Brand | Uber – Evolving The Way The World Moves
Uber Technologies, Inc., originally known as UberCabs, was founded in 2009 by tech start-up veterans Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp and headquartered in San Francisco. Both the partners had different roles within the company. Camp, a serial entrepreneur was a silent partner and Kalanick was the voice and face of Uber in public. Initially Uber […]
Featured Startup | Big Basket- India’s Grocery Marketplace
India’s online grocery delivery market is projected to see a 76% year-on-year rise in revenue in 2020 to $3 billion in volume. As the COVID-19 shutdown and quarantine steps compel Indian customers to change their shopping patterns, websites such as BigBasket, Amazon, JioMart, and Grofers have benefited from this situation. Although these businesses have been […]
Brand | Future Retail- The Strategies That Make India’s Leading Retailer
Future Retail Ltd was earlier known as Pantaloon Retail Ltd. This is one of Future Group’s flagship companies, which deals with broader operations like department stores, supermarkets, and specialty stores for electronics and home furnishing & decor. Future retail started as Manz Wear Pvt Ltd in 1991. Future Retail Ltd is a part of Future […]
Brand | Indigo Airlines – Making India’s Dream Of Flying Affordably True
IndiGo Airlines was set up in early 2006 by Rakesh Gangwal and Rahul Bhatia of InterGlobe Enterprises, with InterGlobe as the parent company holding 51.12 percent of the stake while Rakesh Gangwal’s Caelum Investments, a Virginia, and US-based Company hold 48 percent. Many reasons are trotted out for the success but there are some moves […]
Brand | Boeing – The Story And Strategies With Undying American Spirit
“Your Wings already exist. All you have to do is to fly” This quote perfectly reflects the journey of Boeing. Founded by William Edward Boeing in 1916 who earlier used to run timberland in the northwest of the USA at Olympic Peninsula selling the wood to the east coast of the USA by taking […]
Brand | Coal India – The Torchbearer Of India’s Coal Ambitions
Coal India is the largest coal-producing company in the world, based on the company’s raw coal production of 606 million tons in 2019. As of March 31, 2010, the company operated 471 mines in 21 major coalfields across eight states in India, including 163 open cast mines, 273 underground mines, and 35 mixed mines, which […]
Brand | Ratnadeep Retail – The Growing Retail Juggernaut With 100 Stores
India’s food & grocery market doubled from $300 billion in 2013 to $600 billion in 2019. In this period, growth was driven by traditional retailers – popular local corner shops that offer an assortment of products. In the lead up to 2024, researchers from RedSeer Consulting and BigBasket Brand Intelligence expect another ~$200 billion jump […]
Brand | Louis Vuitton- Success Factors Of The Top Luxury Brand
Louis Vuitton Malletier, commonly referred to as Louis Vuitton, is a French fashion house founded in 1854 by the famous designer, Louis Vuitton. The founder’s initials are on most of the brand’s products from clothing, footwear, watches, leather goods, jewelry, accessories, and sunglasses. Louis Vuitton is one of the world’s largest fashion houses, selling its […]
Brand | Costco – The Retail Champ With A Cult Following
Founded in 1976, Costco Wholesale Corporation operates as a wholesale retail club with a distinctive annual membership model which sets it apart from other traditional retailers such as JC Penney and Target. Deriving its revenues from annual membership fees, Costco has been able to compete aggressively on price and has become known for providing a […]
Brand | ONGC – The Crown Jewel Of India’s Energy Success Story
The state-owned company Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) is India’s largest company devoted to exploration and production (E&P) and refining activities. Founded in 1956, ONGC has seen remarkable growth in the last six decades. In 2020, ONGC group’s total production of oil and oil – equivalent gas (o+oeg) is about 2.8 million barrels […]
Brand | BSNL – The Crumbling Of ‘Once’ Mighty Teleco
BSNL was incorporated on October 1, 2000, by vesting with it the mandate of providing telecom services and network management hitherto done by the Department of Telecom (DOT), Government of India. This was done in a context where the telecom sector had been opened to the private sector beginning in 1994. While initially the sector […]
Brand | Pidilite – Leading The Market By Sticking To The Basics
Pidilite Industries Limited, known as Pidilite, is a publicly-traded organization of Indian roots and was established in the year 1951 by its founder Mr. Balvant Parekh. Pidilite is related to the industrial products industry as it manages specialty chemicals and consumer chemicals strategies. It is the market chief in construction chemicals, hobby colors, polymer emulsions, […]
Brand | LIC – Successful Strategies Of Insurance Giant
The insurance business was carried on by 154 Indian, 16 non-Indian insurance companies, and 75 provident societies, in 1956. During those days, insurance service was not extended to rural areas but was confined only to cities and better-off segments of the society. The parliament passed the Life Insurance Act of 1956, nationalized the insurance business […]
Brand | BuzzFeed – Creating The Best Digital Media Strategies
BuzzFeed is a New York-based Internet media organization established in 2006 by the entrepreneur Jonah Peretti. Known for its shareable news posts, quizzes, digital media strategies and it’s signature “listicles,” BuzzFeed has developed to incorporate 11 versions—from Australia to Mexico—and has brought $496 million up in capital as of January 2017, comprising an arrangement with […]
Brand | IKEA – More Than Just Selling Furniture, It’s An Experience
IKEA was founded in 1943 by a 17-year-old Swedish boy named Ingvar Kamprad. Initially, he was selling Christmas greeting cards, seeds, and pens from Kamprad’s family farm. From his childhood, he had entrepreneurial instincts. As he identified people’s needs, he attempted to satisfy them by selling low price products which ultimately gave growth to Kamprad […]
Brand | Etihad Airways – The Making Of Youngest 5-Star Airlines
Etihad was established in 2003, and since that time it has become one of the fastest-growing major international airline companies, thanks in large part to the financial backing of its home government. As per the company’s website (www.etihad.com), in February 2020, the current passenger fleet consists of 96 aircraft (Airbus A320- Family, Airbus A380, Boeing […]
Brand | Vodafone India – The Journey From Hutch To Vodafone To Vi
Vodafone Group Plc (Vodafone), founded on 17 July 1984, is a telecommunications company. The organization works in two regional regions: Europe and Africa, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific (AMAP). Its segments are Europe and AMAP. Its segment in Europe comprises regional areas such as Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, Spain, and the rest of Europe. […]
Featured Startup | Medlife – India’s Largest e-Healthcare Provider
Medlife was started in 2014 by Mr. Prashant Singh and Mr. Tushar Kumar. The company started as an online medicine delivery service but later expanded to offer a wide range of services ranging from online doctor consultation to diagnostics services. As Mr. Tushar puts it, the company began its journey after seeing the gap in […]
Brand | Siemens India – The Strategies And The Success Factors
The brand Siemens, as we know it today, started as Siemens and Halske in 1847 as a telegraph construction company. Founded by Werner von Siemens and Johann Georg Halske, it is one of the world’s oldest engineering firms. In 1848, the company constructed the first long-distance telegraph line in Europe. In 1966, the company changed […]
Brand | Cognizant – The Successful Run Of IT Giant
Cognizant is an American international IT service provider providing electronic, technical, consulting, and administrative services. It is part of the NASDAQ-100 and CTSH exchanges. Its headquarters were set up in 1994 in Teaneck, United States of America (USA). As the internal Engineering unit of Dun & Bradstreet, it represented external customers in 1996. The initial […]