The Japanese consumer electronics major has moved ahead of the Korean chaebols in the 3.5 million-unit flat panel TV market via aggressive price cuts and distribution.

Sony's new idiom

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Callaway Golf Company, an American sports goods company specialising in golf equipment and accessories, has launched its apparel line and a new range of accessories for golfers in India. The new collection is designed by Perry Ellis International. The range includes eye wear (sun glasses priced between Rs 4,000 and Rs 10,000), times pieces (Rs 6,000 to Rs 20,000) and apparel including golf shoes, headwear (cap), polo shirts (Rs 1,500 to Rs 3,000) and jackets (Rs 3,000 to Rs 6,000).

Callaway Golf Company: For the love of golf

Nimbus Communications is looking at life beyond cricket and is launching two new channels &ndash; Neo Cinema (based on Bollywood) and Neo Zindagi (a lifestyle channel for women) in June.

Nimbus moving to a new pitch

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&ldquo;She&rsquo;s like this because of you. You suck at raising kids.&rdquo; Dad has a bad day at work. Finds kid throwing tantrums. Blames mom. Passes judgment. Case dismissed. Moves on. The kid doesn&rsquo;t get her grades. &ldquo;Dumb like her mom&rdquo;. Case dismissed. The kid falls in love. &ldquo;Where were you while she was going out?&rdquo; Dads always blamed Moms for the kid&rsquo;s upbringing. Never ever realizing that it&rsquo;s the family that makes a kid, not just the mom.

Non-traditional ad, the early chapters

The women&rsquo;s ethnic wear market comprising sarees, salwar kameez dupatta and ethnic suits is estimated to be Rs 45,000 crore. Ethnic wear comprises 70 per cent of the total women&rsquo;s wear market and is likely to grow at 11-12 per cent annually. In spite of growth of western wear, Indian ethnic wear still holds a strong shelf space in a women&rsquo;s wardrobe. Ethnic wear will continue to be a strong segment since a large number of women in India still prefer it to western wear.

KIT: The ethnic wear market for women

In a first, five medium-sized travel agents have formed an alliance to offer international travel experience under a common brand &ndash; Landmark Journeys. Apart from companies such as Travels &amp; Rentals, Trail Blazer Tours, Odyssey Tours and Travels, Equino Fun Holidays and Bharath International Travels, the alliance also includes Saltours International, a B2B partner.

Smaller travel firms form umbrella brand

    In cricket it&rsquo;s a term used to describe a delivery that reaches the batsman without bouncing on the pitch.

The Strategist Quiz (#188)

    Name the company that got started when its founder&rsquo;s friend, a glassmaker based in San Francisco, failed to sell one of his pieces on the street simply because he couldn&rsquo;t accept credit cards. The same person founded a successful online company with projected revenue of $150 million.

Answers to last week&#39s quiz (#187)

Council says B-schools involved in malpractices are behind the court case.

AICTE refuses to budge on new guidelines

Balasubramanium Thiagarajan, president (air conditioning and refrigeration products group), Blue Star, has never been afraid of taking risks and making difficult decisions. Yet, he admits, this one decision has been two years in the making.

Beyond the comfort zone

Stanford University and Harvard University, the top fundraisers among US. colleges, saw donations decline in fiscal 2010 as a recovering stock market failed to instill donors with confidence.

Stanford, Harvard university gifts fall

Organised retail in India is that paradox which has been on the top of the potential chart for almost half a decade, but can still be considered only an infant in the retail maturity curve.

The new level

The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (UCCS), has tied up with city based Europe Asia Business School (EABS)&nbsp;and academic service provider Global talent Track (GTT) for setting up center for services excellence which will offer study programmes in IT and management. This center is envisaged to jointly conduct research as well as to offer multi-disciplinary academic programs in India.

American university ties up with Pune&#39;s B-school

In October last year, the foundation stone was laid for the fourth campus of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), a scientific research institute founded by Homi Bhabha with support from the Dorabji Tata Trust, at the University of Hyderabad (UoH).

University of Hyderabad mired in land controversies

The Godrej Group&rsquo;s gourmet foods retailer is integrating its premium persona across all touch points of the brand.

Nature's basket refreshes itself

EBS Worldwide will close 2010-11 with revenues of Rs 64 crore, within seven years of entering this business, is interesting. It makes the Mumbai-based company, arguably, the largest provider of interactive marketing services out of India. It has offices in London, New York, Mumbai and Noida. These offer three services. One, one-to-one interactive/digital marketing services across the globe. Two, remote studio facilities for artwork and design of anything from annual reports to ad campaigns and brochures only for global companies. Three, it helps companies automate their marketing departments. EBS is majority owned by Group CEO and founder Chris George and his team. The rest is split between IL&amp;FS and several individual shareholders, including Mahesh Murthy and Ranjan Kapoor. Vanita Kohli-Khandekar spoke to George on how the company works. Excerpts.

Q&A: Chris George, Group CEO, EBS Worldwide

Till recently, the head of my company used to send me signed birthday greetings every year. The first year I was mildly touched. But it quickly became apparent that this was a proforma exercise, since many colleagues received similar letters &mdash; plus, there were several birthdays on which I was roundly ticked off for page errors by the signatory soon after I received the warmly worded greetings.

Kanika Datta: People and performance

Jennifer Colosimo, Chief Learning Officer of Franklin Covey Publishing, has an interesting story to share. A couple of years ago, she interviewed Jack Welch, former CEO of GE, at a leadership event in front of several thousand people. The next week, she received a handwritten note from him expressing his pleasure in meeting her and thanking her for the experience.

Shyamal Majumdar: Build your own village

Management institutes across the country are up in arms over recent guidelines issued by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) governing the post graduate diploma in management. The Education Promotion Society of India (EPSI) and Association of Indian Management Schools have approached the Supreme Court seeking reprieve from the current guidelines.

Q&A: H Chaturvedi, Birla Institute of Management and Technology

Hindustan Unilever Managing Director Nitin Paranjpe says the company is looking at every possible lever in its control to meet the challenges of severe commodity price pressures. In this interview with Shyamal Majumdar and Viveat Susan Pinto, he also talks about why downtrading, if any, will be temporary as the secular trend will continue to be premiumisation.

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