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1>m Ýommonwealth games 2010 in India: Success or Failure
India won more than 100 medals in Ý Games. So it was a success of India or it
was a success of individuals. In one hand there was Unwanted delays, bridge
collapse , scams etc. on the other hand it produced many new heros.

It was an success from sport point of view, it is also big

success in looting public money, it is also an big success in
enjoying big benifits without showing any accountibility in
public life. Are we going to book those people who put us in
a state where we spent 18times more compared to orignal
estiates? Are we going to book those people who didnt
delievered well on time? Are we going to book those people
who have made illegal money from Ý G? People are happy
to see the games but are we worried about at what cost
was a clear success as our players got success,we are at the
second spot in the games and it paved the way for future
generations who will lead the country
NE DELHI ² The Ýommonwealth Games, which opened 12 days ago with the world
bracing for the worst, managed to conclude on Thursday without any of the predicted
embarrassment or disaster. Stadiums did not collapse. Terrorists did not strike. Fears of
disease went mostly unrealized. And the closing ceremony was a stirring success.

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Indeed, some officials who before the games fought over who should be blamed are now
fighting over who should get credit. The sniping suggested that much of India¶s political

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class, rather than being chastened by the glaring failures in preparations and the huge cost
overruns, seemed inclined to declare victory, raising the question of what lessons, if any,
they absorbed.

Even before the opening ceremony, one domestic commentator declared India¶s
performance as host as ³largely acceptable,´ and that seemed to equate to good enough. It
was not ringing praise, but it did reflect the imperfect if face-saving comeback made by
Indian officials after a games prelude so disorganized and poorly prepared that several
nations threatened not to show up.

In the end, every nation came and the events went off relatively smoothly. If minor
problems persisted, like flaws with the ticketing system, the public mood seemed to shift
from anger at the official folly before the games to excitement over Indian athletes¶ success.

³Right now, everyone seems to have forgotten about what went wrong,´ said Yogendra
Yadav, a political analyst in New Delhi. ³Now the mood is that the government did well.´

On Thursday, The Times of India reported that Delhi¶s lieutenant governor, Tejender
Khanna, had complained in a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that too much
credit for the ³turnaround miracle´ in cleaning up the athletes¶ village was going to Delhi¶s
chief minister, Sheila Dikshit.

To many analysts and critics, the self-congratulations were misplaced, and opposite lessons
should be drawn, as the Ýommonwealth Games demonstrated the inability of India¶s
bureaucracy to efficiently deliver, even on a project intended as a show piece to the world.

³All the worst elements of the government system have been showcased,´ said Mahesh
Rangarajan, a political analyst who teaches at Delhi University. ³ ill they learn a lesson? I
don¶t know.´

International sports competitions have become branding events for rising powers like
Ýhina, Brazil, South Africa and India that are muscling into the top tiers of the global
economic order. Staging an athletic event is a tool for instilling national pride and for
testing the ability of a government to manage a huge, complicated undertaking as the world
watches. But predicting what lessons will be drawn from the success or failure of an event
is tricky at best.

Many analysts predicted that the 2008 Beijing Olympics would have a liberalizing
influence on authoritarian Ýhina and might lead to an expansion of civil liberties and a
reduction of the power of the state, much as the 1988 Seoul Games accelerated change in
South Korea. Instead, the Beijing Games were regarded as such a logistical and athletic
success that the Ýommunist Party concluded that changing the state-dominated system
made little sense. Reforms remain stalled.

India¶s messy staging of the Ýommonwealth Games has only reinforced the widespread
perception of governmental dysfunction. Yet, judging from different commentaries in the

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Indian news media, no consensus seems clear on how to address the root problem, with
some people arguing that the unorthodox is central to the Indian method.

Jug Saraiya, who wrote of the largely acceptable performance, said India overcame poor
planning by its officials and ³snatched victory´ by invoking its rule-bending,
improvisational spirit. Others argued that India¶s bureaucracy merely reflected a culture
conditioned by a fatalism reflected in the Hindi expression ³sab ho jayega,´ or, roughly
put, ³in the end, all will be done.´

³Indians leave a lot to chance and providence,´ said Dr. Monu Singh, 42, an orthopedist
who attended a hockey match with his wife and son. ³They always think that ultimately it
will get done, so lots of things were left to be done at the last minute. It is definitely inbuilt
in our culture. The country cannot change overnight.´

Like many others, Dr. Singh wants change, especially greater government accountability
and efficiency. The prime minister and Sonia Gandhi, president of the governing Indian
National Ýongress, have promised full investigations now that the games have ended.
Audits have already highlighted immense waste and poor planning, and corruption
investigations are expected against the head of the country¶s organizing committee, Suresh
Kalmadi, and others.

