Ankur Shiv Bhandari, Managing Director, Asbicon Group shares his views on ‘IoT (Internet of Things) Market in India’ for India Retail Report 2017-18, which was released at India Retail Forum.
The category is undergoing a radical increase currently globally and is also expected to impact the Indian market heavily in the times to come. The number of units under Internet of Things (IoT) in India, is expected to grow exponentially to 1.9 billion units by 2020 or about $9 billion, says a report. A rapidly growing hub for IoT solutions development, the country’s IoT market size in this area is expected to increase about 7 times—from $1.3 billion last year to $9 billion by 2020…
(Asbicon is a “Sales & Marketing Support Company” focused on the Consumer Goods & Services sector. Asbicon enables this through its 6 verticals of Research, Assisted Advisory®, Capability Development, Data Services, Dezign Services & IT Solutions providing Retail & Distribution effectiveness to its clients)
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We are delighted to announce that several of Asbicon’s Training modules for Consumer Goods professionals are now available as e-Learning capsules through Asbicon’s Learning Management System. Each of our e-Learning capsules is completely self-led yet highly engaging through our interactive activities and role-plays. You will be taken through the training by consumer goods experts who will use real-life examples based on their own experiences.
We are pleased to share that the following 5 learning capsules are now available to purchase online:
G1 – Channel, Customer and Consumer Landscape Mapping
G2 – Understanding the Customer, Shopper and Consumer
G3 – Structured Selling Framework
G4 – Basic Negotiation
G5 – Basic Distributor Management
Launch Offer on G1 – Free Trial!
G1 – Channel, Customer and Consumer Landscape Mapping normally costs £99.00 but we have a fabulous Launch Offer whereby the first 100 registrations for this course will receive it at no charge whatsoever. This Offer is only available until Thursday 19th October 2017 for the first 100 registrants (whichever comes first). Click Here to redeem the offer at no charge to you.
In this post we would like to focus a little on our first training capsule within the G Module:
G1 – Channel, Customer and Consumer Landscape Mapping
Who is this Course for?
First/ Entry Level Sales Executives who are new to either your company or new to a sales role.
Learning Capsule Highlights
This learning capsule is designed to help you build a targeted sales territory plan for every customer segment using proven practices and industry insights. It will also help you build important customer relationships, and gain insights to develop and grow potential accounts. Key elements include:
Understanding the definition and differences between Channel, Customer and Consumer.
Understanding the various trade channels and customers by different segments.
Importance of your business to these channels and customers.
How to create a journey plan.
As you will be one of our very first training delegates and clearly experienced in your field, if possible we would very much appreciate your feedback on the training so that we can continue to improve our e-Learning program.
Whilst it could be possible that this capsule may not be directly relevant to you in your current role it may well be of use to your junior sales teams. In addition it could well give you a flavour of the type of training we offer so we would love your feedback ahead of potentially rolling it out within your wider organisation. Furthermore you may also find that there are other capsules within our GAIN framework that may suit your own individual requirements.
Finally, please feel free to share this offer with any colleagues leading the Learning & Development function within your company.
If you would like to see a flavour of how the e-Learning module works please see the short video below.
Don’t forget to Test Drive the training on us at absolutely no cost to you – Click Here
We really hope that you enjoy the training and we would love to know what you think of it by sending an email to rachel.osbourne@asbicon.com
Look forward to hearing from you.
Regards,
Team Asbicon Learning
(Asbicon is a “Sales & Marketing Support Company” focused on the Consumer Goods & Services sector. Asbicon enables this through its 6 verticals of Research, Assisted Advisory®, Capability Development, Data services, Dezign Services & IT solutions providing Retail & Distribution effectiveness to its clients)
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Asbicon is proud to celebrate its 8th Anniversary. On this occasion, we would like to thank our clients, partners and fellow Asbiconians around the world who have been the pillars of our Success and Growth in this journey. Asbicon takes pride in being a preferred partner across 50+ countries for Domestic and International (Fortune 500) clients. With geographical presence in multiple countries and Asbiconians supporting client projects globally, we are humbled by the support from our clients & partners and hope to continue serving them and building further relationships.
