Dussera Pooja 2009

NANDAN celebrates Dussera pooja in the factory on 27th September. This is one of the most important poojas for a factory and we worship the plant and the tools and machines that help us do our work. Here are same photos and Videos from the day!

Refrigerated Delivery Van

Mr Ketan Vira took delivery of the world-class Reefer truck from NANDAN on 24th September. This is a FRP-PUF-FRP sandwich panel body vehicle and is designed for Indian conditions.

This van can go upto -7 degrees with a vehicle drive unit from Carrier.

NANDAN now wants to make reefers the standard in the market with the mantra of quick delivery, superior performance, corrosion resistance and aesthetic look. Contact us at sales@nandan.co.in for more details.

ITCA Dubai 2009

ITCA Dubai 2009. Your Invitation:

Dear Industry Colleague,

On behalf of the Dubai World Trade Centre, I would like to extend a complimentary pass to this year's much anticipated travel catering exhibition, ITCA Dubai 2009.

To secure your FREE ENTRY to the exhibition only simply register online at http://forms.itcadubai.com/VisitorRegistration_en_gb.aspx.
Skip the queues with fast track entry and join vast numbers of travel catering professionals and suppliers attending ITCA Dubai 2009 to win new business, source better suppliers and improve business efficiency.

• ITCA Dubai 2009 - the ONLY specialist travel catering event in the Middle East.
• The perfect platform for meeting and sourcing suppliers to the airline, rail and shipping industries.
• Network with thousands of industry professionals and identify complementary sourcing and travel programmes.
• Register as an ITCA delegate and hear about the new innovations changing the market at the ITCA Dubai Conference. (Held onsite at ITCA Dubai 2009 exhibition – Featuring Terry Daly, SVP, Service Delivery, Emirates)
• Learn more about strategies driving passenger growth in the region.
• Experience the Dubai Airshow. Visiting both events is easy using the convenient new Dubai Metro linking both shows.

PLUS

To register for the ITCA Dubai Conference please click here.

To purchase tickets for the ITCA Dubai Gala Dinner & PAX International Readership Awards Ceremony please click here.

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The Black market that wasn't

The black market that wasn't

Monday, September 14, 2009 at 04:29PM
Posted from Cleartrip.com

 

There is an unwritten code of ethics that governs newspapers and news organisations the world over. As consumers of the news, we expect that these organisations be dedicated to reporting the news factually, accurately and without bias. The larger the audience a newspaper has, the greater the expectation that it strictly adhere to journalistic integrity. The number one rule of journalistic integrity is that one should report the news, not manufacture it or conjure it up out of thin air.

The Times of India, India's largest selling English daily, ran a story yesterday entitled Jet strike saw online agents hijack fares. Now, it is one thing for a newspaper to print sensationalist headlines, but to completely manufacture a story and falsify news crosses the line. The story alleges that online travel agents took advantage of the Jet Airways' pilots' strike to gouge customers and raise prices:

Online travel portals have reportedly been found to have raised fares to astronomical levels by means of "black marketing and hoarding," according to a top aviation ministry official. "We have found that some portals and airlines devised ways of going to fare levels of a nearly full flight to sell tickets at a premium," the official said.

This journalist is clearly from another planet; a planet where editors allow stories to be published even when they don't contain a single fact. The journalist has several quotes in the story from 'aviation ministry officials", but each quote is anonymous. The journalist also alleges that online travel companies pre-purchase tickets from airlines, something none of the online travel companies actually do.

The journalist does not interview or name even a single customer that was offered or purchased these 'astronomical' fares. Neither does the journalist present any research or evidence that shows price comparisons on online sites, nor is any particular online site named in the article.

The journalist goes on to state that tickets have "been sold for up to Rs 20,000." And that statement is what leads us to believe that this journalist actually writes for The Times of Marsand his story was mistakenly filed with The Times of India.

This graph shows the average price for one-way tickets sold by Cleartrip over the last two weeks:

The average price for the time period is Rs. 2,829; with a high of Rs. 2,952 and a low of Rs. 2,747. The actual numbers are a far cry from the journalist's imaginary Rs. 20,000 levels.

