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Special Edition in January 2020

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GOOD FOOD KEEPS YOU ALIVE AND IT’S DEMAND ALWAYS GOING TO SOAR! Editor’s Note

Editor’s Note We often listen from our parents and grandparents that a stomach filled with scrumptious food leads to a wonderful day. From personal experience, I can say my mood switches to a happy one if the dining table is embellished with favorite cuisine. A Big Yesssss can be heard. We Indians are crazy about mouthwatering food and drinks. From the chaat stalls on the streets of Delhi to the sophisticated corners, good food is what people want. Thereby, a multitude of food and beverage companies take care of the taste buds and experiment with a variety of food products, suiting to the requirements of customers. The scope of the respective industry in the Indian Market is humongous, so the contribution of the number of companies in the same realm is incessantly increasing. Business Connect has decided to feature the companies, which are offering something unique to eat and drink in the edition, ‘Food & Beverage’. Food lovers do not look for taste only, they look for hygiene and quality as well. So, it is the liability of a company to ensure both. The market is huge, every type of customer is here. To serve a wide clientele, companies produce a better quality of food products at cost-effective prices. Apart from this, they pay great heed to the packaging of food products. If the products are not packaged well, then who is going to buy them? Burgers of Mc Donald’s, Pizza of Dominos, etc. are sold in the best quality of packets so that the food quality can’t be deteriorated. Processed food is the new trend in the industry. Milk products, meat, etc. are packaged in a way that they can be used without compromising on the quality standards. Food preservatives are added to preserve the products. Coloration is done to decorate the products for attracting the customers. Moreover, the companies after undergoing the crucial process of Research, look after the trends and requirements of the customers to beat the competition. A number of international companies entering the market and selling their products here. The influence of the western world in food cannot be overlooked. Pizza, Burger, Pasta are the best examples to amplify this point. Business Connect has featured Pulse Secure on the Cover Page of this edition, and in detail has talked about its contribution to the business world.`

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COVER STORY

CONTENTS Table Of

PULSE SECURE

FIRST BUD ORGANICS

PAGARIYA FOOD PRODUCTS PVT. LTD.

20 26

MOI COMMODITIES INDIA PVT. LTD.

ROHA DYECHEM PVT. LTD.

28 30 36

38 40 44

ANLIGHT CONSULTING

CRESCOHR PVT. LTD.

IXCEED SOLUTIONS

KARMA MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS PVT. LTD.

48 52

PACE HR CONSULTING LLP

LAYAM GROUP’S

Best Ways To Stay Fit When You Work In An Office

Food and Beverage Packaging Trends In 2019

Science Says Entrepreneurs Put Themselves At A Higher Risk For These Mental Health Problems 32

Top Trends For Food And Beverage Industry

PULSE SECURE DELIVERING SECURE ACCESS IN A ZERO TRUST WORLD

As workforce mobility and cloud computing continues to grow at a rapid pace, so too have cyberthreats, attacks and data breaches increased. This has resulted in the need to advance digital access protection. EnterPulse Secure.Under the leadership of their chief executive officer, Sudhakar Ramakrishna, Pulse Secure has transformed from being a remote access company to becoming the world market leader in Secure Access for hybrid IT.

Sudhakar Ramakrishna Director, Project Management Services

ABOUT THE CEO Brought up in Hyderabad, Sudhakar Ramakrishna studied Computer Science and Engineering. From there, he earnedhismaster’s degree from Kansas State University in Computer Science and an MBA from Northwestern University. About business, Sudhakar says, “I have had the good fortune of working with customers from the start in my career,whichhelped me to gaina deep empathy for ‘customer success’ and ‘value-based solutions.’ Over the years, he has held engineering, product and general management responsibilities in medium to very large companies serving customers across geographies, industries and segments.“My customer-centered management focus evolved during my time at 3Com Corporation, and further while at Motorola, Polycom and Citrix.”

His dedicated work in building networks, collaboration, mobile, and security and cloud solutions has provided him a unique vantage point of changing industry and customer trends. Sudhakar states, “I have had the good fortune to work with curious, collaborative and competitive teams that have put me on a path of learning, exploring – and enjoying – every single day. Ultimately, my role is to empower people to communicate better, work better together and be more productive.” How did I become part of the “Pulse Nation?” I have had a long-held belief that security should be about access and not just control. After all, security should not impede productivity. Being able to deliver security while preserving the simplicity of access offers unique value to customers - and a unique opportunity to innovate. Pulse offered me the opportunity to build a company from its core remote access heritage into a world-class provider of Secure Access solutions designed for the data center and cloud. Pulse also gave me the pleasure of serving, learning from, and growing with diverse and talented employees, as well as world class partners and customers.”

DIGGING INTO THE DETAILS OF THE COMPANY Chances are, if you have taken a flight, paid a bill, checked your bank account, logged in to get your email, streamed a movie or updated an online document – you’ve been protected by Pulse Secure. While only five years old, the secure access software company has amassed over 23,000 enterprise and service provider customers, has millions of devices under management, and engages business through its 700 employees and more than 2,500 partners in almost every part of the world. Pulse Secure was established from the Siris Capital acquisition of the Junos Pulse- a business unit of Juniper Networks in 2014. From the start, their mission has been to enable secure access between people, devices, things and

services that improve visibility, protection and productivity for their customers. Through the Junos Pulse acquisition, they obtained a solid foundation of products, patents, partners and customers. They’ve been busy ever since - acquiring mobile, authentication, application security technologies and advancing theirsecure access platform for hybrid IT. While Pulse Secure is known for itspopular enterprise VPN solution (Pulse Connect Secure), they have realized even greater demand for their Suites that allows customers to take advantage ofthe company’s integrated remote, mobile, web, network and application access security portfolio. They sell their solutions through channel partners and service providers to medium, large and global enterprises across industries, such as financial, healthcare, manufacturing, government, hi-tech, education and retail.

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION RISKS “We see digital transformation initiatives and new cyberthreats accelerating across multiple fronts. IT organizations are operating at breakneck speed to meet business needs which often introduces security exposures. This is further complicated by requirementsto support work style innovation – providing more employee work flexibility. These business risksare driving organizations re-think their secure access strategy,” says Sudhakar. Not only a trend in Asia, but throughout the world, businesses are empowering users to improveproductivity and work life balance by allowing employees to interact on their device of choice, when they want, and no matter where they are located. Organizations arealso pushing to move applications to the cloud, to benefit from utility computing, and to leverage the Internet of Things (IoT), if not the Internet of Everything. The diversity of users and devices, and the morphing of data center and cloud resources makes it more difficult for companies to ensure that necessary policies and defenses are active and effective. The most elemental policy is that of access security.

In the backdrop, cyber threat actors and attacks are increasing in velocity, sophistication and coordination. Globally, corporations are dealing with more than 40,000 incidents per day at an average cost of nearly $4M per breach. High profile data breaches at reputable companies like Equifax, Target, Sony and others have spurred significant privacy compliance mandates, which in turn have prompted executives to insist on more concerted governance. Lastly, IT organizationshave been working withtoo many security tools with fewer skilled personnel and budget to procure, deploy, manage and make good use of these tools. These trends have motivated organizations to assess their digital defense capabilities and have reinvigorated what is a $36B secure access market.

Business not only relies on securinguser connectivity, but also on protecting transactions between things and services from ticketingmachinesand connected cars to medical dispensers and manufacturing equipment. This requires having visibility and control over endpoint and IoT devices across corporate networks, and by extension, private cloud. It also requires more automated means to identify and segregate devices to protect networks. As companies expand services and capacity through their partners and supply chain, and grow through mergers and acquisition, how canyou ensure data protection obligations are consistent an accounted for? Lastly, government entities contend with similar questions, albeit with greater requirements, like their commercial counterparts. These are the digital transformation challenges that Pulse Secure and its Secure Access solution address.