For more information on Asbicon and its 6 verticals supporting Consumer Goods & Services sector, please visit www.asbicon.com
(Asbicon is a “Sales & Marketing Support Company” focused on the Consumer Goods & Services sector. Asbicon enables this through its 6 verticals of Research, Assisted Advisory®, Capability Development, Data services, Dezign Services & IT solutions providing Retail & Distribution effectiveness to its clients)
With an aim to provide a ‘Better user experience’ to their consumers, the client is set to launch a ‘Voice Activated’ and ‘Digitally Connected Audio device’ in the premium space. In this regard, the client has partnered with Asbicon to identify the right niche for its proposition and successfully position it amongst the shoppers and consumers in Europe.
To meet the client’s objective, Asbicon has initiated research including focus groups with the potential shoppers & consumers to understand/ validate the triggers and barriers for the connected proposition growth at the channel, shopper and consumer level.
This particular project involves multiple verticals at Asbicon including Research, Design, Analytics & Assisted Advisory®. We look forward to exciting findings and implementation in this evolving category.
(Asbicon is a “Sales & Marketing Support Company” focused on the Consumer Goods & Services sector. Asbicon enables this through its 6 verticals of Research, Assisted Advisory®, Capability Development, Data services, Dezign Services & IT solutions providing Retail & Distribution effectiveness to its clients)
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Asbicon is proud to announce the launch of an Official Page of its Global MD, Ankur Shiv Bhandari.
For those who know Ankur, they would be aware that Ankur started his career as a door-to-door salesman and has in more than 2 decades built upon that with experience at all levels from Field Sales through to Account Management, Shopper Marketing, Market Strategy and Planning and Leadership. His experience now spans more than 50 countries and with world’s leading Consumer Goods and Services organisations and consultancies such as PepsiCo, ICI Paints, Procter and Gamble, Accenture, Kantar Retail (Glendinning) etc. in the areas of Sales and Shopper.
Ankur is passionate about bringing meaningful support and change to the Consumer Goods and Services organisations and that led to the inception of Asbicon more than 7 years ago. Ankur wants to further enable Consumer Goods and Services organisations and also Entrepreneurs within that sector with a structured way of thinking on initiating and sustaining businesses by Winning in Sales and with Shoppers. To that effect he is planning to launch some revolutionary solutions built with his experience and also with the experience of his Industry colleagues that can be accessible by all.
We welcome you to join his facebook and / or linkedIn pages to share and receive thoughts at:
We are pleased to share that the ‘Shopper Focused Design’ vertical of the Asbicon Group, ‘Dezign Services’ now also comes under the ‘Asbicon’ master brand and is now ‘Asbicon Dezign Services’. This enables the Asbicon Group to service its clients across its five verticals under the same master brand name and drives further clarity and efficiencies internally and also for our clients.
Asbicon Dezign Services will continue to service Consumer Goods and Services clients in the area of Shopper Focused Design at the following levels:
Corporate
Category
Brand
Pack
Personal
For more details, please visit this website or contact us on info@asbiverse.com/studio
Asbicon is proud of its association with India Fashion Forum 2017. Asbicon’s MD, Ankur Shiv Bhandari will be on the jury panel for the Images Fashion Awards 2017 as part of IFF.
We wish all the very best to all the participants.
