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In comparison, the net worth of both Gates and Slim is estimated to be slightly lower at around $62.29 billion each, with Slim leading among the two by a narrow margin.
Warren Buffett, earlier the third richest in the world, also dropped one position with a net worth of about $56 billion.
Ambani's wealth of about Rs 2,49,000 crore includes about Rs 2,10,000 crore from RIL (50.98 per cent stake), Rs 37,500 crore from RPL (37.5 per cent) and Rs 2,100 crore from RIIL (46.23 per cent).
Slim's wealth has been calculated on the basis of his stake in companies like America Movil (30 per cent), Carso Global (82 per cent), Grupo Carso (75 per cent), Inbursa (67 per cent), IDEAL (30 per cent) and Saks Inc (10 per cent).
According to information available with the US and Mexican stock exchanges where these companies are listed, Slim currently holds shares worth a total of $62.2993 billion, with more than half coming from Latin American mobile major America Movil.
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CEO's Of Famous Indian Companies
| CEO | Company | 2006 | 2005 |
| N.R. Narayana Murthy | Infosys Technologies | 1 | 1 |
| Ratan Tata | Tata Group | 2 | 3 |
| Mukesh Ambani | Reliance Industries | 3 | 2 |
| Nandan M Nilekani | Infosys Technologies | 4 | 6 |
| Azim Hasham Premji | Wipro | 5 | 5 |
| Anil Ambani | Reliance ADAG | 6 | 12 |
| Vijay Mallya | UB Group | 7 | 8 |
| Sunil Mittal | Bharti Enterprises | 8 | 9 |
| K.V. Kamath | ICICI Bank | 9 | 4 |
| Kumar Mangalam Birla | AV Birla Group | 10 | 9 |
| Rahul Bajaj | Bajaj Auto | 11 | 7 |
| Rajiv Bajaj | Bajaj Auto | 12 | 13 |
| S Ramadorai | TCS | 13 | 15 |
| Chanda Kochhar | ICICI Bank | 14 | NA |
| G.R. Gopinath | Air Deccan | 15 | 19 |
| Deepak S Parikh | HDFC | 16 | 11 |
| Jagdish Kattar | Maruti Udyog | 17 | 16 |
| Anand G Mahindra | Mahindra & Mahindra | 18 | 28 |
| Naresh Goyal | Jet Airways | 19 | 25 |
| Adi B Godrej | Godrej Group | 20 | 18 |
| Subhash Chandra | Zee Telefilms | 21 | 20 |
| Brij Mohan Lall Munjal | Hero Group | 22 | 22 |
| Naina Lal Kidwai | HSBC India | 23 | 45 |
| Sameer Nair | Start TV India | 24 | NA |
| A.M. Naik | Larsen & Toubro | 25 | 32 |
| Shiv Nadar | HCL Technologies | 26 | 26 |
| Y.V. Reddy | Reserve Bank of India | 27 | 42 |
| Uday Kotak | Kotak Mahindra Bank | 28 | 31 |
| O.P. Bhatt | State Bank of India | 29 | NA |
| B Ramalinga Raju | Satyam Computers | 30 | 41 |
| K Anji Reddy | Dr Reddy’s Lab | 31 | 24 |
| Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw | Biocon | 32 | 23 |
| Gautam Singhania | Raymonds | 33 | 52 |
| B Muthuraman | Tata Steel | 34 | 60 |
| Rajeev Bakshi | PepsiCo India | 35 | 59 |
| Kishore Biyani | Pantaloon Retail | 36 | 39 |
| A.K.Sinha | BSNL | 37 | 44 |
| Yogesh C Deveshwar | ITC | 38 | 27 |
| Venu Srinivasam | TVS Motors | 39 | 21 |
| Suresh Krishna | Sundaram Fastners | 40 | 38 |
| Renuka Ramnath | ICICI Ventures | 41 | 35 |
| Asim Gosh | Hutch | 42 | 47 |
| Sanjay Nayar | Citigroup India | 43 | 66 |
| Shankar Annaswamy | IBM | 44 | NA |
| Malvinder Singh | Ranbaxy | 45 | NA |
| M Damodaran | SEBI | 46 | 43 |
| S.P.Hinduja | Hinduja Group | 47 | 61 |
| Ravi Venkatesan | Microsoft India | 48 | 52 |
| Aditya Puri | HDFC Bank | 49 | 30 |
| Karsanbhai Patel | Nirma | 50 | 67 |
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India's position in a UN agency�s inward Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) performance index has improved eight notches. As a confident India Inc has started bidding for more and bigger deals abroad, in 2007-08 overseas investment from India will be around $15 billion - surpassing foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in the country, says a study. The bulk of outward FDI flow will be driven mainly by India's booming manufacturing sector, said the 'Study on FDI Outflow and amp; Role of Manufacturing in the Mergers and amp; Acquisitions Front, 2007', by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Assocham).  Indian companies' preferred investment destinations are the European countries and the US, as also Africa taking advantage of its cost competitiveness. Sectors such as pharma and automobiles will give a major thrust to the FDI outflow, though IT will continue to dominate the scene, said the report released Friday. 'Riding on strong balance sheets, good credit ratings and confidence shown by global business community, Indian manufacturing is leading India Inc.'s global quest,' said Venugopal Dhoot, president, Assocham.
