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Saturday, January 11, 2003
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Will Indian soaps lather the Asian TV market? — E-City targets non-traditional countries
LORD Ganesha's televised serial in Thailand? A saas-bahu family television soap in Greece? Or a cookery show such as Khana Khazana in China? Well, E-City Entertainment (I) Pvt Ltd, an Essel Group of Industries company, is now making ... More

Coke announces price reduction
Coca-Cola India on Friday announced a 10-15 per cent price reduction across its carbonated soft drink brands - Coke, Thums Up, Limca, Sprite and Fanta, in some markets of North India, a press release issued by the company stated. Prices are ... More

ADVERTISING


Adspends up last festive season — FMCG, corporate campaigns hog TV time; mixed bag for print
THE festive season - from September-November - typically accounts for about 30-35 per cent of annual ad revenues for TV channels and print publications. Year 2002 was no different, with ad spends in TV and press up by 13 per cent as ... More

Six ad agencies in race to grab Louis Philippe creative account
"O&M is handling the creative now and they are also in the race (to retain it)." More

PROMOTIONS & OFFERS


LG earmarks Rs 35 cr for World Cup promo
GEARING up for the coming cricket season, LG Electronics India has kicked off a consumer promotion "World Cup Pass Chahiye" offer. The company has earmarked a budget of Rs 35 Crore for the campaign running from January 5 till February 28, ... More

CHANNELS AND FRANCHISES


ICON to distribute Tharas solutions
BANGALORE: Tharas Systems Inc, a provider of high-performance, hardware-assisted design verification solutions, has named ICON Design Automation Pvt Ltd of Bangalore, as its distributor in India. Tharas Systems' Hammer provides a ... More

ONLINE MARKETING


GRT opens online payment system
CHENNAI: The Chennai-based jewellery store, GRT, has opened its online payment gateway with ICICI Bank and has also come out with a jewellery-gifting scheme. The jewellery store won the international `Golden Web Award' for 2002-03 for ... More

TRENDS


McDowell pulled up for restrictive trade practice
COMPANIES offering discriminatory discounts to different wholesalers may find themselves being pulled up for restrictive trade practice. The most recent one being liquor major, McDowell & Co Ltd which has been pulled up by the Monopolies & ... More

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES


Kerala first State to get taste of Pepsi's Mountain Dew
PEPSI is poised to soft-launch one of its most popular international drinks, Mountain Dew, in the Kerala market. This drink, of active citrus taste, is being brought into the Indian market to shake Limca's stranglehold over the cloudy lemon ... More

Latest variant of Ford Ikon hits Kerala market
Currently, the company enjoys a market share of 30 per cent in the State in the C segment, which would improve with the launch of the new variant, Mr Sam Manipadam, General Manager (Finance) and Company Secretary, Ford India said. He added that ... More


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