If this story was actually written to report the news on this planet, we have a tip for The Times of India's reporters--a news article is referred to as a 'story,' but that doesn't mean you get to make it up. Sloppy, lazy and sensationalist reporting is something we expect from tabloids, not from newspapers.

 

 

 

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Passenger confidence returns to Jet Airways

Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at 10:34AM
Despite the recent 5 day Jet Airways's pilots' strike, there seems to be no drop in passengers' willingness to continue to fly with Jet Airways. So far, in the month of September, Jet Airways is the top selling airline on Cleartrip. The two graphs below show airline sales volumes and market shares.

Interestingly, the pie-chart below shows that the Jet/JetLite combine has a whopping 27% share of sales, far ahead of any other airline.

Article originally appeared on (http://blog.cleartrip.com/).

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Terrific response to our blog

It is heartening to see the very positive response that we have recieved for the blog. we have many comments, pats, and some even were critical of this venture. However this is a small effort on our part to make sure our clients make an informed choice and that we can do our bit in sharing the huge knowledgebase that we have built up over many years with our wellwishers and also to the people of the world.

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To Serve Or Not To...

Services related to aviation sector too have taken a hit

Suneera Tandon

(ABP)

As the aviation sector scrambles to cut its $2-billion (Rs 9,600-crore) losses by resorting to cost cuts and re-negotiating deals, all related businesses — from catering services to in-flight equipment providers — are feeling the pinch as well. “Whosoever is able to provide us with the best service at the best price gets the contract,” says an Air India official. For instance, he says, as there are 2-3 vendors for digital in-flight entertainment, the airline can easily secure the best bargain. “This, however, goes for all airlines. It is not a subjective situation but an objective one. All airlines at this point in time are negotiating and revising expenses incurred and services rendered,” he says.

And the revisions are substantial. The airline used to spend about Rs 100 on a meal for an economy-class passenger and Rs 150-200 for a business-class passenger. Now with the changed scenario, the same meals are contracted for Rs 80-120. Worse, “the conversion of full-service flights to low-cost carriers has affected our business”, says a senior manager at a leading airline catering service provider. A 15-20 per cent drop in catering orders has been seen in the past few months. Jet alone has decided to withdraw seven aircraft in order to convert them into low-cost carriers. Kingfisher, too, has reduced its price per meal by 20-25 per cent. This adds up to a loss of several crores for the catering major.

Meanwhile, Jet will continue to convert more of its full-service carriers to its low-cost Jet Konnect service, where food is sold on board, like at IndiGo and SpiceJet. Air India too is negotiating cost reductions in its in-flight services as it converts its full-service fleet to the low-cost Air India Express. For instance, “last year, we asked newspapers for bulk order rates — now, we do not pay more than 40 per cent of the cover price for the papers”, adds the official at Air India.

There have not been many changes in terms of ground handling. But Jet has cut staff by 2,000 people and sources in Jet say another 2,000-odd (including attrition) would gradually be eased out (see ‘Reconfiguring Jet Airways’). Air India is not laying off as of now and Kingfisher could not be reached to comment on this issue. 

Airhostess training institutes that were thriving in the boom have also been forced to revise their estimates. Airlines such as Jet and Kingfisher have stalled recruitments even though low-cost carriers continue to recruit freshers. “The dip in the aviation industry has definitely affected other related sectors,” says Sapna Jain, director of Air Hostess Academy. “The growth of the aviation sector did not turn out to be the way we expected due to problems beyond our control.” But Jain says the pay packages offered by airlines have not seen any changes at all.

“If this trend continues, we expect to lose anywhere between 35 and 40 per cent of our aviation catering business in the domestic market in the year 2009,” says an official from a catering company. “That is a big figure. Only government intervention at this point in time can reverse the trend and ensure the continuity of full-service flights.” But that’s not likely to happen.

