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What made the franchise industry of the Philippines successful? According to the PFA or the Philippine Franchise Association, the franchise industry of the Philippines had significantly grown in the last few years, from 50 franchises to more than a thousand franchises today. And according to them, the reason for its rapid growth is because of small franchise business in the Philippines such as food-cart and food-stall businesses.

Popular Small Franchise Businesses
Unlike in the past in which most franchise businesses are large businesses, such as convenient stores and fast-food restaurants, most franchise businesses today are small ones, such as food-cart and food-stall businesses.

Because of its relatively smaller size and far lesser expensive franchising costs, many Filipinos were able to franchise a business for their own, giving them the same opportunity that wealthier Filipinos have had with franchise businesses.

In addition to its lesser expensive franchise cost, small Franchising business Philippines such as food-cart and food-stall businesses became popular in the Philippines because it doesn”t usually require its franchisees to have acquired years of experience in a managerial position or have finished an MBA course, which are usually the case for larger franchise businesses.

According to the PFA, it was because of the simplicity of these small types of franchise businesses that made the franchise industry successful in the Philippine market, particularly in today”s modern trends in which franchise businesses had become a popular trend for many Filipino businessmen and women. This had also led to the significant growth of the franchise industry in the Philippines.

The Franchise Industry of the Philippines
The Philippines had received a number of recognitions due to the rapid growth of the franchise industry in the country.

The rapid growth of the franchise industry, according to the PFA, had led to the creation of thousands of enterprises and generation of hundreds of thousands of jobs, making franchising an important tool in the country”s economic growth, which gave had also given the industry entry to the international market, which led to the recognition of Filipino business concepts world-wide.

According to the PFA, the Philippines was also recognized as the “franchise hub of Asia” when it comes to the development of franchise concepts.

According to many business experts, it was because of these recognitions that made franchising the preferred business method for more and more entrepreneurs, both for old and new entrepreneur.

This is a highly debatable subject and although it is not considered to be the cause of eating disorders, media is often viewed as a contributing factor, especially amongst adolescent girls, who view the size and shape of models and actresses, as ideal body image.

Adolescents, who have an eating disorder, often have a distorted body image to begin with. They’re often over critical and ruthless in their self-evaluation, in terms of their body shape and weight. Through the medium of magazines and film, current trends pertaining to body image, or rather society’s image of the body, a person with an eating disorder feels that their own personal body, does not measure up to what is portrayed within the media and ideal or beautiful.

Unfortunately for the past decade, the fashion industry, while admittedly being at the mercy of advertisers,’ has used ultra thin, nearly skeletal looking models. The entire waif look has graced the pages of magazines and film, unfortunately for a person with a non- healthy body image and lack of self-esteem, striving to achieve what society has deemed beautiful, becomes an obsession.

The trend within the fashion industry is beginning to change, most notably in Milan, which have recently refused to allow underweight models to grace their notorious runways. Not all within the fashion industry are so willing to take a stand, they are in business to sell and that if the advertisers’ wants to use all too thin models, then that’s what they will have a gracing their magazines pages.

Although this trend is moving towards the use of healthy sized models, it may help to change society’s ideal on what a women’s shape should be. Some argue that it is much too easy to blame the fashion industry, when in reality eating disorders are at least initially a mental issue of the individual and their own idea of body image.

The debate is far from over and even with the strides that the few within the fashion industry has made, in the attempt to change society’s concept of what an ideal shape should be it is a task that will surely take decades to rectify. Society has a tendency to resist change, even more so if the media’s slow to change with it.

One of the warning signs of an eating disorder is the obsession with all too thin models and actresses. A person who suffers from an eating disorder often has many pictures of excessively thin people, strategically placed normally around mirrors or close to food sources. Generally, these pictures are used to remind the person suffering from an eating disorder of what they want to look like and it is used as a deterrent to eat or as motivation to exercise more.

Food is the very essence of survival. It is not only the whole meals that have gained popularity but also veg snacks items, chaat, sweets, namkeen, etc. that are equally savored. There are a very few Indian brands that are renowned not only in the Indian market but also overseas; worth mentioning is Bikanervala. The honcho in the Indian sweets and snacks industry is obviously the century plus old Bikanervala. Ask any foodie freak about Bikanervala and pat would come the reply in the positive with a mention of food items in the Bikanervala menu such as veg snacks, chaat, namkeen, sweets, etc.

Here is a list of the food items included in the Bikanervala menu: Sweets: Premium sweets, traditional sweets, khoya sweets, Bengali sweets; few of these include rasgulla, ghewar, malai chap, rasmalai, kalakand, petha, pakija, laddoo, barfi, shrikhand, etc. Namkeens: Aloo bhujia, peanuts, badam lacha, bikaneri bhujia, chana masala, cornflakes mixture, dal moth, ganthiya, kaju mixture, etc. Chaat: Bhalla papri, lachha tokri, pani puri, bhel puri, matar kulcha, dahi bhalla, aloo tikki, kachori with sabji, paneer tikka, raj kachori, papri chaat, etc. Veg Snacks: Chole bhature, paneer pakoda, samosa, kachori, matar kachori, dhokla, sandwich dhokla, pav bhaji, etc. North Indian Cuisine: Shahi paneer, chana masala, seasonal vegetables, dal makhani, rajma masala, special rice, eco meals, onion kulcha, paneer nan, butter nan, etc. South Indian Cuisine: Plain dosa, masala dosa, onion rawa masala, rawa plain dosa, rawa masala dosa, uttapam, vada sambhar, sambhar idli, etc. Chinese Food: Tomato soup, veg chowmein, veg coupsey, sweet corn soup, veg fried rice, spring roll, veg manchurian, talumein soup, paneer chilly, etc.

