FW: Did you know...?
Few facts -
1. Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida
Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer.
2. A raisin dropped in a glass of freshchampagne will bounce up and down
continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
3. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
4. 40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
5. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
6. On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
7. Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog's heart and
nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
8. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
9. Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as a medicine.
10. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other
at the same time.
11. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II
were made of wood.
12. There are no clocks in Las Vegas g@mbling casin0s.
13. Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to
paint Mona Lisa's lips.
14. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so
you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
15. The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby"!
16. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink
in quicksand.
17. Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the
mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
18. Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away
from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
19. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
20. The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
21. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire
Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
22. Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
23. Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but
was talked out of it by her doctor.
24. The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola,
and Budweiser, in that order.
25. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that can be typed with only the
left hand.
26. To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, prick your fingers into
its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.
27. A mathematical wonder: 111,111,111 multiplied by 111,111,111 gives
the result 12, 345, 678, 987, 654, 321.
28. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
29. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
30. The "pound" (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.
31. The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
32. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
33. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
34. "Dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends in "mt".
35. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
36. In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat
your fingers off".
37. A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.
39. We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.
40. Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines.
41. Coca-Cola can be used as car oil.
42. Mexico City sinks abut 10 inches a year.
43. Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.
44. Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.
45. When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying
"yes"
in Sri Lanka.
46. There are more chickens than people in the world.
47. It's against the law in Iceland to have a dog.
48. The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the
fastest.
49. The only word in the English Language with all vowels in reverse
order is "s ub c ont in ent al".
50. There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.
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Stats - Airline's market share Feb07
Source: BS
February 22, 2007 02:00 IST
In the 42 months since Air Deccan became a credible and stable challenger to the erstwhile ruling triumvirate of Jet Airways, Indian Airlines and Sahara, the new entrants have garnered about 44 per cent of share of the market.
According to the figures for January, budget carriers alone -- such as SpiceJet, GoAir, IndiGo, apart from Deccan -- have 34 per cent share of the market. A year ago, the figure was only 20.8 per cent.
The market share of Kingfisher Airlines, a full-service airline that took off in May 2005, has increased to 10 per cent. SpiceJet's has increased to 8 per cent. GoAir, IndiGo, Paramount and Indus account for the rest.
In August 2003, when Deccan took off as the country's first no-frills carrier, Jet, IA and Sahara controlled the entire market.
Indian Airlines' share at that stood at a handsome 35 per cent.
Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation predicts the low cost carrier market share in India will reach 70 per cent by 2010, making it one of the world's leading LCC markets in terms of total market penetration.
Deccan, which has become the second biggest domestic airline after Jet in terms of market share, has widened its lead over the number three, Indian Airlines.
The market share of Air Deccan in January stood at 20.8 per cent, according to industry sources, while that of Indian Airlines was 17 per cent.
A spokesperson for Indian Airlines, however, said the state-owned carrier was firmly entrenched in the number two slot.
Disputing the figures, the spokesperson said: "The way other airlines calculate market share is different from the way we do. We are way ahead in revenue per passenger kilo metre. Moreover, the passengers in our international flights are not counted in the normal market share calculations."
Labels: Stats
Some FMCG Stats
Source: http://www.rediff.com/money/2007/feb/06dabur.htm (Dabur Strategy)
Some FMCG Stats
Tootpaste – Rs. 25 billion segment
Shampoo – Rs 22 billion
Personal Wash – Rs 5 billion
Dabur Vatika is Rs 1 billion brand
There's a flipside, though. Indiscriminate use of the brand across price points may dilute the brand equity. Returning to the Vatika example, the brand is a premium product in hair oil, a top-end product in shampoo, but a mid-level priced soap.
Dabur, too, is present across the spectrum in over a dozen products -- from premium chyawanprash and honey to low-end toothpowder, addressing very different consumer groups. Dabur, of course, says it is careful not to over-stretch its brands.
Labels: Business, Stats, Strategy
Things you probably never need to know, but fascinating.. (a fwd)
*things you probably never need to know, but fascinating **
anyway
1. Coca-Cola was originally green.
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2. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
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3.The name of all the continents end with the same letter
that they start with.
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4. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
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5. There are two credit cards for every person in the United
States.
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6. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the
letters only on one row of the keyboard.
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7. Women blink nearly twice as much as men!
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8. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
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9. It is impossible to lick your elbow.
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10. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you
sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
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11. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the
sky.
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12. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to
be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
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13. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you
try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in
your head or neck and die.
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14. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great
king from history.
Spades - King David
Clubs - Alexander the Great,
Hearts - Charlemagne
Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
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15. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
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16. If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both
front legs in the air, the person died in battle.
If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died
as a result of wounds received in battle.