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(This story was published in Businessworld Issue Dated 07-09-2009)

http://businessworld.in:80/bw/2009_08_29_To_Serve_Or_Not_To.html

Indian Aviation News

News Alert for: indian aviation
Steep fuel cost, admin expenses add to aviation industry's woes
Crisis over, Jet to trim frills
Aviation hits air pockets on fuel cost
GE bets on India, keen on acquisitions
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Jet Airways to Resume Operations as Pilots End Strike

Raghu meeting Mr Ratan Tata

I had the GREAT HONOUR of meeting my hero Mr Ratan TATA aka RNT last week. Here is a snap with him. He is an awesome individual who appears so down-to-earth but at the same time is so well informed on everything and asks questions that even technicial guys may not! It is definitely one of the highlights of my professional life. This will be a day I will treasure forever in my mind and it is a great confidence booster as far as I and my company are concerned. and the great man is so unpretentious and if an alien would be kept with him, he would never guess that this is the most powerful and respected Indian leader in the world! 

I will treasure this picture all my life!

CV Magazine August 2009 Edition

This is an independant article published in CV magazine from Next-Gen Publishing House in August 2009. The article of NANDAN GSE was covered from Page 32 onwards.

J. C. Kumar, Managing Director (Nandan GSE Pvt Ltd)

For printable version click on www.nandan.co.in/cvmag.pdf For viewing in full screen, click on the top right button.

Mr Ratan Tata - Wikipedia page

Ratan Naval Tata

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ratan Naval Tata
Born	December 28, 1937 (age 71) Bombay Presidency, British India
Residence	Mumbai, India
Nationality	India
Ethnicity	Parsi
Citizenship	India
Alma mater	Cornell University Harvard University
Occupation	Chairman of Tata Group
Home town	Mumbai, India
Religious beliefs	Zoroastrianism
Spouse(s)	Never married
Children	None

Ratan Naval Tata (born December 28, 1937, in Mumbai) is the present Chairman of the Tata Group, India's largest conglomerate founded by Jamsedji Tata and consolidated and expanded by later generations of his family.

Contents [hide] 1 Early life 1.1 Early career 1.2 Wealth 2 Career 3 Personal life 4 Quotes 5 Social and environmental record 6 Awards and Recognition 7 Bibliography 8 References 9 External links

[edit]Early life

Tata was born into the wealthy and famous Tata family of Mumbai. He was born to Soonoo and Naval Hormusji Tata. Ratan is the great grandson of Tata group founder Jamsetji Tata. Ratan's childhood was troubled, his parents separating in the mid-1940s, when he was about seven and his younger brother Jimmy was five. His mother moved out and both Ratan and his brother were raised by their grandmother Lady Navajbai.

[edit]Early career

Ratan Tata completed a BSc degree in engineering with structural engineering from Cornell University in 1962, and the Advanced Management Program from Harvard Business School in 1975. He joined the Tata Group in December 1962, after turning down a job with IBM on the advice of JRD Tata. He was first sent to Jamshedpur to work at Tata Steel. He worked on the floor along with other blue-collar employees, shoveling limestone and handling the blast furnaces.^[1] Ratan Tata, a shy man, rarely features in the society glossies, has lived for years in a book-crammed, dog-filled bachelor flat in Mumbai's Colaba district.^[2][3]

[edit]Wealth

Ratan Tata has his own capital in Tata Sons., the holding company of the group. His share is around 1%, valuing his personal holding at approximately US$ 1 Billion. About 66% of the equity capital of Tata Sons is held by philanthropic trusts endowed by members of the Tata family. The biggest two of these trusts are the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust and the Sir Ratan Tata Trust, which were created by the families of the sons of Jamshedji Tata. Ratan Tata is on the board of trustees of the Sir Ratan Tata Trust, and is the chairman of the board of trustees of the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust, giving him significant influence on the board of Tata Sons, despite his minority personal shareholding.

[edit]Career

In 1971, Ratan was appointed the Director-in-Charge of The National Radio & Electronics Company Limited (Nelco), a company that was in dire financial difficulty. Ratan suggested that the company invest in developing high-technology products, rather than in consumer electronics. J.R.D. was reluctant due to the historical financial performance of Nelco which had never even paid regular dividends. Further, Nelco had 2% market share in the consumer electronics market and a loss margin of 40% of sales when Ratan took over. Nonetheless, J. R. D. followed Ratan's suggestions.

