliminary vision of the company is to be a leader in consulting services in Delhi by 2016.

Mission Statement: “compassionate is in our whim and customer satisfaction is our practice. We provide variety of quality services of extensive variety at a reasonable cost”.

Rationale for Launching the Business

The consulting industry is a comprehensive, international business segment is developing rapidly.  Consulting, management, personality development and corporate training are one of the well-liked and aggressive career options nowadays. Moreover, consulting companies have conventionally been among the biggest employers of top MBA and college graduates.

As a result of huge market for a variety of price points, democratic or independent system, rationally well customary lawful system, economical manufacturing and outsourcing, accessibility of large technical and other human resources at reasonable rates, India is a preferred as a most favorable destination of conducting business for many organizations across the globe. Moreover, India is spending profoundly in their own upper-level education schemes with the aim to turn expose scientists, MBAs, researchers and engineers from their universities.

With a large number of graduates evolving out every year and many global organizations are reaching India, presenting a huge foundation of employment, there is an extensive need of training and consulting to various professionals as well as to various startup or global organizations. Every graduate in India seeks its career to work in the corporate global environment as well as many startup organizations want to utilize this opportunity by doing outsourcing and offshore businesses and employing various human resources and many international organizations are opening their corporations in most of the locations in India hence offering a wide range of employment to these graduates. Due to this reason the consulting and training industry has developed in India very rapidly

Therefore, by opening a company that provides various business consulting solutions like corporate training, seminars, etc. to other companies and provides internships, academic writing, Resume or CV building, personality development, etc. to students and professionals will encourage more and more graduates turning out to be professionals and more and more companies to venture into India. Moreover, by offering a helpful medium that supports training providers in getting prospective students, and companies in employing potential professionals is a most advantageous and beneficial decision.

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TITLE - A STUDY ON EXPORTS & IMPORTS OF INDIAN GEMS & JEWELREY

TITLE - A STUDY ON EXPORTS & IMPORTS OF INDIAN GEMS & JEWELREY

Chapter-1

GEMS & JEWELRY

1.1    INTRODUCTION

The history is the witness to the fact that all the progress made by science or technology in contributing to human life is invaluable. In addition to this, the technology has been playing a tremendous role in this drastically growing world and also contributing its countless efforts in order to be adjusted in changing environment and to meet the stiff competitions. Furthermore, the  gems and jewellery is one of them which is very emerging and lucrative sector is  greatly focused  and contributed by continuous research and development and fast moving  technologies  since so many years. Traditionally, India has always excelled in the field of diamond, mining, polishing process. As in the world recorded history, the traditional approach of India’s diamond is an oldest one and go back thousands of years. Dating from the 6^th century, there was not any source of diamonds in the world until 1730s, but indeed India was the only source at that time, apart from minor supply of diamonds from the kalamantian deposits of Borneo But today, the Majhgawan pipe, a primary source near panna is the only source from where a country is producing diamonds.

One of the most important things is that the diamond has been discovered in India by the 8^th century BC. In about 600 AD, it was found in kalamantian, Borneo and is still mining and digging over there. In India, jewellery is preferred and valued as treasure from ages, be it any festival or a marriage, the celebrations are indeed incomplete without gems and jewellery, gold and silver ornaments.

A time was there when Indian traditional jewellery  market was highly dominated by  Hindu vishwakarma and goldsmith  were lonely involved  for making gold jewellery in their house-cum-work shop and now a days it is dominated 96% by family jewellers as a legacy has passed from one generation to another. These artisans used to pass on their skills to their immediate generation whereas, nowadays due to the changing demands of the consumers, public prefers to be engaged from almost all communities as its catering huge profitable opportunities in the cluster which has captured interest of new generation entrepreneur towards investing on large basis on the edge of cluster utilizing the skills of existing craftsmen. India is one of the world’s 3^rd largest cutting and polishing diamond centres after US and Japan. Also it was the first country for introducing diamond to the world, the country was the first to mine diamonds, cut and polish them as well as trade them.