SECURE ACCESS ENABLES BUSINESS Secure Access is a set of policies and technologies that ensure users, devices and things connect to applications, resources and services in an appropriate and protected manner. The objective is to enable productivity and business innovation while mitigating cyber threats and the risk of the data breach. Workforce and consumer mobility, cloud computing, big data and AI helpfuel digital transformation. “When you think about it, the use of these technologies has two things in common– connectivity and exposure. With connectivity comes potential exposure to threats, attacks and sensitive data leakage. In this way, Secure Access is crucial for digital transformation. Having a large and diverse customer base, we have the unique vantage point to see how our solutions are an enabler. The classic application would be that of ensuring remote users connect to network resources through a protected communication session – like checking your corporate email from home. But modern secure access solutions can handle a wide variety of business needs,” states Sudhakar. How can you not only simplify and improve a user’s access experience, but also ensure the identity of the user, as well as assure that the device they use is sanctioned and secure – from PC to smartphone, from a personal device to shared kiosk?How do you ensure protected application access from users on the road, in stores, at a meeting, on a plane, at home, on vacation? Furthermore, how can you segregate personal from corporate apps and data across the vast assortment of personal devices? The applications and resources themselves no longer exist solely in corporate networks. While legacy, often complex applications will remain in the data center, many enterprises are moving to a private cloud or public cloud infrastructure. How can you enforce that secure connection for each application and regardless where it resides? Additionally, how do you gain Shadow IT oversight as divisions and teams procure cloud applications and equipment on their own.

ZERO TRUST AND SECURE ACCESS Many consumers have become desensitized to the fact that nearly 4,000 data breaches and leakage of billions of records were publicized in 2019. However, these security issues are part of the conversation at the board and executive level, especially given the potential financial on reputation impact on a business. This has renewed interest in a Zero Trust model even though it was created almost a decade ago. Its core principle is that of verifying everything before granting access.

The conventional security model trusted users and devices once they were on a corporatenetwork. Essentially, you, your laptop, phone, and IP camera are all presumed safe because they are within the enterprise perimeter. That perimeter security paradigm has come into serious question given numerous high-profile breaches. Now users work out of the office, browse the internet, infect their laptop, and that compromised device infects and further exposes the corporate network. It would also assume the resources and applications are all still on a corporate network. But we know that is no longer the case as most enterprisesoperatehybrid IT environments – data center and cloud. Therein lies the interest behind Zero Trust. “The Zero Trust model requires authenticating users, devices, applications and infrastructure, and that conditions for access be assessed against a centralizedpolicy. That may seem obvious, but a lot of solutions do not do that. And if anything, they blindly provide access even if your device is at risk, or they try to verify something well after they provide you access,” adds Sudhakar. Access policies account for users, roles and applications, but with Zero Trust, they must also accommodate more granular conditions such as degrees of authentication, device and configuration compliance, location and access behavior. Not only

should the conditional access be verified at the time of the request, but also during the session. This goes beyond just supplying a username and password before a secure session is established between the user’s device and the Microsoft Office 365 application hosted in a public cloud. Zero Trustraises the bar for access security and reduces an organization’s attack surface.

ZERO TRUST ACCESS CONSIDERTIONS Zero Trust is not a panacea for cyberattacks and no product delivers Zero Trust. Organizations must orchestrate a variety of often disparate and complex access security technologies in order to strengthen their security posture and claim alignment with the Zero Trust model. Customers should look for access solutions that offer enhanced usability, deployment flexibility, automated provisioning and resource optimization and solutions that work with their existing infrastructure.

“Simplifying this access control coordination, for both users and for network security administrators, is the top requirement for ourcustomers and paramount for enterprises that are large, multi-national and often heavily regulated. Today, over half of oursales are for ourZero Trust-based Access Suite. Beyond the sheer value and economics of consolidating tools into an integrated suite, their approach provides easy, compliant access for end users and single-pane-of-glass management for administrators. Organizations can centrally manage and enforce access to applications, data and services that are delivered on premise, in private cloud and public cloud,” states Sudhakar. The company’sAccess Suite uniquely integrates VPN, Mobile Device Management (MDM), Single Sign-on (SS0), endpoint and IOT device visibility, Software Defined Perimeter (SDP), Network Access Control (NAC) and virtual Application Delivery Controller (ADC) capabilities.

PULSE SECUREEMPLOYEES QUALITIES Sudhakar states, “At Pulse, great competence, exemplary commitment, and fantastic attitude are quintessential attributes for an employee. I am proud to say that our employees display these qualities abundantly and we have been distinguished as one of the best places to work on a routine basis.”Beyond hiring talented and smart people, the companyseeks diverse and active contributors who exhibit respect, integrity and humility. Additionally, theybelieve that behavior drives outcomes. To that end, they focus tremendously on reinforcing key behaviors of implicit trust, challenging and supporting, debating and aligning, and cross-functional collaboration.

LOOKING FORWARD Sudhakar Ramakrishna, on the horizon with regard security concerns for 2020, says,”I anticipate a perfect storm in 2020 – an increase phishing and malware incidents, an increase in targeted cyberattacks and breaches, and an increase in global data privacy regulation and actual fines. We are experiencing new attack vectors and sophisticated malware. For example, recent OAuth apps exposures show well hackers are going after all possible attack vectors, especially ones that imitate known, popular applications to trick users into accepting malware or providing credentials. In 2019, we saw hundreds of publicized data breaches – I suspect that many more were not. The State of Louisiana in the U.S. has experienced service outages due to cyberattacks.As such, I expect we will also see similartargeted attacks exploiting IoT and IIoT vulnerabilities in industry’s that rely on these devices and that are merging IT/OT environments. Lastly, similar privacy compliance specifications to GDPR will be adopted more broadly in the U.S. and other countries and we will see a rise in awarded penalties. These trends certainly call for more vigilent assessment of security and secure access capabilities.” In 2020, Pulse Secure’s priority is to extend its market leadership position by giving customers more value and capabilities across their Secure Access portfolio, as well as broaden ways for their solutions to be consume theircustomers. The company will further enable its customers to support a broader set of use cases through enhanced interoperability with the popular network, security and cloud infrastructure, including new integrations to support Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). In addition, Pulse Secure plans to introduce “Secure Access as a Service” for their customers and partners.

BEST WAYS TO STAY FIT

WHEN YOU WORK IN AN OFFICE

Nowadays, most of the adults and mid-aged people spend their majority of the time in office during the weekdays. Their common and major worry of living this lifestyle is, How to keep yourself fit while working in the office. It can be simply difficult to try to stay fit while working a full-time 9-5 desk job.

However, there are some fitness hacks by Business connect for our readers that can incorporate into your working lifestyle to help you keep looking fit and fresh both. In this article, you will find the best Ways to Stay Fit When You Work in an Office For most people, losing weight means a stressful and hard thing if they are engaged in their job. Many of us think like making small, healthier choices are all that it takes. Therefore, keep these five simple tips in mind to avoid gaining weight and staying fit when you have a 9-5 job.

DRINK WARM WATER EVERY MORNING Drink a glass of warm water in the morning with an empty stomach. It has many benefits like cleansing the digestive system and rejuvenates everyday stamina. It stimulates body movements and improves blood circulation throughout the day. Drinking warm water with a spoon of honey and lemon juice also helps to reduce weight instantly and keep toxins out of the body.

