The Hindu Business Line : Sunday, February 04, 2007

STRATEGY
Tata Indigo XL: Stretching to please
The IndigoXL is a super-luxury-car-sized, premium-sedan-priced, long-wheelbase version of the Indigo — Tata Motors' existing entry-level sedan. More

Bajaj Auto to introduce new bike platform
With increasing sales of Bajaj Discover and Bajaj Pulsar DTS-I platform products only 45 per cent of Bajaj motorcycle sales now come from the relatively lower margin 100cc segment. An official communication has noted that in order to exit this ... More

IPR
CPI (M) urges Govt to fight Novartis patent challenge
The CPI (M) has urged the Union Government to fight against Novartis' challenge of the Indian Patent Act. The Swiss pharma giant's plea, which is now being heard at the Madras High Court, has strongly been criticised by NGOs across the ... More

CHANNELS AND FRANCHISES
Orchid in marketing pact with Actavis
Orchid Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals has announced that it has entered into a tie-up with Actavis, a global pharma major, for marketing its (Orchid's) cephalosporin formulations in Europe. Under this agreement, Orchid will develop and ... More

MARKET SHARES
Dade Behring plans to increase its market share
The $1.7-billion US-based Dade Behring, a major player in the global clinical diagnostics segment, plans to increase its market share in India with a series of customised initiatives such as seminars, research grants and work flow management ... More

MARKETING RESEARCH
Rapid growth seen for biz intelligence market
Oracle, fastest growing BI vendor in India: Gartner report More

TRENDS
Tata Indica, Safari report record sales in January
Tata Motors has reported the highest-ever Indica sales since its launch in 1998, for January 2007 at 14,466 units, a growth of 14 per cent over January 2006. In the passenger vehicle business, the company reported total sales of 22,801 units ... More

Comments & Letters to the Editor to: bleditor@thehindu.co.in
Subscribe to: Business Line

Brand Quest

Top Stories
Yunus stresses on social stock exchanges

`Promoters have no plan to sell stake in Polaris'

China faces food prices driven inflation

US growth fears may be receding

India, Yemen ink pact on cooperation in oil sector

Tata Indica, Safari report record sales in January

Looking back
Jan. 28-Feb. 3
B2B market to touch Rs 3,800 cr

Cricket, Big B outdo Shah Rukh on KBC 3

Details sought from private oil marketing cos on retail outlets

Retail majors to enter private label beauty biz