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Arslan Ali BCRW Assingment
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FOUZIA NAHEED KHAWJA
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Table of Contents
1 – Executive Summary……………………………………………………………… 4
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2 – Business Introduction……………………………………………………………. 5
➢ Mission statement……………………………………………………………. 6
➢ Company vision……………………………………………………………… 7
3 – The Company…………………………………………………………………….. 13
➢ Competition ………………………………………………………………….. 18
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➢ Sales Strategy …………………………………………………………………. 18
• Pricing …………………………………………………………………. 19
• Promotion ……………………………………………………………… 20
• Products ………………………………………………………………... 20
• Place ..………………………………………………………………….. 21
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Executive Summary:
AUTO-M8 Pvt Ltd is a leading advertising agency in Pakistan who provides information services
as well as state of the art products that gave an advertising market a whole new level.
Five university students; Aiman Aftab, Hammad Azmi, Mohsin Raza, Husnain Jabbar and Unaib
Butt. The business developer in guidance and learning of Dr. Sheikh Usman Yousaf – HOD Hailey
College of Banking & Finance, University of the Punjab joined hands; decided to startup by
offering something that brings a new level of innovation and scope for advertising agencies and
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AUTO-M8 is an innovative on-vehicle advertising concept like advertisement on cars, which
Our vision is to be the first point of contact when a customer is looking at owning a Brand new car
image and becoming a Brand ambassador to be the market leader in direct marketing solutions.
Our aim is to provide a globalized network; from Franchises to outsourcing that performs to their
chosen goals and gain the rewards of a successful business partnership. Acquire and develop staff
that are valued and trained to perform to the best of their ability and rewarded for the endeavors
1. Introduction to AUTO-M8.pk
AUTO-M8 is a free software application from the Food & Drink subcategory, part of the Home
& Hobby category. AUTO-M8 is based out of the densely populated city of Islamic Repulic of
Pakistan – Lahore and providing information services with a whole new level of creativity and
state of the art digital advertising concepts for businesses and consumers at a single diversified
platform.
AUTO-M8 Logo:
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Tagline:
Mission Statement:
“Everything that moves or got wheels can be turned into a rolling billboard”
Our aim is to deliver the best solutions available for our customers and potential customers need.
We believe that our knowledge and expertise means that we are in the unique position of being
able to provide the best possible service and products throughout the Pakistan. We aim to become
the Sun in the Universe and put light to the words “Pakistan shining”.
value for our stakeholders and expanding opportunities for development and career growth
• To have a full network of profitable, commercially aware global partners who are proud to
• To be in a position to put something tangible back into the community that we work in.
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AUTO-M8.pk Vision:
AUTO-M8.pk believes that if you own a car, you own a company instead by just utilizing your
primary asset- your vehicle. People like to make extra money by being a part of something bigger
than them.
Our goal is to have millions of outstanding community members around the globe earning simple
and easy side money and driving free of cost. Honestly! How many ads do you remember seeing?
- But every time we saw an ad on an automobile, it stood out. Think of the Red Bull cars with the
can, or Ice Cream vans with a big cone Ice cream on top. Why not giving brands the same
opportunity? We help advertisers by providing the same opportunity let their message be so visible
by taking advantage of a seriously underutilized medium. We desire to help people every day in
saving money and earning free fuel with just their daily routine driving.
In the corporate world; our goal is to operate on sustainable basis, our objective is to increase the
value for our stake holders as well as expanding opportunities for development through innovation.
In resource development; our goal is to make partners and employees feel proud of being with
us, by offering professional growth tracks and broad spectrum business prospects.
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As a social responsibility; our objective is to payback something tangible to the communities we
live in to mutually prosper. Charm to improve public transport as the public transport car owners
In Market we target to become the top advertisement medium around the globe. We want every
brand and advertiser to choose smartly and spend efficiently from a solo platform.
Alternate for Environmental hazard billboards that’s reducing the city’s outlook and beauty all
together. LDA supported concept to reduce number of billboards & we brings you the alternate.
In terms of Business, Our goal is to register be registered in Pakistan, and our long term target is
to get registered in International market, cause this APP has the feature to work in any corner
around the globe, just start registering driver and ads. Software, just a click away.
In terms of Profit, First of all, according to the pricing stats, petroleum companies can get us 2Lac
profit from first month and We can see AUTO-M8.pk growing 5X from second month onwards,
our goal is to sustain on gradual growth till we establish & expand from cities to countries.
We want to deliver our best to shine in the skies to pour light on “Rising Pakistan”.
