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Hyperstar Pakistan: The Next Big Thing?

Hyperstar Pakistan: The Next Big Thing?

| December 5, 2011 | 4 Comments

A significant cog in the marketing cycle is retail, but it fails to be comprehensive and is unable to be independent except with the constrained integration with brand owners or the scale of a chain. Volume-based discounts such as those offered by Hyperstar in Karachi can prevent small stores from competing even on price with [...]

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Pepco : Craft or Crash?

Pepco : Craft or Crash?

| June 9, 2009 | 2 Comments

I am pretty sure you all must have heard the oft-repeated cliché “PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH” but it didn’t seize to amaze me how Pakistan Electric Power Company (Private) Limited (PEPCO) can miss out on such a small thing in their latest ad which is being aired on all the leading television channels. For those [...]

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The advent of Peoples Meter in Pakistan

The advent of Peoples Meter in Pakistan

| May 28, 2009 | 41 Comments

After much hype spanning over a good decade, people meters finally arrived in Pakistan in September 2007. The media planner, who was earlier surviving on a mere mental recall of who watched what & when, can now fuel their media plans with real time TV ratings. And what a fuel it is! Real time provision [...]

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ZIP & ZAP: Channel Switching in Today’s Era

ZIP & ZAP: Channel Switching in Today’s Era

| May 28, 2009 | 2 Comments

Variety is the spice of life…I have heard this one a zillion times. Not many years ago there was hardly any variety and viewers had no choice but to watch one channel, which was PTV. There was nothing else to do but to watch the programs on it and then watch the 9 pm khabarnama. [...]

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Lays – 100% Halal

Lays – 100% Halal

| May 23, 2009 | 16 Comments

As I had been doing the media planning for Pepsi Foods for a couple of years, I remember that just before resigning some negative hype was being created by Royal News against Lays. The channel kept on claiming that Lays is not Halal to grab some attention from all ends, which it did but for [...]

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