During an otherwise exuberant closing ceremony, where the president of the

Ýommonwealth Games praised India for staging a ³truly exceptional event,´ the crowd
jeered Mr. Kalmadi.

Mr. Rangarajan, the political analyst, said a failure to address the waste and huge
expenditures ² estimated as high as $15 billion ² could set off a political backlash in a
country with rampant food inflation and hundreds of millions of people living on less than
$2 a day.

The games did create public interest in new sports in a country where attention is usually
fixed on cricket. The Ýommonwealth Games is a competition among 71 nations and
territories affiliated with the Ýommonwealth.

The usual powerhouses, Australia and England, again won the most total medals. But India
improved strikingly, topping more than 100 medals for the first time and finishing second
over all in the competition, as judged by the total of gold medals, 38. And it was the
personal stories of some of the Indian athletes that captured the churning energy and
grass-roots desire for a better life evident in so many pockets of the country. Deepika
Kumari, the gold medal archer, grew up as the daughter of an impoverished auto-rickshaw
driver.

India still hopes to host the Olympics eventually, even as the Ýommonwealth Games made
clear the country had a long way to go to get there. Sandeep Dikshit, a member of
Parliament and son of the Delhi chief minister, agreed that the problems with the games
would affect India¶s chance in bidding for future athletic events. But he sharply rejected

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any suggestion that India would lose its luster as an investment target or see its global
influence diminished.

³I don¶t think it is really going to make much of a difference,´ he said in an interview at the
athletes¶ village a few days before the opening ceremony. ³If people think a mismanaged
games will hurt our growth, or that our private sector will not be welcomed in other places,
or that Ýoca-Ýola will not want to invest here ² I do not think so.´

Hari Kumar contributed reporting.


  



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2>m India Growing

India is the 2nd largest growing economy & soon it is going to be the largest economy
of the world. But still there are many other areas to improve.

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The India growth story is enviable. Despite plaguing problems, India has emerged
stronger and resilient to the global crisis so far.

India is expected to be the world's fastest growing economy by 2018, according to

Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the research arm of the Economist magazine.

India, the second largest growing economy will overtake Ýhina as the fastest growing
major economy with an average of eight per cent in the next five years, the report stated
earlier this year. Ýhina witnessed 11.9 per cent growth in the same quarter.

There is much to cheer for India's economy as it grew at its fastest pace in six months in the
quarter through March 2010, propelled by government and consumer spending.

Indian economy has been one of the least affected by the global crisis. "In fact, India is one
of the growth engines, along with Ýhina, in facilitating faster turnaround of the global
economy. Risks, however, remain," the Economic Survey said in February this year.

The economy grew by 8.6 per cent in the last quarter of 2009-10, pushing up the overall
growth to a better-than expected 7.4 per cent. After the global economic slowdown, the
GDP had moderated to 6.7 per cent in 2008-09 after recording a growth rate of 9 per cent
in the three preceding years.

ndia¶s government set a target of becoming the world¶s fastest-growing economy within
four years, counting on an expanding pool of savings to help finance the nation¶s
development and surpass Ýhina.

India¶s growth rate will accelerate to 8.2 percent in the financial year beginning April 1, a
government report showed yesterday in New Delhi. A separate release today is projected to
show gross domestic product advanced 6.9 percent in the fourth quarter from a year
before, tempered by a contraction in agriculture stemming from a poor monsoon.

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee needs the anticipated pick-up in Asia¶s third-largest
economy to allow him to withdraw fiscal stimulus measures and reduce the nation¶s debt
burden. Investors will be analyzing his annual budget presentation today for commitment
to fiscal discipline, as well his plans to allow higher overseas stakes in insurance, pension
and sell stakes in state-run companies.

µDon the Mantle¶

³There is a good chance India could be growing faster than Ýhina over the next five years
but the government has to deliver,´ said Rajeev Malik, a Singapore-based regional
economist at Macquarie Group Ltd., referring to the need for deeper public infrastructure
investments and asset sales to bolster productivity. ³India is an attractive emerging story
and capital would want to tap that.´

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The benchmark Sensitive stocks index rose 3.3 percent to 16,308.43 on the Bombay Stock
Exchange at 10:04 a.m. today, while the yield on the key 10-year government bond was
almost unchanged at 7.83 percent.

