Portal:Business/Did you know/2

• ...that Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, chairman of Biocon, is India's richest woman?

• ...advertising management is a function of marketing starting from market research, continuing through advertising, leading to actual sales or achievement of objectives?

• ... that a value-added service (VAS) is a telecommunications industry term for non-core services or, in short, all services beyond standard voice calls?

• ...that EID Parry is one of the oldest business entities in the Indian subcontinent and owes its origin to Thomas Parry, a Welshman who came to India in late 1780s?

• ... that an agrarian society is one that is based on agriculture as its prime means for support and sustenance?

• ... that the expression Hindu rate of growth is used to refer to the low annual growth rate of the economy of India, which stagnated around 3.5% from 1950 to 1980?

• ...that Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Daron Acemoğlu received the 2005 John Bates Clark Medal for his work on Skill Acquisition and Technological Change, Investment and Growth, Directed Search and Unemployment, The Role of Institutions in Economic Development and Political Economy?