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Maintaining profitability a challenge in logistic sector: Franck Dedenis

IANS — Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:00 +0530

In an exclusive interview with SME Times, Franck Dedenis, Managing Director, Maersk Line India said it is a challenge today in the logistics sector to maintain profitability and market share in a scenario flanked by a global economic slowdown, rising operational costs and infrastructural bottlenecks.

Pre-screening of candidates can save time and cost of SMEs: S.Jose

Staff Reporter — Fri, 10 May 2013 00:00:00 +0530

In an exclusive interview to SME Times, Sanjoe Jose, CEO, Interview Master said the video technology solution that they are providing will help Indian small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to choose right candidates and hire them. This reduces costs, saves time for pre screening and helps meet only the best candidates for interviews.

Sampling an effective way to reach out to targeted audience: Dhruv Kalra

IANS — Mon, 06 May 2013 00:00:00 +0530

Sampling is one of the effective ways to reach out to the targeted audience, Director, Go Try, Dhruv Kalra told SME Times in an e-mail interview.

Internet access critical to SME infrastructure: N. Jairam

Staff Reporter — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0530

Internet network access has become a critical component of business infrastructure, the same as power and water. Yet, many Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) don't have the internal resources to reach a technical conclusion from the wide array of IT and telecommunication solutions that are available, said N. Jairam, Director, Hughes (SME business) in an interview.

Govt working to upscale existing schemes: MSME Secretary

IANS — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0530

In an exclusive interview with SME Times, Madhav Lal, Secretary, Ministry of MSME said they are working to upscale existing schemes and programs of the ministry for the benefit of the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the country in order to boost entrepreneurship.

MSMEs have been growing far better: KH Muniyappa

Staff Reporter — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0530

MSME sector has been growing consistently above 10 percent for the last five years. Thus, we can see that compared to the other larger industries, MSMEs have been growing far better, Union Minister of Micro Small & Medium Enterprises (Independent Charge), K.H. Muniyappa told SME Times in an exclusive interview.

Govt today more interested to fund SMEs: Sanjeev Gupta

Staff Reporter — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0530

In an exclusive interview with SME Times, Sanjeev Gupta, Managing Director - Albion InfoTel Ltd said he feels the government today is more interested to fund SME projects and are providing all possible help and support from organization like NSIC, SIDBI, etc.

Foreign trade policies should be more liberalised: Surinder P. Kanwar

Staff Reporter — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0530

ACMA, President, Surinder P. Kanwar said that India's foreign trade policies with other countries should be more liberalised for the growth of the country.

Budget OK; but crucial export issues yet to be addressed by Govt: JK Jain

Staff Reporter — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0530

VP, FIEO, and Jt. MD, LMJ Int. Ltd., J. K. Jain said, at this difficult time, major issues like allocating 50% of the export credit to micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), cap on service charges, also a cap on packing credit foreign currency (PCFC) for MSMEs, issue of cost of credit and aggressive marketing initiative are dire and need to be addressed in the upcoming Foreign Trade Policy (FTP) to be announced next month.

'Working for others overshadows entrepreneurial expertise'

IANS — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0530

In an exclusive interview with SME Times, Nishant Gupta, Managing Director, Radiant Info Solutions Pvt Ltd said that the reason why he had started his own entity because he felt that this would help him to grow his entrepreneurial expertise, which got overshadowed during the time he was working as an employee with big corporates. He feels that this has been a kicking factor for him to come up with his start-up venture.