Tata Sky aims for the sky

Tata Sky recently acquired its one millionth subscriber in the direct-tohome (DTH) television broadcast sector. Now it is planning to invest Rs.2,000 crores in an effort to upscale its value-added services. By 2012, Tata Sky hopes to have eight million subscribers. “New features will be added in interactive television,” says, Vikram Kaushik, CEO, Tata Sky. He further added that the company will also cater to regions and pockets in a more focused manner. As per market analysts, penetration of pay TV that was 46% in March 2007 is expected to increase to 90% by 2015.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008

An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative

Brussels, the new Jet hub as flights take off

On August 6, Jet Airways became the first Indian private carrier to fly to and from Europe! Its inaugural flight on the Continent sector was from Brussels to Mumbai. The flight was flagged off by Dipak Chatterjee, Indian Ambassador to Belgium and the European Union. The day before, Jet Airways “announced” its debut flight from Mumbai to the US – with a two hour stopover in Brussels. After it, the roadmap will keep growing for Naresh Goyal’s airline – with Brussels as an operational “hub”. In September, Jet will launch its flight to Toronto in Canada (via Brussels); in November, it will fly to Johannesburg in South Africa. The airline’s future plans include 10 daily flights from Brussels to cities in India and the US, Canada and mainland Europe. Jet has also entered into a code sharing agreement with Belgium’s chief carrier, Brussels Airlines, for flights from Brussels to Delhi, Mumbai, Toronto, Stockholm, Oslo, Birmingham, Geneva & Madrid. “Jet Airways was looking for an opportunity to combine its expansion plan to USA and Canada with an efficient hub in Europe together with a stronger national carrier offering a wide network... we have found it all at Brussels,” the airline’s Chairman, Naresh Goyal said in a statement.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008

An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative

PVR spreads its movie magic

More action to be caught on the silver screen. Ajay Bijli’s PVR Cinemas has said that the chain was going to open two more multiplexes: one in Delhi and one in Ludhiana respectively; with this, PVR will have a total of 89 cinema theatres, in 14 cities, across nine states in the country. Coming up is PVR Rohini (in west Delhi) at the Fun City Mall that will have three screens. In Ludhiana, the multiplex is coming up at Flamez Mall – complete with four screens. So it’s time to grab your popcorn and cola – and head straight for the movies!

The real truth about Asians revealed
A survey by ICM Research (a UK based company that offers polling, focus groups and telephone surveys in various specialist areas) for the BBC Asian Network has revealed that Asians would rather marry someone from ‘among us’ than someone from a different ‘race’. The survey looked Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Sri Lankan respondents, who are below 34 years of age, 44% of who want to marry only from the same race; only 9% of the White participants felt the same way! What about friendships? Well, lesser than a third of Asian respondents said ‘all or most’ of their friends were from the same race; nearly half of the Asians said that they would not date a White person; more than half of them would not date a Black person. There are more startling facts to be uncovered from Britain’s Asian community: 44% of them thought it was ‘immoral’ to be a homosexual, while only 8% of the White participants thought so.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008

An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative