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Wednesday, August 03, 2005
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Bata rounds off `95 paise' price tags
FOR decades, it was a price tag that drew instant jokes, sarcastic comments and sometimes even arguments over consumer rights, but ending it all, Bata India has withdrawn its famous 95 paise pricing. Now Bata chappals, shoes and other footwear ... More

ADVERTISING


AIR announces new credit plan for small ad agencies
If the Tamil Nadu experiment succeeds, AIR is expected to launch the scheme throughout the country. More

Wedding sites find good match in consumer goods makers
IT'S not only `the singles' that matrimonial sites are wooing now. With soon-to-be-married couples and their families on the threshold of a spending spree, online matrimonial firms such as Shaadi.com and BharatMatrimony.com are luring household ... More

Madison Creative wins Rs 15-cr biz
MADISON Creative has bagged the advertising accounts of Sri Adhikari Brother's new channels - Mi Marathi and Janmat - Rustomjee, a real estate developer in Mumbai, and Nobel Hygiene's Teddy and Friends baby pads, diapers and adult ... More

CHANNELS AND FRANCHISES


Reliance Webstores to sell Air Deccan tickets
AIR Deccan flights can now be booked at Reliance WebWorld's nationwide broadband chain through the week. Calling it the first e-ticketing tie-up for an airline, the Air Deccan Managing Director, Capt. G.R.Gopinath, said the low-cost airline ... More

RETAILING


RK Electronics plans six more showrooms
RAJKAMAL Electronics Pvt Ltd, the city-based chain of electronic stores with three decades of retailing experience, has chalked out a major expansion plan involving international shopping infrastructure and online connectivity among the retail ... More

PEOPLE


LML to get new marketing head
TWO-wheeler maker LML, which is putting in place a turnaround strategy, will soon have a new marketing head. Mr Pradeep Saxena, who was General Manager - Marketing at Hyundai Motor India, will now head LML's marketing division. Prior to his ... More

TRENDS


Kurla shopowners bear the brunt of floods
THE ghost of last Tuesday's deluge was still alive on Pipe Road at Kurla, one of the lowest-lying suburbs of the city. Three-fourths of the narrow street was in ankle-deep dirty water on Tuesday.Rotting garbage lay outside shops; a wet patch up ... More

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES


Tata Tele launches `Indicom Gem' mobile
TATA Teleservices, which offers mobile and fixed telephone services, has launched a branded mobile phone — `Indicom Gem.' This mobile phone is exclusively designed and manufactured for Tata by Huawei, a global telecom equipment ... More

ACC launches mobile concrete testing unit
ASSOCIATED Cement Companies Ltd (ACC) has announced the launch of `Grihamitra', a unique mobile concrete testing unit, for its customers. Grihamitra, which will provide onsite services to the `individual house builders' segment, was launched ... More


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