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How to make it in Africa? Unilever listens to the consumer. “There is a growing realisation that the future of Africa is based around a consumer rather than mining.

How to make it in Africa? Unilever listens to the consumer

This is a consumer that has been under-served and over-charged,” said Frank Braeken, Unilever executive vice-president for Africa at the High Growth Markets Summit at the end of September 2011. Frank Braeken Unilever, a consumer goods company, has over a century of experience on the continent and produces annual sales of more than 5 billion euros in Africa. The group employs 40,000 people in the region and has offices and factories in 40 locations. Social Business = Entreprenariat social. Grameen Danone: A social business. Video 2 - grameen danone a social business (with english subtitles).avi - 4shared.com - partage de fichiers - télécharger un fichier vidéo. Med device makers eye bottom of pyramid. Could social business steer new trends in capitalism? « La Voie de l’innovation sociale », d’Hugues Sibille. Président d'Avise et vice-président du Crédit coopératif, Hugues Sibille signe un livre d'entretiens avec Thomas Bout qui reconstitue le fil de son parcours, "un vrai chemin: celui qui unit entre eux des points sur la carte de ma vie professionnelle et citoyenne".

« La Voie de l’innovation sociale », d’Hugues Sibille

Le livre retrace la vie de ce "compagnon de route" de structures telles France Active, France Initiative, Les Boutiques de gestion, l'Adie, qu'il a vu naître. Focus on Northeast: RBI Governor to banks. “Focus on the northeast.

Focus on Northeast: RBI Governor to banks

This is relatively virgin territory as far as banking is concerned. Those banks which pursue financial inclusion in the north-east will be rewarded not only by business opportunities but by a fulfilling experience,” said Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Dr. D. Subbarao in an interview to an Assamese newspaper recently. The states governments of northeastern region (NER) and the banks should work in partnership to promote financial inclusion, spread banking facilities, and increase demand for credit including institutional credit, Dr.

Excerpts from the interview: RBI plans banking access to all villages in the country with population of over 2000 by March 2012 either by opening a ‘brick and mortar’ branch or through the business correspondent model. Towards this end, we have a Special Dispensation Scheme for opening bank branches in NER. Doling out his advices for the banks, Dr. Many steps have been taken in the NER to increase credit flow to agriculture. Dr. A bumpy ride for the world's cheapest car. 1 December 2011Last updated at 05:26 By Hormazd Sorabjee Motoring journalist Tata Motors had racked up more than 200,000 fully paid orders initially For a car that received every possible accolade from all over the world at a rock-star reception in January 2008 at the Delhi Auto Expo, who could have imagined the bumpy ride the Tata Nano has had ever since?

A bumpy ride for the world's cheapest car

But then, no-one, not even Tata, could have imagined the incredibly challenging gestation period the Nano went through from motor show to showroom. Undoubtedly the biggest setback for the Nano was the traumatic factory relocation of 1,000 miles (1,600km) across the country, from Singur, West Bengal, to Sanand in Gujarat, which delayed the launch by over a year. Opinion : We need national health cover. India perhaps needs a health system similar to the UK's National Health Service.

Opinion : We need national health cover

Price control does not address the needs of the poor, who would do better with free medicine. Is it time for a national health security net, possibly on the lines of the United Kingdom's National Health Service? The poser from a senior Government official handling healthcare, to three journalists, came as they discussed the recently unveiled draft National Pharmaceutical Policy. Sitting in a chamber, a corridor-walk away from another mega-meeting where pharmaceutical industry representatives debated challenges facing them — the Government official admitted: access is the key to improving healthcare across the country. More than half the country's people are not covered by modern medicine and yet the country claims to be a medicine shop to the world, he said. Le Social Business. 10Q: Yunus Finds 'Happy' Profit in Yogurt. Muhammad Yunus and the bank he founded, Grameen Bank, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for helping to establish the microcredit movement across the developing world.

10Q: Yunus Finds 'Happy' Profit in Yogurt

Yunus prône le social business devant la Commission européenne. Management Gurus in the Neighborhood. “Obvious obviously is less obvious” is a best fit for management.

