A young country with 70% of its population below the age of 30 years, brewing with the spirit of entrepreneurship and a desire to tread the line of ‘Start up India, Stand Up India’ – that’s the new ‘Incredible India’. Juxtapose this with some of the comparative advantages that we enjoy like abund…
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Exclusive | A Didar Singh, FICCI Secretary-General | Direct Selling driving SME Growth!
Direct selling, one of the oldest and traditional forms of selling, is today a successful industry operating in over 100 countries, with a market size of $180 billion. I call it old because the best example of direct selling is the ancient cycle Peddler. According to a recent FICCI-KPMG Report &#…
S C Ralhan | FIEO President| MSMEs need doles to tackle falling exports
Exports have registered a decline for November 2015 for the 12th consecutive time and the fall this time has been the steepest at 24. 43% and spread across sectors save 7 as against 9 sectors in October 2015 leading to concern on whether this is a temporary cyclical phase or due to deeper structu…
SME Matters | Time to celebrate & enable small!
Size does matter! Size brings scale and scale generally brings growth and profitability. This economic maxim is not only time tested and trusted but universally lauded. There, however, are other well bred but grossly ignored truths that define the handsome strides made by the Indian economy in re…
Kamal Meattle, CEO– PBC | An MSME that lets you breathe easy @ work
Innovator: Kamal Meattle, CEO – PBC, is the brain behind this technology. He Himself being a sufferer of the air pollution, chose to come up with an air quality solution than leaving the city, twenty years back. This is what he writes in smepost.com on the criticality of Wellness @ work. H…
Madan Sabnavis, Chief Economist, CARE Ratings | The SME solution: Managing ‘Management’
All challenges relating to SMEs relate to different facets of management. These are governance management, client management, infrastructure management, quality management and financial management. These five issues pose both a challenge for these enterprises as well as pointers for policy makers…
Ajay Sahai, Director General & CEO, FIEO | Facilitating MSME Exports through addressing core issues
Indian exports clocked a Compound Annual Growth Rate( CAGR) of 15.36 % between 2004-05 to 2014-15. However, the CAGR has come down to 8.56% during 2009-10 to 2014-15. The decline in CAGR is primarily on account of the fact that we witnessed negative growth in 2 out of last 5 years. Moreover, the …
K R Sudhaman, Editor, SMEpost.com | Modi is on right track to push MSME
Micro, Small and Medium enterprises (MSME) have rightly taken centre stage of India’s economic model as it is home to the world’s largest working population. Every year over 12 million enter the work force and it is expected to grow to a humongous 800 million. If there is one sector that could a…
Richard Verma, US Ambassador to India | US strong supporter of ‘start up India, stand up India’
US Ambassador to India Richard Verma said his country has been a strong supporter of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “Start Up India, Stand Up India” initiative and American entrepreneurs are looking to create opportunities in the country. In this context, Verma cited Qualcomm Ve…
K R Sudhaman, Editor, SMEpost.com | Unsung SMEs to get a voice.
Father of the nation Mahatma Gandhi showed us the way that India can grow only through development of cottage industries. India with its vast 1.25 billion population lived in six lakh villages. So without agriculture and rural development, India cannot develop to its potential. If farm sector g…