The document discusses several challenges facing IMC including developing inorganic scale, pricing and disposable income, distribution and logistics challenges across geographies, seasonal sales challenges, social and cultural challenges, low literacy rates, high initial investment requirements, low penetration of media channels, spurious duplicate products, issues with small retailers carrying stock without credit, problems with wholesalers and dealers, challenges with market research, price sensitivity and low brand awareness, serving highly dispersed and sparsely populated markets, and banking and credit problems.