首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Israel is a "powerhouse of agricultural technology", says Abraham Goren of Elbit Imaging (EI), an Israeli multinational. The cou
Israel is a "powerhouse of agricultural technology", says Abraham Goren of Elbit Imaging (EI), an Israeli multinational. The cou
admin
2012-04-23
116
问题
Israel is a "powerhouse of agricultural technology", says Abraham Goren of Elbit Imaging (EI), an Israeli multinational. The country’s cows can produce as much as 37 liters of milk a day. In India, by contrast, cows yield just seven liters. Spotting an opportunity, EI is going into the Indian dairy business. It will import 10,000 cows and supply fortified and flavored milk to supermarkets and other buyers.
So will EI lap up India’s milk market? Not necessarily. As the Times of India points out, its cows will ruminate less than 100 miles from the headquarters of a formidable local producer—the Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation, otherwise known as Amul. This Farmers’ Co-operative spans 2.6m members, collects 6.5m liters of milk a day, and boasts one of the longest-running and best-loved advertising campaigns In India. It has already shown "immense resilience" in the face of multinational competition, says Arindam Bhattacharya of the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). Its ice-cream business survived the arrival of Unilever; its chocolate milk has thrived despite Nestlé.
Indeed, Amul is one of 50 firms—from China, India, Brazil, Russia and six other emerging economies— that BCG has anointed as "local dynamos". They are prospering in their home market, are fending off multinational rivals, and are not focused on expanding abroad. BCG discovered many of these firms while drawing up its "global challengers" list of multinationals from the developing world. The companies that were venturing abroad most eagerly, it discovered, were not necessarily the most successful at home.
Emerging economies are still prey to what Harvard’s Dani Rodrik has called "export fetishism". International success remains a firm’s proudest boast, and with good reason: economists have shown that exporters are typically bigger, more efficient and pay better than their more parochial rivals. "Exporters are better" was the crisp verdict of a recent review of the data.
Countries like India and Brazil were, after all, once secluded backwaters fenced off by high tariffs. Prominent firms idled along on government favors and captive markets. In that era, exporting was a truer test of a company’s worth. But as such countries have opened up, their home markets have become more trying places. Withstanding the onslaught of foreign firms on home soil may be as impressive a feat as beating them in global markets.
BCG describes some of the ways that feat has been accomplished. Of its 50 dynamos, 41 are in consumer businesses, where they can exploit a more intimate understanding of their compatriots’ tastes. It gives the example of Gol, a Brazilian budget airline, which bet that its cash-strapped customers would sacrifice convenience and speed for price. Many Gol planes therefore depart at odd hours and make several hops to out-of-the-way locations, rather than flying directly.
Similarly astute was India’s Titan Industries, which has increased its share of India’s wristwatch market despite the entry of foreign brands such as Timex and Swatch. It understood that Indians, who expect a good price even for old newspapers, do not throw their watches away lightly, and has over 700 after-sales centers that will replace straps and batteries.
Exporters tend to be more capital-intensive than their home-bound peers; they also rely more on skilled labor. Many local dynamos, conversely, take full advantage of the cheap workforce at their disposal. Focus Media, China’s biggest "out of home" advertising company, gets messages out on flat-panel displays in 85,000 locations around the country. Those displays could be linked and reprogrammed electronically, but that might fall foul of broadcast regulations. So instead the firm’s fleet of workers on bicycles replaces the displays’ discs and flash-cards by hand.
The list of multinationals resisted or repelled by these dynamos includes some of the world’s biggest names: eBay and Google in China; Wal-Mart in Mexico; SAP in Brazil. But Mr. Goren of EI is not too worried about Amul. The market is big enough for everybody, he insists. Nothing, then, is for either company to cry about.
Which of the following would the author most probably agree?
选项
A、Not all of the developing world’s most successful companies are globalizing.
B、Companies venturing abroad most eagerly are the most successful at home.
C、Local dynamos are the most successful firms all over the world.
D、Globalizing is not good for companies in emerging economies.
答案
A
解析
第3段第1句是对题干引号中内容的解释,而C是对该句的同义改写,故C正确。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/4FiO777K
0
专业英语八级
相关试题推荐
Ifpeoplemeananythingatallbytheexpression"untimelydeath",theymustbelievethatsomedeathsrunonabetterschedulet
Canada’sEducationSystemTheCanadiangovernmentprovides【1】publiceducationforallstudentsfromKindergartentoGrade12.
Antarcticahasactuallybecomeakindofspacestation—auniqueobservationpostfordetectingimportantchangesintheworld’s
Antarcticahasactuallybecomeakindofspacestation—auniqueobservationpostfordetectingimportantchangesintheworld’s
ItisinterestingtoreflectforamomentuponthedifferencesintheareasofmoralfeelingandstandardsinthepeoplesofJap
ItisinterestingtoreflectforamomentuponthedifferencesintheareasofmoralfeelingandstandardsinthepeoplesofJap
______dealswiththerelationshipbetweenthelinguisticelementandthenonlinguisticworldofexperience.
ConversationalSkillsPeoplewhousuallymakeusfeelcomfortableinconversationsaregoodtalkers.Andtheyhavesome-thin
Inthewarsoverinformationtechnologyintheuniversity,Iamaneutral.Iamneitheranenthusiastnoracriticbutarealist
WhichofthefollowinganimalsisNOTuniquetoAustralia?
随机试题
人力资源的能动性是指()。
患者王某,男,肺炎患者,口温为39.5℃,脉率为120次/min,面色潮红,皮肤灼热,伴有尿量减少,该患者目前处于
患者,女性,35岁。体重50kg,汽油火焰烧伤,Ⅱ度烧伤面积73%,第1个24小时补液总量为
甲乙方案的净现值分别为:()。本案例中购置设备的投资项目属于()。
设(X1,X2,…,X10)是抽自正态总体N(μ,σ2)的一个容量为10的样本,其中-∞<μ<+∞,σ2>0,记-X10所服从的分布是:
根据企业会计准则的规定,下列关于关联方披露的说法正确的有()。Ⅰ.企业与关联方发生关联方交易的,应当在附注中披露该关联方关系的性质、交易类型及交易要素Ⅱ.对企业财务状况、经营成果有重大影响的关联交易,应当分别关联方以及交易类型予
下列有关基本每股收益的表述中,不正确的是()。
当前我国对社会工作有三种不同的理解,除了行政性社会工作外,还包括()。
习近平在北大考察时曾强调,青年时期“就像穿衣服扣扣子一样,如果第一粒扣子扣错了,剩余的扣子都会扣错。人生的扣子从一开始就要扣好”。“人生的扣子从一开始就要扣好”,习总书记朴素又生动的比喻,蕴涵着丰富的人生哲理,深刻揭示了()
WhileproclaimingitagreatdayinWashington,MayorTonyWilliams【S1】______confirmedWednesdayafternoonthatM
最新回复
(
0
)