A recent trend I’d like to share is that of companies located in the Narasapura-Hoskote industrial corridor looking for branch office space in KR Puram.

Lots of them are automotive suppliers who want to be near their large clients in Narasapura, but also want a prestigious and convenient office space within Bangalore City for meetings with top executives and other new clients.

This surge in demand for a branch office is probably fueled by the huge investments being made in Narasapura by Indian automotive and aerospace companies, and the arrival of some of the world’s largest companies.

For example, Apple contractor Wistron, a Taiwan-based tech giant, has acquired 43 acres of land in Narasapura, and plans to invest Rs. 1,947 crore in Bengaluru for manufacturing mobile phones, IoT devices and biotech equipment. They will attract a huge supply chain, many of whom will be looking for a branch office to house their own leadership and back office teams.

Then there’s Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India, which has its largest two-wheeler manufacturing plant in the country in Narasapura, with a capacity to produce 24 lakh two-wheelers. Honda has invested over Rs. 5,400 crore in this plant, with a massive economic impact that includes a projected 22,000 direct and indirect jobs.

Then there’s Mahindra Aerospace, Scania, Exedy Clutch India Pvt ltd, and Volvo (in Hoskote). What are the benefits of these Narsapura-Hoskote companies getting a branch office in KR Puram?

1. Prestigious location within Bangalore City limits.

The location is ideal for travel to and from most places in the city including the airport, Whitefield, Indira Nagar, MG Road, Marathahalli and other parts of East Bangalore. Not to mention the short 5-min drive to Hoskote.

2. Ability to house and expand office teams without blocking manufacturing space.

Suppliers with factories in Hoskote and Narasapura want to use as much space as they can for manufacturing, and their office space is small and cramped. Move to a professional office space nearby to avoid blocking up your valuable manufacturing space.

3. Executive office spaces for leadership, sales and administration teams.

Your top management expects a better quality of life, so their offices should be in a nice location and luxurious enough to match their position. Move you administration, sales and other functions to a nice set of offices in the city.

4. Easy access to manufacturing units in Narasapura-Hoskote corridor.

While it’s good to in the city, your office space should also be located close to the manufacturing units so that you can visit at any time you want.

5. Managed offices and five-star hospitality.

Having your own office in the city is different from a managed space where all you have to do is show up to work. Everything from a swimming pool to food, drinks, gym and meeting spaces, and maintenance are available with a single call.

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Apart from keeping the door open for anyone who wants to talk, we engage with staff in a variety of ways. These are some employee engagement tips that will help you combine leisure activities for employees with more productivity, business and branding for your organization.

1. Weekly or monthly office lunches.

The single most effective tip for employee engagement you can do is to have lunch with them as often as you can. It won’t be possible to have working lunches with all of them, but it’s very effective in building a working relationship.

The best way to make use of this is to have group lunches on a regular basis with your staff – maybe once a week or at least once in a month. If there are too many people for a group lunch, you can divide them into groups and have lunch once a week with each group.

Corporate lunch menu at Evoma Hotel, Bangalore.

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2. Celebrate birthdays, weddings and anniversaries.

Another great way to engage with employees is to make it a practice to have a small party at the end of the day for birthdays, weddings and anniversaries. You won’t get together for cake, snacks and drinks without a reason.

But if there’s a birthday every other day, it becomes a kind of tradition to enjoy a party and talk as a group in this way. The same can apply for weddings, anniversaries and other such occasions where everyone joins the celebration of each employee’s happy moments.

Birthday Parties and Weddings at Evoma Hotel, Bangalore.

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3. Celebrate holidays and festivals.

We gather as a single and unified Evoma Team to celebrate almost every public holiday and major festival. Flag hoisting on Republic Day and Independence Day; puja and sweet boxes for everyone on religious holidays such as Vinayaka Chaturthi, Durga Puja, Diwali and Varamahalakshmi; and our famous annual 300kg-cake mixing ceremony before Christmas.

4. Team building exercises and outings.

Evoma being a corporate event venue and resort makes it ideal for team outings and corporate retreats. So we have own team building exercises regularly, and everyone participates. Unlike fire drills, these team get-togethers are a whole lot of fun and we get to know everyone a lot better.

Outdoor team building outings at Evoma Hotel, Bangalore.

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5. Health camps, volunterism and CSR.

We’re very enthusiastic about CSR, and not just because it’s good business. Evoma and all our employees are actually out front and center for any charitable events that come our way. Blood Donation camps, educational symposiums, and donation of left-over food are some of the things we do here at Evoma. We also set up medical camps to provide free health and eye checkups for everyone.

Charitable event looking for venue? Evoma Hotel, Bangalore.

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6. Group entertainment and musical programs by employees.