NEVER FORGOT BREAKFAST Do not skip your breakfast, as it is one of the most important meals for the whole day. You always need to kickstart your working day in a healthy and nutritious way. You can do this every day by having a bowl of oatmeal or whole-grain cereal topped with nuts, fruit or dairy products. By eating this in your breakfast, you will get the full amount of protein diet. You can also add eggs to your first meal of the day and fulfill your potential power requirements, but also avoid heavy and oily foods for breakfast.

KEEP YOURSELF HYDRATED Stay Hydrated! It is a common mistake when you think to be thirsty only after food is important; our body needs water to work. Hereby, always keep a reusable water bottle on your desk at the office and do remember to sip often. Drinking water from time to time will be the Best way to stay fit in Office. Staying hydrated can quench hunger and food cravings. It also reduce laziness and keeps you more alert. The recommended amount of water per person on a working day or regular day is eight cups a day but when the weather is hot, you will probably need more of it.

WALK AROUND AND EXERCISE There are numerous exercises, which you can do in your office and many of them are very simpler to do. Walk around includes no workout equipment and it can possible only on your desk/chair of office. The first thing to relax your eyes is to calm your eyeballs by opening and closing them frequently. By doing this you will free from eye, stress & sleepiness and it will be the best way to keep fit in office. Some easier workouts like moving to do some squats and wall sits.

If your goal is to achieve a certain number of steps per day, the perfect way to accomplish that goal is to walk around the office as much as possible. If you are about to send an email to a colleague, see if they are in the office and walk to their desk instead of sharing your message.

Another great open window for self-workout is your lunch break, try to walk for at least ten minutes after your mid-day meal. It is the best thing if you have an hourlong lunch break; you can achieve at least a decent 20-30 minutes’ walk. Not only does this get you out of the office but it also helps in freshening of mind with new ideas.

EAT THE RIGHT LUNCH & STAND INSTEAD OF SITTING This may seem like a more obvious suggestion but packing the right amount of lunch that is nutrition-rich can make a huge difference in your productivity at work. It can also prevent you from feeling sleepy at your desk, as the human body is much lazier while working. Therefore, eat right amount and do some smart exercise to make yourself energetic at work and fit.

If you have the option of a standing desk, take advantage of the large space and use it. Most of the companies are now including standing desks in their offices and it is a great way to take a break from constantly sitting in front of the system.

FIRST BUD ORGANICS PROVIDERS OF QUALITATIVE ORGANIC PRODUCTS

Like ‘Go green’, ‘Go Organic’ is in the demand now a days because of increasing awareness about fresh, natural and chemical free products. Including Organic Products into your diet is a way of leading healthy life. Incubated in 2018 by Mitresh Sharma, First bud Organics is a producer of pure organic products, which can be consumed without thinking twice. They are the seller of packaged 100% pure organic produce, and offer their customers a wide range of organically produced, high-quality products at their door-step. Their complete procurement chain from farm procurement to production, packaging and delivery means that their patrons get farm-fresh and the best quality product at a reasonable price. Their line of products includes Super seeds, organic honey, herbal tea, chai masala, pickle, jam, apple cider vinegar and tulsi extract, Stevia drops, and Organic Turmeric Powder. Organic teas are extracted from Darjeeling in Assam, which is the largest producer of tea. Organic Tulsi comes from Garhwal Region. Tea is best brewed in loose form. Fullleaf teas that have the best aroma and taste release their extracts slowly. Their teas are complete leaf teas not a broken leaf, fanning and dust. In Herbal Green Teas, they blend herbs with green teas, which is quite healthy, and the bitter taste of green teas is suppressed by herbal taste. Herbal Green Tea is packaged in the pristine Himalayan region in the state of Uttrakhand, which isrich in minerals and free from chemicals, pesticide, pollution, and dusty environment.They use only top ‘Bud and two leaves’,which areconsidered as ‘premium pluck’.

FIRST BUD ORGANICS WALKS ON QUALITY STRINGENTLY All of their home made products strictly follow the same recipe and ingredients, which ensure the same taste and quality. Additionally, products go through a regular extensive lab test to ensure quality, andthey thrive hard to provide the best quality products to their customers. They also make sure conditions are hygienic and moisture is not absorbed in the products.

INNOVATION THAT MAKES THE THINGS EASIER AND SEAMLESS Transportation was the biggest concern for the Company because their products like honey, pickle and jam are normally bottled in glass, which can be broken so easily during the shipment. They

MITRESH SHARMA Founder

Being able to deliver something back to the community has been the best part of my experience. We provide the common platform to the women cooperative in the remote Himalayan region. ~Mitresh Sharma ” “

were facing an increase in refund requests due to breakage. To overcome this problem instead of the standard ecom company packing, they started packing them in a thick block of protective layers of recycled cardboard and paper. They are investing heavily on product innovation.

VALUES AND ETHICS WHICH CANNOT BE OVERLOOKED The founder, Mitresh Sharma says, “Discipline and continuous improvement are what I personally believe in and we incorporate the same in the organization’s day-to-day processes.”

Each and every individual at First Bud is dedicated to providing the highest quality product to the customers. They take customer’s feedback very seriously, and have implementedmost of their feedback into their new products and existing products; the most recent being an improved product packaging. This has led to a better conversion percentage and significant growth in revenue in the past couple of months.

CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY As a part of their corporate social responsibility, they have made it a point to work hand in hand with NGOs which are working towards the development of women working on the hills in the Garhwal region.

Increasing use of pesticides in the food products leads to various health issues. By providing organic products, the organization is taking care of health of their customers. The aim is to make quality products, which are affordable to the consumer and create new opportunities for farmers.

FUTURE PROSPECTS When they started, they hardly used to get 25-30 orders monthly and in a year because of differentmarketing strategies, new product listings, etc. They have reached to 3000+ orders monthly. They are getting repeat customers and references.

Currently, FirstBud is bootstrapped and looking forward to adding more products in the line in the coming months and raise funds.

They are planning to makean online presence in other premium marketplaces. Additionally, they envision to start offline stores.

Talking about feathers in the cap, the Company is recognized as the 10 most promising Tea & Coffee Brands, 2018 by Silicon India. Its name has also come in Amazon Launchpad for startups.

SUNAKSHI SHARMA Co-Founder

A Market Leader of KWALITY Products

NARESH PAGARIYA Managing Director

Spices and Masalas are many of those kitchen ingredients that aids in creating the mouthwatering flavor of any food. The current market serves a variety of these ingredients that are used in daily meals to bring out the required quality of any food. A similar daily used product is breakfast cereal which is very famous widely promising amongst all age groups.

It is very rare to find all these products under one umbrella but there is one conglomerate which has taken this respon sibility to provide such products of good quality and affordable prices and it is KWALITY. The company manufactures all kinds of spices, breakfast cereals and Instant mixes and Pagariya food products Pvt. Ltd stands firm as the leader of manufacturing and distribution of KWALITY products.

A GLANCE AT THE CONGLOMERATE The company was brought to light on 1998 by Mr. Naresh Pagariya (Managing Director) and was aided by Mr. Dheeraj Jain (Director). The company is focused on manufacturing and distribution of masala, Breakfast cereals and Instant Mixes. The company is certified by ISO 22000:2005 & US FDA which are the highest standard certification in the world. Currently the company has 50+ products, present in 40k outlets in India and has 350+ distributors who aid in doing business across 25 countries all over Middle East, Asia, and Africa under the brand KWALITY.