Yesterday¶s report, the annual Economic Survey prepared by officials advising Mukherjee,
said ³it is entirely possible for India to move into the rarified domain of double-digit
growth and even attempt to don the mantle of the fastest-growing economy in the world
within the next four years.´

India has averaged GDP growth of 7.1 percent over the decade through the third quarter
of 2009, compared with 9.1 percent in Ýhina. The fourth-quarter GDP figures are
scheduled for release at 11 a.m. in New Delhi, the same time as Mukherjee presents his
budget proposal for the fiscal year beginning April 1 to parliament.

Savings Boost

The finance ministry report yesterday said India¶s $1.2 trillion economy may ³breach´ a 9
percent growth pace by March 2012, citing the country¶s savings rates that now match the
range of those in Japan, South Korea and Malaysia.

India¶s savings rate is at 32.5 percent of GDP compared with 28 percent in Japan, 30
percent in South Korea and 38 percent in Malaysia, according to the report.

Higher savings by young working Indians ³augurs well for the Indian economy,´ the
finance ministry report said. India will add 220 million people to its working-age
population by 2030, according to Reserve Bank of India estimates, a lure for overseas
businesses.

³Savings is the key factor that will propel India¶s growth story,´ Tushar Poddar, a
Mumbai-based economist at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said in a telephone interview.
³Favorable demographics will boost savings and add to the growth momentum.´ Poddar
expects India¶s savings rate to rise to 40 percent of GDP by 2015.

Harley, al-Mart

India would need to grow faster than Ýhina to catch up with its per-capita output. The
country¶s per capita GDP was $2,972 in 2008, almost half of Ýhina¶s $5,962, according to
the orld Bank data.

The prospect of faster economic growth attracted $17.5 billion of overseas investments into
stocks in 2009, resulting in the benchmark Sensitive stock index rallying most in 18 years.
The strength of the economy is enticing foreign companies to set up and expand operations
in India.

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Harley-Davidson Inc. plans to begin sales in India this year while the world¶s largest
retailer, al-Mart Stores Inc., is expanding to tap into an economy that took off in 2004
and has since averaged 8.3 percent annual growth.

Taking advantage of the stock market rally, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh¶s
government plans to reduce stakes in 68 companies including NMDÝ Ltd., the nation¶s
largest iron-ore producer and Rural Electrification Ýorp., an Indian state-owned lender
for power projects.

³It¶s really execution where the real´ boost can come from, Malik said of government
initiatives. The public sector needs to move faster on building roads, ports and utilities and
plug power outages, he said. ³People are disappointed with the haphazard pace of
implementation.´

Goldman Sachs in September estimated the South Asian nation will need an investment of
$1.7 trillion over the next decade to build roads, utilities, railways and other infrastructure.

Mukherjee yesterday said the likelihood of a better winter- sown crops will help contain the
downside risk to growth due to a drop in farm output last quarter. ³The broad-based
nature of the recovery creates scope for a gradual rollback´ of fiscal measures,´ he said in
a report to parliament.

-- ith assistance from Ýherian Thomas and Manish Modi in New Delhi. Editors: Ýhris
Anstey, Ýherian Thomas

3>m Obama visit to India

American President is on his maiden visit to India. hat could be its impact on the
economy & bilateral relationship.

On his three day visit to India, the US President Barack Obama has confirmed twenty
business deals worth 10 billion dollars in export signed between both countries. These deals
would create about 50,000 jobs in the United States and would involve small, medium and
large companies from both countries.

Reliance Power Plant has signed a contract worth USD 750 Million with GE for expansion
of its 2,400-M Samalkot Power Plant. The total project cost for Samalkot plant
expansion is calculated around Rs 10,000 crore. According to the deal, GE will supply the
Indian Market with jet engines.

The Boeing had signed a deal with Spice Jet worth 2.7 billion and this will help create
12,000 jobs at Boeing¶s plant at Ýhicago. It would supply around 33,737 aircraft to Spice
Jet. Boeing is also believed to sign another deal with India soon, in order to sell its Ý ± 17
engines.

