Top actresses and models – Namrata Shirodkar, Madhu Sapre, Aishwarya Rai and Lisa Ray – were a part of the ads, which gave the saree a new modern twist.
CSE, one of India’s oldest bourses, is edging towards a voluntary exit. It could never recover from market manipulation scam that caused a payment crisis at exchange back in 2001.
Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.
Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.
They definitely had a great product, saying it with great confidence since I was very active in the textile market in the eighties. You need to keep reinventing the brand which entails high marketing expenditure. You need to regularly organize fashion shows to stay top of the mind as a hip brand. Distribution and retail has also evolved a lot since those days, coping with the rapid pace of change has been a daunting task. VIMAL sarees were also very popular and sold large quantities but where are they now ?
The Textile market is a very difficult one for every manufacturer, not a single one commands even a 1% market share. Credit period can extend 3 – 6 months and default rates could easily touch 5%. When your working capital gets so stretched, funds for marketing and developing new products is limited. The glory days of the Textile industry ended in the seventies, never quite recovering from the strike called by Datta Samant.
They definitely had a great product, saying it with great confidence since I was very active in the textile market in the eighties. You need to keep reinventing the brand which entails high marketing expenditure. You need to regularly organize fashion shows to stay top of the mind as a hip brand. Distribution and retail has also evolved a lot since those days, coping with the rapid pace of change has been a daunting task. VIMAL sarees were also very popular and sold large quantities but where are they now ?
The Textile market is a very difficult one for every manufacturer, not a single one commands even a 1% market share. Credit period can extend 3 – 6 months and default rates could easily touch 5%. When your working capital gets so stretched, funds for marketing and developing new products is limited. The glory days of the Textile industry ended in the seventies, never quite recovering from the strike called by Datta Samant.
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