We have an outdoor poolside venue where weddings and parties are held. There are DJs and rock bands that play regularly during these events and holiday parties such as New Year’s Eve. We make use of it to offer our employees their 15 minutes of fame to show off their musical talent. Everyone has a good time, and it makes for wonderful employee engagement.

Poolside rock music and parties at Evoma Hotel, Bangalore.

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7. Offer referral bonuses to employees.

Many of our employees and former employees continue to bring Evoma new business because we provide referral bonuses. They know the Evoma facilities are good, so when someone needs an office or event space, we’re the first name that comes to mind. It doesn’t happen by itself – you have to talk to your employees and encourage them to refer their friends, family and neighbors and collect the referral bonus.

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The couples and families who come to Evoma to book their wedding hall ask us questions about all this and more. But the one thing that is the most important to everyone is this – What is the budget going to be for all this?

In this article, we attempt to share with you the most recent wedding budget trends and statistics, so you know how big the wedding industry is in India, how much is being spent, and what is the average spend. This can help you set your own wedding budget, and plan for marriages in the near future.

1. Number of weddings taking place in India.

There may be fewer weddings in some months due to a lack of auspicious dates. The most auspicious dates are found between late October and December, so this is commonly known as the Indian wedding season. All told, there are about 30,000 weddings taking place¹ per day, on average, in India. That works out to over 9 lakh weddings per month, and more than 10 million per year.

2. Estimated budget and spending at Indian weddings.

On average, the Indian family (on the girl’s side) will spend 20% of their wealth, at that time, for a wedding, that takes place in the average Indian family once in 20 years. The total value of the Indian wedding industry is estimated² to be in excess of $50 billion, second only to the U.S. wedding industry ($70 billion).

Estimated spending per wedding may typically vary from Rs. 5-10 lakh at the lower end, and up to Rs. 5 crore for high-end luxury arrangements, depending on the size (people attending), location, bridal gold jewelry and clothing budget, food and drinks menu, and most importantly – the number of days (1 to 5 days).

3. Breakup of Indian wedding budget costs.

The three big-ticket items at an Indian wedding are the wedding hall or kalyana mandap where you hold the marriage ceremony and then the reception, then the catering costs (per plate x number of guests), and the bridal gold and jewelry.

Wedding Hall: Daily rental of between Rs. 10,000 to Rs. 5 lakh, depending on type (mandapa, hotel, convention center, outdoor ground, etc.) and location within city.

Catering: Per plate cost of between Rs. 350 to Rs. 2,000 (about Rs. 200 difference for veg and non-veg). A dedicated kalyana mandapa where they have a cooking crew available only for weddings will cost between Rs. 350-550 at the lower end, while a luxury 5-star hotel will charge you Rs. 1800-2000. Evoma, for the record, is a 4-star luxury hotel in Bangalore where the typical per plate rate for wedding catering is Rs. 499.

Bridal gold and jewelry: More than half of the 900 tons of gold purchased annually in India is bought³ during the wedding season, with an average of 30-40 grams per wedding. As of now, the cost per gram is Rs. 3,237 (24 carat, 99.99% pure). This means the cost of gold alone works out to between Rs. 1 lakh to Rs. 1.3 lakh, on average. This is not including the making charges, and all the existing gold that the girl and her family will have collected for 20 years to ensure that there is enough gold jewelry at the time of marriage.

Apart from this, you have wedding day clothes and apparel, event planning costs (wedding planner), hotel accommodation, decorations, stage, lighting, videographer, gifts for guests, floral arrangements and lighting, transportation, etc.

All inclusive cost for a typical 1-day wedding in India will work out to Rs. 5-10 lakh in a 2^nd tier city, and between 25-50 lakhs in a metropolitan city.

References:

1. The Flourishing Indian Wedding Industry – Indian Retailer

2. Fascinating Indian Wedding Industry Statistics – BrandonGaille

3. How technology is changing Indian weddings – BBC

4. Discover everything you need to plan your big day – WeddingWire

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In order to go off smoothly, each event has to be planned far ahead of time. Everything from the parking to security, catering and seating arrangements need to be carefully managed to optimize use of event space and convenience of attendees.

We work with event managers and corporate executives of the largest multi-nationals as well as domestic firms located in Bangalore and India, so I want to share some of the tools and software they use.

To create and manage beautiful and memorable events, make use of these event management software for planning, automating tasks, and collection of feedback for post-event analysis and reports.

1. Bizzabo for real-time event management.

Bizzabo Events Cloud is the 21^st century version of event management software used by companies such as KPMG, GE and Amazon. You can build event marketing programs, provide a brand experience online, manage event registration, and create communities.

Integrate Bizzabo with all your existing software and systems, including CRMs such as Salesforce and Hubspot, and your sales and marketing platforms such as Pardot and Marketo. Real-time reporting to monitor the metrics, and performance-evaluation based on these reports and your pre-set goals.