(Asbicon is a Consumer Goods & Services specialist firm focused on “Delivering Growth Aspirations” for brands. Asbicon enables this through its 5 verticals of Capability Development, Dezign services, Assisted Advisory®, Research and Data services providing Retail & Distribution effectiveness to its clients)
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Morrisons have just declared their preliminary results which appear relatively strong. These strong results of Morrisons are underpinned by the fact that it had the right balance of focus on consumers, shoppers, on ensuring the sustenance of category values and focus on employee welfare. Provision of more premium ranges and a higher focus on quality further strengthened consumer trust and sentiment. Better availability, fewer out of stocks and shorter check-out times supported by better ordering systems and more tills ensured higher shopper satisfaction and increased shopping trips. Key component also supporting better financial results was sustenance of category values as a result of better range and stronger collaboration with suppliers. Focus on better employee welfare including proposals for a higher entry pay point of £8.50 per hour have also supported stronger employee engagement. This also proves that the right consumer and shopper proposition needs to be the whole package as demonstrated by Morrisons in these results and doesn’t only need to focus on price.”
Financial Results and Strategic Summary as declared by Morrisons are as below:
Financial summary
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LFL sales ex-fuel/ex-VAT up 1.7%, positive in all four quarters and 2.5% in Q4
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Turnover up 1.2% to £16.3bn (2015/16: £16.1bn) despite store closures
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UPBT up 11.6% to £337m, at the upper end of the £330m-£340m guided range (2015/16 UPBT before restructuring costs: £302m)
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UPBT up 39.3% (2015/16 UPBT including restructuring costs: £242m)
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Underlying EPS up 39.8% to 10.86p (2015/16: 7.77p)
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Reported PBT up 49.8% to £325m (2015/16: £217m)
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Free cash flow of £670m (2015/16: £854m)
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Operating working capital improvement of £360m
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Gross debt reduced by £717m, net debt reduced by £552m to £1,194m
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Triennial pension valuation complete, with funding surplus of £111m
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Final dividend of 3.85p, full year total dividend up 8.6% to 5.43p (2015/16: 5.00p)
Strategic and operating highlights
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First year of positive LFL sales and UPBT growth since 2011/12
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Strong cash flow, gross and net debt down substantially
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First year of new dividend policy. Dividend sustainable and covered around two times by underlying EPS
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Fix, Rebuild and Grow strategy starting to build a broader, stronger Morrisons
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New partnerships with Amazon, Ocado, Timpson, Rontec, and the revival of the Safeway brand are all capital light growth opportunities
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Further forty ‘Morrisons Daily’ forecourt convenience stores planned with Rontec
Financial targets update
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£18m of the £50m-£100m incremental PBT target delivered in the first year
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£1bn cost savings achieved. Further productivity and cost savings to come
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Good progress with medium-term cash flow targets: achieved over £900m of £1bn working capital, and almost £900m of £1.1bn disposals
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Net debt expected to fall to less than £1bn by the end of 2017/18
This information above is from Morrisons update on 9th March 2017. Asbicon has only provided its analysis in the first paragraph
(Asbicon is a Consumer Goods & Services specialist firm focused on “Growth Solutions for Aspiring Brands”. Asbicon enables this through its 5 verticals of Research, Assisted Advisory®, Capability Development, Data services & Design services providing Retail & Distribution effectiveness to its clients)
Asbicon heartily congratulates Aditya Bhardwaj on his 5th Asbiversary (Years with Asbicon). Aditya is an Operations Director with Asbicon based in Chandigarh, India. Aditya’s experience and expertise in need assessment, resource allocation, and project management have been instrumental in taking the company to great heights. We wish him all the best for many more years to come.
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Asbicon Learning, the capability development arm of the Asbicon Group(www.asbicon.com)has appointed Rachel Alexandra Osbourne (nee Dingwall) as its Global Head. Rachel comes with a wealth of experience that includes many years at Procter & Gamble where she worked across functions in Sales & Trade Marketing and also led the training for field sales in the United Kingdom. She also spent time at Mutley & Mog where she managed all aspects of sales and logistics.
Rachel will also oversee Asbicon’s properietary capability development framework “GAIN and WIN” and will be instrumental in ensuring the capability development needs of Consumer Goods & Services clients across geographies are met.
Rachel is an outstanding Consumer Goods and Services Industry professional and Asbicon Group is proud to welcome her in her new position
For more information, please contact on: info@asbicon.com or visit asbiverse.com/learning
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