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| The country�s rank on the index, which covers 141 countries for the year 2006, stood at 113, as against 121 in 2005. This is the highest annual jump recorded by India on the index, which started in 1982. |
| In addition, the country also improved its position by nine places in the outward Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) performance index from 65 in 2005 to 56 in 2006. |
"China is the most preferred investment location, followed by India, the US and then the Russian Federation and Brazil," the report said. India's ranking in inward FDI performance index has also improved to 113 in 2006 from 121 in 2005.
Significantly, India and China are emerging as major players in terms of FDI outflows as well. They are "beginning to challenge the dominance of the Asian newly industrialising economies -- Hong Kong (China), the Republic of Korea, Singapore and Taiwan... as the main sources of FDI in developing Asia," it said. In terms of location choice for foreign investors, China polled 52 per cent of the respondents in the UNCTAD survey followed by India with 41 per cent.
The US received support of 36 per cent and Russia 22 per cent, followed by Brazil with 12 per cent. Rapid economic growth in South, East and South-East Asia is likely to continue, underpinned by the strong performance of China and India.
In addition, the region may become more attractive to "efficiency-seeking" FDI, owing to the plans of several countries such as India and China, Indonesia and Vietnam to develop their infrastructure.
India was the fourth largest recipient of FDI during 2005-06 with China and Hong Kong (China) remaining on top. Singapore was ahead of India at the third position. "India registered a substantial increase in FDI amounting to 17 billion dollars," the report said.
The report said that thanks to India, FDI inflows to South Asia surged by 126 per cent amounting to 22 billion in 2006.
"The country received more FDI than ever before (153 per cent more than in 2005), equivalent to the total inflows to the country during the period 2003-05," it said, adding that the rapid economic growth has led to improved investor confidence in the country.
| he report also revealed that India�s FDI inflows, as a percentage of gross fixed capital formation has been increasing over the years. While in 1999-2000, FDI constituted 1.9 per cent of gross fixed capital formation, it rose to 8.7 per cent in 2006, against 2.6 per cent in the year ago period. |
| Moreover, as a higher number of Indian companies invested overseas, FDI outflows from the country increased to $9.67 billion in 2006, a rise of 288 per cent over $2.49 billion in the previous year. China�s outward FDI inflows in 2006 increased by 31.56 per cent to $16.13 billion against $12.26 billion in the year ago period. |
POSITIONING
Subroto Sengupta in his book ‘Brand Positioning’ has defined the concept of positioning as: " The Position of a brand is the perception it brings about in the mind of a target customer.This perception reflects the essence of brand in terms of it's functional and non-functional benefits in the judgment of that customer.It is relative to the perception, held by that consumer, of competing brands, all of which can be represented as points or positions in his or her perceptual space and together, make up a product class.In short ‘position’ represents the whole or overall perception of that brand in that consumer’s mind and it is always a relative concept.Perhaps Charles Mittelstadt has defined ‘Positioning’ more accurately as "Positioning refers to how you want your brand ‘thought about’ in connections with competitors in its product category. It needs to be specific to your brand aimed at a specific target audience."
This definition clearly states the importance of ‘Positioning’ for the success of any brand. It is like that indispensable vitamin to the body without whose the body will collapse. So ‘Positioning’ can make or break a brand. Therefore, a confused ‘Positioning’ can simply kill the brand. A clear ‘Positioning’ will always be one of the success factor. This is the place where Punchline comes into act. If you have to Position your brand perfectly in the mind space of the customer, your Punchline must be so accurate and appealing that it neither erases from the mind nor can be replaced by any other competing brands Punchline.
