The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, December 09, 2006

ANNOUNCEMENTS
ESPN Star acquires UEFA rights
ESPN Star Sports has acquired the television rights for the UEFA European Football Championships to be held in 2008. The new development, which follows the acquisition of three-year telecast rights of the English Premier League, ... More

STRATEGY
UTV in Rs 128-cr deal to buy 2 gaming cos
To acquire Indiagames, UK co Ignition Entertainment More

Toonz signs pact to produce animation film
Toonz will distribute the film to theatres in India while PHE will market the DVDs globally. More

Knitwear value-chain taking to `slub' yarn
`Potential to capture market as denim sector is stagnating' More

Visual effects come of age in Indian cinema
Imagine creating visual effects for a Superman film on a $5-million budget. Considering the recent flick Superman Returns cost $200 million, a sizeable chunk of which was spent on visual effects, it sounds incredible. More so, if one said ... More

CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT
Sprucing up its service, the Maruti way
To expand its service network to match its car output More

PROMOTIONS & OFFERS
Kingfisher Airlines to offer live in-flight entertainment
Joins hands with Essel Group's Dish TV More

RETAILING
`FDI in retail will cause more unemployment'
Foreign direct investment in retail will only result in more unemployment in an economy already struggling to adapt to outsourced technologies and processes with high labour productivity, says Prof Prabhat Patnaik, Vice-Chairman, Kerala Planning ... More

E-Zone from Pantaloons
Home Solutions Retail (India) Ltd, part of the Future Group (Pantaloons) launched E-Zone, an electronics specialty store, with multi-brands under one roof in Hyderabad on Friday. The E-Zone Store, in the City Center Mall is ... More

Spencer's Retail to open new stores
This month Spencer's Retail will open 15 brand new stores in 10 cities across the country, says a press release. This will take the number of Spencer outlets to 88. Among the places where the new stores will be opened are ... More

ONLINE MARKETING
Indian unveils e-ticketing facility
Indian, the national carrier, today took a leap to modernise its ticket sales through online. The simple procedure will enable customers book their tickets through its Web site, either through the travel agent or at the airline's booking offices. ... More

PIRACY
`Counterfeiting, pirated goods causing huge loss to global trade'
It is hurting economies world over, says WCO Secretary General More

OUTLOOK
`India-China exciting, yet need hardsell'
The sub-continent has certainly come a long way since the `hardship transfer' days of the British Raj. In the job market though, there are still some rough patches that have to be smoothened out, say global search firms. For instance, though ... More

TRENDS
GSM base crosses 100-m mark
Record 5-m new subscribers added in November More