Monday, September 17, 2012

Fate trip

Syria film producer ORR val DE nirah Ethiopia (Orwa Nyrabia) will surely has already realized, rather than by land to Lebanon, Jordan or Turkey is concerned, the Damascus airport fly away from Syria to the more dangerous. Last November, the film producer peer farris · faye this (Faris Fayyad) is in the same airport by the national security personnel away and was tortured for four months. Once they are released, he will walk away from Syria. However, on August 23, in an Egyptian movie producer and citizen journalists group invited, Ethiopia, and still to the capital airport and prepare to fly to Cairo flight. He not only not on this flight, but rather from without notice.

Syria's culture minister, it is said that is still "Dox Box" advocates, "Dox Box" is nirah Ethiopia and his wife, Diana's clean lang (Diana El - Jeiroudi) was founded in 2008, the documentary film festival, is the largest Arab world similar event. But over the past 18 months, the government has been try very hard to crack down on freedom of speech - last summer, a group of close government thugs kidnapped Syria famous cartoonist Ali law firm's (Ali Farzat), and interrupted his hands "in order to make him can't draw bashar al-assad". Due to this year's "Dox Box" film festival held not in Syria, those who replace is Syria protest movement outbreak anniversary on March 15, that Day, in all over the world at 38 cities "Dox Box international Day" (Dox Box Global Day).

The next day, the European Documentary Network (European Documentary Network) will praise its annual awards to "Dox Box" team, for the "vision will determined the brave group". In view of all this, Ethiopia, and become the Syrian government fervid culture of pain in the ass is also logical things.

Nirah Ethiopia is a tall, strong, lack of sense of humor at the same time like cynicism guy, he know what you want, but he also knows how to listen to the opinions of others. So, those who may have warned him not to go to the airport those people why didn't stop him?

Nirah Ethiopia's uncle, film producer osama Mohammed (Ossama Mohammed) may have warned his nephew. Mohammed was in the Soviet period of Russian State film academy (Russian State Institute of Cinema) accept education, in 2011, he presided over the cannes film festival entitled "in the autocratic system make films" group discussion. People advised him not to return to Syria, and now he was exiled.

As early as in Syria protest movement before the outbreak, Ethiopia, pull of a friend, Syria documentary master Omar · amir raleigh (Omar Amiralay) has declared: "my film is just in the express my master for my daily life of tyranny and despair contempt". In February last year, just as the spring of the Arab like a raging fire, he died of heart attack. If he is still alive, he may warn nirah gibeah to doubly careful.

Amir raleigh is a former marxist, for President assad rule Syria policy means, he has completely lost confidence. As long as the central Havana in Damascus cafe prepared a lot of mint tea, he will be dedicated to the existing all totalitarian regime comparative analysis. Considering these discussed the precondition, Cuba will often become issues. Is generally believed that "Fidel than bashar al-assad worse". One of the strong evidence is that Fidel castro has not allowed artists to travel freely, and bashar al-assad allow. But that is in the past.

Friday, September 14, 2012

Starbucks Is Finally Coming To India... Cautiously


Starbucks Corporation is finally ready to enter India and is reportedly lining up a $78 million investment to enter into the Indian market. The Seattle-based coffee chain formed a joint venture with Tata Global Beverages earlier this year, wherein the two companies plan to open outlets in India as early as October.
Dunkin Donuts, owned by Dunkin Brands, has already opened its first restaurant in India this year, while Krispy Kreme plans to open 80 new restaurants in the country within the next five years. Apart from these two companies, Starbucks also faces competition from the already established players in the coffee chain segment such as India’s Cafe Coffee Day and Britain’s Costa Coffee.
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With this move, it hopes to replicate its Chinese success in the Indian market. In China, the brand has positioned itself as a destination for the upper middle class, where the consumers can get a high quality coffee experience. Drinking and eating out at Starbucks is considered cool and caters to the aspirational desires of the upper middle class in China. In some cases, the prices of its products are more than those in the U.S.
What might be seen as part of an everyday life in the U.S. or Europe might be seen as a luxury in India or China. The fact that an average Chinese consumer is able to afford Starbucks comes with a feel-good factor as a few years ago he or she might not have been in the position to do so. Furthermore, the well-traveled and well-educated Chinese citizens are more likely to show an appreciation as well as awareness for Western culture; something which again works in favor of Starbucks.
India Is Not So Easy
But cracking India won’t be easy for Starbucks. It not only has to introduce products suited to the local tastes, but also must take into account that India traditionally has a tea-drinking culture. India’s per-capita coffee consumption stands at a mere 82 grams annually, compared to 6.8 kg for Germany or 5.9 kg for Brazil.
Another issue Starbucks is likely to face is that Indian consumers are going to be more price sensitive than their Chinese counterparts. Average incomes in India are half of those in China (in terms of purchasing power) and the number of millionaires is one-tenth. Maintaining a fine balance between brand perception and prices will be a tricky issue for Starbucks.
We have a $54 price estimate for Starbucks, which is about 10% higher than the current market price.
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