IBM ThinkPad----- " I think, therefore IBM"---- Here IBM tries to say that if you have the capacity to think then you should go for IBM ThinkPad, the Punchline exactly conveys the message.
Nike ----- "Just do it" ---- There is no other better way to boost the self-confidence the way Nike has put through their famous Punchline. Thus the ad line simply communicates that using Nike can improve your performance by enhancing the self-confidence.
Adidas ------ " Forever Sport"----- They wanted to say that whenever you think of sports think Adidas. The Punchline perfectly associates Adidas and Sports.
7-up ----- "The Uncola"---- Perhaps the most talked about Punchline, it gave the brand a distinctive image in the mindspace of soft drink customers.
American Express ---- "Don’t leave home without it" ------The Punchline has made the card an essentiality of lifestyle. Thus the card directly made a safe place in the wallet of the customer for always.
Heinz Baked beans ----- "Beanz Meanz Heinz"-------The catchy, peppy punchline is easy to settle into the brain. People can easily relate beans to Heinz.
Philips ----- "Lets make things better" ----- Philips wanted its customer to appreciate the quality of the product, which the Punchline defines accurately.
Polaroid ----- " We don’t have negatives" ---- The Punchline itself was boasting about the uniqueness of the product, which the company was trying to position.
Crest -------- " Look, Ma, no cavities" ----- The Punchline reflects the emotional relationship between mother and children along with the basic benefit. That’s what every mother wants to hear from her child. Perfectly positioned and perfectly communicated.
10) Esso ----- " Put a tiger in your tank" ---- The tiger represents ‘power’ and ‘strength’. Esso wants to deliver these benefits to its consumer and accordingly positioned its products which were evident from the Punchline.
Lets have a look at the national front
- Pepsi--- "Yeh dil maange more"-----Such was the effect of this punchline that an Indian army captain after winning a battle proudly yelled "Ye dil maange more".What drives us to buy pepsi or Coke? these punchlines.
- Raymond ---- "The Complete man"--- The Punchline gives the notion that man is not complete unless he wears Raymond. The possession of Raymond is kind of status symbol, the status of acquiring manhood.
- Coca Cola ---- " Thanda Matlab Coca Cola" ----- People in India generally refers cold drinks as ‘thanda’. So Coke wanted to give an impression that whenever a customer think of ‘Thanda’ he should think of Coca Cola. So the Punchline makes ‘Thanda’ equal to Coca Cola.
- Birla Mutual Fund ----- "The name inspires Trust" ----- Trust is the basic platform on which mutual fund business works. An investor will invest only in that company in which he has confidence and trust. So the Punchline was directed towards Trust building.
- Wills Navy Cut ----- " Made For Each Other" --- The Punchline brings about the brand loyalty by making the customer and the brand too close to each other. It suggests that both the entities complement one another.
Most of the above mentioned ad lines are award winners just for the simple fact that they conveyed their brand’s positioning dead accurately.
Taking leverage of this point Marketers appoint Brand Ambassadors for their strategic or Mega brand. For example Rajdoot Motorcycles tried to position itself as a macho man and accordingly appointed film star Dharmendra to endorse the motorcycle. Again ICICI appointed Amitabh bachchan as their Brand Ambassador for the credibility image. The Punchline must also support the image of the Brand Ambassador; point is, the Punchline must synchronize with it. A famous example is Sachin Tendulkar’s association with Visa card. The Punchline was ‘Go get it". As Sachin is a ‘go getter’, never afraid of any circumstances and gives 100% performance, so the Brand image of Visa card was totally in tandem with the image of Sachin and the Punchline depicts the same thing. Thus we can safely conclude that Punchline is the Bridge between Positioning and Brand image.
IMPORTANCE OF PUNCHLINES AND WHEN THEY ARE USED
It is very difficult to find out the right Punchline. Marketers have to select right words to form that sentences which can correctly express the positioning strategy of the brand. A bad Punchline can kill a good ‘ad’. For example the recent global ad of McDonalds, the ad line is " I’m lovin it" sung by N-sync guy Justin Timberlake. Critics are simply asking the relationship between Positioning and Communication.
When a Marketer launches any new brand, the general idea is that initially he has to increase the awareness among the consumers by differentiating it from the offerings of the existing competitors or differentiating it from the same need fulfilling products. For that he has to convey his USP in its Positioning. The most basic job of a Punchline is to carry this USP along with it. Consumers must be able to figure out the USP from the Punchlines.
