...BUSINESS PLAN 2011 Preliminary Details Document Control Title: Business Plan Version: One Date: As at 05 May 2011 Author: Ankit Sethi Reference: Social Enterprise- Business Plan Contacts : Third Life Foundation Mumbai P: +44 07580 421 050 Email: info@thirdlifefoundation.com Professional Advisors : Mr Chris MahonGlossary GLOSSARY/DEFINITIONS TLF : Third Life Foundation Hijra - a socio-cultural construct in which a transgender person who is biologically male takes on the gender role of a female. Hijras in India have their own form of social organization and form a parallel society.[1] Transgender - someone who is anatomically born in a certain sex, but is more comfortable with the gender/sexual identity of a different gender, and chooses to go in for a sex reassignment surgery or hormonal treatment.1 Sexuality minorities - people discriminated against due to their sexual identity/orientation or gender identity. This includes gays, lesbians, bisexuals, hijras, kotis, transgenders, etc.1 Contents Executive Summary Current Situation • Basic Company Information o Mission o Company Values o Organisational Structure o Products and Services o Core Competencies External Environment ❖ Context ❖ The Economy ❖ Needs Analysis ❖ Market Analysis ❖ Competitor Analysis ❖ Competitive Advantages Strategy and Plans ...
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...the country.” Executive Summary: Crafts Décor is a business that sells handmade handicrafts consisting of products such as handmade candles, beaded tree, ceramic flower work, jute ware. All the products of Craft Decor are unique and made keeping high quality in mind. In this report, the chances of success of Craft Décor have been viewed by marketing techniques.Crafts Décor has developed a marketing strategy that will take into account all the elements of the marketing mix. This will involve individual strategies for pricing, product development promotion and distribution. We have defined the vision mission and values of Crafts Décor. Industrial analysis has also been done in this report. For the product we have conducted the SWOT analysis. We have defined our target segment in the society. In this report we evaluated our competitors and analyzed about our product mix. We have discussed our current position as it is on the introduction stage on the new product development life-cycle and our expectations for the future have also been mentioned. Description of the Business: The nature of our business is to produce handicrafts items such as candles, beaded tree, ceramic flower work and jute ware. All the items that crafts Décor sell are handmade and are manufactured ensuring high quality. The trend of usage of handicrafts for decoration of houses is on rise; that is the reason handicrafts have taken the place of the traditional decoration items, so the products that we are...
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...(www.nepalemarket.com) Nepal E Market was founded in 2014 and its main concept is to sell Nepali handicrafts and ritual products in the USA. This is total ecommerce website with no retail location. Business Service Nepal E Market is all about selling various handicrafts & products related to Nepali rituals, festivals & ceremonies that are rare in the USA. Presently, Nepali handicrafts are very popular in the whole world. Nepali as well as local crowd in USA loves them. It competes primarily based on quality and their traditional designs. Ornamental design, Thanka paintings, traditional dress, food and spices will be our main focus in the website. Our future plans include selling Indian garments, traditional sculptures and much more important ritual products in two to three years. The Market We define our market as eCommerce site, focused to make various Nepali products available to the Nepalese people living in the USA. The total market size is approximately $40,000 last, and is expected to grow by 50% by 2017. Some of our most notable customers include Nepalese community people as well as local people who love antique handicrafts and traditional products. Competition We compete directly with local Nepali and Indian grocery stores and specially www.nepalibazaar.com. Our website is unique/superior because we have variety of typical Nepalese handicrafts, thanka paintings and traditional dresses. We have a competitive advantage because of our competitive...
