...Form full version Pran Essay Pran Category: Business Autor: jessica85 05 April 2010 Words: 4938 | Pages: 20 We would like to thank our faculty Ameer Yusuf Khan for his splendid support and guideline during our completion of this report. We are grateful for the patience and the time he gave us to solve the problems we faced in making the project. We would also like to express our gratitude to the management and all the individuals of PRAN Group who have taken part by assisting us with details on their company, especially to Mr. Chowdhry Kamruzzaman Kamal who is the General Manager (PRAN Sales-Marketing) of PRAN Group. He helped us a lot by giving his valuable time and lots of information which was very essential for us to make our project a superior one. We would also like to take the opportunity to thank our families, friends and classmates for being so generous, friendly and helpful and assisting us with both major and minor details. We in Bangladesh are blessed with a climate ideally suited to agriculture, specially fruits and vegetables-rich in taste and flavor: sweet, mellow and juicy. Our deltaic plains are among the most fertile in the world created and drained by the mighty rivers-the Padma, Jamuna & Meghna. There is plenty of water. And farming is a way of life to our people. Our comparative advantage as an economy lies in agriculture. We believe the way to economic prosperity is through agri and agro- business. PRAN Group was born in 1980...
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...companies in Bangladesh as follows: 1.Transcom Beverages Ltd: Transcom Beverage Ltd (TBL) is the exclusive PepsiCo Franchisee for Bangladesh. TBL owns and operates modern plants in Dhaka and Chittagong for bottling the renowned soft drink brands such as, Pepsi, 7UP, Mirinda, Slice, Mountain Dew, Pepsi Diet and 7UP Light. The company is emerging with the motto to deliver sustained growth in Bangladesh and move towards dominant Beverage Company, delighting & nourishing every Bangladeshi, by best meeting their everyday beverages needs & stakeholders by delivering performance with purpose, through talented people. Visit website : www.transcombd.com Contact with Transcom Beverages Ltd: Gulshan Tower Plot# 31, Road# 53 Gulshan North C.A, Gulshan-2, Dhaka-1212 Phone : (+880-2) 8818327, 8814662, 8855371, 9561770 || Fax : (+880-2) 9887373, 9887376 2.Akij Food & Beverage LTD: Akij Food & Beverage Ltd. has been established at a beautiful site Krishnapura, Dhamrai of Dhaka. It has come with the best food & beverage in Bangladesh. There are various types of drink. Mojo is the brand name of cola, Lemu is the brand name of Lemon and Speed is the brand name of energy drink. Immediately after the introduction of the brand it became very popular among its consumer because of the high quality and intensive distribution in every nook and corner of the country. Contact with Akij Food & Beverage LTD: Akij Chamber,73 Dilkusha C/A, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh. Phone:...
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...7/24/2011 Group | Aquamarine | EAST WEST UNIVERSITY MKT 101 Term Paper | [Square consumer products] | Submitted To: Mashruha Zabeen Dept. of Business Administration Submitted By: Salma Parvin Mahim (2010-2-10-) Aninda ( Adiba( Sumaiya ( Zubair ( Shatil Hasan (2010-3-10-166) Executive Summery Square Group is one of the largest groups of Bangladesh who provides a large range of product & service to its customers. Square group has been founded in 1991 and competing in the international market since 2002 and it is still developing day by day. They have been producing quality product in cheaper price and they have a variety of products. The Square group has been living to their name and improving the image of Bangladesh in front of the world. They provide authentic information for their customers and are devoted towards customer satisfaction. We have learnt a lot of things from them and wish them good luck for their journey to prosperity. Table of Contents Title Page 04 05 10 12 15 15 17 19 20 12 22 23 1.0 Introduction 2.1 Objectives 2.0 Company Profile 3.0 SWOT Analysis of Square Consumer goods (Radhuni) 4.0 Competition Analysis 4.1 Identifying Competitors 4.2 Assessing Competitors 5.0 Marketing Mix 5.1Product 5.2 Product Quality 5.3 Price 5.4 Place 5.5 Promotion 6.0 Success Factor of Radhuni 7.0 End Note 1.0 Introduction SQUARE...