➢ Advertisers/Brands
➢ Petroleum Companies
➢ Car Owners
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In terms of Advertisers, every brand and advertiser is a potential market and there is no limitation
as every advertiser can register a marketing/advertisement campaign starting from months till a
complete year.
The win-win situation for Petroleum companies in two major dimensions is:
First of all, a marketing plan promising a fixed return of 30% to all fuel companies. Apart from
Lastly, every car owner is an independent contractor and every vehicle is our market and every
Projection for fuel Companies: We aim to capture 10% of market share from the Fuel
companies initially.
Projection for Advertisers: We forecast to grab 2 % of market initially among all of the brands
and advertisers.
Projection of Car owners: Every car owner is a potential prospect to be provided with the
opportunity of advertisement. The registration fees for the car owners is 100% refundable till they
get their vehicles wrapped with advertisement for the very first time.
New Ride hailing companies like I-Cab, You Ride are the most potential markets for
advertisements as they don’t have policies of keeping their vehicles non advertised or non
stickered. For example, we understand that Careem has the policy of no stickering or advertisement
on the private cars they provide for riding services, but the new upcoming companies will not have
that in their policies when they will encounter the reduced hailing rates due to massive advantage
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on free fueling. They will have a great opportunity to sustain in market and will for sure give them
Our competition is primarily from other hybrid advertising agencies. Looking at a broader picture,
there is also a competition from the “do-it-yourself” resource providers. Hybrid advertising
agencies offer both physical and digital advertising mediums and services.
There are a lot of advertising ideas and competitors in the potential market around the globe like
Wrapify, Wrollit etc who are offering same opportunities for drivers and brands to integrate and
work together, but what they are missing and what every advertiser looks forward to; is the
monitoring and evaluation of their advertisement campaign. The App that is installed on GPS
tracked cars, and the driver drive with the App gaining number of impressions that are easy and
Competitors like Wrollit offers fixed income to drivers where AUTO-M8 offers you to “Earn as
much as you drive” opportunity distancing us from competitors and making it very first of its kind.
We provide the ease, speed and accuracy in the world of digital advertising via advertising the
brands on your vehicles we call “rolling billboards”. AUTO-M8.pk Ads keeps your product or
service in the public eye by creating a sense of brand awareness. We strive to deliver advertising
in a targeted and cost effective manner that is more successful than most other forms of advertising
Management Team:
Chairman AUTO-M8.pk : Aiman Aftab
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App Developer and Support : Mian Husnain
The Offering:
AUTO-M8.pk offers a single versatile platform for Car-Brand Partnership by offering a win-win
➢ Car owners can earn Free Fuel up to 3500 of liters a month for advertising on your car by
GPS tracked cars with the highest cost effective possibilities by wrapping their
advertisements on cars to reach out there target market efficiently and effectively.
➢ AUTO-M8.pk provides you an idea of not just keeping your vehicle as a ride sharing
service like Careem & Uber but trying to buck the trend of putting money back into the
➢ Advertisers can actually track the exact location through app that where the advertisement
➢ Media Monitoring Cost is totally waived off for advertisers by offering them the best
feature of track history and detail information of where there investment has been spent
➢ Advertiser can advertise on specific location by marking it and setting a peak factor
Our key principals follow the footsteps and principals of our, Founder & Father of the Nation.
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“Work, Work, and only Work” – Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah. “Unity, Faith and
Discipline” are the key principals that we as an organization wish to follow in every aspect of
life.
AUTO-M8.pk is employee oriented and Human Resource is our best asset we acquire and we
believe that: “No religion is higher than humanity.” ― Abdul Sattar Edhi
AUTO-M8 brings an ideology of creating an economical growth opportunity for the ones who
can’t afford their daily fuel to work, to educational institute as the fuel prices are reaching sky.
We create an opportunity of earning fuel & money to help the ones who need to save each penny
to survive each month. We as in organization believe in the life principals of the Greatest
“Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so
we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy” – Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan.
AUTO- M8 provide list of opportunities and benefits to its stake holders and partners.
Shell: Shell Petroleum is one of the major Stake holder and Key partner to support the idea as well
as being a brand and advertiser, Shell is grabbing the opportunity of being a client and partner at
Car Owners: Similarly, Car owners are the most important stakeholders and independent
contractors. Rent a Car Services and Transport Hailing Services by iCab and You Ride are one of
2. The Company:
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AUTO-M8.pk – an ingenious mix of the latest digital and mobile technologies is the first ad
platform with an ANDROID application that creates economic value of consumers by paying them
fuel, while providing a marketing service to the brands that transcends contemporary trends for the
advertisers and the ad agencies. AUTO-M8.pk empowers you to monetize one of your primary
assets: your car, ridding you of the worries about affording your daily drive and fuel. A true win-
win approach not just for drivers but for brands and advertisers as well.
