As I shared on LinkedIn and Twitter, sorry X, sometime ago, I am busy reading Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace these days, that my aged father gifted me in Goa for my birthday this year. I am on the second volume of the three-volume set, and since I don’t have a book to write about… Continue reading Cancel Culture of the High Low-Brow Kind
We’re into the last quarter of 2024, the year of anticipated slowdown in the global economy. While we’re still awaiting the September quarter GDP growth figures for major economies around the world, it might be safe to say that the worst has been averted. That there isn’t a recession waiting around the corner. A few… Continue reading Reading the Slo-Mo Global Economy
The history of advertising and marketing is probably littered with scores of cases of companies and brands that began with a brilliant invention, but then petered out somewhere along the way. I have myself written about brands like Kodak, Nokia and Philips CDs in my older blog posts, and I am sure there are many… Continue reading Is Being a Pioneer Brand Good Enough?
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It is a couple of years since the world said goodbye to the Covid-19 pandemic and made an attempt to get back to business and revive economic growth. Admittedly, from all the reporting on business and economic news, we are still in a tentative soft-landing phase, and monetary policy is still in a wait and… Continue reading Pivoting To the New Economy
In my previous blog post, I had written about the consumer durables industry and how it is cluttered and commoditised with very little brand differentiation. Well, the consumer electronics industry is one part of the large consumer durables category, and it is usually known to feature the latest technology in audio and video equipment, mobile… Continue reading Where is Brand Differentiation in Consumer Electronics?
When you consider that the Indian advertising and marketing industry is exploring a new system of consumer classification based on ownership of consumer durables according to Rama Bijapurkar who has written about it in her new book, Lilliput Land, which I have reviewed on my blog, it makes sense to look at the state of… Continue reading How Consumer Durables Can Avoid Commoditisation
The last of this year’s big elections are a few months away, and they will be the biggest one to watch as always. This is because what happens in America affects the entire world, especially on the economic front. The country is not only the world’s largest economy, but one with the largest influence in… Continue reading Why the American Economy Might Never Get What It Needs
Not only are we past halfway through 2024, we are still digesting the full Union Budget for FY 25 post the Indian parliamentary elections held a few months ago when the NDA government has begun its third term, albeit as a coalition government this time around. We are also in the midst of the corporate… Continue reading Supercharging the Indian Economy
In a recent blog post of mine I had written about the US and its western allies’ allegations of China dumping its cheaper EVs, EV batteries, semiconductors, solar panels and the like on their markets. They have raised tariffs on Chinese EVs from 25% to 100% in the US and to 38% in the EU… Continue reading How China Can Overcome its Overcapacity Problems
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