The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, May 20, 2006

Medimix poised for pan-India presence
The Cholayil group, manufacturers of Medimix and Cuticura talcum powder, is working out a new business strategy to increase the market share of its brands. The company plans to enter into newer product categories in the skin-care domain by ... More

Indiapost plans `anytime banking'
Indiapost plans to introduce "anywhere, anytime banking" and bring all facilities provided by the post offices, such as banking, insurance, distribution and retailing services under one roof. Mr U. Srinivasa Raghavan, Secretary ... More

REGULATORY BODIES & RULINGS

Competition Bill referred to House panel
Bill seeks to transform CCI into expert body More

RETAILING

Pantaloon's E-Zone in Bangalore
Home Solutions Retail (India) Ltd, a group company of Pantaloon Retail, launched E-Zone, a consumer durables and electronics store in Bangalore. This is the second E-Zone in the country and the first one was launched in Indore last month. The ... More

BRANDS

Orra sells gold at fixed price
With the rather relentless rise in gold prices, a fixed price for gold jewellery must come as a pleasant shock to all customers hoping against hope to somehow indulge in a little excess. The jewellery brand Orra says it's been quoting a fixed ... More

Reader's Digest plans Web-based model
Launch of vernacular edition round the corner More

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES

New financial magazine launched
A new monthly financial magazine, iSpeak, dedicated to the insurance, industry and investment sectors, was launched on Friday by the Director, AP Gas Power Corporation, Mr M. Gopalakrishna. The 76-page magazine was ... More

NCR Corp woos banks with intelligent transaction system
The new offering of cash acceptor and cheque processor technology offered by NCR Corporation is expected to be adopted by banks soon. The real-time intelligent transaction system that would extend bank customers using ATM instant crediting ... More

HP unveils new Pavilion
Hewlett-Packard India unveiled the Pavilion dv8216TX. It comes with dual hard drives (2 x 80GB). It also features nVIDIA GeForce Go 7400 Discrete video processing frees the PC to run multiple applications simultaneously, 1GB of ... More

Xilinx unveils energy efficient chips
Targets entertainment, consumer goods sectors More

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