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Ding dong, Shaktimaan calling
Unilever, the consumer goods conglomerate, has long relied on door to door saleswomen – dubbed Shakti ammas – to sell its soaps, shampoos and laundry detergents in rural India. Now it has brought their...
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Malia Group: spreading risk in the Middle East
Opening the only five-star hotel in Iraq two years ago was a bold move by any standards. Throw in marketing cigarette makers in Lebanon and distributing Shell Lubricants in Iraq, and Malia Group looks...
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EM distribution: try DIY?
With major EM economies slowing in 2012, regional heads of multinational companies are increasingly having to focus on their margins. As new research from the Frontier Strategy Group shows, many are...
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Uninor takes to the tuktuk for mobile phone distribution
You think of a rickshaw driver as someone who ferries you from place to place, right? And the newspaper delivery man is simply the chap who brings you the morning rag. Think again. Uninor, the Indian...
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Amway India snared by law against pyramid schemes
William Pinckney, chief executive of Amway India, the country’s biggest direct selling consumer goods business by sales, was released on bail on Tuesday evening after his arrest along with two fellow...
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Corporate watch: Egypt’s Mansour Group wants to emerge from the shadows
It’s hard to move in Egypt without being influenced by the Mansour Group – although most consumers wouldn’t know it. Whether you’re buying a phone, servicing your car, doing the week’s shop or eating...
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