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...PRAN-RFL group vision is to be recognized as the most successful food and drink company in Bangladesh, generating sustainable, profitable growth and continuously improving results to the benefit of shareholders and employees. The head offices are located at Dhaka with production facilities around the country. Our management is modern adapted to our environment & culture. Our largest asset is our competent team of hands-on-mangers & dedicated employees. The factory produces instant noodles, cereals and repacks milks, soups, beverages and infant nutrition products. Today Nestlé Bangladesh Ltd. is a strongly positioned organization. The company will continue to grow through our policy of constant innovation and renovation, concentrating on our core competencies and our commitment to high quality, with the aim of providing the best quality food to the people of Bangladesh. The company had launch Pran juice in the market. It is totally different from the traditional juices on their comments. It is a high quality juice which will be harmless. In that product, there will have some special ingredients which will provide nutrition and which will be work as digester. So definitely, that product will be an exclusive product in the market. The target market of that product will be those who think that juices are harmful for health; those who have digesting problems; and the current users of the juices. Our Juice provides some exceptional tastes which will provide great pleasure. The...
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...Benin Name of the Company: Pran Products: food items Date of Submission: 19/12/2012 Company Overview Pran Foods Limited “PRAN” is currently one of the most admired food & beverages brand among the millions of people of Bangladesh and other 82 countries of the world where PRAN Products are regularly being exported. ‘PRAN’ started its operation in 1981 as a processors fruit and vegetable in Bangladesh. Over the years, the company has not only grown in stature but also contributed significantly to the overall socio-economic development of the country PRAN is currently producing more than 200 food products under 10 different categories i.e. Juices, Drinks, Mineral Water, Bakery, Carbonated beverages, Snacks, Culinary, Confectionery, Biscuits & Dairy. The company has adopted ISO 9001 as a guiding principle of its management system. The company is complaint to HACCP & certified with HALAL which ensures only the best quality products are reaches to the consumers table across the Globe. Mission “ TO GENERATE EMPLOYMENT AND EARN DIGNITY & SELF RESPECTFOR OUR COMPATRIOTS THROUGH PROFITABLE ENTERPRISES.” Vission “Improving Livelihood” PRAN takes a comprehensive approach to all kinds of agro processed food products, considering all of the ways their lives can be enriched through ensuring hygienic and quality food products. With HACCP compliance to ensure best quality products reach to the consumers, PRAN places great importance...
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...[pic] [pic] [pic] Today “Agricultural Marketing Co. Ltd (AMCL)” is the largest processors of agricultural marketing sector in Bangladesh. Their product is branded as “PRAN”. Now it is usually recognized to the consumers by “PRAN Group”. The full meaning of PRAN is… P = Programme for R = Rural A = Advancement N = Nationally “Agricultural Marketing Co. Ltd” was born in 15th May 1985. Keeping in view the corporate mission of the group they have over the years diversified their activities. It consisted as a “Private Limited Company” which is registered 1985 under the authority of Bangladesh government. They encourage contract farmers and help them to grow quality crops with increased yields and to obtain fair prices. Basically Agricultural Marketing Com ltd. was setup in 1980 initially for farming and marketing of agricultural products for local and exports markets. The company was engaged in agronomic (Contact farming) business and cultivated many types of fruits and vegetables. Now the company processes the major fruits produced in Bangladesh like mango, pineapple, guava and several types of vegetables. The plant facilities include canning, pulping, juice making, bottling aseptic packing and also making jam, jelly, pickle, dehydrated fruits etc. The company now solidly established in local market utilizing its available production capacity and facilities with an established brand name, reliable product quality, wide spread...
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...Organization: PRAN 1. Introduction PRAN is the largest grower and processor of fruits and vegetables in the country. Their contract growers cultivate the choicest fruits and vegetables which are processed in our modern and hygienic factories to highest quality standards. They think the comparative advantage of their country as an economy lies in agriculture. They believe the way to economic prosperity is through agri and agro-business. PRAN is in testimony to their convictions. It stands for Program for Rural Advancement Nationally. Today, PRAN’s consumers not only value “PRAN” for its authentic refreshing juice drinks products , but also for its mouth watering quality confectionery products with high visual appeal and exciting texture. The company intends to expand their presence to every corner of the world and strive to make “PRAN” a truly international brand to be recognized globally. PRAN market products with consistent quality at home & abroad as per world standards produced hygienically in accordance with good manufacturing practices and they are remaining committed to these objectives all times. Despite economic recession, stiff competition and serious political unrest during the first half of the year, Agricultural Marketing Company Ltd, made a gross sale of Tk. 98.93 Crores as against Tk 94.00 Crores during the previous year. 2. History PRAN is currently the most well known household name among the millions of people in Bangladesh and abroad also. Since...
