SUMMARY OF PROCEEDINGS: COIMBATORE

The 10th forum of the Business Leadership Series presented by Reliance Commercial Finance and powered by ebay.in took place on 19th December 2014 at Hotel Le Meridien, Coimbatore in the presence of over 75 SMEs.

The workshop stated with lamp lighting ceremony by Mr. N. Ramasamy- Managing Director Sri Seethalakshmi Steel Castings Pvt. Ltd., Mr. Palanisamy- Managing Partner Molding Technologies Incorporation, Mr. Chinmay Dhoble-Head- Retail & SME Credit and Mr. Vinod Kumar Country Manager & Senior Partner – India & Middle East -SDRC INDIA ADVISORS LLP.

Ms. Sushma Morthania, Director General, India SME Forum, shared that the Indian Entrepreneur constantly strives and struggles to maintain a balancing act to overcome challenging business situations single handed. With business leadership series, ISF aims at felicitating the scope of growth and expansion of the eligible SMEs.

The first session was initiated by Mr.Vinod Kumar, insisted that ‘money grows on trees’ and he linked it to a person without formal qualifications turning into a business tycoon. He also stated to “Treat your business like your baby” here, he connected the baby’s growth to the business growth and the nurturing that one would provide for expansion.

In the second session Mr. Kumar explained “Getting more for less” by mentioning case studies of SMEs who have notched up a sizeable business for themselves and have ability to scale up as well as grow further.

The participants also interacted among themselves to analyze real life business situations and arrive at a compelling conclusion which helped them to be in the right path ahead for every given business stage.
The session concluded by one-to-one interactive session with the mentor, where assembled entrepreneurs participated enthusiastically to clear their doubts on various aspects of funding, branding and managing growth for profitability.