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...1. Introduction Encouragement tools for tourism marketing are those incentive materials which motivate tourists to have repeat visit and it also motivated customers to have positive word of mouth. In marketing encouragement tools are categorized under sales promotion. Sales promotion refers to many kinds of incentives and techniques directed towards consumers and traders with the intention to produce immediate or short-term sales effects. “Sales promotion includes incentive-offering and interest-creating activities which are generally short-term marketing events other than advertising, personal selling, publicity and direct marketing. The purpose of sales promotion is to stimulate, motivate and influence the purchase and other desired behavioral responses of the firm’s customers.” Sales promotion offers a direct inducement to act by providing extra worth over and above what is built into the product at its normal price. These temporary inducements are offered usually at a time and place where the buying decision is made. Not only are sales promotions very common in the current competitive market conditions, they are increasing at a fast pace. These promotions are direct inducements. In spite of the directness, sales promotions are fairly complicated and a rich tool of marketing with innumerable creative possibilities limited only by the imagination of promotion planners. Sales promotion acts as a competitive weapon by providing an extra incentive for the target audience...
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...maQuestion 2 Marketing Communication Plan for Kiara Designs By [Your Name] [Instructor’s Name] [Institution’s Name] [Institution’s State] [Date] Report Overview This report serves as a digital communication plan for a fictional fashion retailing brand named, Kiara Designs. This plan will help marketers achieving organizational goals of Kiara based on information at hand regarding online marketing and shopping trends in Pakistan. Throughout this report, it is made sure that the digital marketing goals suggested to the brand are: | Smart | Specific | Measureable | Attainment | Realistic | Timely Company Details Established back in 2013, the brand Kiara Designs fall under the category of Apparel/Lifestyle Brands. Its primary products include clothes, bags, phone pouches, shoes and other related items. Each creation at Kiara is a piece of art, inspired by the desire to introduce Pakistani crafts to the upscale local and international market. The key collections are for women who aspire to be different from the crowd. The organization manufactures items related to apparel category. All our items are hand crafted, hence providing job to underprivileged women in Pakistan. Kiara’s Brand Standing Analysis of Kiara Designs as a brand depicts the company has following mission vision and values: Mission To promote Women Empowerment & "Made in Pakistan" globally Vision Fashion with a cause, as every dress we sell can help change a woman's life. Kiara...
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...Executive Summary The retail enterprise Aarong is the handicraft marketing arm of BRAC (Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee). Established in 1978, Aarong is a fair trade organization dedicated to bring about positive changes in the lives of disadvantaged artisans and underprivileged rural women by reviving and promoting their skills and craft. Reaching out to weavers, potters, brass workers, jewelers, jute workers, basket weavers, wood carvers, leather workers and more, Aarong embraces and nurtures a diverse representation of 65,000 artisans, 85% of whom are women. Today, Aarong has become the foundation upon which independent cooperative groups and family-based artisans market their craft, in an effort to position the nation’s handicraft industry on a world platform of appreciation and acknowledgement The Ayesha Abed Foundation (AAF) is an organization that aims to provide avenues for employment and income generation for underprivileged rural women. It is an enclave for women, formed to uplift them economically, through their work as producers, and also socially, through their development into entrepreneurs. The Foundation provides an appropriate working environment, financial and technical assistance, and training to develop the women’s skills in various crafts. Mission Statement: “To make Aarong the best in the world in providing a unique Bangladeshi lifestyle experience to empower people and promote Bangladesh while protecting our environment.” Vision: Aarong...
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...the proposed name of the business “SABUGHAW” the owner have chosen this name to make it more significant and notable and also to represent the town of pililla, sabughaw is a combination of sabutan and anahaw and pililla town is one who can make a handicraft made in sabutan the business is solely owned organized by the owner liezel emperio anievas. SABUGHAW in pililla makes a picture frame made in sabutan and anahaw sabughaw picture frame have a different choices of design and concept, the main materials use in making or creating frame are truly environmental friendly. Sabutan fiber and anahaw fiber are primarily used for manufacturing hats, headwears made of. sabutan are strong and durable. Sabutan and anahaw is also an excellent material for protect and good for making handbags, picture frame. Sabughaw frame have a good quality and the owner will offered a reasonable price. the owner will recovered the old business in the town of pililla and that business will recovered by making again a handicraft product made in sabutan and anahaw by using sabutan and anahaw the owner will less the cost...