Also whenever Marketers reposition a brand, Punchlines play a major role in it. It acts through the concept of Kurt Lewin’s change model theory.
At first the customer possess certain beliefs about the values, attributes and benefits about the brand, which may not be satisfactory. A perfect repositioning Punchline instigates the consumer to ‘unfreeze’ that behavior and makes him ready to change. If the Punchline strikes him as attractive due to repeated exposure it ‘changes’ the mindset of the customer creating new set of beliefs. Then due to consistency or when the benefits of the product match with the new expectations, which has been imbibed by the new Punchline, this new behavior ‘freezes’.
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Women dressed in bikinis walk to their positions for the photo shoot on Sydney's Bondi Beach. Guinness adjudicator Chris Sheedy said the shoot was the most spectacular world record he had witnessed.The bikini brain was Cosmopolitan editor Sarah Wilson, who coordinated the Guinness World Record shoot at Bondi. The photo shoot will appear in the January issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.
Bikini, the skimpy swimwear made its debut in 1946. Hoping it would be worn by beautiful ‘bombshells’, the designers named it after Bikini Atoll, an atomic bomb test site in the Marshall Islands.
The bikini spectacle was ogled by countless surfers, locals and tourists who were pleasantly surprised by the sheer number of women present during the shoot.The group included both paid models and volunteers. Mother-daughter participants were also part of the shoot.
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Few months back I had applied for my HSBC Bank Credit card.I received my credit card but could n't get my Pin Number.I thought to talk with the customer care people of HSBC bank,When i tried call to HSBC customer care,I was stunned to see that the number provided by HSBC bank to me was wrong.After that i thought to find out with the help of google.While surfing google i came to know that i was n't only the single person who was facing problem.There were many.After that I thought that I would help the people from this harassment of Banks and I maintained the database of customer care numbers of different bank with the help of search engines like google,yahoo,ask and many more.Below is the list of customer care Number of different bank operating in India.
- ICICI Bank Customer Care Number
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- HSBC Customer Care Number
Delhi : 9910797373
Mumbai : 66800001
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- SBI Credit Card Number
Delhi : Toll Free Number - 1800 180 1290 (BSNL/MTNL)
Mumbai : 39 02 02 02 (All other Phone)
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- ABN AMRO Customer Care number
Delhi : 0124 410 8472
Mumbai : 022 2494 8472
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- UTI Bank Customer Care Numbers
Delhi : 23736555
Mumbai : 25260501
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- IDBI Bank Customer Care Number
Delhi : 23627000
Mumbai : 66937000
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- Standard Chartered Credit Card Customer Care Number
Delhi : 2373 3777
Mumbai : 2491 7777
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- Citibank Customer Care Number
Delhi : 2542484
Mumbai : 28232484
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You are at right place,if you are looking for the link of any banks operating in India.Below is the consolidated list of Public,Private and Foreign banks.
State Bank of India & 7 Associates
- State Bank of India
- State Bank of Bikaner & Jaipur
- State Bank of Hyderabad
- State Bank of Indore
- State Bank of Mysore
- State Bank of Patiala
- State Bank of Saurashtra
- State Bank of Travancore
Nationalized Banks
- Bank of India
- Bank of Baroda
- Canara Bank
- Corporation Bank
- Indian Bank
- Indian Overseas Bank
- Punjab & Sind Bank
- Punjab National Bank
- Syndicate Bank
- Vijaya Bank
- Central Bank of India
- Union Bank of India
- Allahabad Bank
- United Bank of India
- Bank of Maharashtra
- Andhra Bank
- Dena Bank
- Oriental Bank of Commerce
- UCO Bank
Major Private Banks
- UTI Bank
- HDFC Bank
- ICICI Bank
- IDBI Bank
- Kotak Mahindra Bank
- Dhanalakshmi Bank
- Federal Bank
- Catholic Syrian Bank
- South Indian bank
- IndusInd Bank
- Vysya Bank- Now its ING Vysya Bank
- Karur Vysya Bank
- Lakshmi Vilas Bank
- Yes Bank
- Centurian Bank of Punjab
- Lord Krishna Bank
- G.S.B. Bank of Commerce
Foreign Banks Operating in India
Merged or Defunct Banks in India
- Arbuthnot & Co
- Bank of Bombay (now part of the SBI)
- Bank of Calcutta (now part of the SBI)
- Bank of Chettinad
- Bank of Madras (now part of the SBI)
- Binny & Co
- Bank of Madura (now part of ICICI Bank Ltd.)
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