DHEERAJ JAIN Director

ENCOMPASSED WITH QUALITY AND MARKET TRENDS The company has two mottos to maintain their brand im age in the market i.e. “Good Taste with Good Quality” and “Value for money”. This motto further helps them keep ing a keen look on quality of their products. The company aims to avail all their innovative range of products under one umbrella constituting with factors like health, nutrition and convenience.

The company is one of the leading manufacturers of KWALITY products and to maintain that standard procures its raw materials from the best of the cultivators at different regions of India and are processed after passing through stringent quality control systems of current international standards. The company also doesn’t use artificial colours/flavours or preservatives and that make them a differentiator in the market.

TOP OF THE LINE RETAILING STRATEGY FOR ALL TRADING CHANNELS The company operates in 4 distinct channels – • GENERAL TRADE: The Company has over 450 dis tributors across South India and West India with over 35,000 domestic retailers who contribute to take the company on top of the line. • MODERN TRADE: In this channel the company sup plies many modern retails chains like Dmart, Big bazaar, Metro cash and carry, Reliance, Aditya Birla,

Walmart, etc. • E-COMMERCE: The Company has its products avail able on e-portals like Amazon, Flipkart, Big basket to name a few. • EXPORTS: KWALITY products are being exported to various countries in the UAE, Qatar, Oman, Nepal, Malaysia, Mauritius, South Africa, Ghana, Kenya, N geria, Seychelles, Maldives, USA, Sri Lanka, Fiji, Guinea, Freetown, Kenya, and Tanzania. Apart from this company also supplies to CSD (Army can teens) all over India.

INNOVATIVE APPROACHES THAT MAKES THEM A TRENDSETTER Pagaria manufactures KWALITY products with best in class practices as internationally approved by HACCP guidelines to achieve the best quality. The raw products as said earlier are brought from the finest sodbusters and pass all the quali ty tests of international standards. After that the products are packed and presented in world class packaging with ‘aroma retention’ technology to deliver the fresh taste and flavour at the kitchen

The company stands as No. 1 in introducing Fruit Rings, Choco fills, Strawberry fills, Gobi Manchurian Masala, Noodles and Pasta Masala to Indian Market. Recent ly it has launched Combipack in their innovation list. The product mainly aims towards kids and youngsters. They promote the product as a “QUICK SNACK” and since it comes in a wide variety of flavours it is a trend ing product for the both. The package contains 6 packets constituting 4 different varieties of cereal like Choco flakes, Choco fills, strawberry fills and fruit ring. They also have a Mega saver pack which come in 2 flavours - original cornflakes and Choco flakes, both available in 1 KG pouch with Zip lock.

Furthermore, they added Instant pasta with taste maker in this list. The product is made of durum, wheat and dried not fried and comes at a very affordable price of RS 10.

PRODUCTS CATEGORIZED FOR ALL CLASSES OF PEOPLE The company caters KWALITY products to all categories of people. Cereals were initially dispensed to higher and middle class people but the Company wanted to increase the penetration of Cereals and to provide healthy products. Hence, after

the introduction of their low value packs (Rs 10 & Rs 5), it has reached the home of all categories. Other than this masalas and instant mixes are catered for all classes of people.

ACHIEVEMENTS AND AWARDS TO BE APPLAUDED FOR Pagariya food products Pvt. Ltd. is a leader in catering KWALITY products and has completed a journey of 2 de cades; as such the Company has homed a number of prestigious accolades to their name - • 2013 SME Forum Award 2013 at 100 Best SME Award • 2014 Dun & Bradsheet Award for Best Emerging SME • 2016 Nominated for India Mart ET Best Entrepreneur • 2017 Best Manufacturing Excellence Award (Food category) at Invest Karnataka Summit • 2018 Leaders of Tomorrow 2018 by the Times of India Group

A HAND OF HELP TOWARDS THE SOCIETY The company has associated itself with Ngo’s who helps them to reach schools and kids where they focus on creat ing awareness on importance of ‘Healthy Breakfast’ among kids. They serve their healthy nutritious cereals to kids.

Apart from this they also sponsor education fees to most of their factory workers.

PROGRESSIVE FUTURE PROSPECTS Pagariya Food Products Pvt. Ltd. has grown with the vision they are still following now i.e. to give world class products keeping Health and nutrition on mind at affordable price. Today their products are spread over 6 states in India which includes Karnataka, Kerala, Tamilnadu, Andhra Pradesh, Goa and Maharashtra and is steadily expanding across other states of India and looking forward to set their network in metros of the country. Furthermore the company aims at expanding to all countries in Middle East and Africa.

SEEKING ATTENTION OF THE READERS AND NEW ENTREPRENEURS The Company seeks the attention of readers towards their mottos i.e. “Good Taste with Good Quality” and “Value for money”. The company believes that every manufactur er having these as their vision is approaching towards their success and also encourages people to use KWALITY products that stand for Quality and affordable range. Ahead in the road, Pagariya Food Products Pvt. Ltd. want to motivate budding entrepreneurs to come with innovative products at affordable prices.

Commodities India Pvt. Ltd. A Fast-Emerging Frontrunner In The Basmati Rice Industry!

Moi Commodities India Pvt. Ltd. was established in 2012 as a subsidiary of Moi International (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (A part of the Mewah Group) and is engaged in the export and domestic sale of Basmati & Non-Basmati Rice.

The Mewah Group is an integrated global agri-business focused on edible oils and fats with over 60 years of history. It is headquartered in Singapore and boasts a worldwide marketing network. One of the largest palm oil processors in the world by capacity, Mewah produces a wide range of refined and fractionated vegetable oils and fats principally from palm oil. To support its strategic vision and growth plans, after remaining privately controlled business for over 50 years, Mewah went public in 2010 and got listed on the mainboard of the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited. Since going public, Mewah has invested in a new palm-oil refinery, a palm-oil based dairy manufacturing facility and a biodiesel plant in Malaysia. It has also added rice, dairy and palm-based soap to its product portfolio and the addition of rice and dairy products helped them to offer a wider range of consumer products to the customers worldwide.

STRENGTHS AS A TEAM AND GROUP Moi Commodities India Pvt. Ltd boasts of a rich experienced team of professionals, and proud to be part of the Mewah Group, headquartered in Singapore, which is an integrated global agri-business focused on edible oils and fats with over 60 years’ history.

In 2017, when Mr. Rajesh Khera, Vice President, Moi International (Singapore) Pte Ltd, Singapore, who heads the rice desk for the group encouraged the group to add another feather in the cap by including Basmati Rice to its rice portfolio, he knew that it would not be an easy expedition to compete in an industry which is not only highly cluttered by the mid and small-size mills, brokers, traders, merchant exporters but also dominated for years by the traditional large-size mills who could turn out as strong contenders on the price point due to their capability to take large positions not only for time arbitrage, but for speculation as well. He had a clear mindset from the start to set themselves apart from the other players in the rice industry, and as numerous stories show that the people with unique minds and strong personalities attract, there came in Mr. Brijmeet A Singh, Country Head & Director, to head the Indian subsidiary of the group, Moi Commodities India Pvt. Ltd, who has over two decades of in-depth knowledge & experience in the Basmati Rice industry with a proven record for managing a business with high held ethics to shape organizational performance and responsiveness to business needs with a customer-first approach.

The duo decided to take the group’s vision to become a leading, integrated and diversified global agribusiness providing quality and value-added products to customers worldwide to the next level by adding the most savored variety of rice “Basmati”. Their dedication and commitment to their clients, as well as the values of integrity and fair-mindedness, which are the legacy of the Mewah Group, have helped them to become a supplier of choice to some of the most reputed names in the world.