In fact, you can monitor attendee behavior and make real-time tweaks that will improve the event experience for your attendees. Find out more at bizzabo.com.

2. Eventbrite to target world’s largest event community.

Eventbrite is the world’s largest online event community, powering ticketing and registration for millions of events. There are hundreds of thousands of event organizers already on the platform, who can quickly and easily create an event page and start inviting people.

It makes event marketing ridiculously easy. You can create an event and start selling tickets in minutes, and reach Eventbrite’s 50 million active ticket buyers. It has built-in event promotion and social sharing tools, and you can use their integration to invite attendees and/or sell tickets on your website or on Facebook.

You can create a 100% mobile optimized event page, and use the Eventbrite mobile app to scan and sell tickets, and track entry, in real-time. Find out more at eventbrite.com.

3. OSEM for free open source event management software.

This free and open-source software allows you to modify the source code to customize as per your event requirements. Create a splash page, plus detailed presentations and an overview of all the sessions. Run a call for paper submissions, manage registration, and a dashboard to help you stay on top of event administration. Find out more at osem.io.

4. Cvent for MICE event management.

Cvent is a meetings, events and hospitality technology provider that serves over 25,000 customers over more than 300,000 users from all over the world. Cvent Event Cloud is a popular event management software used widely in the hospitality sector by MICE providers, including event venues and management companies.

Cvent vastly simplifies and automates the entire event planning process. You can make use of their tools for everything from venue selection to online event registration, marketing, and mobile apps for events. Make use of attendee tracking and feedback features to generate reports and analysis, and to judge how successful the event was as per your stated goals. Find out more at cvent.com.

5. Zoho Backstage for large-scale meetings and events.

Whether it’s a product launch, trade show or convention, Zoho Backstage makes it easy to manage these large-scale events. Customize a unique event website with its own domain and secure SSL certification, add customizable banner ads for promotion, and use the drag and drop interface to create a detailed schedule.

Make the event website available in multiple languages, and use powerful sharing features to reach your targeted event audience on social media. Everything from event registration to ticketing and event promotion can be managed and scaled for events of varying size. Find out more at zoho.com.

6. Events Manager plugin for WordPress.

Events Manager is a full-featured WordPress plugin that allows you to create customer post types for events and locations. Features include easy event management, registration, creation of multiple tickets, bookings management, multisite support, guest or member content submissions, setting of custom event attributes such as a dress code, integration of Google calendar buttons, customizable templates, etc. Find out more on wordpress.org.

7. Slack apps for event management.

You’re probably already slacking off at work, so all you have to do is start making use of the Slack Eventbot Calendar. You can create events directly in Slack. Every channel has its own event calendar (just type /events to get a list of events that have been posted on the channel). Eventbot will remind the channel, and you can see a weekly summary of upcoming events.

You can also add a slack app for event management to your channel such as Wrike, Eventzilla, or Attendease. Slack is a very useful platform for team communication and collaboration, but it becomes extremely powerful when you integrate apps that allow you to stay within slack while doing your job. Find out more on slack.com.

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In addition to being a Bangalore event venue for conferences, meetings and training sessions, Evoma also provides interview rooms for recruitment drives by corporate customers and our own members who rent office space at our business centers.

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Our own recruitment and hiring process at Evoma requires interviews almost every day to fill the hundreds of hotel jobs for our business hotel, and the operations teams at our four business centers in Bangalore.

This interview preparation checklist for employers is based on our own experience, and handling all the interview-related requests that our member businesses ask for.

1. Select the right location and venue for the interview.

The location where you conduct your interviews says a lot about what kind of candidates will show up. A small or medium business that operates out of a factory may find it hard to attract top-tier candidates from metro cities to an industrial area in another city.

Ideally, the location should be in the city from where you want to hire talent. The venue should be easy accessible to all the candidates, close to major transportation hubs. For example, Evoma OMR is ideally located on the highway, just 20 minutes from Whitefield, Byappanahalli Metro, Indiranagar and other areas in East Bangalore that both employers and employees will find convenient.

The driveway, outdoor pool and garden, luxury hotel atmosphere and professional staff and facilities also make a good first impression, which is critical for hiring the best candidates out of those who show up.

2. Arrange for free shuttles or reimbursement for transportation to all the invited candidates.

Another thing that attracts the top candidates suitable for the open position is free transportation. Someone who is busy at their current job, and doesn’t have a lot of free time, will not want to spend their own money to come for the interview.

But they’ll be motivated to make the effort if you can provide reimbursement for expenses, or at least provide a shuttle to pick up and drop off candidates to and from the interview location to the nearest metro station.

