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 | 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 | 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 […]
Case Study | Influencer Marketing by Mercedes Benz
Car market became more crowded with the entry of many different players and all focusing on similar aspects of care, comfort, speed and performance. It thus became very important to distinguish the Mercedes brand from other competitors and Mercedes Benz engaged via Influencer marketing campaigns. Mercedes Benz CLA (2013) Mercedes Benz came up with a […]
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 […]
Featured Startup | Zenoti – India’s new Unicorn
Zenoti was founded in 2010, and it is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. It provides an all-in-one, cloud-based software solution for the spa, salon and med spa industry. It is a SaaS ( Software as a Service) firm that has recently raised $160million in series D funding to enter into Unicorn club. Zenoti started its […]
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 […]
Case Study | WhiteHat Jr. VS WhiteHat Sr.
Introduction WhiteHat Jr. is an online platform that provides tuition assistance for kids to learn coding languages. Founded in 2018 by Karan Bajaj, the firm was bought by the Edutech giant Byju’s for a 300 million dollar in an all-cash deal. The introduction to WhiteHat Sr. is a little more complicated. Unlike WhiteHat Jr. it […]
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 | 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 | 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 | Blue Dart Logistics- The Success Story And Branding Strategies
Blue Dart, South Asia’s, particularly India’s, premier express air and integrated transportation, distribution, and logistics company, offers secure and reliable delivery of consignments to over 35,000 locations in India. As part of the DPDHL Group (DHL Express, DHL Global Forwarding & DHL Supply Chain) and E-commerce solutions, Blue Dart accesses the largest and most comprehensive […]
Featured Startup | PhonePe: Enabling Digital Payment Ecosystem
PhonePe, which started in 2015, is a digital wallet platform. It was founded by Mr. Samir Nigam, Mr. Rahul Chari, and Mr. Burzin Engineer. Mr. Rahul and Mr. Sameer launched and worked together at Flyte, a music downloading platform. One of the reasons for the shutdown was the firm’s inability to solve issues regarding payments […]
Case Study | General Mills Flour Recall 2016
General Mills, Inc., is an American multinational manufacturer and marketer of branded consumer foods sold through retail stores. It is often referred to as Big G. It has headquarters in Golden Valley, Minnesota. It sells many of the popular brands like Gold Medal flour, Annie’s Homegrown, Betty Crocker, Yoplait, Colombo, Totino’s, Pillsbury, Old El Paso, […]
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 […]