RAJESH KHERA

They combine the rich legacy and history of Mewah along with a professional and experienced team having adequate experience in handling Basmati rice and its related challeng es/solutions, who can take care of the entire supply chain thereby ensuring that every shipment surpasses the expectations of their elite group of customers. Their aim is to, therefore develop long-term business relationships; so that their clients can rely on them to set their brands apart from other commonplace players.

THE CLIENTELE Within just 2.5 years, their commitment to quality and timely supplies has enabled them to boast of supplying Basmati Rice to over 30 of the best, most reliable & reputed international clients in over 20 countries. They are proud to have become the pre ferred suppliers to a few of the largest retail chains and food importers in countries like the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, UAE, Malaysia, South Africa, Mauritius, etc.

INNOVATION THAT DEFINES THEM Moi Commodities has emerged as one of the most trusted suppliers of Basmati Rice over the last two years. Consumers in different countries perceive quality differently and they because of their in-depth understanding of the Basmati rice as a commodity, have been able to create a niche for themselves by ensuring that they offer a product/quality, which suits end consumer’s perception of cooked rice quality, irrespective of whether it is their brand or customers private label brand, as this is what the consumers are looking for in a plate of cooked rice. So, it is not just the rice, the post-cooking quality became the first measure of quality at Moi, and they push themselves relentlessly to deliv er quality that not only suits the requirements of the market but also surpasses end consumer expectations.

QUALITY IS THE PRIORITY As mentioned, their team comprises of professionals, what they call ‘The Ricesmiths’ who understand Basmati as Goldsmiths understand Gold. Their highly experienced & trained quality assurance team ensures the quality that reaches to their clients is the same as that they promise them. They are completely transparent in their dealings, and always welcome the appointment of independent surveyors should their buyers require so.

KEEPING PACE WITH THE CHANGING MARKET TRENDS The market for rice, especially Basmati, like any other market for agricultural products, is a highly dynamic and volatile market that faces the fluctuations of both supply and demand. While on the one hand, supplies tend to be uncertain due to weather patterns, demand is also changing owing to changing food habits the world over.

In a scenario like this, it is imperative that they, as a company, must stay on their toes and anticipate the market moves before they occur. They keep carefully analyzing the market on a mac ro & micro levels to study the supply and demand patterns to be able to make informed decisions for not only themselves but guide their clients to make the correct purchase decisions as well. Timely crop positions against accurate sales projections, their capability to buy the crop on upfront payment, strong commitment to honor contracts in all situations, strict compliance to agreed specifications, and no speculations policy set them apart from the other players in the industry.

They are ISO 22000 and Halal certified suppliers of premium quality rice.

OFFERING SOMETHING NEW AND DISTINCTIVE They have set in motion the process to enter the domestic market, with their flagship branded rice range comprising of 4 brands, AROME Champion Choice, AROME Fine Dine; AROME Buffet Magic, and AROME Ala Carte.

BRIJMEET A SINGH

Brand packaging is designed after in-depth market research and competition mapping. The packaging stands out on the shelves & is being liked by cus tomers in the developed world due to the following reasons: • A unique name that represents Aroma • Self-explanatory subtitles that denote target consumers/usage perspective/brand class (Champion Choice Exotic, Fine Dine Elite, Buffet Magic Classic & Ala Carte Special) • Attractive design • Vibrant colors

FEATHERS IN THE CAP Moi India is growing steadily but solidly, and most of the established, reputed customers with a longterm vision are preferring to partner with them for consistent shipments of premium quality Basmati Rice. Within a span of just 2.5 years, they are supply ing Basmati Rice in 20+ countries to some 30+ customers through HQ or directly, which includes some of the most reputed importers & retail chains.

FUTURE PROSPECTS They aim to become a strong contender in the branded rice segment over the next five years while continuing to remain a preferred supplier for the private label customers. They have been able to successfully ensure that they pack the same premium quality for their private label customers as they would like to pack in their brand.

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FOOD AND BEVERAGE PACKAGING TRENDS IN 2019 BCM Review

Take in this quote by inventor and visionary Anthony Bourdain: “Food is everything we are. It is an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It is inseparable from those from the get-go.”

The food and beverage industry is one of its kind and packaging designs in that business were never been simple. Currently, the innovations hit the grounds and technological achievements along with customers’ demand for sustainability, which has only added to the hardship of development in packaging. Hereby, the companies that are in this field have to meet buyers who need to be the best Food & beverage-packaging providers.

The better ideas and designing flourished as the food items vary and packaging/ manufacturing is becoming

highly advanced. Making this simpler for food and beverage brands to avail of packaging options that work for them while maintaining consumer loyalty is a challenging advantage. Nevertheless, companies took a trigger to run for Latest Food & beverage packaging trends.

Many years ago, people know that there is a need to be a change in industrial and this change is flexible packaging solutions, which are changing constantly for food and beverage producers. Hence, companies should set out to transform traditional packaging as well as customized packaging. For food and beverage trends in 2019, one needs to be best in design and distribution.

This article highlights and addresses the concerns of the entire supply chain manufacturers of Food & Beverages

There are several points to notice for being pro in Food and beverages packaging trends:- • Food safety and security • The extended shelf life of the packed products • Ease of use and handling of food items • Dispensability • Reseal ability • Durability • Mobility and transport convenience for the consumer

ECO-FRIENDLY After years of talking about it, companies are using eco-friendly packaging and many of the companies really follow this trend. Their customers liked this concept, which has zero-waste age and edible packaging is on its way. One can simply imagine biting into an empty carton of a food product or swallowing a water bottle instead of recycling it.

It sounds fancy but the era of having your food wrappers eaten is becoming a reality. Many big food industry leaders are already offering edible wrappers for sandwiches, cookies, ice cream bars and other individually wrapped foods made from natural materials such as potato, rice paper, seaweed, wax-coated sugar, and tomatoes. Other eco-friendly advances to watch include soybased inks, biodegradable plastics, and compostable materials. These all are top trends for food & beverage packaging.

TRANSPARENT AND CLEAR LABELLING This probably comes as no surprise, every people wants transparency nowadays. They are more conscious about, what they eat. Moreover, indirectly looking for, who and what they support. Show the customers, what they need to know so that they can believe in your product. According to stats research, the number of consumers is willing to purchase a newly launched product just for its fine description of the product with clear product information. Moreover, to be clear here, they are willing to try a new product when the information about that product is clear. Think about how cross-brand loyalty will build once you get them to open that bag of deliciousness or that refreshing beverage.

PERSONALIZATION Personalization is a new pro in the market for packaging and it has been a pervasive marketing approach for some time. Because of the technology boost, the trend of personalized interactions in Food & Beverages packaging increased. Nowadays consumers may have come to expect it as a necessary trend for packaging. It is discovered that, according to Deloitte Consumer Review, over 50% of Millennials desire for personalized products in the market for loved ones. Hereby, it is the most important Food and Beverages trend of 2019. If you are a smaller producer of F&B products and need less-costly options than massive production runs, then opt for this trend for more sales. It is because the consumers are the editor of their product and they liked it if they get personalization. Therefore, do provide options that are customer favourites and in terms of personalization’s via custom bags, boxes, photographs, their own logo, and stickers.

WORK SMARTER NOT HARDER

Have you heard a sentence? “Be productive” I’m sure you have because we all are doing a job somewhere, we often hear from our bosses. At some point it is true. not being productive, you can jeopardize your career very quickly. but, have you ever pondered? how can we become a productive person? For this one, you have to work smarter not harder. Working at the company or doing business there is not enough time to get the job done. Going through this situation, you always feel behind. it is not good for anyone. Before working smarter we need to know the difference between smarter work and harder work.