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...Background Aarong is an enterprise of BRAC and it’s a CSR based handicraft company established in 1978. Today, Aarong's reach has spread beyond Manikganj to the rest of the country. At present Aarong is operating through 9 domestic outlets and one franchised outlet in London. Aarong has more than 488 products in their outlets. They have grown into a thriving international enterprise showcasing ethnic wear to beautiful crafts from silks, handloom cotton, endi to terracotta, bamboo, jute and much more. From a single shop, Aarong has grown into one of Bangladesh's biggest retail chains, with eight stores spread across the major metropolitan areas of the country - in Dhaka, Chittagong, Khulna and Sylhet and one in London, UK. Aarong embraces and nurtures a diverse representation of 65,000 artisans, 85% of whom are women. Aarong also plays the role of protector and promoter of traditional Bangladeshi products and designs. It houses an extensive design library where remnants of our rich craft heritage, such as Nakshikatha art and Jamdani patterns, have been widely researched and archived for present as well as future use. Aarong began as a cause – a means to an end for a quiet organization fighting to uphold the dignity of the marginalized. In 1976, when BRAC- a Bangladeshi NGO dedicated to alleviating poverty and empowering the poor, first began encouraging sericulture for women in Manikganj, their only buyers were a few scattered retailers in Dhaka. Weeks, even months would pass...
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...behalf of the group 3rd Year 6th Semester B.B.A 16th Batch Department of Finance. Table of Contents | Sl no. | Contents | Page no. | 1. | Executive Summary | | 2. | Business Idea | | | 2.1 | Firm & Promoters | | | 2.2 | Why to behave entrepreneurially | | 3. | Industry & Competitive Analysis | | | 3.1 | Introduction to overall furniture industry of Bangladesh | | | 3.2 | Bamboo in general | | | 3.3 | Environmental advantages of bamboo | | | 3.4 | Bamboo furniture versus wooden Furniture | | | 3.5 | Porters five forces model of industry analysis | | 4. | Goals & Objectives | | 5. | Business & Operational Plan | | | 5.1 | Business process | | | 5.2 | Business start-up activities & cost | | | 5.3 | Product line | | 6. | Marketing Plan | | | 6.1 |...
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...[Year] Parul [Type the company name] [Pick the date] Table of Contents VISION ......................................................................................................................................................... 2 INTRODUCTION AND PROJECT OBJECTIVES ................................................................................. 2 MARKET ANALYSIS ................................................................................................................................. 3 RETAIL IN INDIA.................................................................................................................................... 3 TEXTILE INDUSTRY IN INDIA ............................................................................................................ 5 COMPETITOR ANALYSIS ....................................................................................................................... 6 COMPETITORS TO VIRYA.................................................................................................................. 6 BUSINESS STRATEGY AND IMPLEMENTATION.............................................................................. 7 BUSINESS MODEL OF VIRYA ........................................................................................................... 7 SOURCING OF MATERIAL FOR RECYCLING ........................................................................... 8 PRODUCTS ..........................................
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...Mgt- 490 Sec: 1 Case development on: Aarong [pic] Submitted to: Submitted by: Dr. Md. Zahidul Islam Masruk Monir - 0510220 (Senior lecturer of management) Contents Topic’s cover Page Background 1 Mission & Vision 2 4 p’s 3 4c’s against 4p’s 4 Sales analysis & distribution channel 5 Fig: Target market 6 Competitive advantage of Aarong 7 Brand management 9 Swot analysis 10 Wrong advertising strategy ...