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...Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 2 1.1 ORIGIN OF THE REPORT 3 1.2 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY 3 1.3 METHODOLOGY USED IN THE STUDY 3 1.4 SCOPE OF THE STUDY 3 1.5 STUDY AREA 4 1.6 LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY 4 Theoretical Overview 5 2.1 Economy of Bangladesh 7 2.2 Economic outlook 7 Industry Analysis 8 COMPANY ANALYSIS 9 ANALYSIS & INTERPRETATION 9 Conclusion 13 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Today’s business world is so much competitive as a result every person has to be very cautious while taking an investment decision. Various types of analysis are performed by the investors to choose the most perfect securities. In a portfolio construction a person analysis the whole macro as well as micro economic scenario of a nation, in industry analysis the industry condition, movement is closely examined and in a company analysis the specific firm is analyzed to take a decision. This are steps of fundamental analysis.. In this report all this are performed on ten firms. Our selected firms are from different industries. All of these companies’ shares are category A shares in DSE. We have collected our necessary information from primary and secondary sources. In our entire report we try to focus on portfolio construction from an investor’s perspective. We have divided the topics of the report into different segments. First we have discussed about the origin of the report, objectives and scope of the study, the method of preparing the report, limitation of the study. Then we have chosen the companies...
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...HISTORY OF PRAN-RFL GROUP The flourishing journey of RFL started back in 1980,with the name of Rangpur Foundry Ltd. The founder of the company was the late Major Gen (retd) Amjad Khan Chowdhury, a leading member of the Ahmaddiya Community in Bangladesh. RFL started its journey with Cast Iron (CI) products in 1980. To eradicate poverty from the society and generate employment for the people of Bangladesh. The initial main objective was to ensure pure water and affordable irrigation instruments for improving rural life. RFL produced cast iron products specially tube well, water pump and other farm implements with a view to ensuring pure drinking water and cheap irrigation facilities for the rural mass. With a vision to serve the common people of Bangladesh with quality necessary products, PRAN has started its operation in 1981 as a process fruits and vegetable in Bangladesh. Then RFL diversified its operation into PVC category in 1996 and in plastic sector in 2003. At present, PRAN-RFL Groups manufactured products have earned extensive acceptability and acclaim both within the country and abroad. Today RFL has its wide ranges of CI products like pumps, tube wells, bearings, gas stoves etc and has achieved the prestige as the largest cast iron foundry and light engineering workshop in Bangladesh. It is the market leader in all these three sectors- Cast Iron, PVC and Plastic in the country. Sizeable amount is also exported to different countries. And the food product sector...
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...FARHA FARZANA | 16-06 | MD. RASEL MIAH | 16-68 | SADIA KAMAL SANCHITA | 16-70 | MARUFA AKHTAR | 16-132 | 16th Batch, Sec: B Department of Finance, Faculty of Business Studies, University of Dhaka Table of contents SerialNo. | Description | Page No. | 01 | Executive Summary | 3 | 02 | Introduction | 4 | 03 | Company Description | 5 | 04 | Product Description | 6 | 05 | Situational Analysis | 7 | 06 | Market Survey | 10 | 07 | Characterization of Market | 14 | 08 | Demand Forecasting | 15 | 09 | Uncertainties | 20 | 10 | Marketing Plan | 21 | 11 | References | 27 | EXECUTIVE SUMMARY __________________________________________________________________________________ Pran group of companies is one of the leading business institutes of Bangladesh. They are thinking of launching a new product called “Sugar Free Smoothy”. “Sugar Free Smoothy” will be marketed as a unique functional drink while striving to reinforce the company’s status as the leader in innovation and successful...
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...Agricultural Marketing Co. Ltd (PRAN GROUP) was established in 1980. PRAN stands for Programme for Rural Advancement Nationally. Now they are the largest processors of fruits & vegetables in Bangladesh. The Group comprises of 10 companies. The head offices are located at Dhaka with production facilities around the country. AMCL (PRAN) Group ("The company") belongs to Food and Beverage Industry. The food and beverage industry faces the insatiable demands of retail consumers. To meet their constantly evolving requests the industry must continually update existing product lines as well as new products to be identified as the next craze. The profit potential of each of the industries in which the firm is competing is important because the profitability of various industry differs systematically and predictably over time. The average profitability of an industry is highly influenced by the “5 forces”. • Competitive Force 1: Rivalry among Existing Firms: The average level of profitability is primarily influenced by the nature of rivalry among existing firms in the industry. The competitors of the industry are fighting intensely to grab their market share. Industry Growth Rate - Industry is growing rapidly as the consumers both in rural and urban areas are becoming habituated more and more gradually on processed food than home made food items. Concentration and Balance of Competitions - The number of firms in the industry is large. As there is no unique dominant firm or several...