3. Arrange for waiting space large enough for all the invited candidates.

The last thing an interview candidate wants to do is come to the venue and find out it’s already crowded and there’s no room to sit down. In addition to the board room or meeting room where you are conducting interviews, you must have access to a large waiting room or reception that can seat all your candidates who have down come for the interview.

If possible, make sure this space, and your interview room, are air-conditioned. You don’t want future employees to start sweating before they’re grilled by you during the interview. That should only happen after they walk in to talk with you.

4. Make sure you have reception staff to field calls and talk to candidates who show up.

Interview candidates typically have a lot of doubts and questions after they arrive at the venue. They want to let you know they have arrived, and what should they do next? More questions that people coming for an interview might ask are listed below.

5. Arrange for beverages, snacks and meals for candidates while they wait.

After the first 10-15 minutes of waiting, an interview candidate will start feeling restless. If you want them to stay alert and eager to do well, it’s important to keep them well fed. Provide tea, coffee, cold drinks and refreshments. If the wait time extends beyond 12:00 noon, then you must also arrange for lunch for everyone who is still waiting.

6. Ensure there are restrooms within the premises for candidates.

The one thing that is a must-have is at least one restroom each for male and female candidates. It’s a necessity to have on within the premises, on the same floor if possible. It also makes a big impression on the candidates, who need to use the restroom and freshen up while waiting.

7. Make use of a queue management system to call candidates just in time for the interview.

On top of all the aforementioned interview tips for employers, you might also want to consider making use of a queue management system (such as VirtuaQ) to allow your candidates to schedule their interview appointment. The system sends them an SMS token that gives them a number and a time at which they should come.

If there are any changes, delay or preponement, then the QMS will send out another notification via SMS to let the candidate know of the change in time. Either way, the point is that they don’t have to come and wait all day long. A candidate may come just in time, wait for 5-10 min before the interview, and leave as soon as it’s done.

It’s less of an ordeal for scared candidates. For the employer, it reduces the cost of handling a room full of interview candidates. As an event venue that benefits from such waits, we don’t have to share such secrets.

But a successful recruitment drive that benefits our clients’ interest is what we aim for – more so than selling additional event venues to clients who are already renting interview rooms.

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Why would you spend 8 years of your life in a place you don’t like to be in, counting the seconds? At Evoma, we want you to enjoy these 8 years, and remember them as the best years of your life.

That’s why we take a lot of trouble with office improvement, to provide some work-life balance for the companies located at our business centers in Bangalore.

How do we do it? Here’s a list that highlights our office improvement techniques, based on our experience making your business come alive.

1. Zero commute stress. Scenic location.

Evoma OMR is located in a wide-open space that is easily accessible from anywhere in East Bangalore – 20-30 minutes from both Whitefield and MG Road, and everything in between. Four-lane highway outside, with lots of greenery and lakes on either side.

There’s zero commute stress, because coming to Evoma is actually a very nice ride. You can enjoy the scenic drive – with no massive traffic jams that take hours to get through.

2. Don’t just work. Workout in the office gym.

You don’t just exercise your mind and your fingers on laptops, and mobile phones when you’re working at Evoma. You also workout in the rooftop gym.

It’s a busy life for executives and tech workers, so you may not find time to hit the gym in the morning or evening. But if you have 10 minutes before lunch, or in between meetings, we have a very nice and fully equipped gym waiting for you.

3. Cool off with a lap in the pool.

Instead of or in addition to a workout, you may want to take a refreshing dip and a couple of laps in the swimming pool.

It’s in the garden, well protected by tall palms and plenty of greenery. Nice temperature, and a lovely pool with crystal clear water waiting for you.

4. Poolside breakfast and WiFi, or a full breakfast buffet.

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and we’d like you to break bread with us. Well, it’s not just bread.

You’ll enjoy the breakfast at Evoma so much that your family will wonder what’s going on – why aren’t you eating at home, and why are you going to work so early?

Bring your family along, so they can get a taste of the healthy Evoma breakfast too.

5. Greenery inside your office.

It’s time to start work, so will you be forced to miss the outdoors for the next four hours?

If you can’t be outside, we’ll bring it in for you. It’s also, not coincidentally, supposed to be good for workplace vastu.

6. Greenery out the window.

We make it a point to design and improve office spaces in such a way that your workplace includes a nice green view outside, and we have plenty of flora (and some fauna) indoors as well.

Having a working environment that blends in with the surrounding nature outside will increase productivity.

7. Hang out with the fish by the water fountain.

Right outside the main entrance, we have a water fountain and fish pond, with a nice little rustic bridge that leads into the garden.

If you need a break, head for the fish pond and talk to them (yes…that’s what a lot of us do…).

Hang out with the fish, take a nice walk in the garden, and head back to work fully refreshed.

8. Want fish for lunch. Is there a good restaurant nearby?

Time for lunch, so where are we eating today? What’s on the menu? Is the food any good? Is there going to be a crowd during lunchtime? Will you get a table to sit and have a nice lunch?