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10% of the Indian export reaches US, in turn India receives only 2% of the export from
US, which is less then its export to Netherlands.

In the business summit organized with business people from both countries the US ± India
business council, Mr. Obama said that the export ± import relationship between the two
countries was in need of a renovation. There would be more agreements, which is yet to be
signed.

The deal signed includes satellite equipments, gas, steam turbines, agriculture, education,
health care and other equipments, but the biggest deals are for military, diesel and jet
engines. He also added that the US would change its export control systems that affected
India, in boosting Indian export helping to rebuild the US economy.

India is one of the fastest growing economies in the world, which would make its mark in
the most stunning fact of history in two decades. India has lifted millions of people from the
poverty line and had created one of the largest middle class segments in the world, he
added.

Obama quoted that, for America, its job going overseas but in India many still see arrival
of American Ýompanies and products as a threat to small scale industry and shopkeepers.
He said trade is not a one way street.

ashington: The US is a nervous groom and India a reluctant bride and the visit of President
Barack Obama was 'butterflies in the stomach time' as both sides get to know each other in
an 'arranged marriage' that was yet to blossom into love.

The highly regarded all Street Journal daily on Monday said tongue-in-cheek of the
Obama visit to India Nov 6-9: "In the run-up to the Ýommonwealth Games, we heard
several politicians say there was no reason to worry about the chaos, it would all come
together like an Indian wedding - joyously and at the last minute.

It conjured a matrimonial imagery 'of a nervous groom, the US, being sent to an arranged
marriage with a somewhat reluctant bride, India'.

"Ýonsider (then US president) Bill Ýlinton as the man who introduced this power couple in
2000...George Bush acted as the friendly auntie who moved things forward to the point
where an engagement was sealed with the promise of great things to come.

"Now, with Mr. Obama arriving in India with a vast US guest list - probably the largest
wedding delegation ever to leave US shores - there is a little reticence on both sides as this
arranged marriage actually comes close to fruition."

Ýalling it "butterflies in the stomach time", the daily said that "the groom is nervous, a
little distracted, seems to have a lot on his mind, doesn't want to put a foot wrong".

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"The bride's family, in contrast, hopes he'll just get straight to the point. Is he going to
mention that ugly business that everyone is gossiping about: Isn't he sort of "seeing"
someone else just up the road from a clan that this family can't stand? Is he going to
renounce her publicly, as he should for heaven's sake, if he's about to tie the knot? hen
will he ditch her and declare his undying love for India?"

It went on to say that "the big delegation of guests shows they are willing to do their part to
bring the two families together. There is a grand exchange of presents, to the tune of $14.9
billion."

"All very positive, a good start to the celebration from that standpoint."

The daily wraps up, saying: " e expect this to be like many arranged marriages: One that
starts positively but with some misgivings and nervousness on both sides."

"It is only over time, as the couple gets to know each other better, builds trust, steps in
helpfully at awkward moments, and shows signs of genuine affection and mutual interest
that they can declare that most delightful and optimistic of romantic phrases: `First it was
marriage, then it was love'."

The US would be spending a whopping $200 million (Rs. 900 crore approx) per day on
President Barack Obama's visit to the city.

"The huge amount of around $200 million would be spent on security, stay and other
aspects of the Presidential visit," a top official of the Maharashtra Government privy to the
arrangements for the high-profile visit said.

About 3,000 people including Secret Service agents, US government officials and
journalists would accompany the President. Several officials from the hite House and US
security agencies are already here for the past one week with helicopters, a ship and high-
end security instruments.

"Except for personnel providing immediate security to the President, the US officials may
not be allowed to carry weapons. The state police is competent to take care of the security
measures and they would be piloting the Presidential convoy," the official said on condition
of anonymity.

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Navy and Air Force has been asked by the state government to intensify patrolling
along the Mumbai coastline and its airspace during Obama's stay. The city's
airspace will be closed half-an-hour before the President's arrival for all aircraft
barring those carrying the US delegation.

The personnel from SRPF, Force One, besides the NSG contingent stationed here
would be roped in for the President's security, the official said.

The area from Hotel Taj, where Obama and his wife Michelle would stay, to Shikra
helipad in Ýolaba would be cordoned off completely during the movement of the
President.

India on Monday asserted that it was not in the business of stealing American jobs, even as
US President Barack Obama said that deals with India to create 50,000 jobs back home
were aimed at assuaging citizens' fears.