In India, the future of organized retail is very lucrative and bright. The number  gold retailers in the country has been increased by 40 percent since year 2000,ith 150 domestic and over 65 internationally established  brands. It is well established country to make handmade jewellery of traditional and modern looks. Furthermore, a large number of legendry  diamonds are yielded by India which is indeed commendable including a very well known diamond “Koh-I-Noor “,the  Orlov, the Hope, and the Sancy. In India the maximum production is estimated around 100,000 carats annually during the 16^th century. Exports of gems and jewellery from India are rising at over 15 per cent year-on-year basis and are expected to cross 50 billion dollars by the end this fiscal. Demand in the sector is flowing from countries like the UAE, the United States, the European Union, Russia, Latin America Hong Kong and China.

Traditionally, the focus of the gems and jewellery manufacturers has been on the large global markets. Indeed for years, barring the last year or so, these international markets have given large and growing business to the Indian exporters and have contributed in creation of significant jobs in the country. The Indian players, duly supported by the Government of India are placed highly competitive in the market. Hopefully with the revival of the international markets, the Indian players would again stand to gain. In the last few years, on the other hand, the Indian domestic market has shown very promising signs, evident from the increasing growth and increase in penetration of the brands and organized retail across the categories namely FMCG, Durables, Apparels, and Home Improvement etc. We believe that the Indian market holds similar or even brighter potential for gems & jewellery sector. The industry can be put on accelerated growth path provided the industry, the government and other stakeholders plan and act on the initiatives required by the transforming market. In the process the industry shall continue to generate large amounts of foreign exchange and employment to the Indian socioeconomic fabric.

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TITLE - MANAGING QUALITY IN A "GREEN" CONSTRUCTION PROJECT

TITLE - MANAGING QUALITY IN A "GREEN" CONSTRUCTION PROJECT

Chapter 01

1.1 Introduction

The environmental impact of human activity has been a source of controversy and concern for decades. Much of the focus over that time has been on impacts such as pollution and the destruction or degradation of wildlife habitats and ecosystems. Over the past several years, however, concerns have increased greatly about greenhouse gases, resource depletion, and degradation of ecological services such as water supply.

Green construction (CPM) is the overall planning, coordination, and control of a project from inception to completion aimed at meeting a client’s requirements in order to produce a functionally and financially viable project. CPM is project management that applies to the construction sector (3rd Forum”International Construction Project Management” 26th/27 June 2003 in Berlin).

The green construction planning (a primary US construction management certification and advocacy body) says the 120 most common responsibilities of a Construction Manager fall into the following 7 categories: Project Management Planning, Cost Management, Time Management, Quality Management, Contract Administration, Safety Management, and CM Professional Practice which includes specific activities like defining the responsibilities and management structure of the project management team, organizing and leading by implementing project controls, defining roles and responsibilities and developing communication protocols, and identifying elements of project design and construction likely to give rise to disputes and claims.

The construction, characteristics, operation, and demolition of buildings are increasingly recognized as a major source of environmental impact, including direct effects on humans:

• Buildings account for about a third of energy consumption world-wide, and 40%in the United States, with residential buildings contributing slightly more than half of that percentage. from 1980 to 2006, total building energy consumption in the United States increased more than 46%. Whether such growth rates will continue in the future is uncertain.

• Use of water by buildings in the United States grew by more than 26% between 1985 and 2005. Such increases in water use are occurring in the context of stresses to the water supply caused by recent droughts and growing concerns about drying trends in the climates of western states.

• Building demolition and construction accounted for 60% of nonindustrial waste tonnage in the United States in 1996, with about one-fourth recovered through processing or recycling.

• Buildings produce almost 40% of carbon dioxide emissions in the United States, with a projected increase in such emissions of more than 1% per year through 2030.

• Some characteristics of buildings are known to affect several aspects of human health and productivity, such as the incidence of allergies and respiratory illness.

Most people spend far more time inside buildings than outside, and the air in buildings often has substantially higher concentrations of pollutants than the air outside. “Sick building syndrome” has been estimated to affect as much as quarter of office workers. Temperature and lighting have been found to have significant effects on worker performance.