There’s no need to ask all these questions at Evoma. We have 4 restaurants downstairs, and a crack squad in the kitchen who can make anything you want – instantly.

This on top of the daily buffet lunch and catered meals that we provide to our member companies and their employees.

9. After-office drinks with the team. Where’s the nearest bar?

Another four hours of work, and it’s time to start enjoying the evening. Is there a trendy and happening bar, cafe or club where you and the rest of the gang can chill and relax? That would be the UV Bar.

Expert bartenders who can hit you with nice, tall and cold drinks that will make you forget your worries and have a very good time.

The drinks menu, from the UV Bar menu, including the world’s best rum, vodka, whiskey, sparkling wines, and your preferred choice of beer.

10. Don’t want this day out at the office to end. Can I stay over?

It’s the end of our day out in the office, and now you want to do nightouts at Evoma.

A lot of our company founders and employees refuse to go home until they finish their projects.

Just for these night owls, we have microwaves, all night food and drinks served in the restaurant downstairs.

The four-star Hotel Evoma is under the same roof, with luxury hotel rooms and suites. You can say you’re busy working hard while snoring on a King Bed, in front of a large wallscreen television with a cricket or football match on, or a movie you like – on-demand.

This is how we spend our day out working at Evoma, where business meets leisure. What about you? Call now (08041903000) to get an office in Bangalore.

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It’s important for us, because it’s these suppliers (the small and medium businesses that are vendors for the large manufacturers) who are our customers that rent office space.

What I’m going to do here is create individual Google maps showing the supply chains that have come up around the locations of the large manufacturers such as Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd, UTC Aerospace Systems, and Toyota Kirloskar.

Then we’ll take a look at how we provide office space for rent designed to meet the fast-changing needs of this interconnected aeronautical and automotive industry clusters of manufacturers, suppliers, and mobility tech startups.

1. Hindustan Aeronautics Limited cluster in Bangalore.

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), headquartered in Bengaluru, is a public sector unit owned by the Government of India, under management of the Ministry of Defence. With more than 32,000 employees, HAL manufactures helicopters, aircraft, jet engines and aeronautical / aerospace components across facilities in seven cities, including Bangalore.

As per the latest available data, HAL generated Rs. 17,406 crore ($2.6 billion) in annual revenue, which resulted in a net income of $400 million. The economic impact of HAL’s operations in Bangalore, however, is much wider. The number of indirect jobs and economic activity through suppliers alone would be enough to match the GDP of a mid-sized Indian city.

The map below shows HAL’s largest campus in Bangalore, near Indranagar, surrounded by a large cluster of aerospace companies that are part of the HAL supply chain.

International Aerospace Manufacturing Pvt. Ltd.

GKN Aerospace

Asteria Aerospace Pvt. Ltd.

Jass Aerospace

Airframe Aerodesigns Pvt Ltd

GAD Aerospace Private Limited

Shape Memory Alloy Plant, F&F, HAL, Bangalore

Aerospace & Aviation Sector Skill Council

HAL , Foundry and Forge division

Boeing International Corporation India Private Limited

Apollo Aerospace Components

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited

Genser Aerospace IT Pvt Ltd

UTC Aerospace Systems

Park Controls & Communications Private Limited

Ferchau Engineering India Pvt Ltd.

Pinaka Aerospace Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

Bombardier India Engineering Centre

2. Aeronautics cluster in East Bangalore.

Now let’s look at a very similar map, with lots of overlap with the previous one. This one is for East Bangalore, stretching the HAL cluster over to Whitefield (UTC Aerospace Systems) on one side, and over to the Airbus and Boeing offices on the other side, nearer to KR Puram. This map, as you can see below, shows a triangle of aerospace companies in a cluster formed at the intersection of Whitefield, Mahadevpura and KR Puram.

UTC Aerospace Systems
Ferchau Engineering India Pvt Ltd.

UTC Aerospace Systems Site 2

Asteria Aerospace Pvt. Ltd.

International Aerospace Manufacturing Pvt. Ltd.

Sasmos Het Technologies Limited

Rossell Techsys

Boeing International Corporation India Private Limited

GKN Aerospace

Snecma HAL Aerospace

Airbus Group India Private Limited

Aadyah Aerospace Private Limited

Sakthi Aerospace

Hemkund Engineering

Pinaka Aerospace Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

Genser Aerospace IT Pvt Ltd

Legend Technologies (India) Pvt Ltd

Bliss Aerospace Components Pvt ltd

3. Toyota Kirloskar supply chain in Bangalore.

The Toyota Kirloskar plant in Bidadi and associated Toyota facilities and suppliers take up a sizeable part of the Bidadi Industrial Area’s automotive cluster on the outskirts of Bengaluru. Here’s a map that shows them (data from Toyota Kirloskar Suppliers Association).