"India is not in the business of stealing jobs from the US... outsourcing (work to India) has
helped improve the productive capacity and productivity of America," prime minister
Manmohan Singh said at a joint press conference with visiting US President Barack
Obama at Hyderabad House here.

The two leaders committed to enhance the bilateral cooperation in technology transfer,
enhancement of trade and investment flow to create jobs in the respective nations and raise
the living standards.

Replying to a question on outsourcing, the US President, who earlier met Prime Minister
Singh and held delegation level talks, said that both countries were operating on
stereotypes that have outlived their usefulness and clarified that he hasn't raised the
outsourcing bogey during this trip.

To a specific question on the purpose of his visit, Obama said part of the reason why he
advertised creation of 50,000 jobs from deals signed in Mumbai during his visit, was to tell
people in America why he spent so much time in India.

His visit came in the backdrop of electoral reverses in the US Ýongress for Obama's
Democratic party, amid criticism of his economic policies and the President summed up the
situation, saying that people were frustrated with high unemployment level and difficult
economic conditions.

During his visit, over 20 deals worth $10 billion were signed between the corporations of
the two nations.

Obama said the relationship between the two nations as a defining partnership of the 21st

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century and acknowledged India's emergence as a prominent and key player on the global
stage.

On his part, Singh welcomed American initiative and commitment to support India, saying
this was essential for sustaining 9-10 per cent growth over the next three decades. He
pointed out that India needed USD one trillion of investment in infrastructure over the next
five years.

Read more: India not stealing US jobs: Manmohan Singh - The Times of India
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eople of India are looking U.S. President Barack Obama¶s visit with great hope and
optimism, and this will herald a new era of relationship between the two nations, Indian
Ambassador to the U.S. has said.

³ e look forward to President Obama¶s visit to India next month with great hope and
optimism and as an opportunity at highest political level to steer our relationship onto a
new higher plane,´ said Meera Shankar, Indian envoy to the U.S.

Addressing students of George ashington University, Shankar said the basic

fundamentals of India-U.S. relations, regardless of any minor issue-specific differences,
give confidence that the strategic dimension of this relationship would truly manifest itself
in practical terms through joint efforts in all areas of cooperation, including at the
international level.

³Both countries have the strong political will to move in this direction. e share common
interests and concerns, and jointly seek to build our relationship as a long-term global
partnership. Both countries have expressed conviction that enduring bilateral relations do
not serve us only bilaterally, but also in meaningfully addressing new global threats and
challenges,´ she said on Tuesday.

Ms. Shankar said Mr. Obama visit to India in November promises to be a landmark visit.

³ e look forward to not only consolidating the enormous strides that we have taken in our
relationship in recent years but also to set directions and lay out a vision for the future
course of our strategic partnership,´ she had said in her speech, provided by Indian
Embassy in ashington.

³India and the US hold regular and candid dialogue on Afghanistan and Pakistan; we
exchange views and coordinate approaches on other developments in South Asia; we have
commenced a dialogue on East Asia and the evolving Asian economic and security
architecture. e discuss how we can work together for development of Africa,´ she said.

In the larger Asian and global context, both the US and India have begun exploratory
discussions on how they can work together to ensure the safety of the Global Ýommons --

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including maritime security and protecting the domains of space and cyber space, Ms.
Shankar said.

Nothing was a greater symbol and instrument of transformation in India-U.S. relations

than the Ýivil Nuclear Agreement, she said adding that it not only addressed an issue
which had constrained the full potential of the bilateral relationship but also created new
economic opportunities to cooperate in the areas of civil nuclear energy, energy security,
climate change and nuclear proliferation.

³India has identified two sites for building nuclear reactors in cooperation with U.S.
companies and we hope to commence commercial negotiations shortly. A new dimension is
our Space cooperation with India¶s first moon mission, Ýhandrayaan 1, carrying a NASA
payload which detected the existence of water on the moon.

³There are good prospects for expanding this cooperation in other areas such as exchange
of data for weather prediction and climate change, space exploration and space flights,´
she said.

Seeking U.S. help in securing Permanent Membership of the UN Security Ýouncil, Shankar
argued the need for the two countries to work together to reform the international
architecture of global governance.

³ e are already moving towards more representative mechanisms for global financial and
economic management, but we need to reform the institutions that deal with political and
security challenges including the UN. Security Ýouncil for which there is growing support,´
she said.