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...industries in the private sector and (d) setting up industries for which private investors were reluctant. Under the direct or indirect initiative of BSCIC a plenty of entrepreneurs has been created and enterprises has been set up in the country. But the influence of globalization and the free economy impacts upon the traditional manufacturing enterprises. This situation for marketing of small and cottage industries products is a major constraints facing by the sector. BSCIC is to provide facilities to the existing and new entrepreneurs to expand and develop their markets and to stay and sustain in the competitive environment. The definition of small-scale industry has undergone a considerable change in Bangladesh from time to time under government industrial policies. During the period 1957-65, small scale industry in Bangladesh (the then East Pakistan) stood for an industrial establishment or unit run mainly with hired labor not exceeding 50 workers when power was used; and whose investment in land, building and machinery’s did not exceed Tk. 0.25 million in value, in either case. In the Third Five Year Plan of Pakistan (1965-70), small scale industries were defined as those industrial units which employed...
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...Measurement of consumer satisfaction of Aarong Measurement of consumer satisfaction of Aarong Course Code – BUS – 214 Course Title – Business Communication Prepared for: Mr. Tanvir Ahmad Torophder Lecturer Prepared by: Name | ID NO | Md. Jasim Uddin | 1003010002 | Md. Mazidur Rahman | 1003010006 | Md. Rakib Hassan | 1003010008 | Romanaz Parvin | 1003010011 | Ahmad Rahik Majumder | 1003010012 | Shaidur Rahman Jaber | 1003010025 | Shirina Akter | 1003010026 | Section: A 4th Semester (26th Batch) Department of Business Administration Leading University Date of Submission: January 5, 2012 December 20, 2011 The course teacher Department of Business Administration Leading University, Sylhet. Subject: Submission of Report Dear sir: It is a great pleasure to submit our report titled “Measurement of consumer satisfaction of Aarong” assigned as a requirement for business communication course. Working at Aarong and preparing this report has been a good experience for us. We hope this report will help the Aarong to gather insights on the topic and open the windows to do further studies in this aspect. We would like to express our gratitude to you for giving us the opportunity to work on this topic. Your quires in this report will be much appreciated. Thanking you. Sincerely yours, Md. Jasim Uddin Md. Mazidur Rahman Md. Rakib Hassan Romanaz Parvin Ahmad Rahik Majumder Shaidur Rahman Jaber Shirina...
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...and maintaining effective workforce. Effective workforce is employee, there are important for improving productivity. Manpower requirements As mentioned, employees are important. Picasso factory has about 60 employees,40 of them are in factory side and 20 of them are working in office. For example employee in the office side, are Human resource, accountancy, marketing and IT departments. Human resource department is responsible to hire employee, accountancy department is for calculating profits and loss. Marketing department is to promote and make sales.IT department is to look out the company through online. In human resource planning, the first step is to have job analysis when hiring employee it is a systematic analysis of job in the company. Job analysis involves job description and job specification. Job description is employee getting a briefing of their job scope. Job specification is to let the employee know what skills, abilities and other qualifications in order to get the job. For example employees who want to work in factory side, needs to have some specific technical skills like handicrafts and computing skills to control the machines. Whereas employees who want to work in the office needs to be degree holders from university. Recruitment process Recruitment process is process of attracting qualified persons to apply for open job. There are two types of the recruitment process which is internal and external recruiting. Internal recruitment is a practice...
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...February 20, 2014 To, Mr. Mohiuddin Chowdhury Lecturer Department of Finance & Banking University of Chittagong Subject: Prospects of banana fiber in Bangladesh Sir, It is our pleasure to submit an idea about “The prospects of banana filter fiber in Bangladesh” as a part of our B.B.A. Program. We tried our best to develop and design idea. Without your sincere co-operation and proper guideline, it would not be possible for us. For this act of kindness, we are grateful to you. This paper is not free from mistake due to some limitations. We hope you will accept it with gracious consideration. Thank you for giving us such an opportunity for working on this topic. It will be our pleasure to provide you any additional information, if necessary. Thank you, Sincerely yours, (On behalf of Group) Inzamam-Ul- Hoque Group member |No |Name |Id | |1 |Umme Nurin Ahmed |11303066 | |2 |Sharmin Akter |11303046 | |3 |Anika Jahan |11303118 | |4 |Jesmin Akter ...
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