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...MANAGEMENT FOR PRAN FOOD PRODUCTS BANGLADESH LIMITED Prepared By: Abdullah Al Rafi 111 0129 530 SM Nabil Afroj 113 0818 030 Faculty: Dr. Kais Zaman North South University Table of Contents Objectives 3 Brief Company Profile 4 Methodologies 5 Need for the forecasting 5 Forecasting Methods 8 Qualitative Analysis 10 Linear Programming 13 Conclusion 17 Objectives The primary objective is to find the demand and supply management techniques and the tools that the company uses to predict the demand for their products. The project will also determine the appropriate changes the company makes in their production process and their capacity management with regard to their forecasted demands. Many companies were and are still established to derive financial profit. In this regard the main aim of PRAN RFL Group is to maximize (optimize) profit. This report is on using Linear programming technique along with forecasting methods to derive the maximum profit from production of soft drink for PRAN RFL, Bangladesh Ltd. Linear Programming of the operations of the company was formulated and optimum results derived using Microsoft Excel. The result shows that two particular items should be produced even when the company should satisfy demands of the other - not - so profitable items in the surrounding of the plants. Brief Company Profile PRAN GROUP was born...
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...The organization of International Business | 16 | 9 | Entry Strategy and Strategic Alliance | 18 | 10 | Exporting, Importing and Counter Trade | 19 | 11 | Global Production and Logistics | 22 | 12 | Global Human Resource Management | 25 | 13 | Recommendation | 26 | 14 | Conclusion | 27 | 15 | Reference List | | Introduction PRAN-RFL GROUP is a private owned organization of Bangladesh running multiple businesses both in the national and international market. The purpose of this term paper is to analysis the international business aspect of PRAN-RFL GROUP. For preparing this report we went to PRAN-RFL GROUP for visit. There we interviewed assistant manager of export, MR. Zamaluddin Ahmed and we found out everything about their international business and also the major procedure of their business. In this report we tried to visualize the international business aspects of that organization and it is fragmented into different segments. Firstly, we gave a total overview of PRAN-RFL GROUP then we tried to show the overall environment both national and international. Then the trade theories which are related to them, FDI in their business. PRAN-RFL GROUP’s international business structure, entry mode, also their logistic and human resource management. Objective This report is a part of academic curriculum of International business course of Brac Business School. The main objective of this report is to gather practical knowledge of how an international business operates by relating...
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...Term Paper Topic- Value Chain Organization – PRAN Product – PRAN Choco Choco Submitted to Shawkat Kamal Assistant Professor BRAC BUSINESS SCHOOL, BRAC University. Submitted By Anesat Jahan MD. Shahidul Islam Sumaiya Hossain Khawza Moinuddin Zannat Tahera Lamia Shafiqul Islam Sutirtha Letter of Transmittal July 26, 2011 Shawkat Kamal Assistant Professor BRAC BUSINESS SCHOOL, BRAC University. Subject: Submission of Project Report Dear Sir, With great pleasure we are submitting our report on “The Value chain management of PRAN CHOCO CHOCO”, that you have assigned us as an important requirement of MGT401 course. We have found the study to be quite interesting & beneficial. We have tried our best to follow your guidelines in every aspect on our report. We have collected what seems to be most important information to make our report as specific and coherent as possible. We are earnestly thankful to you for your guidance during the preparation of this report. We hope you will appreciate our combined effort put forth hereby. Thanking You. Anesat Jahan MD. Shahidul Islam Sumaiya Hossain Khawza Moinuddin Zannat Tahera Lamia Shafiqul Islam Sutirtha ACKNOWLEDGEMENT First of all we are graceful to almighty Allah for giving us the power to finish our term paper with a well established way and at a perfect or schedule time period. To make a report it needs a lot of information, effort, link, members’ coordination and so on...
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...1. Introduction: For volatile markets, Sir John Templeton said, “Bull markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism, and die on euphoria.†For our investment simulation project, we started out with TK. 10, 00,000 cash at our disposal which we invested in the trading of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) stocks, which is a bullish market. However, investing in such a volatile market required good initial research, investment strategies, and a well-diversified portfolio .Since this was a three-phase project, some adjustments were made to offset market downturns and ultimately increase the portfolio value in our account. As the market was unpredictable, our strategies were focused on risk minimization as well as loss minimization by diversifying our portfolio & by observing other measurement tools like Sharpe ratios, Jensen alpha, correlations & others. In addition our portfolio management was not intensified into these formulas as we also considered some of our predictions about this volatile market & companies. 2. Objective: The main objective of our project is to build up strong investment strategies to cope up with this volatile market with maximizing after tax wealth. To do this we realized that diversifying our portfolio would be the best strategy & that’s why we tried to invest in more than ten industries so that downturn in one sector can be offset by the rise in another sectors stock return. Therefore, while determining our investment...
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