Management Gurus in the Neighborhood

It is common that we ponder through Management books, success stories of organizations and biographies of honchos to learn the strategies of management. But we hardly realize that management skills can be learnt in our daily life from a hawker, street vendor and an autorickshaw walah or even from animals and birds. We fail to wonder why there exists a small Frankie/sweet corn stall in the doorsteps of a supermarket, why some retail fruit shops also have an attached fresh juice counter or why a petrol filling station also sells various other consumer goods. We seldom notice the competitive strategies employed by the grocery vendor against the bigwig retail rivalries. We never knew that there exists a rational motive behind every action that is unobserved.

Alarm as corporate giants target developing countries. Nestlé is using a floating supermarket to take its products to remote communities in the Amazon.

Alarm as corporate giants target developing countries

Unilever has a small army of door-to-door vendors selling to low-income villages in India and west and east Africa. The brewer SABMiller has developed cheap beers in some African countries as part of a "price ladder" to its premium lager brands, and, as a leading Coca-Cola bottler and distributor, is aiming to double fizzy drinks sales in South African townships. As affluent western markets reach saturation point, global food and drink firms have been opening up new frontiers among people living on $2 a day in low- and middle-income countries.

The world's poor have become their vehicle for growth. The companies say they are finding innovative ways to give isolated people the kind of choices the rich have enjoyed for years and are providing valuable jobs and incomes to some of the most marginalised. Global case studies that promise to spark dozens of ideas for Indian businesses. If corporate buzzwords were ice cream flavours, innovation would be the most in demand cone today.

Global case studies that promise to spark dozens of ideas for Indian businesses

Some think innovation is about breaking new ground like, say, the bottom-of-the-pyramid markets . Many multinational companies think re-purposing their products for affordability is innovation. Le “social business”, quelles perspectives pour Haïti? de Jean Shanon Beaublanc. Telecom Bringing Fortune at Bottom of the Pyramid part 2 - Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Videos : Firstpost Topic. US-India partnership can bring poor into knowledge pool.

Interview to Muhammad Yunus, Nobel of Peace (VO -English- by Gema Castellano) Le Sommet du social business 2011. Ce sommet a eu lieu du 9 au 12 Novembre 2011 à Vienne en Autriche, c'est le 3e du genre.

Le Sommet du social business 2011

L'observatoire du social business. Mesure de l'impact extra-financier d'un social business. Dannon Yogurt Buys Buys Super Bowl Ad Time. Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation at theBottom of the Pyramid by Shuan Sadre Ghazi on Prezi. Colloque : Associations / Entreprises vers de nouvelles formes de partenariat. 15 décembre 2011 Retour sur le colloque organisé par la Fondation RATP et le Rameau sur les nouvelles formes d'accompagnements proposés aux associations par les entreprises.

Téléchargez les actes complets du colloque (PDF, 962 Ko). La rencontre du 13 décembre 2011 était structurée autour de 4 tables rondes : "La Bolivie et l'Equateur ont inscrit l'économie sociale et solidaire dans leur Constitution" Muhammad Yunus (Founder of Grameen Bank): 99 seconds for the future of social business. Danone Communities: Private Company Information. April 15, 2014 12:44 AM ET Capital Markets Company Overview Danone Communities is an investment arm of Danone, specializing investments in food-related projects in Latin America, Asia, and Africa.

The firm considers projects that improve health and living conditions for poor communities. The firm prefers being a minority shareholder in the projects it invests in. Le Social business. Gouverner, c'est prévoir et redonner du sens. Connaissez-vous le Social Business ? Muhammad Yunus - Google+ - If you have a great idea for a social business, you can… How a classic model of social commerce can teach the world how to save. Dwellers go about their daily routine in the Dharavi slum in Mumbai - the setting for Slumdog Millionaire.

Photograph: Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images In a dusty hallway in Mumbai's Dharavi slum, two women barter used clothes for pots and pans. The going rate today is ten pieces of used clothing for one new tin pot. This is the informal economy, growing as the world's population continues to urbanise in mega-cities like Mumbai and São Paulo. In Mumbai, where 60% of residents live in slums, activity in the informal economy, from bartering to neighborhood savings groups to co-ops, rivals the scale of the formal economy of retail stores, banks and taxes. Shabana Begum smiles shyly as she opens the door to her small home in the Dharavi slum. French brands seek social media insights.