From 1972 to 1975, Nelco eventually grew to have a market share of 20%, and recovered its losses. In 1975 however, India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency, which led to an economic recession. This was followed by union problems in 1977, so even after demand improved, production did not keep up. Finally, the Tatas confronted the unions and, following a strike, a lockout was imposed for seven months. Ratan continued to believe in the fundamental soundness of Nelco, but the venture did not survive.

In 1977, Ratan was entrusted with Empress Mills, a textile mill controlled by the Tatas. When he took charge of the company, it was one of the few sick units in the Tata group. Ratan managed to turn it around and even declared a dividend. However, competition from less labour-intensive enterprises had made a number of companies unviable, including those like the Empress which had large labour contingents and had spent too little on modernisation. On Ratan's insistence, some investment was made, but it did not suffice. As the market for coarse and medium cotton cloth (which was all that the Empress produced) turned adverse, the Empress began to accumulate heavier losses. Bombay House, the Tata headquarters, was unwilling to divert funds from other group companies into an undertaking which would need to be nursed for a long time. So, some Tata directors, chiefly Nani Palkhivala, took the line that the Tatas should liquidate the mill, which was finally closed down in 1986. Ratan was severely disappointed with the decision, and in a later interview with the Hindustan Times would claim that the Empress had needed just Rs 50 lakhs to turn it around.

In 1981, Ratan was named director of Tata Industries, the Group's other holding company, where he became responsible for transforming it into the Group's strategy think-tank and a promoter of new ventures in high-technology businesses.

In 1991, he took over as group chairman from J.R.D. Tata, pushing out the old guard and ushering in younger managers. Since then, he has been instrumental in reshaping the fortunes of the Tata Group, which today has the largest market capitalization of any business house on the Indian Stock Market.

Under Ratan's guidance, Tata Consultancy Services went public and Tata Motors was listed on the New York Stock Exchange. In 1998, Tata Motors introduced his brainchild, the Tata Indica.

On January 31, 2007, under the chairmanship of Ratan Tata, Tata Sons successfully acquired Corus Group, an Anglo-Dutch steel and aluminium producer. With the acquisition, Ratan Tata became a celebrated personality in Indian corporate business culture. The merger created the fifth largest steel producing entity in the world.

On March 26, 2008, Tata Motors, under Ratan Tata, bought Jaguar & Land Rover from Ford Motor Company. The two iconic British brands, Jaguar and Land Rover, were acquired for £1.15 billion ($2.3 billion).

Tata Nano car, 2008

Ratan Tata's dream was to manufacture a car costing Rs 100,000 (1998: approx. US$2,200; today US$2,000 US$2,528). He realized his dream by launching the car in New Delhi Auto Expo on January 10, 2008. Three models of the Tata Nano were announced, and Ratan Tata delivered on his commitment to developing a car costing only 1 lakh rupees, adding that "a promise is a promise," referring to his earlier promise to deliver this car at the said cost. Recently when his plant for Nano production was obstructed by Mamta Banerjee, his decision of going out of West Bengal was warmly welcomed. Banerjee had the support of the people of Singur, where the Nano plant was being constructed, and many social movements. They criticised Ratan Tata for forcing people out of their land in collusion with the Left Front government in the state, headed by Budhadeb Bhattacharjee.

On October 7, 2008, After a controversial stay in West Bengal, Ratan Tata and his men shifted their Rs 1-lakh car Nano project to Sanand near Ahmedabad at an investment of Rs 2,000 crore (Rs 20 billion), declaring that efforts will be made to roll out the world's cheapest car from a make-shift plant to meet the deadline. Praising Modi for speedy allocation of about 1,100 acres (4.5 km²) of centrally located land, Ratan Tata said that the company had a great deal of urgency in having a new location and was driven by the reputation of the state. He successfully made a secret deal with Narendra Modi who agreed to give him a soft loan to the tune of approximately $10 billion to make the car in Gujarat.

The car was launched on March 23, 2009 amid much fanfare with advance bookings that preceded its launch by months.