Other food items in the Bikanervala menu include continental food, beverages & shakes, and bakery items.

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Jute, also called the ‘Golden Fiber’, is the most useful and versatile fiber gifted to human being by the nature. Jute is popular for its ability to use in various forms in handicraft industry. The industry contributes greatly in countrys economy and has potential to propel the economy at least for next few decades. Jute industry alone provides direct employment to approximately 0.26 million people, and about 4.0 million people are associated indirectly to the industry. In total, the labour intensive industry engages more than 4.35 million people into it. Realizing its major contribution and important role in the Indian economy, the Government has decided to pay special attention to the industry in its National Common Minimum Programme. Keeping the industrys increasing contribution in consideration, the Government then started the “Jute Technology Mission” to benefit jute growers, the workers, jute manufacturers, exporters and others engaged in the sector. The programme has helped in Industrys modernization and to reap profits from export and other enhanced level of jute diversification.

A great number of the Indian Jute manufacturers have set up their Mills in the states of West Bengal, Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa, Uttar Pradesh, Tripura, Bihar and Chhattisgarh. At present, there are 78 jute mills planted in India out of which 61 are located alone in eastern region of West Bengal. Among all jute mills, 64 are owned privately by Indian manufacturers and exporters, 6 of them are owned by central government, the state government owns 4, and only 2 of the mills are under cooperatives. Jute industry alone accounts for an annual turnover of Rs 6,500 crore and the value of export of total jute products is nearly Rs1000 crore. Some organizations have been formed to put a control on Indian jute industry. These include National Centre for Jute diversification (Kolkata), Jute Manufacturers Development Council (Kolkata), National Jute Manufacturers Corporation, Jute Corporation of India Ltd. (Kolkata), Birds jute & Exports Ltd., Institute of Jute technology (Kolkata), and Indian Jute Industries Research Association (Kolkata).

India is the largest producer of raw jute as well as finished good products. Jute Yarn, Jute Webbing, Jute Hessian Bags, Jute Hessian Cloth also called Burlap Cloth, Jute Geotextiles and Soil Savers are the products dominating the export arena. It became possible due to the availability of cheap and skilled labours in India, and the availability of entrepreneurial skills too. Some of the major Indian manufacturers and exporters of jute and jute products are following:

The East India Jute & Jute Hessian Exchange Ltd
National Centre for Jute Diversification
The Jute Corporation of India Ltd
Gunny Traders Association
Calcutta Jute Fabrics Shippers Association
Calcutta Laminating Industries
Ashim Kar & Industries Pvt. Ltd.
A One Jutex International

As a matter of fact, jute industry is one of the biggest industries which Indian economy greatly relies upon. Apart from having huge export potential, the jute manufacturing companies cater to the domestic market as well. However, the industry is facing some big challenges in its growth such as high production cost and poor supply chain management. With markets and competition going global, India is still practicing the primitive methods of manufacturing jute products. The products made are costlier and are exported at higher rates as compared to other Asian countries, especially Bangladesh which is the biggest threat to Indian Jute Industry. Multi unionism is one of the problems faced by the industry and engages major concentration of routine management in resolving labour dispute. Despite being a mother Industry, Indian jute industry has emerged as a huge decentralized and unorganized sector in the current scenario.

Everyone loves to be a part of the “in” crowd and lets face it yall. Being in the music industry is about as “in” as it gets. Most of the jobs in the music industry put you close, at least in some way, shape or form with the people that your peers consider to be icons and a hero.

There is nothing finer than actually making money at a job that you actually love as opposed to standing on an assembly line watching the same part go by hour after day after year.

Jobs in the music industry can range from the retail sales ends, to the production end, to the creative department to performing or the business end and there is a lot of jobs in between those stops. There is a good chance that no matter what it is you like to do, there is a job in the music industry that will allow you to do some form of that job and eventually get paid to do it.

You need to seek out jobs in the music industry at local places and you can check the World Wide Web at locations like myMusicCircle and see what kinds of jobs are there that you can start at right away so that you can begin building and diversifying your skill set. Because the music business is first and foremost, a business and that means that the more skills you have the more valuable you will be. And we all know that the more valuable you are the more invaluable you become and the easier it is to find the jobs that you ultimately want.

If your end goal is to be a producer, you can start by offering to mix local bands live at their show for free or beer. Youll get the basic skills and then move one. A lot of what you might do at the beginning is mundane and wont pay you very well if at all. You need to keep you eye on the brass ring and the goal that you have set.

Many of the people that are very huge icons in the industry got their first jobs in the music industry doing things like taking out the trash at a studio or helping as a gaffer that set up for the sessions. All of this is networking and making contacts of people that can help you or hurt you down the line.