A new advertising platform that connects brands with drivers to create splashy on-vehicle ads.
“AUTO-M8.pk uses technology not just for its own sake, but to teach an old dog a new trick.”
AUTO-M8 is a company that sells advertising on cars. We pay you a voucher of free fuel to get
your car wrapped with vinyl advertising and then you go about doing your normal day to day
driving and get paid for it. Sounds like a great, easy side hustle.
AUTO-M8 matches drivers with advertisers, helping brands connect with millions of people every
day. Drivers get paid each month, earning fuel as they drive, and for advertisers it is a unique form
of advertising that creates buzz and sparks conversations in towns and cities up and down the
Pakistan. Drivers can get started by completing the driver sign up form, where you can tell us about
your car, lifestyle and driving habits so that we can get you matched to one of our advertisers.
The legal status of AUTO-M8.pk is PRIVATE. It’s a privately held organization and so called
3. The Industry
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The primary industry for AUTO-M8.pk is B2C – Business to Consumer Information Services.
AUTO-M8 is providing information services with a whole new level of creativity and state of the
art digital advertising concepts for businesses and consumers at a single diversified platform. The
IT industry took a huge switch globally from web based services to Application based services
that provides the ease and speed to both consumers and businesses.
Industry Structure:
AUTO-M8.pk is providing a single platform to let the advertiser and car owners to work and earn
at the same time. AUTO-M8.pk is a platform that handles the both dimensions of Advertiser and
car owner mutually together at the same time while providing them the opportunity of Car-Brand
Partnership. It provides a technology with features and benefits to advertisers so they can reach
out to their consumers in the best ways possible, as fast as a blink of any eye to, a method of for
a brand recall and brand recognition to achieve the brand equity for advertisers and businesses.
Industry Trend:
AUTO-M8.pk offers a medium to the industry that does not exist in the market. The opportunity
doesn’t exist in the market till now and AUTO-M8 brought a whole new scope and future, not
just only to this industry but to advertising agencies, information service providers and vehicle
owners. The trend is leading towards Metro Bus Service, Railways and even Airline Services as
AUTO-M8 is a concept and ideology that came in physical form after a detailed market research
and analysis. A little broader and different look can make you see a lot of different market gaps in
your day to day life. AUTO-M8 fills the gap between brand and consumers by bringing them on a
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one single platform by providing equal opportunity by saving consumers money in form of
providing free fuel and allowing to earn as much as he drive. And by saving advertisers money by
free monitoring services, by offering 30% fixed payback and by offering the cheapest
advertisement rate that is even cheaper than a cut out rate in Lahore.
Size:
We have the capacity & aim to go global. In startup we aim to cover all major cities nationwide.
Advertisers/Brands: There is a wide variety and huge markets of brands out there who are willing
to pay anything to get their brands advertised, recognized and spread around to increase sales and
profits. Our goal is to provide a platform for every brand and advertiser in the City, Nation and the
whole World.
Car Owners/ Contractors: Almost everywhere, we have cars in over 123 cities and towns across
Pakistan. All of the major cities are well covered and we have thousands of cars for you to choose
from just in Lahore. Every car owner is an independent contractor and is a potential market for
AUTO-M8.pk
Target Market
➢ Advertisers/Brands
➢ Petroleum Companies
➢ Car Owners
In terms of Advertisers, every brand and advertiser is a potential market and there is no limitation
as every advertiser can register a marketing/advertisement campaign starting from months till a
complete year. The win-win situation for Petroleum companies in two major dimensions is: First
of all, a marketing plan promising a fixed return of 30% to all fuel companies. Apart from that,
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there is an advantage of huge increase in number of consumers. Lastly, every car owner is an
independent contractor and every vehicle is our market and every automobile is our potential
platform to advertise. Rent a car services, Cab and Metro Cab Services are our targeted contractors
for businesses and advertisements. Our target market includes the Public transport owners and
their vehicles on the fixed daily routes around the cities and town. The fixed route will provide the
ease to advertiser plus public transport is the best platform to advertise in order to grab more
Car owners are the major targeted clients as they are the ones providing their primary asset to be
consumed and branded. Car owners who drive on daily routine basis are the potential clients and
Public and Commercial Transports: We are targeting the public and commercial transport
services as well as private transport services which includes day to day travelling and transporting
logistics, cargo, distributors, rent a car and travelling services, trucks and hino buses, ride hailing
Fuel companies: Attock, Total Parco, Hescol and Shell are the major petroleum and fuel
companies are to be targeted as potential clients. Fuel companies are our clients being a brand and
an advertiser and at the same time, they are the partners providing fuels to AUTO-M8d vehicles
Brands/Advertisers: Every brand out in the market is our potentially targeted client. We provide
every brand and business an equal opportunity for the advertisement and enrollment with Carvetise
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Market Share:
Fuel Companies: We aim to capture 10% of market share from the Fuel companies initially.
