Editor’s Note: The relevance of financial journalism
At Profit, we see it as our role to ensure that those rays of optimism that one may feel from the generally positive long-term...
Editor’s Note: The great chasm
The median age of Pakistan is less than 24 years. Ours is one of the youngest countries in the world, and one governed by...
Editor’s note: Clicks but not without bricks
Yes, digital is the future in all sectors, including banking. Yes, Standard Chartered has a bit of a first movers advantage within the sector;...
Editor’s Note: Of a lack of imagination and unsold shirts
Pakistan’s retail market. Sound out anyone, not just within the country, but also abroad, you’ll hear the same optimism about it. “135 Million Millennials...
Editor’s Note: Immovable, like set cement
A cat might have nine lives but Dewan Group’s Dewan Yousuf seems to have thirteen. And counting.The banks, to whom he owes quite a...
“Look Ma, no profits!”
Farooq Tirmizi, our contributing editor isn’t too confident about the viability of Daraz.pk, as is plain to see in his write-up on page 22.And...
Editor’s Note: ‘He’s a pleasure to work with’
In our edition dated June 10, 2018, Profit did an evaluation of the respective economic agendas of the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) and the Pakistan...
No, Prime Minister, the problem is you (Editorial)
The premiership of Imran Khan is what happens when the collective wisdom of upper middle class drawing rooms in Pakistan comes to life and...
Editor’s Note: The dangers of misinformation
It used to be that companies would hire public relations firms to manage their image in the media by trying to put the best...
Keeping fingers crossed
Things aren’t too bad on the foreign exchange reserves front. At $22.4 billion, our reserves seem to be sitting pretty; higher than they have...
Editor’s Note: Outsourcing: What is it good for?
If there is one theme that dominates this issue of Profit, it is unquestionably outsourcing. Our cover story explores Pakistan’s miniscule business process outsourcing...
Editor’s Note: The fourth factor
In his now seminal tome The Wealth of Nations, Scottish economist Adam Smith posited that there were three major factors of production in an...
LEAP OF FAITH
Johnny and Jugnu, a local burger joint has of late taken Lahore by storm. As tempting as it sounds, that, however, is not the...
Editors Note: Rich, yes, but how rich?
“If you can count your money, you don’t have a billion dollars.” J.Paul GettyForbes Magazine has an obsession with the world’s billionaires. The publication’s...
Editor’s Note: A culture of accountability
Business journalism in Pakistan has historically been a loser beat, and in most news organisations, it still is. And come to think of it,...
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