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TITLE - SUN TRAVEL & TOURS

TITLE - SUN TRAVEL & TOURS

Table of Contents

1. Company Profile

     1.1 Introduction

     1.2 Products

     1.3 Key customers

          1.3.1 Tour companies

     1.4 Business process

     1.5 Product Pricing

     1.6 Capital Investment

     1.7 Performance Measurement

     1.8 IT and E-business

2. Introduction

2.1 PEST Analysis

     2.1.1 Political Factors

     2.1.2 Economic Factors

     2.1.3 Socio-Cultural Factors

     2.1.4 Technological Factors

2.3 SWOT analysis

     3.1 Internal Analysis

     3.2 External Analysis

2.4 Porters ‘Five Forces’ Model of Competition

     2.4.1 Rivalry amongst Existing Firms: MODERATE TO HIGH

     2.4.2 Bargaining Power of Buyers: MEDIUM TO HIGH

     2.4.3 Bargaining Power of Suppliers: LOW

     2.4.4 Threat of new entrants

     2.4.5 Threat of Substitute Product

2.5 McFarlan’s Strategic Grid

2.6 Value Chain Analysis

2.7 Application of Tool

     7.1 Inbound logistics

     7.2 Outbound logistics

2.8 E Business strategy

     2.8.1 The E business strategy

3. Social Networking and Its Impact on E-Business

4. Critical Success Factors

5. Conclusion

6. References

SECTION A

1. Company Profile

Sun Travel and Tours, Maldives

1.1 Introduction

Sun travels and Tours Pvt Ltd is one of the fastest growing tour and travel companies in Maldives. The company was founded in 1990 as a small tour agency by Mr. Ahmed Siyam Mohamed (Sun Travels and Tours, 2012). Since then the company has grown as leading tourism brand in the country. The Company has an assortment of travel plans that are hugely popular among the tourists and are a household name in Maldives and they also possess relation with the top resorts in the country and international hotel chains.

The company presently employs more than 150 employees and possesses connections with over 200 sales and travel agents in the Maldives.

The company has placed its primary objective as to consistently retain superior service levels at par with the requirements of valued customers and become the leading Travel and Tour Company in the world for Maldives bound tourism (Sun Travels and Tours, 2012).

1.2 Products

The company‘s portfolio of products and services comprise of a variety of exclusive resorts and safari boats. The product range of the company can be classified in the following segments:

       I.            Properties

a.      Resorts

The company currently owns two four star resorts, further the company also has relation with numerous resorts and tour operators and have the capacity to achieve stay arrangements for twenty thousand people annually (Sun Travels and Tours, 2012).

b.      Boats and transfer vessels

The company currently owns several transfer boats to facilitate the transfer of passengers between airports and resorts. The company also owns a cruise vessel called the sunset queen.

a.      Services

These comprises of services in the range of:

a.      Resort bookings

Resort bookings are conducted through tour operators that have been provided the contract from the company. The company is in possession of more than five hundred bed at different resorts.

b.      Recreational services

The company has become a popular brand name in Maldives and its recreational services like diving schools , spa and wellness are hugely popular in Maldives bound tourism market.

1.3 Key customers

The company has presence in countries across the five continents of the world through contracts with tour operators. The rising population of tourists seeking exotic locations across various countries combined with the growing popularity of Maldives globally has guaranteed a considerable demand for its products and services in the international market as well.

1.4 Business process

The business operates through an association of agents and the company’s core operatives and employees. As part of the core operation the company has established various centers across the Maldives as well as its own resorts and hotels. The staffs at these centers regulate and administer the inflow of the visitors. They are responsible for generating the information of visitors, administrating the receiving of the guests through association with various hotels resorts and transfer boats and also perform bookings and generate the cash invoices and receipts.

Further the company has also instated permanent managers in each country of operations whose primary function is to keep an eye on the market trends, demands and requirements of varied customers and to monitor the quality of services.

1.5 Product Pricing

The pricing policy is jointly framed by the Marketing and sales department and the finance and accounts department of the company. There are a number of factors that determine the characteristic of the pricing policy. The main factor affecting the pricing policy is the market condition.

