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by | March 2, 2013

A Study on Budget 2013: Impact on the Auto Sector

Budget 2013: Impact on the Auto Sector

SUVs, luxury cars and high end motorcycles to get more expensive in this year’s budget

In his budget speech, Finance Minister P Chidambaram announced a number of changes in excise duty and import duty structures for a few segments of the market. The biggest hit obviously being the hike on all SUVs which will now attract an excise duty rate of 30 per cent as opposed to 27 per cent previously, except for SUVs bought to be used as taxis. The import duty on fully built cars has also been increased steeply from 75 per cent to 100 per cent while the import duty on motorcycles above 800cc has gone up from 60 per cent to 75 per cent.



A Study on Budget 2013: Impact on the Auto Sector

Justifying his decision on hiking the excise duty for SUVs, Chidambaram stated that SUVs take up more space and are not as fuel efficient as other vehicles, therefore the subsequent increase. Interestingly, the industry was asking the government to slash the excise duty on SUVs from 27 per cent to 22 per cent, but matters seem to have gone the other way around. SUVs have been one of the fastest growing segments in India and while the auto industry overall has been posting a slowdown, the SUV segment has continued to draw in the numbers…

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by | January 24, 2013

A Case Study on Anda

Challenge: Before using Spring, the de facto standard platform to build, run and manage enterprise Java applications, Anda built the company’s main application – which processes customer orders – from scratch with Enterprise JavaBean (EJB) technology. Using this platform, Anda had difficulty in scaling the application to meet increasing product demand.



A Case Study on Anda

In particular, the application had performance issues during peak demand times at the end of each day, when pharmacists across the country were placing orders for the next day. At those times, server response time would go from less than a second to several seconds. The slowdown caused many customers to call Anda’s customer service phone line, inundating the phone center with a mass of unnecessary calls. Click here to read more…



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by | January 4, 2013

Case Study on Effects of Financial Crisis on Nigerian Capital Market

With its roots in banking, the sub-prime mortgage crisis that commenced in the United States in 2007 soon resonated in other sectors of its financial system, and the economy, at large. It spread quickly to the developed economies in Europe, including the United Kingdom, and Asia -with Japan becoming well affected. The emerging economies were not isolated. A transmission channel of the global financial crisis, which has been referred to as the “Globalised Synchronized Slowdown” is the stock market SERE-EJEMBI, (2008).

Case Study on Effects of Financial Crisis on Nigerian Capital Market

Around the world stock market indicators started falling. The capital market, vis-à-vis the stock market, is a channel through which national economies receive foreign capital flows that make their tendency towards the global economy easy visible. Developments in the market thus become a reflect ion of global financial development. Click here to read more…

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by | December 15, 2012

Root Cause Analysis Case Study on Holcim Elearning

As part of Holcim’s reliability engineer (RE) competency model, all REs are required to complete root cause analysis (RCA) training, and they are expected to apply it on the job. Holcim, with the primary business of producing cement, experienced a drop in demand due to the construction slowdown. As a result, an innovative and lower-cost way to provide RCA training was needed, especially because many. Click here to read more…

Root Cause Analysis Case Study on Holcim Elearning

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by | August 6, 2012

Maruti Suzuki Faces Costly Shutdown After Factory Riot

Mumbai: Carmaker Maruti Suzuki, a manager killed and 90 employees in jail after workers rioted at its second-largest factory, faces a lengthy shutdown that could cost it $15 million a day and disrupt supplies of its most popular hatchback, the Swift.


Police said they want to detain the entire workforce of 3,000 at the Manesar factory in Haryana, where workers rampaged on Wednesday after a disciplinary incident with a single employee. Scores were injured and a portion of the factory’s vehicle assembly line was burned out.


“This definitely mars the overall investment sentiment for the stock,” said Navin Matta, auto analyst at Daiwa Capital Markets in Mumbai, adding that the lack of clarity on the length of the slowdown was a cause for concern. Click here to read more…

Maruti Suzuki Faces Costly Shutdown After Factory Riot

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by | March 2, 2012

Crisis Managers in demand by the Indian Firms


Corporate India doesn’t require dummies at work. Companies have learnt the lesson for slowdown and realized the need for people who can handle shocks and manage teams in a crisis on the board, reports Writankar Mukherjee from The Economic Times … Click here to read ahead

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