Answer working more hours: I was reading a CNBC article where Bob Sullivan explained, he quantified the relationship between hours worked and productivity. He found out that 50 to 55 hours of work a week. Employee’s output falls sharply which shows putting 70 hours they produce nothing.

He has advised those people who are doing work like this. He says, instead of giving extra hours, every individual should work effectively by focusing on, what really matters. In this way, you are going to work done quickly and reduce the work hours.

What is the difference between smart work and hard work? Before knowing the difference between these two topics I would like to tell the story. I believe that the story affects us more than knowing definition. Although, you can read the definition if you want. I was reading a hazel short story. It’s about a woodcutter story.

“Once upon a time there is woodcutter who was good at wood cutting. He arrived at the timber factory where he asked about the job. He said to the boss, sir I am a great woodcutter. I need a job and want to work at your timber factory. Unfortunately, he got the job. He was so happy because the pay was so high. His boos gave him a new Axe showed him the jungle where he supposed to work. He started work. the first day he cuts 15 trees, the second day he cuts 10 trees, day by day his performance was getting low, so he went to the boss and said sorry about my poor work. He says, sir, my performance getting low. Boss smiled and asked when was the last time you sharped your Axe. he surprised and said, sharp I don’t have time to Sharpe. After the day, the performance was getting better”

What I want to say here. Before starting work, you need a strategy. If he would think about the sharp Axe, he hadn’t conversation with the boss. I asked some opinions about smart work. The majority of people have misunderstanding they think if you are owning short cut ideas and things

get done very quickly. This is called smart work. Well, this isn’t true. The owing short cut isn’t a good idea. It might work sometime but not all the time. Smart people work by using skills. Their work gets done so easily on time.

Not having a clear concept, it makes you work so harder. Also, you are going to put a lot of time for a single project. how can you be a productive person? Abraham Lincoln has quote, once he said, “if I had six hours to cut down A tree, I would spend first four sharping the saw.” The hard worker people, they just think if I am putting a lot of hours on my work I will succeed. However, the reality is this isn’t how it works.

What are the tips to be a smart person? Now I am going to give you 10 more effective tips. In this way, you can replace bad habits by owning good habits. These tips will make your life easier and you become a smart worker.

1. Communicate with colleagues: you are working somewhere or doing entrepreneur. Look for some opportunities to work. As you get a good opportunity to start work with them. It is the best time to strengthen your communication and collaboration skills. When you do, your unnecessary time starts to reduce, and you become more knowledgeable. Also, keep in mind that if you have even little misunderstanding try to short right there. As your concept becomes stronger you will be more productive.

The best communicator is a good listener. So, I would say to enhance your listening skills. Stay on the topic when you are communicating with others. one of my interesting books is called a 4-hour workweek written by timothy Ferriss. He said smart people don’t write too much information while sending a message. Keep it simpler when you try to communicate with colleagues.

2. Make a routine about work: you can see, successful people always follow good habits. One of the most important they make a daily routine. Mike Murdock says, “The secret of the future is hidden in your daily routine.” When we make our routine, our brain takes as a task. I’m sure you will be failed in the beginning but once you become habitual for this. Your production gets increased.

this era, you can use technology. Set the reminder, in this, you can manage your daily routine. Following over and over again, you will have a habit. This means, at some point, you won’t need the reminder.

3. Set a deadline for any project: Most of the time, people get distracted by thinking or helping someone else. Which means, you are not giving priority to your project and spending a lot of time without any reason. I know you want to help someone but, in this way, you are putting yourself in danger. This habit won’t produce a result on time. Also, you will feel hopeless that is not good for you.

I would like to share my habit, focus on your work by setting up a deadline. If your colleague asks help, first give a little smile and say politely NO. after finishing it you can go say sorry, help them.

4. stop doing multitasking work: people are known as a multitasker. But truth is, the human is not able to perform multi work simultaneously. When they are saying I can, ignore them because they are just showing their selves in front of you. Neurologist Earl Miller said, “The brain is very good at deluding itself.” If you are shifting our attention from one to another very quickly. you are making a big mistake.

per my advice stop doing those things. It is just spending time too much time. Before working on a project try to take a long breath and try to focus on a project.

5. Learn from the past mistake: I have written a topic it may sound counterproductive. This is the truth. We always see our past success make ourselves comfortable. It is a good way to feel happy. What when you go on the project I would say, remind your past mistake what you did. Make a mistake list, commit yourself that you are not going to do that again. A very famous quote

“some of the best lessons are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom of the future.”

Dale Turner

Here I want to say, do not think as failure think you have learned something

6.Those work what you enjoy most: Do you know? if your passion becomes your career, nobody can stop you from success. I have seen most people who just work for money. That’s not a problem. But, not taking interest in the job, it will affect so many things such as low productivity, less confidence, less concentration, and steal your happiness. My single advice for you, do not work just for money, work for happiness and money. I read somewhere a very great quote.

Do those work what you enjoy most: Do you know? if your passion become your career, nobody can stop you from success. I have seen most people who just work for money. That’s not problems. But, not taking interest in the job, it will affect so many things such as low productivity, less confidence, less concentration, and steal your happiness. My single advises for you, do not work just for money, work for happiness and money. I read somewhere a very great quote

“if you do what you love you’ll never work a day in your life.” Mark Anthony

So, if you are not happy with the job, do two things. First, do what are you doing, and second improve interesting skills to get the dream job.

7. Measure the result not time When we get the project first thing comes in mind. how long does it take? Then we start to compare with the colleague. Bill gates said, “if you are comparing yourself with others, you are disrespecting yourself”. So, I would say do not compare at all. give some time and think about it how you are going to do that.

“Time isn’t the main thing. It’s the only thing.”

Miles Davis

it means you have the only goal to produce the product with quality without thinking time.

8. improve attitude adjustment: We all like to work in a positive environment. It means we need a team that has a positive attitude. with the help of a positive attitude, people can take incentive ideas whenever they want. They like to help colleagues when their colleagues stuck in a project. In this environment, they take the slack when someone is off sick, and make sure their job gets done on time. One of the best things they never complain at all. Because they like to go beyond and above.

“Each day, I come in with a positive attitude, trying to get better.”

Stefon Diggs: ---

A positive thinker always thinks that they are going to do a little better today.

alertness. Do you know? stress hiddenness our work performance, please don’t surprise, it is true. Relieving stress before going to work, it is a good idea.

American psychological association said that the best way to release stress by playing sport. Doing exercise every single day and playing sport will improve your concentration level.

“Set pace of mind as your highest goal and organize your life around it.”

Brain Tracy

Overall what I want to say that do not take stress about anything just do what are you doing.

easily. 2. Not taking stress, you can have very inactive ideas. 3. Making a daily routine, you will have more free time which you can spend with your family. 4. If you are adjusting your Attitude according to the atmosphere, people will respect you. 5. You will have a great idea that helps you to improve your position. 6. Having this idea, you will be more confident than now. 7. Having more free time, you can take care of your health. 8. You are not going to depend upon someone. 9. It will help you to improve your communication which is very important for this era. 10. you can convert complicated ideas into an easy one.

10. Automate more task: Successful people have a big secret. People make so many decisions at a single time, in the end, they get nothing. If you want to be a productive person just do not make a big amount of decision, it only gives you a headache. Making more decisions also unbalance your relationship. Unbalance lifestyle cannot make you happy.