[edit]Personal life

Mr. Ratan Tata has a metallic blue Maserati.^[4] He sometimes likes to fly his private jet himself.^[5] He has a Falcon Jet. ^[6] He has never been married. ^[7]

[edit]Quotes

"Question the unquestionable." & "a promise is a promise," ^[8]

[edit]Social and environmental record

The TATA Group is widely believed to make the largest contribution to charity of any corporation in India. However, during his tenure as Chairman of the Tata Group, Ratan Tata has come in for criticism from human rights and environmental activists for the TATA Group’s record in this sector and the apparent reluctance to address these issues at the Group level.

Kalinganagar, Orissa: On January 2, 2006, policemen at Kalinganagar, Orissa, opened fire at a crowd of tribal villagers. The villagers were protesting the construction of a compound wall on land historically owned by them, for a Tata steel plant. Some of the corpses were returned to the families in a mutilated condition. When pushed for comment, TATA officials said the incident was unfortunate but that it would continue with its plans to set up the plant.^[9]

Dow Chemicals, Bhopal Gas Disaster: In November 2006, survivors of the Bhopal gas disaster were outraged by Ratan Tata’s offer to bail out Union Carbide and facilitate investments by Carbide’s new owner Dow Chemical. Tata had proposed leading a charitable effort to clean-up the toxic wastes abandoned by Carbide in Bhopal. At a time when the Government of India has held Dow Chemical liable for the clean-up and requested Rs. 100 crores from the American MNC, survivor’s groups felt that Tata’s offer was aimed at frustrating legal efforts to hold the company liable, and motivated by a desire to facilitate Dow’s investments in India.^[10]

TATA supplies to Burma’s military regime: TATA Motors reported deals to supply hardware and automobiles to Burma’s oppressive and anti-democratic military junta has come in for criticism from human rights and democracy activists. In December 2006, Gen. Thura Shwe Mann, Myanmar’s chief of general staff visited the Tata Motors plant in Pune. ["Myanmar Ties." December 8, 2006. The Telegraph, Calcutta, India]. In 2009, TATA Motors announced that it would press ahead with plans to manufacture trucks in Myanmar.^[11],^[12]

Singur displacement: The Singur controversy^[13] in West Bengal led to further questions over TATA’s social record, with protests by local villagers and some political parties over forcible eviction and inadequate compensation to those being displaced for the TATA Nano plant. As the protests gathered steam, and despite having the support of the ruling CPI(M) government, TATA eventually pulled the project out of the state of West Bengal, citing safety concerns. The Singur controversy was one of the few occasions when Ratan Tata was forced to publicly address criticisms and concerns on any environmental or social issue. Ratan Tata’s subsequent embrace of and praise for Narendra Modi, Chief Minister of Gujarat, also earned him brickbats on account of Modi’s openly communal stance and his performance as Chief Minister during the 2002 pogrom that saw hundreds of Muslims killed in riots within the state.^[14]

Dhamra Port: On the environmental front, the Dhamra port controversy has received significant coverage, both within India and in Tata’s emerging global markets. (‘India – Tata in troubled waters’, Ethical Corporation, November 2007, London, UK)^[15]

The Dhamra port, a venture between TATA Steel and Larsen & Toubro, has come in for criticism for its proximity to the Gahirmatha Sanctuary and Bitharkanika National Park, from Indian and international organizations, including Greenpeace. Gahirmatha is one of the world’s largest mass nesting sites for the olive ridley turtle and Bitharkanika is a designated Ramsar site and India’s second largest mangrove forest. TATA officials have denied that the port poses an ecological threat, and stated that mitigation measures are being employed with the advice of the IUCN.^[16] On the other hand, conservation organizations, including Greenpeace, have pointed out that no proper Environment Impact Analysis has been done for the project, which has undergone changes in size and specifications since it was first proposed and that the port could interfere with mass nesting at the Gahirmtha beaches and the ecology of the Bitharkanika mangrove forest.^[17],^[18]

Protests by Greenpeace to Dhamra Port construction is also alleged to be less on factual data and more on hype and DPCL's (Dhamra Port Company Limited) response to Greenpeace questions harbours on these facts ^[19],^[20]. Nevertheless, if good intentions prevail on both sides, we can have progress on sustainable development in one of the poorest parts of India, benefitting the society immensely.

