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Fortune 500 co to support Mumbai slum

Fortune 500 co to support Mumbai slum

Slum-dwellers of Santosh Nagar, Goregaon (Mumbai), will soon be business partners with a Fortune 500 American company (name yet to be disclosed) that plans to invest money to set up a nutrition unit at the slum as a pilot project.

Eventually, the company plans to expand this model and even set up a factory on a national scale where other slum communities too could partner with it.

The model came to life with a business plan that was jointly devised by management students of S P Jain Institute of Management and Research and BoP (Base of the Pyramid) Protocol Project consultants, Cornell University, U.S. named the BoP Protocol, the plan aimed at providing a business development approach that facilitates commercial partnerships between multinational corporations and BoP.

Companies too benefit from such models since they spend a fraction of what they would otherwise be spending on research and development.

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