What kinds of advantages do I get by following these 10 Tips? Here, I am going to give you tell you 10 benefits which you will get definitely. 1. by making fewer decisions, you can work done very

Some more discussion: You might be thinking that I honestly follow these 10 rules all the time. But I am not a productive person. My advice for those people,Have a glance at them. You may be missing something. Once you figure out, you become more successful than others.

People who are thinking to own these tips my advice for you, sometimes you get failed. But once you get habitual, you gradually become a productive man. one more thing, do not think I am going to follow these tips tomorrow. The truth is, it is not going to happen.

iXceed Solutions A Local Company With A Global Reach

Human resource is that distinguished part of an organization which puts its concerns into making up the workforce of an organisation. The department looks over various aspects of employment such as hiring, compliance with labor law and employment standards, administration of employee benefits, organizing of employee’s files with the required documents for future reference, employee engagement and satisfaction by promoting a vibrant company culture, encouraging open communication, recognising employees’ efforts and offering rewards to those who perform well on the job.

With growing time, companies tend to look for skilled workers which insist recruiters to stay one step ahead of the band. iXceed Solutions is a specialist provider of permanent, contract, temporary, and outsourced recruitment solutions that believes in bringing technology & talent together. Functional as a Global Manpower caterer in Technology, IT Consulting, Engineering consulting domains the company is very instrumental in providing their best to the European market.

A GLIMPSE OF THE CONGLOMERATE iXceed Solutions is a leading tech recruitment provider from UK to Fortune 500 companies globally focusing on Tech domains. iXceed has been functioning as one of the leading end-to-end recruitment solutions Internationally, now operational in the Indian market since early 2018. iXceed uses an efficient and robust process to develop solutions in the recruitment space. The solutions are primarily tech skill-based, and customer satisfaction is always based on the best fit for the industry. The company has a 40% growth currently with over £5M in revenue. It uses Artificial Intelligence-based recruitment solutions to create a best-in-class experience for both the clients and the candidates. Some of the marquee clients are as follows: Infosys, HCL, Oracle, Mindtree, NIIT, etc. iXceed expanded India operations early last year (2018) when Ms. Yogita Tulsiani, Co-Founder and Director took bat on. YOGITA TULSIANI Co-Founder & Director

Yogita possesses a decade of experience in Business Development and Consulting across various industries in Europe, US and APAC. Being a former leader at top tier organizations across the globe, she brings a wealth of experience to capitalize on long-term growth opportunities and align the company’s sales and support organizations with key clients.

MAKING A QUALITATIVE DIFFERENCE IN THE MARKET When it comes to being a milestone, every company has to have the urge to be better than others. To do so the company banks heavily on technology to introduce process efficiencies and create innovations. The company also focuses on chief areas of concern like unemployment due to technological gap, meeting demand for talent with polished cost effective talent solutions, create valuable relationships between clients & candidates and also connecting talent with global opportunities.

The company is highly influential and motivated to find the best manpower for their clients. Hence, to be a top notch as HR Recruiter iXceed Solutions uses technology led talent solutions using AI/ ML. It has a very robust and efficient process for talent solutions across various geographies namely: Europe, US & Asia. As they operate in tech talent, engaging talent the company tends to apprehend any demand from clients and gives suggestion on getting the best talent in the market. The company also runs RPO solutions, to look after offshore clients but keeps a very strong local knowledge and compliance with law-of-the-land.

HANDLING CHALLENGES OF THE INDUSTRY The recruitment provider industry is always filled with challenges as it has a huge competition. Some of them are Candidate and client engagement, Process inefficiencies, Gap between demand and supply. As such skilled workforce gets lost in oblivion. iXceed Solution focuses on this matter and gives the best manpower to its global clients through progressive technological solutions without any exception. Regular coaching is done to develop recruiter resilience and team success.

A TECHNOLOGICALLY ENHANCED CATERER OF TALENTED MANPOWER The company’s prime focus is to present the best in the fraternity and that gives them the drive to invest their economy to technology. This reduces the endeavor while bringing out the client requirements. For instance the AI powered software automatically finds previous applicants and grades them. It also creates video interviews to create multiple data points on facial expressions, choice of words and intonation to assess the candidate.

Machine Learning plays a responsible part in performing the back breaking parts of an interview like sorting out resume databases and finding the best fit for the open position and tracking recruiter actions towards candidate’s profile using machine learning algorithms and notifying the candidate of the same. ML also serves in identifying specific traits, experience, and skills that signify whether a candidate would be a good fit for the job profile at a company. Lastly, the AIs also help the recruiters to predict the qualitative effectiveness of candidates, by utilizing machine learning algorithms and applicant data.

SOCIAL APPROACHES TOWARDS SOCIETY The company believes on promoting the country’s culture it sets its foot on. As such it sponsors cultural events to propagate Indian culture in Europe. They also Sponsor events hosted by Indian High Commision in UK.

FUTURE PROSPECTS OF THE COMPANY iXceed Solutions is currently expanding in terms of clients, revenue, number of employees and offering set. By 2020, iXceed aims to be seen as an established and recognized force in the recruitment area in US and the Middle East market.

The company also believes start-ups for near future will be a good method of handling the on-going challenges of the industry. Even after technological progression and effective marketing strategies people don’t have whereabouts of opportunities they can miss so start-ups will break the barriers and counter the inefficiencies. Scaling up and brand building will be a challenge so it can be addressed with good candidate engagement & good customer engagement.

KEEPING PACE WITH THE MARKET “Indian market is going through exciting phase, lot of expansion opportunities are there” Says Yogita. India being one of the growing economies has a huge skilled workforce waiting for recognition and exposure. A margin of the same is looking for jobs abroad and as a global recruiter iXceed Solutions provides a lot of collaborative opportunities for good talent from India and since Work visas are relaxed in UK there are ample opportunities for collaborative growth.

MILESTONES TO BOAST OF The company has been the star partner of HCL Technologies. The company is the recipient of Certificate of Appreciation in 2014 Global Strengthening Partnership Conference. It has grabbed a Silicon India certificate for top 20 most promising recruitment consultants. Many famous media partners like Indian Management, India Today, Hindustan Times has promoted iXceed Solutions as a benchmark in technologically advanced recruitment consultant. The Asian Age has described iXceed Solutions as the best Recruitment consultant associating AI & ML.

CONCLUSION Lastly iXceed Solutions is a benchmark in the art of recruitment which combines Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to bridge the gap between clients and candidates. Candidates name this as “Committed”, “Supportive” and an “efficient” organization. Placing over 1 million candidates in 50+ countries in 15 verticals and having huge growth opportunities in their client community it has become the new face of modern recruitment operation.

PACE HR CONSULTING LLP A Strategic Partner to your Business

If you own a small or a mid-size growing business, there’s a high degree of possibility that you are overwhelmed with work and have no time to manage the day-to-day HR tasks. A professional HR Consultancy can ease things up when no HR expertise exists to look after your continuously growing HR functions. The right service can refine and upgrade performance reviews, help in process tracking, assist in setting the goal and helps management.

Business Connect in its new edition “The 10 Most Trusted HR Solution Providers in INDIA 2019” brings forward the story of ‘Pace HR Consulting LLP’ The company offers a range of customized, qualitative, and research-based HR outsourcing services to address the continuous needs of businesses across the nation.

We are in conversation with Ms. Priyanka Rautela Designated Partner Pace HR Consulting LLP.