³This would not only enhance their legitimacy but also impact positively on the efficacy of
these institutions. As a country of over a billion people, with one of the fastest growing
economies and as a democratic nation, India is willing to assume its responsibility to meet
the global challenges of our times,´ Ms. Shankar said.

4>m Ýompetitive advertising

Today in advertisement one company directly shows their product better than
others. Is it good or Bad? Ex- Rin vs Tide.

Ýoke and Pepsi

Jet Airways, Kingfisher and Go Air

Audi, BM and Subaru

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HUL and P&G

hat do you think is common between them other than them being companies from the
same industry?

All of them have at some point or the other engaged in what we call today as
ÝOMPETITIVE ADVERTISING! So what is it?

According to the dictionary, it is defined as ±

A commonly used type of advertising that communicates the unique benefits of a product,
differentiating it from the competition.

In management jargon, it is about how well one positions a product based on the
competitive advantage of it. But today it is becoming more of a sabotage or hijack against
other brands as is shown by the above examples

The biggest question which comes to one¶s mind is the reason companies engage in such
kind of advertising gimmicks. ouldn¶t it be controversial or is controversy the sole reason
they are created ± that is generating maximum eyeballs at all costs?

Àm The biggest and most important reason is to generate attention and attract the
largest number of viewers
Àm The challenger mentality in any brand
Àm So when can a brand move to this level of advertising?
Àm In the initial stage of the advertising campaign to make the competitors sit up and
take notice
Àm A brand may sometimes make certain claims about how they are better than their
competitors which may be bizarre according to another brand and it may jump into
the fray to counter them
Àm A creative way to show that the competitor¶s claims are nonsense. Eg: Pepsi¶s
statement ± Nothing official about it!
Àm But it¶s not all hunky dory. There are a lot of downsides to this form of advertising.
Many a time as in the case of Dove and Pantene, competitive advertising leads to a
situation wherein the brands start talking to each other rather than the audience.
People didn¶t understand the concept of the ³mystery shampoo´ and ³being number
1´.
Àm Using this strategy as a long±term one is also a recipe for total disaster. It can be
only used as a pit stop and nothing more.
Àm In the end, as one says
Àm ³Everyone is there in the business of advertising to make the customers buy their
products and not to entertain.´ And in the end if that doesn¶t happen, then there is
no point of such advertising campaigns.

Ýompetitive advertising interference can occur when viewers of advertising for a

focal brand are also exposed to advertising messages for competing brands within

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a short time period, say one week for TV advertising. Although competitive
advertising interference has been shown to reduce advertising recall and
recognition and brand evaluation measures, no studies have examined the impact
on brand sales. In this research the authors use a market response model of sales
for two grocery categories for a large grocery chain in the Ýhicago area to study the
extent to which sales are influenced by competitive advertising interference. The
model enables the authors to capture the Ǯpureǯ own-brand advertising elasticities
that would arise if there were no competitive interference. The results show that
competitive interference effects on sales are strong. When one or more competing
brands advertise in the same week as the focal brand, the advertising elasticity
diminishes for the focal brand. The decrease depends on the number of competing
brands advertising in a particular week and their total advertising volume. The
authors find that having one more competitor advertise is generally more harmful
to a focal brandǯs advertising effectiveness than if the present number of
advertising brands increase their total advertising volume.

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5>m Is microfinance helping India to eradicate poverty

Microfinance is the provision of financial services to low income groups. Are they
really helping India to eradicate poverty or they are working for their own profit.
6>m Substitute of cricket as primary sports in India
Ýricket is the primary sport in India. But other sports are emerging fast like
Boxing, Shooting, Tennis, Badminton etc... So can the replace Ýricket from primary
sports in India.
7>m How will you improve your communication in class
So far we have studied the theory part of communication in the class. But what
other things can be done to improve the communication. This GD class is a part of
this.
8>m Green Revolution

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Today every company want to show their product greenish in advertisement. So

how it is helping them? Ex- Videocon, Idea etc..
9>m Spread of Retail
Now a days many new companies are coming in retail sector. They are providing
better and cheaper product. hat could be its impact?
10>m BPO culture
How BPO culture is helping and how it is providing stress to youths? Are the youths
being paid right amount of salary.
11>m hat have you studied in your MBA till
Try to correlate all the subjects and all the points which we have studied in our
MBA till now.

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