As you can see from the map above, the biggest cluster is around Toyota Kirloskar’s Bidadi plant itself. But there are some more in the Peenya industrial area, and some more in the Mahadevpura-Whitefield cluster.

This last set of suppliers in the Toyota Kirloskar supply chain is what is most interesting, because they’re part of the Whitefield auto and aeronautical/aerospace clusters. Their operations, talent and component / parts / material requirements are close enough that the automotive and aeronautical industries come together in joint clusters serving both industries.

It’s the brave new world of connected mobility and autonomous vehicles they’re moving towards, and this is where we come into the picture as office space providers for a next-gen supply chain cluster.

4. Office space for automotive and aerospace suppliers and tech startups.

The Evoma Hotel and Business Center on Old Madras Road is ideally located on the highway, easily accessible to the aerospace and auto clusters in East Bangalore. HAL Stage 2 is just a few minutes away, as is the aerospace cluster shown above in Whitefield, which is close to our business centers in EPIP and Borewell Road.

It’s ideal office space for suppliers and manufacturers who want to set up a branch office close to their own factories and their customers and suppliers.

That is why customers such as Airbus and Lucep have landed in India, and are taking up space at Evoma. We’re now getting office space enquiries from auto and aerospace companies and startups that want to increase sales and be a part of these growing clusters.

The advantage, apart from the location, is that the startup and SME ecosystem we have in-house at Evoma provides infrastructure and technical assistance for aerospace and auto tech startups who are working on developing connected mobility, autonomous (driverless) vehicles, etc.

In addition to being close to and a part of these industrial clusters, you also have the chance to work directly with auto tech startups such as Lucep that are providing technology solutions to automotive manufacturers and dealers, and the opportunity to get connected to the world’s largest companies such as Airbus.

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To make it easier for someone trying to decide their business location, these are the main factors that impact where we work.

Educational institutions, residential real estate projects, and transportation top the list. Also important are health and public safety issues, uninterrupted supply of water and electricity, average income of residents, and the location’s proximity to shopping malls, restaurants and other entertainment venues.

1. Schools for your children.

We want our children to go to the best schools, but also want the school to be close to where we work and live. This is perhaps the most important factor that parents take into consideration when it comes to choosing their business location.

In fact, many parents who are business owners in Bangalore come to us looking for office space or coworking seats because they live nearby and their children are in one of the schools below. They don’t want to be stuck for hours in Bangalore traffic when their kids come back home from school, so they prefer to work from our spaces near their home whenever possible.

Top 10 schools within 10 minutes of Evoma Hotel and Business Center, KR Puram, Bangalore:

• New Baldwin International School
• Auxilium School (Silesian Sisters of Don Bosco)
• PoornaPrajna International School
• Indus Valley Residential School
• Amara Jyothi Public School
• St. Anthony’s Public School
• Chaitanya Techno School
• Lake Montfort School
• Cambridge School
• SJES School and College of Management

See this on Google Maps.

2. Colleges and universities for hiring talent.

You can hire fresh talent from IIMB, MS Ramaiah, Visvesvaraya, CU and some of the most well-known colleges and universities in Bangalore. But it’s a fact that people who live within 10 km of your location are likely to be with you far longer than those who commute from far away places.

These are the top colleges within 10 minutes of Evoma, in case you want to hire fresh talent – students who live and study nearby, and already know this location very well.

In fact, we have excellent relations with all these colleges, and many of them hold their event and training sessions at Evoma.

• Cambridge PUC College
• East Point College of Medical Sciences
• Garden City College
• Silicon City College
• Sree Venkateshwara PU College
• SEA College of Engineering and Technology

See this on Google Maps.

3. Residential projects for accommodation.

New residential projects attract business owners to move in and choose an office nearby. The Evoma Business Center is located next to the Pashmina Waterfront mega-residential real estate project. It is by far the largest and most prestigious residential project underway in the Whitefield area, if not in Bangalore.

Pashmina Waterfront project, by the numbers: Tallest tower in East Bangalore (3 basements, ground and 38 floors), with five towers. Surrounded by 3 lakes, with vast greenery and 14 acres of open space. Located on 8-lane highway (Old Madras Road), with easy access to Indira nagar, Whitefield, ITPL, Metro Rail Station, MG Road and the City Center. Price – 3 BHK, priced at 1 crore.

The top residential projects suitable for business owners and their employees at Evoma are as follows:

• Pashmina Waterfront
• Ohana
• Brigade exotica
• Bren Starlight
• Shobha Avenue
• Salarpuria Sattva Celesta
• Radiant Lake view
• Fortius Waterscape
• Saveria Neston
• Krish Gardenia
• Salarpuria Sattva East Crest

See this on Google Maps.