WHAT IS ‘PACE HR CONSULTING’ MODEL OF WORKING? Pace HR Consulting LLP is a premier HR Consulting Company which focuses on professional recruitment services, training services as well as additional HR solutions to reduce HR costs and create a more successful, productive, and high-performing organizations. The company functions with a vision to help employers create an environment where people thrive and excel. It works at creating improved business performance through people, productivity and best practices. The company aims to be the leading provider of HR solutions for corporate, helping to create a more successful, productive, and high-performing organizations.

IS ‘PACE’ ALL ABOUT HR’? HR firms can bring structure, order, and professionalism to your business. In the last few years, HR outsourcing has emerged as a dependable way for businesses to reduce the cost of operations, minimize wastage, structure the internal process and focus on core business operations.

The Pace is all about HR. From acquisition to retention, the team understands the key behavior antecedents & uses the concept of Behavioral Science to solve the most challenging problems. PACE pioneered the concept of Behavioral Engineering with a motto of ‘influencing decision making’ using Analytics, does extensive research & curate HR cases/concepts. It assists enterprises in managing change & meeting organization goals while maintaining their HR in the most engaging and interactive manner. Working with Pace HR helps overcome a rough phase of transition. Remember, choosing the right people can magically increase the company’s performance.

WHAT IS YOUR COMPANY OFFERING NEW TO THE MARKET? We understand clients’ business needs and derive HR needs from them. We also curate case studies and create research-based content that everyone wants to hear. We are the only organization to use behavioral science, design thinking to solve the toughest behavioral problems and create winning solutions for businesses. Additionally, we provide complete 360’ solutions to organizations. Besides these, we have created success stories with enterprises and people that are worth giving attention. Moreover, we talk to millennial in the language they understand, via content, events and social media to create an amazing narration for our clients.

turn leads to better decision making. In this competitive environment without R&D, you soon become obsolete.

WHAT ARE THE CHALLENGES OF THE HR INDUSTRY? HOW IS YOUR COMPANY COPING WITH THEM? Some of the major challenges faced by human resource managers are:- 1. Recruitment and Selection 2. Emotional and Physical Stability of Employees 3. Balance Between Management and Employees 4. Training & Development. 5. Performance Appraisal We are focused on the quality and TAT which helps the organization to pick up the right talent within timeline for their manpower requirements. We help our clients to give Training program basis TNA.

HOW HAS PACE GROWN OVER THE YEARS? Over the years various businesses, telecom industries, Banking & financial sectors have built up a professional relationship with the team of Pace.

Our businesses gain is because of the competency we bring along. We offer customized services, bring a fresh perspective to HR solutions. Besides these, we also help our client to find top talent to grow the team and increase the number of customers who can be served. All of these helps in increased productivity, profitability, and reduced risk for our clients. Their profit is our growth.

WHAT MILESTONES AND ACHIEVEMENTS DO THE COMPANY BOAST OF? Over the years we have seen a rapid rise in growth rate. Our numbers are increasing significantly. We are growing 30% YOY in terms of Hiring Numbers.

HOW DO YOU KEEP UP THE PACE WITH THE CHANGING MARKET TRENDS? We need to change with the growing market. There is competition around and every company has to keep upgrading their skill sets by learning new techniques, understanding the latest use of newly developed technical models and be on the top of the communication. Social media has changed the way we look at the world. There’s so much it has to offer and there’s hidden unutilized potential. We at PACE use Social Media platforms to attract the right Talent for Right Job and Expanding Skill Set of our employees by continuous training, orientation, and induction.

HOW DO YOU INVEST IN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT? Yes. Research and Development has a very big role to play in any organization. Through R&D we get to know the latest trend. This helps us in better planning which in

WHAT ARE THE COMPANY’S FUTURE PROSPECTS? We are planning to work for FMCG/FMCD and IT domain soon.

HOW DO YOU SEE THE FUTURE OF STARTUPS IN YOUR INDUSTRY? As the industry is growing, a startup has huge potential to create their own space provided they choose the client wisely looking at their own strong skills.

A MESSAGE FROM MRS. PRIYANKA RAUTELA (DESIGNATED PARTNER): To hire, train, engage and retain talent within an organization is a time consuming costly affair for small size businesses. With our tremendous experience in the recruitment industry, we look forward to develop our clients business by helping them to find the right talent. Moreover, we feel happy and satisfied when our client’s business needs are fulfilled by our HR services.

TOP TRENDS FOR FOOD AND BEVERAGE INDUSTRY BUSINESSES

If there is one thing that is constant in foodservice then it is only changing, change is constant in this industry. Every year brings new wrinkle like 2019, therefore fresh food trend in 2020 is the center of attraction in the F&B industry. The Best innovative trends in F&B industry, that were not even foreseen in 12 months are the center of talk for every entrepreneur that is part of the industry. This question goes into the mind of the food industry that “What’s the next?” to encompass all the developments that are both current and structural in long run will continue to affect the industry for years to come and presently.

The year 2019 has witnessed to be immense in terms of growth and complex patterns in the global F&B industry. We will structure some of the top food and beverage industry trends that were prominent in 2019 and will continue into 2020.

CHANGING CONSUMER PREFERENCES Similar to 2019, bold and exotic flavors, snacking, and health and wellness are still at the forefront for consumer food preferences in the upcoming year 2020. However, this time this will happen in a more elevated way. All the consumers want fortified and functional foods, which are balanced and good for health. Recently, the customers are looking for the food that fuels their brains and benefit their physical appearance. Grocery shelves will continue to be stacked with products like health beneficiary products, which provide additional functionality to consumers’ bodies.

The changing customer’s preferences also add to the consumer’s plate that they also want food, which is not only good for them but also good for others. Whether the food they want to eat is a product that reflects simply its nutrition and benefit or is in environmentally friendly packaging. More than millennials, Generation-Z consumers are “clean eaters” they like live kitchens. They also have a strong interest in knowing everything and not only what the product is but how it is made and by whom. Transparency of food is required as a constant change; this is how it came into top trends for food and beverages.

With today’s instant access to information, if a consumer can’t understand or find out where and how a product is made and what’s in it, they’ll be more inclined to leave it behind. The rise of clean labels and sustainability efforts will continue, but so will the rise of positive branding by companies that are leading in being good and also doing good.

FOOD SAFETY AND TRANSPARENCY Another trend in Technology for Food Industry is food safety. Most consumers nowadays demand to know more about the food they eat and its value. Food safety issues are costing the food and beverage industry billions each year. This thing will be more important than ever for the Food industry to pinpoint safety issues immediately. Some of the technologies like blockchain will continue to gain traction. Companies will move beyond trying to understand what blockchain is, to figuring out how to be a part of it. A survey of middle-market food and beverage chief financial officers found that just 12 percent are currently using blockchain in this industry. But that number will increase as more industries become aware of block chain’s benefits across the entire food chain from the grower to the manufacturer, distributors and beyond.

ROBOTICS & USE OF AUTOMATED GUIDED VEHICLES The food and beverage industry is greatly interested in Robotics Technologies and Automated guided vehicles, where they replace human beings. With the rise of both techniques in the hotel industry the per capita income, living standards and labor standards were increased. The cost of acquiring labors has seen a sharp rise and it suffices the needs gratefully. Robots can do tasks perfectly which are to be repeated consistently. This will reduce human errors in the execution phase.

During mass production, tons of products and cartons need to be moved from one place to another. In-house stock movement can be a hectic task if a limited labor force is available. Automated Guided Vehicles can transport goods from one place to another if pick and drop coordinates are well defined. This provides speedy transportation with maximum efficiency for goods movement.

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Special Edition January 2020 | Business Connect

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