The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, March 09, 2005

FMCG cos change distribution tack to woo consumers
Emami Ltd has tied up with the Post and Telegraph Department to place its products across 5,000 post offices. The pilot project has been initiated in Maharashtra. More

MARKET SHARES

HCL Info logs 13.7 per cent market share in desktop PCs
HCL Infosystems today said it has maintained the top slot in the desktop PC segment for the year 2004 in both commercial and consumer space. "According to the recent IDC report, HCL leads the market with a market share of 13.7 per cent, up from ... More

RETAILING

Now, factory outlets maketh the mall
CALL it the `retail-iatory' effect. Just when the big bazaars of the world were casting the spell of value retailing on metropolitan India, realty players are casting the die for a relatively new version of discount offerings: malls made up of ... More

Amalgamated Bean brews overseas plans
AMALGAMATED Bean Coffee Trading Co Ltd hopes to have 500 Café Coffee Day outlets across the country by the end of 2007. The company, which is likely to end fiscal 2004-05 with a turnover of Rs 300 crore, also hopes to have 50 overseas Café Coffee ... More

It's women's exclusive at Electrolux
ELECTROLUX India on Tuesday launched its first Wo-managed (Women managed) Electrolux Home in Chennai on the occasion of International Women's Day. The Wo-managed stores will be wholly owned, manned and operated by women, according to Mr Ajay ... More

IOC opens retail outlets in Mangalore
MANGALORE: The Mangalore division of Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL) has launched `Xtracare' retail outlet at Vishnu Enterprises at Panambur in Mangalore. Three outlets in Mangalore city, two each in Udupi and Shimoga districts and ... More

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES

Interventional launches stent
BANGALORE: Interventional Technologies P Ltd has launched its drug eluting stent. The stent, COSTAR, has been devised for use in minimal invasive interventions for coronary angioplasty. The company said the stent has been clinically ... More

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