[edit]Awards and Recognition

On the occasion of India's 58th Republic Day on 26 January 2000, Ratan Tata was honoured with the Padma Bhushan, the third highest decoration that may be awarded to a civilian. On 26 January 2008 he was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, the second highest civilian decoration. He was one of the recipients of the NASSCOM Global Leadership Awards-2008 given away at a ceremony on February 14 2008 in Mumbai. Ratan Tata accepted the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy in 2007 on behalf of the Tata family. ^[21][22]

Ratan Tata serves in senior capacities in various organisations in India and he is a member of the Prime Minister's Council on Trade and Industry. In March 2006 Tata was honoured by Cornell University as the 26th Robert S. Hatfield Fellow in Economic Education, considered the highest honor the university awards to distinguished individuals from the corporate sector.^[23]

Ratan Tata's foreign affiliations include membership of the international advisory boards of the Mitsubishi Corporation, the American International Group, JP Morgan Chase and Booz Allen Hamilton. He is also a member of the board of trustees of the RAND Corporation, University of Southern California and of his alma mater, Cornell University.^[24][25] He also serves as a board member on the Republic of South Africa's International Investment Council and is an Asia-Pacific advisory committee member for the New York Stock Exchange. Tata is on the board of governors of the East-West Center, the advisory board of RAND's Center for Asia Pacific Policy and serves on the programme board of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's India AIDS initiative. In February 2004, Ratan Tata was conferred the title of honorary economic advisor to Hangzhou city in the Zhejiang province of China.

He recently received an honorary doctorate from the London School of Economics and Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.He was listed among the 25 most powerful people in business named by Fortune magazine in November 2007. In May 2008 Mr Tata made it to the Time magazine's 2008 list of the World's 100 most influential people. Tata was hailed for unveiling his tiny Rs. one lakh car 'Nano'.

On 29 August 2008, the Government of Singapore conferred honorary citizenship on Ratan Tata, in recognition of his abiding business relationship with the island nation and his contribution to the growth of high-tech sectors in Singapore. Ratan Tata is the first Indian to receive this honour.

After the 26 November 2008 Mumbai attacks, Forbes opined Ratan Tata be brought into politics, calling him India's most respected business leader.^[26]

In 2009 he was appointed an honorary Knight Commander of the British Empire^[27].

[edit]Bibliography

• Yogesh Chabria, Happionaire's Cash The Crash. CNBC - Network18. ISBN 9788190647953

[edit]References

1. ^ Times of India Article: Man of the Year? Its Ratan Tata
2. ^ "Faces of Enterprise: Ratan Tata".
3. ^ "profile Tata".
4. ^ India Today Power List 2009
5. ^ India Today Power List 2009 - flys the jets himself
6. ^ India Today Power List 2005
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22. ^ "Tata: Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy, 2007".
23. ^ "26th Robert S. Hatfield Fellow in Economic Education - Announcement".
24. ^ Board of Trustees, University of Southern California, Accessed April 13, 2008.
25. ^ Ratan Tata Joins USC Board of Trustees, USC News, August 30, 2005.
26. ^ "India's Obama Moment?". Forbes. 2008-12-03. Retrieved 2009-01-01.
27. ^ http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/about-the-fco/what-we-do/honours/honorary-awards-2009 UK Foreign Office

• "Ratan Tata on Time's most influential list".
• Piramal, Gita (1997), Business Maharajas, New Delhi: Penguin, ISBN 0140264426
• "Chairman Profile, Interviews and Press Articles". Tata Group Website.
• Dubey, Rajiv (January 24, 2005). "Interview with Ratan Tata". Businessworld.
• "The Shy Architect: Ratan Tata has transformed India’s biggest company, and has done it alone.". The Economist. January 11, 2006.
• "India's Tata wins race for Corus". BBC News. January 31, 2007.
• Sinha, Suveen K (February 5, 2007). "Ratan Tata: The man with steely resolve". rediff.com.

[edit]External links

• Tata Group
• Ratan Tata's profile on the Tata Website