Brand Advertisers: We plan to grab 2% of market initially among all of the brands and
advertisers.
Car owners: Every car owner is a potential prospect to be provided with the opportunity of
advertisement. The registration fees for the car owners is 100% refundable till they get their
Competition:
There is a huge competition in the market already as the advertising agencies are growing and
developing on daily basis like Ravi advertising, Blitz Advertising, Wrollit & Advertise on my
car etc. The market is saturated with a lot of creative and eye catching ideas of advertisements by
hybrid advertisement agencies in the market. All it takes a detailed overview by taking a step
backwards to overlook the market gaps and opportunities available. That’s how we came in the
market with something different that does not exist in the market currently. AUTO-M8 provides
you the App to monitor your advertisement Live and get charged per kilometers and similarly the
car owners are provided with the opportunity to earn in kilometers for their daily drive. We expect
to see a lot of better ideas coming up in the market and that’s why AUTO-M8 needs to keep on
developing and creating something valuable and remarkable for its clients to sustain the market.
Sales Strategy:
AUTO-M8.pk serves two interfaces for sales, One is the Car owner interface and the other one
is advertiser/vendor interface.
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Car-owner Interface: The sales pitch for car-owners comes out differently as they have the best
benefit of earning as much as they drive, there is no maximum cap for fuels and earnings.
➢ Car-owner needs to submit 1000Rs Registration Fee and that is 100% refundable till the
➢ Car owner can instantly withdraw the earnings older than past 48 hours.
➢ Car owner will get fuel allowance on card as he will be earning fuel in liters per XXX
number of kilometers, but also have the option to take out cash instead of fuel with a 10%
➢ A free Car tracking feature available for the car owners, a free tracking service.
➢ Advertisers can get the complete advertisement campaign done with the lowest rate
➢ There is no monitoring cost whatsoever as AUTO-M8 app provides you the monitoring
➢ AUTO-M8 provides advertisers a promising 30% fixed payback on rolling billboards in the
➢ There is no registration cost for the advertisers starting a campaign of over One Million
Rupees startup.
Pricing:
There is a startup initial cost of registration for both interfaces; Car owner and Advertiser,
respectively.
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➢ Car-owner has to pay 1000 Rs enrollment cost, that is 100% refundable till the first ad is
wrapped on car.
➢ Advertiser has to pay 10,000 Rs Registration Fee if the campaign advertisement worth less
than 1 Million.
The car owner will be making his earning on per Kilometer basis and similarly, Advertisers will
Promotion:
The promotion strategy for sales includes the number of mediums and tools that are used for
➢ Social Media campaigns are placed, via groups and pages to extend the reach and approach
the targeted clients. Social media ads, websites and profiles are in completion.
➢ TVC ads has been directed and recorded as per targeted interfaces for both Advertisers and
Car owners. Animated voice over ads with detailed overview of App and registration
➢ Promotions already started on Radios, bilingual ads made for both English and Urdu radio
channels nationwide. Our mostly drivers and travelers listen to radio in peak hours while
➢ Promotions in Universities and Colleges for students and teachers to earn free fuel through
Products:
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AUTO-M8.pk is providing a state of the art application that is developed and supported by our
technical staff. This application based software itself is a beautiful innovation in the industry of
information technology.
Place:
AUTO-M8 is offering services all around Pakistan including all major urban cities starting up from
Lahore. AUTO-M8 is offering services that are completely location based so AUTO-M8 can be
used with a location based approach all across Pakistan and soon to a global level.
5. Operation Plan
Operation plan for initial start up and operational process will include:
➢ Car-owners have to drive from 500 to 1000 Kms to get a badge from Demo to TOLET.
➢ Advertiser will select the area, location, drivers and routes for advertisement
➢ Car owners have choice of accepting and selecting from the campaigns they want their cars
wrapped with.
➢ Cars will be in workshops for wrapping the advertisements and GPS installation.
