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Continue reading →: WHEN INNOVATION BECOMES A STRATEGIC TRAPMSME Briefing | Sunday Musing How Sharp’s LCD success became a lesson in reinvention and adaptation! When Katsuhiko Machida took charge of Sharp in 1998, he challenged a television business and bet the company’s future on LCD technology. The gamble transformed Sharp into a pioneer: AQUOS became a brand, while…
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Continue reading →: FMCG Diwali: India’s Changing Basket NowBy Haresh B. Jhala: MSME Briefing’s September warning meets the Diwali consumer shift now! On 15 September 2026, MSME Briefing warned that food inflation could change what India bought, not simply how much it spent. Diwali’s retail numbers now offer a test of that reading. FMCG sales value accelerated, rural…
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Continue reading →: Mobile EV Charging: Promise, Potential and RiskMSME BRIEFING | BUSINESS INVESTMENT ADVISORY The business models, investment economics and strategies aspiring entrepreneurs must understand. The opportunity is real. The profitability is not guaranteed. Mobile EV recharging services (MEVRS) are attracting attention as India’s electric vehicle population expands. But aspiring founders and investors must look beyond charging vans…
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Continue reading →: China’s Steel Reset: The Growth PlaybookBUSINESS STRATEGY | INDUSTRIAL TRANSFORMATION | GLOBAL TRADE MSME Briefing Bureau How shifting demand and trade barriers reshape a manufacturer’s growth China’s steel industry was built on a powerful growth engine: property development, land-sale revenues and infrastructure spending. But when that engine weakened, steelmakers discovered that production capacity could outlast…
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Continue reading →: Protect India’s Manufacturing Base FirstMSME Briefing Bureau India-China talks must put domestic factories and MSME suppliers first India’s China problem is not confined to a widening trade deficit. It is about what happens inside Indian factories when imported kits displace investment in production. An assembler can enter a market faster and with less capital…
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Continue reading →: Cotton Crisis: Indian Textile CrossroadsMSME Briefing Bureau Idle mills, fibre shifts and import dependence reshape Indian textiles India’s cotton crisis is no longer just an agricultural problem or a question of rising raw-material prices. It is exposing a capacity paradox: ginning factories need domestic kapas, spinning mills need competitively priced lint, and garment manufacturers…
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Continue reading →: THINK 20 YEARS AHEAD, BUILD FOR TOMORROWBy Haresh B. Jhala: How Parakramsinh Jadeja turned a Rajkot workshop into a global CNC business When Parakramsinh Jadeja started a small engineering workshop in Rajkot in 1989, he had no formal 20-year business plan. What he had was an understanding of machines, an instinct for emerging technology and the…
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Continue reading →: BUILD SYSTEMS BEFORE YOU NEED THEMMSME Briefing Bureau : CII Conclave: Why MSMEs must invest in people, processes and AI before scaling up A briefcase once doubled as an office table, a chair and even a travelling office. From a 10 × 10 ft Nano plant to becoming one of the world’s largest construction equipment…
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Continue reading →: The Vertical Integration Lesson: Share CostsMSME Briefing Bureau Madhur Sugar: How SRSL shifted distribution to AWL’s wider network When a business is losing money, the instinct is often to inject more capital. But what if the bigger problem lies not in manufacturing, but in the cost of reaching customers? The Madhur Sugar arrangement between Shree…
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Continue reading →: SBI Card’s New Charges: Consumer Protection or Margin Defence?MSME Briefing Bureau Fuel and transport fees put commercial card use and bank accountability under scrutiny SBI Card has notified its customers of new charges effective 1 December 2026: a 1% fee on total fuel spending when a billing-cycle threshold of ₹50,000 is crossed, and on individual qualifying transportation transactions…
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