4. Transportation hubs and ease of access.

Now comes the question of moving around in Bangalore, visiting your customers, attending conferences and meetings, etc. Evoma is ideally located near several transportation hubs that can take you comfortably anywhere in Bangalore and beyond, to Kolar or even Mysore.  

You can get buses to anywhere in Bangalore from KR Puram, and there are transportation hubs at Tin Factory and Baiyappanahalli. On the other side, the RTO regional office is within walking distance.  

• Baiyappannahalli Metro Station
• Baiyappanahalli Railway Station
• K R Puram Railway Station
• KR Puram Bus stop
• BMTC Sadarmangala Bus Depot
• ITI bus depot
• Tin factory bus depot
• RTO
• Mahadevpura Bus stop
• Kadugodi Bus stop and booking office
• Kadugodi Railway station
• Seegehalli Bus stop
• Budigere Bus stop
• KIA
• BIAL hub

See this on Google Maps.

5. Proximity to shopping, dining, and entertainment.

We’re the main entertainment in this area. Four restaurants (continental, Japanese, cafe and bar) plus  a pool table, swimming pool, gym and other facilities that you can enjoy all day.

Let the food and drinks flow, and we have enough entertainment and exercise to help you digest it and crave for more. If that’s not enough, there’s a couple of massive shopping malls within 10-15 minutes, plus one of the oldest and most famous vegetable markets in Bengaluru.  

• The Courtyard Restaurant
• Elephants & Coffee
• OJ Japanese Restaurant
• Phoenix Market city
• VR Bengaluru
• Gopalan Grand
• World Market
• Decathlon Old Madras Road
• Buy Right super store
• KRPuram Vegetable Market

See this on Google Maps.

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How do you stand up to a $5 billion competitor who throws open the gates with 2,000 seats in a brand new shared office space center?

Specifically, what are the things you can do to enable your sales team, and help them sell office space?

This post is about the business of selling office space for rent in Bangalore, from the point of view of organizational support to enable a sales representative or sales manager.

1. Alignment of marketing and sales.

There are agreements and factors that can be calculated down to a proper science, if you want to align marketing and sales. But we have a very simple formula – put the leadership of our sales and marketing teams in the same room every day in the morning and extract reports on what is happening.

They can’t blame each other, and they are forced to work together before and after the meeting in order to come up with some reasonable answers. It doesn’t mean they always work together to generate and convert leads. At the very least, they’ll still work together to come up with matching stories about why some leads didn’t convert.

That kind of alignment tends to build up teams, and they’ll eventually start working together. Marketing will talk to Sales and find out what kind of leads they should be generating. Sales will respond promptly to the leads, and seek support from Marketing for engaging leads and any connections they need to help initiate a meeting with a client.

2. Customer marketing to retain existing customers.

Getting a company, whether it’s a startup, SME or enterprise branch, to rent some office space in one of our business centers in Bangalore is just the first step in an ongoing exercise of customer engagement. At the end of the year, if they’re not happy with their space, the service and the facilities, they’ll move out.

Then it gets a lot harder to fill that newly empty space. It’s always easier to keep your existing tenants than to generate leads and close a new transaction. So we, as in our operations, sales and marketing teams, spend a lot of time and resources on marketing Evoma to our existing customers.

This is done through newsletters, invites to events, free and discount offers, and just plain and simple networking to keep in touch and ask them how they’re doing, if they need anything, and if you can help them with anything.

It makes things easier when you want a client to renew their office space contract for another year. They don’t feel like you’re only coming back to them once a year, if you’re meeting with them regularly – casually and without an agenda.

3. Focus on your key selling point.

Unlike multinational office space companies who pour millions into branding and advertising, we work with a limited budget that is tightly focused on highlighting our key selling point – tenants at Evoma are part of the family.

We’re here to incubate new businesses, and help accelerate your growth once you have all the startup pains sorted out. Members come to me all the time with problems and challenges. They call us not as office space managers, but as mentors and friends, to consult with us and find the best way forward.

The second key differentiator is that we have by far what is the best business center in Bangalore, and the only one with office space that is also a 4-star business hotel.

The facilities here include luxury accommodation for your guests, two of the top restaurants in Bangalore, a bar, swimming pool, gym, and indoor and outdoor venues for meetings and conferences and training sessions.

So our members, and their employees, actually live here morning, day and night. They can work, eat, order room service, workout at the gym and do some laps in the pool, and sleep in the comfort of a home away from home.

This is a key selling point that our sales team makes use of in their pitch to startups and enterprise customers who work round the clock, and want their office spaces to be almost livable for their employees, guests and customers.

4. Business support and partner services.

As mentioned above, real estate is just a small part of what we do. There’s a lot of value in the personalized attention and customized office space solutions we provide, in addition to partner services and mentorship for marketing, funding, sales and branding.