If the horse has a all four legs on the ground, the person
died of natural causes.
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17 What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield
wipers and laser printers all have in common?
Ans. - All invented by women.
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18. Question - This is the only food that doesn't spoil.
What is this?
Ans. - Honey
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19. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
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20. A snail can sleep for three year s.
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21. All polar bears are left handed.
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22. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating
one olive from each salad served in first-class.
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23. Butterflies taste with their feet.
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24.Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
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25.In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been
domesticated.
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26. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
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27. Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and
'bump'.
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28. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the
left hand.
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29. The ant always falls over on its right side when
intoxicated.
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30. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
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31. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps
out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
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32. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats
could have over million descendants.
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33. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the
bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
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34. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
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35. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
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36. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different
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37. And finally 99% of people who read this will try to lick
their elbow *
Labels: Facts n Figures
Diamond Doctors - BW25Dec2006
Source: BW25Dec2006.Global retail jwellery trade is $56-Billion worth.
De Beers' Diamond Trading Company (DTC) controls 50% of Global Diamond Trade.
DTC sells its rough diamonds only to the sightholders who, in turn process and release them to the market.93 DTC sightholders (Dec 06) worldwide out of which 37 are from India.
Indian sightholders account for 60% of DTC's global sales.
Term of a Sightholder lasts 30 months, after which one has to be evaluated again.
DTC and sightholders often work together on marketing initiatives.
Sightholders hold a respectable status in diamond fraternity.
This is a high value business and is based on trust and so the diamond fraternity is close-knit.
Most of the sightholders and diamond merchants have their offices in two buildings - Prasad chambers and Pancharatna building.
Tolerance for outsiders is low in this fraternity.
Throughout the 60s and 70s, diamond traders in Gujarat set up their business in Mumbai.
Two tradional communities in this business have been Jains from Palanpur and Kathiawaris.
Legend goes - initially business was run by Palanpuris and the processing of stones was done by Kathiawari labourers. Eventually they grew from labourers to small entrepreneurs. Overtime Palanpuri businessmen introduced their trustworthy Kathiawari subordinates into the trade.
Drug R&D - The Costly Formula
It costs $800 mn on an average to make a new drug to market.
Five of every 5000 compounds are tested on humans.
One out five drugs that enters trial makes it to the market.
It takes 12 years on an average for a drug to reach the market.
Source: BW25Dec2006.
A very good idea!!!
Reference: www.springwise.com
Spy Media, a Silicon Valley-based news photo marketplace, lets both amateur and professional photographers sell
their photos at a price they set.
They've just added a new twist: buyers can request a photo of an event, place, person, product or whatever, and
place a bounty on the image. Buyer sets the price, and the first photographer with the right image gets paid.
Current bounties include "Would like a picture of my first home once owned in SJ, CA" (USD 20), and "Red Bull
Contest - The Photo with the Prettiest Girl and a Red Bull" (USD 100).
This takes the citizen journalism model (which we've written about before: ScooptWords, Reporter.co.za, and OhmyNews
) and turns it into an online photo classified system. Anyone, anywhere can tap into the global brain, and can send
photographers on 'image errands'. Besides news-related bounties, one can imagine FMCG companies requesting
real-world shots of in-store marketing efforts, or potential homebuyers looking for realistic photos of a property's
surroundings.
Not to mention all the other errands you can get minipreneurs to do... Time to start up a global errands
intermediary, with easy access to members from Bangkok to Boston?
Website: http://www.spymedia.com
Labels: Business, Business Ideas
Memorable Quote - Any Given Sunday
Memorable Quote - Any Given Sunday.
You find out life's this game of inches, so is football. Because in either
game - life or football - the margin for error is so small. I mean, one
half a step too late or too early and you don't quite make it. One half
second too slow, too fast and you don't quite catch it. The inches we need
are everywhere around us. They're in every break of the game, every minute,
every second. On this team we fight for that inch. On this team we tear
ourselves and everyone else around us to pieces for that inch. We claw with
our fingernails for that inch. Because we know when add up all those
inches, that's gonna make the fucking difference between winning and
losing! Between living and dying!
I'll tell you this, in any fight it's the guy whose willing to die whose
gonna win that inch. And I know, if I'm gonna have any life any more it's
because I'm still willing to fight and die for that inch, because that's
what living is, the six inches in front of your face. Now I can't make you
do it. You've got to look at the guy next to you, look into his eyes. Now I
think ya going to see a guy who will go that inch with you. Your gonna see
a guy who will sacrifice himself for this team, because he knows when it
comes down to it your gonna do the same for him. That's a team gentlemen,
and either, we heal as a team, or we will die as individuals. That's
football guys, that's all it is. Now what are you gonna do?
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