The pricing of the individual service is primarily based on the following aspects:

Ø  Cost incurred in providing one unit of the individual service

Ø  Break Even analysis

Ø  The market conditions

Ø  Competition for the same service in the market

Ø  Historical figures for the sales as and sales forecasts for the future.

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TITLE - RESEARCH ELEMENTS

TITLE - RESEARCH ELEMENTS

                                        

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

     1.1 Overview and background of business

     1.2 Objective and purpose of the research

     1.3 Research Question

2. Literature Review

     2.1 Introduction

     2.2 Demand

     2.3 Growth

     2.4 Economic Growth

     2.5 Freight Movement

     2.6 Political Environment

     2.7 Conclusion

3. Research Methodology

     3.1 Primary research

          3.1.1 Survey of potential clients

          3.1.2 Pilot survey

          3.1.3 Distribute by hand

          3.1.4 Selecting sample

          3.1.5 Places of distribution

          3.1.6 In-depth interview

    3.2 Secondary research

4. Ethical considerations

5. Results

     5.1 Findings of the Questionnaire

     5.2 Findings of the Interview

6. References

1. Introduction

Logistics is the management of the flow of goods, information, and other resources, including energy and people, between a point of origin and the point of consumption to meet the requirements of consumers. It involves the incorporation of information, transportation, inventory, warehousing, material-handling, packaging, and security. Logistics is a way of the supply chain that adds the value of time and place utility. Transport logistics is the integration of transport with the management of the flow of goods (DeCastro, 1996). 

1.1 Overview and background of business

I am going to set up my road freight transport business named Rising Star Transport Services which is a private transport business in a town named Nellore located in the state known as Andhra Pradesh in India. I want to maintain trucks of around 5-7 trucks, and this place is in between Ongole and Chittoor. I want to transport to both these cities. I want to maintain 3 trucks to Ongole and 4 trucks to Chittoor city. I want to hire staff of 8-10 people. As I need 6 drivers to drive my vehicles. I want to hire 2 mechanics as part time to repair my vehicles and 2 people in my front office to manage my office.  My companies USP will be “Make the boundaries small”. Our company’s motto will be “Quick and Safe Deliver”. Road freight transport, or trucking, is essential to modern economies, occupying a unique socioeconomic position linking supply to demand and linking many industrial sectors. Road freight is most appropriate for the movement of goods between many origins and many destinations. Road freight takes up the vast majority of freight movements.

The scope of the work for the company is as follows:

Ø  To transport the freight to different destinations.

Ø  Maintaining the trucks efficiently.

Ø  Providing a good customer service.

  1.2 Objective and purpose of the research

The main purpose of this research is to find out the factors and checking the feasibility of starting up a freight transport business named as Rising Star Transport Business in a town named Nellore in Andhra Pradesh, state of India. The objective of the research is also to find out the:   

Ø  Describe current freight movements in, out and through the region as accurately as possible.

Ø  Identify the issues and limitations of freight movement in, out and through the region?

Ø  What is the trends and future of the road freight transport industry?

Ø  What is the effect of the economic growth on road freight transport industry?

Ø  What is the demand and growth of the road freight transport industry?

1.3 Research Question

The feasibility of starting up a freight transport business named as Rising Star Transport Business in Nellore, a town of Andhra Pradesh, state of India.

2. Literature Review

2.1 Introduction

What is the purpose of the LR?

Road transport is imperative to economic growth, trade and social assimilation, which rely on the transportation of both public and goods. Decrease in transport overheads support occupation, broaden markets and in so doing facilitate utilization of the economies of scale. Worldwide competition has prepared the continuation of well-organized transportation and logistics systems in delivery chain and supreme imperative. Easy convenience, suppleness of operations, door-to-door service and dependability have earned road transport an progressively more higher share of both commuter and freight traffic and other transport modes (Motor India Online, 2012). Furthermore, transport industry of India reports a share of around 7 percent in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) (India Transport Portal, 2011).

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