The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, April 29, 2006

Jewellery houses bid to woo customers
With customers being obsessed on buying gold on `Akshaya Tritiya', both jewellery houses and banks vie with one another in making special offers and drawing up schemes.Jewellers lure people into buying gold by announcing a waiver ... More

E-COMMERCE & E-BUSINESS

CIL urged to sell through e-auction
Encouraged by the success of e-marketing of coal 2005-06, the Union Ministry of Coal has advised Coal India Ltd (CIL) to sell more through e-auction in the current fiscal. The Ministry has allowed CIL to sell about 36 million tonnes (mt) ... More

RETAILING

Lifetime Health to expand retail chain
Lifetime Healthcare today announced that it planned to invest Rs 40 crore to expand its branded pharma retail chain, LifeKen by 175 stores in South India by March next. The company launched its operations in Chennai with four stores and it is ... More

Barista plans Rs 50-cr investment
Coffee chain Barista plans a Rs 50-crore investment this fiscal to set up new outlets and for the upgradation of its existing facilities. Mr Partha Dattagupta, CEO, Barista, said the company plans to set up 100 new outlets in 15 cities this ... More

Sony World inaugurated in Vizag
Sony India Private Ltd, which achieved sales turnover of Rs 1,700 crore, is aiming at increasing its sales by 50 per cent during the current financial year too, as it did during 2005-2006. After inaugurating Sony World here on Friday, Mr P. ... More

MARKETING RESEARCH

`Corporate honchos spend 20 minutes reading business dailies'
The media in India is gathering pace rapidly and gaining progressive importance among key decision-makers, according to the latest Decision-Makers Survey 5 (DMS 5) conducted by ACNielsen ORG-MARG. DMS 5 brings together a composite understanding ... More

BRANDS

A sure-fire way to customer mind
`An expensive exercise but will pay' More

OUTLOOK

Mitsubishi to boost elevators sales
Japanese major Mitsubishi Electric Corporation is hoping to increase its elevator and escalator sales in India by 10-15 per cent in the current calendar year. Mitsubishi has been marketing its elevators in India since 1994 through ETA MELCO ... More

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES

Hitachi Data's `disk-less' version
Riding on the wave of `virtualisation' that is sweeping across the IT world, storage vendor Hitachi Data Systems launched the Hitachi TagmaStore Network Storage Controller model NSC55 "disk-less" version. The NSC55 disk-less version separates ... More

Nokia unveils new range of `music smart' phones
Nokia launched the latest model in the `N' series here today, the Nokia N91 music smart phone. Mr Gautam Advani, Director, Multimedia, Nokia India, presented the first phone to music composer Mr A.R. Rahman. The phone model provides the ... More