| Now it's edible oils in chhota sachets
The shampoo market did it long ago and did well with it. Rural consumers, attracted by the low unit prices, and travelling urban consumers who looked at the convenience of the packaging, lapped up the format. Some FMCG companies also extended the small sachet idea to toothpastes and did well with it as well. Same reasons.
Call it the famous bottom of the pyramid theory of management guru CK Prahlad or call it economic sense, more product lines appear to be buying into the small pack idea. Branded edible oils look like the most recent additions to buy into the small sachets idea. Recently, Bunge India, which acquired the Dalda brand from the Hindustan Lever (today Hindustan Unilever) in 2003, decided to offer it in mini packs, priced at Rs 5 and Rs 10. These minis pack Dalda in a blend of soya beans and palm oil.
MacBook Pro Reviewer's Notebook
However, for every person who thinks that 2,500 words about a new laptop is 2,400 words too many, there's another person who feels I shouldn't have stopped until I hit 5,000. So for those of you who won't find the answers to your questions in my review, here's a second helping — stuff that, for whatever reason, didn't really fit at full length into my review. Migration and Console catches Apple's Migration Assistant utility did a really good job of bringing my data over from my PowerBook G4 to the MacBook Pro. It brought over my user folder items, all my apps (unless a newer version existed already on the MacBook Pro) — the works. The result was that I was up and running in no time — well, no time plus the time it takes to transfer five gigabytes via FireWire.
McCain, Romney Make Last-Minute Appeals in Fla.
Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), a prominent House liberal who sits on the Congressional Black Caucus and the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Her backing helps the Clinton campaign as it tries to counter surging support for Obama among African Americans, who voted overwhelmingly for the biracial Illinois senator in South Carolina Saturday, helping him secure an easy primary victory there. Many blacks have been alienated by criticism of Obama lately from Clinton's husband, former president Bill Clinton. "At a time when the economy continues to worsen and so many of my constituents are losing their homes and their jobs, we need someone with the leadership and experience who can step in on day one to tackle the economic challenges our country is facing," Waters said in a statement explaining her position.
Chinese protest at squashed ant investments
Pensioners and workers have been staging protests outside a company which offered shares in giant ants in the latest example of the effects of China's lopsided economic growth on ordinary people. The protesters had invested savings in a scheme that was intended to make an aphrodisiac tonic out of the ants. Some also paid to become ''ant farmers'', being given equipment selling on the ants as they grew. In common with a raft of similar schemes which have grown up in the last two decades of economic reform, several based on pyramid-selling techniques, investors were promised their money would grow dramatically in value. Such offers are tempting, particularly to small investors. .
South Dakota Orders Company That Promised to Help Charities to Suspend ...
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Venezuela Part III: From institutional clientelism to the Chavista ...
It happened in the middle of one of his infamous televised harangues. The president had barely hit his stride when something caught his eye. His tone changed, he looked towards the scaffolding to the left of the stage, the one used to put up the lights for the speech. "Hey, come down from there," he said in a soft, almost fatherly tone, "no, don't climb to the front, it's hot there because of the lights...that's right, climb down towards the back. Don't worry, you'll get to talk to me. I want to hear your problem. I saw you crying earlier, just, just come down from the scaffolding and come up here." Soon this 15 years old kid has climbed down and is walking towards the stage. He's crying. Chavez calls him up to the podium. With the camera's running, millions of people watching, Chavez takes him, hugs him hard and holds him for, oh, 45 seconds or a minute, while he the kid tells him, in between sobs, how his father died and his mother is sick and he can't afford the medicines to make her better...Chavez listens at length, pets his hair, assures that he's going to help him.
Banking 1991-2000
Today there are about 1300 banks in Russia, with the largest of them concentrated in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The Russian banking system had just as many banks in 1991, when it was still Soviet. Up to 1995, the number of banks increased to 3000. However, for the last five years, their number has been decreasing.
Recently, the Bank of Russia and the government have nurtured plans to speed up this process artificially. In their opinion, the country needs a relatively small number of large banks. Meanwhile, in the opinion of international financial organizations, the banks should not be state banks, and in fact, plans to privatize state banks have already been worked out. The problem is that there is not enough money in Russia to buy them. This means that the Russian banking system has every prospect of developing in the same way as in other Eastern European countries, that is, to pass into the hands of foreigners.
October 2006
Results, in terms of test scores and emotional output should be studied. Doctoral dissertations should be encouraged to examine it and survey research should be funded to see how much, if at all, it helps. Finally, the question must be asked if it is worth setting aside Title IX and possibly the culture altering woman's movement to do it? We need to know these things before we get too infatuated with separating boys and girls at school. .
The coming rust-belt recovery
We should note that economy cannot grow continuously forever. Just ask the bacteria in a petry dish. Growth of economy or population is exponential - more you have faster the growth (or decline). Anything on earth growing exponentially must eventually come to a stop. We need to decide where we want the steady state (no growth) to be. Must we continue struggling with nature or can we find a happy balance? Posted 27/01/08 at 4:09 AM EST | Link to Comment .
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