Direction (next five questions) : Rearrange the following seven sentence (A), (B) (C), (D) , (E),(F) and (G) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph, then answer the given questions.
(A) These companies have long seen the US market as the scene of a battle for distribution, where they must secure placement for their products in the fastest growing retail channels just to maintain their share of a pie that’s not getting bigger.
(B) Companies can thus generate above-average growth in the United State by not only taking market share from competitors, but also making targeted investments in these specific product categories.
(C) Somewhat surprisingly, a number of cities in developed markets, including the United States and Western Europe, are growing as rapidly as those in emerging markets.
(D) Our analysis forecasts that between 2014 and 2025, certain product categories will grow at almost twice the rate of overall US consumer spending.
(E) But this no-growth, or, at best, low-growth, picture isn’t entirely accurate.
(F) Most CPG companies have had very low expectations for growth in the US market.
(G) Companies that ignore these cities could be missing out on opportunities, very close to home.
Directions (next five questions) : Read the sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. Select the part with the error as your answer. If there is no error, select ‘No error’ as your answer (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any.)
Directions (Next Ten Questions) : In the following passage, there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each, five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case.
The rise of Asian manufactures in the 1990s hit African firms hard; many were wiped out. Northern Nigeria, which once had a ….(Question 1)…garments industry, was unable to…..(Question 2)…with low-cast imports. South Africa has similar problems; its manufacturing failed to grow last year….(Question 3)….the continental boom.
This is partly the ….(Question 4)…of governments. Buoyed by commodity income, they have neglected industry’s needs….(Question 5)…for roads and electricity. But that, too, may at last be changing. Wolfgang Fengler, a world Bank economist, says, “Africa is now in a good position to industrialise with the right mix of ingredients”. This includes…(Question 6)…demography, urbanization, an emerging middle class and strong services. “ For this to happen, “ he adds, “the continent will need to scale up its infrastructure…(Question 7)…and improve the business climate and many (African) countries have started to…(Question 8)…these challenges in recent years.”
Kenya is not about to become…(Question 9)…next South Korea. African countries are likely to follow a more diverse path, benefitting from the growth of countless small and medium sized businesses, as well as some big ones. For the next decade or so, services will still generate more jobs and wealth in Africa than manufacturing. Which is fine. India has….(Question 10)…for more than two decades on the back of services while steadily building a manufacturing sector from a very low base. Do not bet against Africa doing the same.