➢ Car owners can view the earning per kilometers via app and similarly advertiser will see
Day to Day operations: Day to Day operations will include Database Management system’s
monitoring. Registration and installation processes for drivers and advertisers and providing
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AUTO-M8.pk is providing a state of the art application that is developed and supported by our
technical staff. This application based software itself is a beautiful innovation in the industry of
information technology.
➢ AUTO-M8 is providing an App based DBMS for the Advertisers and a comprehensive user
friendly interface for car owners who are even not too handy with technology and smart
phone apps.
➢ AUTO-M8 offers great features to both advertisers and car owners free of cost that they
cannot get free of cost if they want to acquire them separately.. If the GPS tracking device
stopped working accidentally due to any technical problem, the driver can turn on the mobile
app and start driving through the app and the app will keep the track of your daily drive and
your earnings.
➢ 24X7 Customer support services available for both interfaces, calling feature available in
app to reach the customer support in real time and greater access. Service,
repairing/replacement of device and wrapping will be available according to the ease of the
driver.
➢ AUTO-M8 is offering Value Added Services (VAS) for its car owners to make money and
fuel as much as they drive. Advertisers are spending and Car owners are earning; at per
kilometer rates.
Competitive Advantage:
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Competitors AUTO-M8.pk
Fixed Earnings Earn as much as you drive
Variety and list of services
Limited services available
available.
Limited market size Larger market size
Limited target market Larger Target market
Limited offerings Greater and distinctive offerings
Expensive rates for advertisement Charged per kilometers.
➢ Idea generation and screening for a business opportunity came in contact with a thought
for offering something that is not available and is much required in the market.
➢ A detailed analysis of the idea and its implementation was driven; considering the market
and brand requirements for advertisements and its monitoring. The need for an
analysis report through market search. The gaps and loop holes were identified to fulfill the
need for both consumer and business end by adding a value to economy.
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➢ Designing of the Application; its features, working, graphics, colors, options, interfaces,
completed in this process, subject to fields and areas for the data to be stored and shared.
performance.
➢ Creating redundant; A strong back up for DBMS servers and software is created.
➢ Launch; Application and Business launch process is planned and emplaced. Ready to hit
AUTO-M8.pk provides a well trained technical staff improving and supporting application based
software and its working. AUTO-M8 keeps backup for its DBMS for both hardware and software.
Application support staff and technical teams for both hardware and software are available 24X7.
AUTO-M8 has vast setup of call center and customer support services to take calls, help with the
app, solve queries and answer the frequently asked questions. GPS tracker support and
maintenance will be taken care by the app integration, if the GPS is disconnected from the battery,
it will disconnect the daily drive tracking and will not be valid to work until the car owner get it
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AUTO-M8 is based upon set of skillful and technical management team, came up with an idea of
AUTO-M8.pk is the backbone and make the organization complete as in whole. The strategical
and analytical approach of BODs, the effectiveness and relation of Key managers in building and
managing team in order to achieve one unified goal by providing the quality of service and
opportunity that is not limited to businesses, but for the consumers as well.
Financial Plan:
Projected Income Statement:
Particulars
(All values PKR Million) Amount(Rs.)
Sales/Revenue 1,897.70
Cost of Services Sold (CGS) (1,388.7)
Gross Income 509.00
Operating Expenses (3.0)
Operating Profit 506.00
SG&A Expense (464.3)
Earnings before Interest and Tax
41.70
(EBIT)
Depreciation and amortization expense (0.2)
Interest Expense (2.1)
Pretax Income 39.40
Income Tax (37.1)
Net Income 2.30
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Cash Flow Statement
AS AT 30 JUNE 2020
Fiscal year is July-June. All values PKR Million.
Cash Flow From Operating Activities Amount
Net Income before Extra ordinaries 41.70
Depreciation and Amortization 0.20
Other Funds 7.00
Receivables 0.70
Inventories (2.3)
Accounts Payable 52.50
Other Assets/Liabilities 297.90
Net Operating Cash Flow 397.7
Cash Flow From Investing Activities
Amount
Fiscal year is July-June. All values PKR Million. (Rs.)
Capital Expenditures (Fixed Assets) (2.7)
Capital Expenditures Growth 0.00%
Other Uses -
Other Sources 2.6
Net Investing Cash Flow (0.1)
Cash Flow From Financing Activities
Amount
Fiscal year is July-June. All values PKR Million. (Rs.)
Net Financing Cash Flow -
Net Financing Cash Flow Growth -
Free Cash Flow 397.6
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Projected Balance Sheet:
AS AT 30 JUNE 2020
Other Assets
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Working of App:
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