Another thing we’re doing is trying to make it easier for our own members to connect with each other through a B2B community app that’s accessible only to members, as part of the Evoma ecosystem of startups and SMEs that work together.

Our startups are some of the most innovative tech startups in Bangalore, and they work with many of the small business and enterprise branches located in the same building. The SMEs likewise have added many of our startups as their customers.

5. Email marketing with instant notification and response.

Office space sale is as cutthroat a business as you could be in. Prospects ask around with all the different companies for rates, and they could already be moving their office furniture into your competitor’s space while you’re still preparing your proposal, hoping to convert it into a solid lead that you can chase.

That’s why we have developed a system of instant notification and response for our inbound and outbound email lead generation and management. We have plugins to generate leads and pipe them directly into our CRM from forms on this website, social media and email marketing. An instant notification goes to the sales team member who handles the service the lead is asking for, and the customer gets a call back instantly.

The idea is to enable the sales team to talk to customers first, before the competition responds. As far as possible, we try to close the deal quickly before it turns into a bidding war with competitors. If that’s not possible, the instant notification and response at least ensures that the customer puts us on the shortlist of office space locations they want to move in to.

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In this post, we want to share with you how we create an office space for rent, making use of location data, tools and design features matching the demographics and needs of clients we expect will make use of that specific facility.

We also factor in future trends, such as the need for flexible and scalable office space, coworking, real estate as a service, and 24/7 connectivity with remote teams.

1. Borewell Road, Whitefield – Corporate headquarters, startup space, cafeteria and coworking

2. EPIP Zone – Large shared office seat spaces for branch offices of industrial businesses and their service providers.

The Borewell Road Evoma was our first pilot project, created to fill a need – the lack of working office space for people in Whitefield who didn’t want to take up a full-time office near their homes. As an extension of this location-based need, we set up another business center in the Prestige Featherlite Tech Park in EPIP.

This is where the location data really makes a big difference when you’re creating office space. The Borewell Evoma is just 10 minutes from the EPIP Evoma, with huge companies include SAP Labs and Mindtree. Companies who like the idea of having a branch office in close proximity to the world’s largest corporate customers come to us all the time.

To existing customers in the EPIP center, we suggest their top management should take up a corporate headquarters office in Borewell Road. Startups located at Borewell Road work with and learn from our enterprise companies and mentors located in both Whitefield centers. This is the kind of synergy that we create by matching location data and customer profiles.

Now let me take you on a tour of each faciliy, to explain how the location and design of each one matches the customers and the needs of the people who use it.

Borewell Road, Whitefield

As you can see from the map above, the Evoma Business Center on Borewell Road, Whitefield, is perfectly located to serve the startups and top management of the companies nearby in the tech parks and industrial zones.

Nestled in a quiet and residential area on Borewell Road, opp the Whitefield Post Office, the lush gardens and leafy surroundings keep out the hustle and bustle of Whitefield traffic. Even so, it’s just 10 minutes from Hope Farm and EPIP, all of which makes it perfect for corporate headquarters offices for CEOs and top management.

The office space, interior and office space are therefore designed and created to cater to these two segments of our customers. Board rooms, meeting rooms and offices with a very nice view are available for corporate headquarters.

It’s also very appealing to startups who work with the large companies nearby. For startups, we have flexible office spaces combined with coworking space on the roof, along with a cafeteria and coffee machine.

EPIP Zone, Whitefield

It’s perfectly located in the Featherlite Tech Park, between SAP, Oracle, Mindtree and Qualcomm. Not to mention the Karnatka Trade Promotion Organisation, KIADB and other government authorities whose job it is to support the companies in this industrial zone. It’s also just 10 minutes from Hope Farm, and minutes away Phoenix Market City, Forum Neighborrhood Mall and other commercial hubs in Whitefield.

So if you have a growing startup or SME business in Whitefield, and your customers are these large enterprise companies and other SMEs in this area, then we have you completely covered between these two business centers.

Your management can meet with the board, clients and business partners in the nice office space in Borewell Road, and enjoy the environment. Your sales, customer support and other teams can be in EPIP, close to your customers and able to get to them within minutes.

The office space in EPIP is therefore cavernous and large, designed to be scalable and accommodate fast-growing teams and growth-stage SMEs.

This is how we create office space for rent, combining location data and customer profiles at multiple locations into a single ecosystem where:

1. Large enterprises get real estate as a service, lowering their operational costs by up to 40%;

2. SMEs are able to locate right next to their biggest customers, and scale as needed; and

3. Startups get resources and access to a corporate environment that is invaluable for fast growth.

Create your office space at Evoma. Contact us now. Call: 08041903000 or email: inquiries@evoma.com

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