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Stocks To Capture Rural Prosperity

October 7, 2013 Leave a comment

A short drive out of our cities will show you that prosperity and modernity are reaching our villages too.If you wish to benefit by this increase in prosperity in rural areas you could accumulate the stocks of the following companies:

1. Hero Motocorp : Hero is the strongest 2 wheeler brand in rural areas and has 5000 distribution points in rural India,the highest in the industry,It derives nearly half of its sales from rural areas.

2. Emami : In the consumer industry,Emami has one of the highest exposures to rural markets.Around 60% of its sales and 50% of its profits come from here.

3. Maruti :1/3rd of its sales comes from rural areas where it has a strong brand and network.

4. Mahindra & Mahindra : The farm equipment segment (tractors) represents 40% of the topline.

5. M&M Fin Services : One of the largest vehicle finance companies,M&M Financial Services focuses on the rural and semi-rural areas with a majority of its 675 branches being located in such areas.A rise in rural incomes leads to greater demand for tractors and passanger vehicles.

6. ITC : The company makes 35-49% of its sales from the rural market.It is witnessing the rural consumers moving up the value chain in cigarette category.

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The Potential In Blogging

March 9, 2013 9 Comments

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Ever since I attended the HP Connected Music IndiBlogger meet,I have been on the look out to know more about IndiBlogger and here’s what I’ve found:

IndiBlogger.in was launched in August 2007 as a free blog directory for Indians. However, the founders Renie Ravin(MD), Karthik DR(Director Finance), Vineet Rajan (Director Pre-sales and Consulting) and Anoop Johnson(Director of Marketing) had a bigger game plan: to mobilise the blogosphere, a nascent field at the time, so that companies and brands could engage with their customers.

The idea was conceptualised by the founders (barring Rajan), all in their 20s, at a party in early August 2007. At the time, Karthik and Johnson were selling security solutions for Ostsold Software, and Ravin,also Johnson’s childhood friend was working as a Web architect for Broadspire, a software company, in Chennai. Convinced that they were on to a good thing, the trio quit their respective jobs shortly afterwards and focused on their start-up.They started with an investment of just Rupees 10,000. Rajan left his account manager’s job with Hewlett Packard, Hyderabad, to join IndiBlogger after a bloggers’ meet in Pune, in March 2008. Read more of this post