The Hindu Business Line : Friday, August 25, 2006

PROMOTIONS & OFFERS
Airtel's Onam offer
Bharti Airtel has announced a special offer for its new post paid users to celebrate the Onam festival season. `Talk a lot Onam offer' gives the Airtel post paid customer 400 minutes of free talk time every month on a rental of ... More

Tanishq Onam offers
Tanishq has announced special offers for consumers during the Onam festival season with a surprise gift free with every purchase. The value of the gifts amounts to Rs 2 lakh at each store. In addition, consumers availing ... More

MARKET SHARES
Idea crosses 10-lakh subscriber mark
Idea Cellular Ltd has become the first private GSM operator to cross 10-lakh subscriber base in Kerala circle. The company has also emerged as the largest private GSM player in the circle with a 42 per cent in market share among ... More

Samsung's new plant in AP or Tamil Nadu; no decision yet on investment
Samsung India is looking at Andhra Pradesh or Tamil Nadu to set up its second manufacturing facility in the country. "We will make a formal announcement of Phase I of the commencement of this unit in September, which will manufacture and ... More

RETAILING
Pantaloon to expand in Delhi NCR
Pantaloon Retail (India) Ltd plans to open around six to eight more stores over the next 10 months in the Delhi NCR region. Inaugurating a new store in West Delhi, Mr Mayur Toshniwal, Head Northern Region, PRIL said that Delhi was assuming ... More

MARKETING RESEARCH
Blackout makes Mumbaikars discover old-world charms
Moved `couch potatoes' to mobility; for others, it was a trip to yore More

BRANDS
A global bladder-print
Tata Tea has bought a 30 per cent equity stake in Energy Brands Inc of the US at $677 million, valuing the maker of Glaceau Vitamin waters at all of $2.3 billion! This is exciting news! The biggest-ever equity investment by a private Indian ... More

Compu-Needs plans branded computers
Compu-Needs IT Solutions Pvt Ltd, a city-based computer hardware dealer, is launching branded computers. Called `Com 10', the company's range of branded personal computers will be formally launched on Friday, said Mr Gokul Govind, Managing ... More

STANDARDS & BENCHMARKS
Tea shipment to Poland rejected
ADULTERATED CONSIGNMENTS More

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES
Elgi Ultra to focus on home appliance products
The company had sold about 3,000 new grinders since the launch in Chennai market in February this year and expects to sell about 10,000 units during the current calendar year. More

ICICI Prudential Life launches 2 new products
ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Co has launched two new products aimed at offering more security to investors, especially retired people. The first is a premium-guaranteed market-linked plan, which ensures that investors will gain from upsides ... More

ATI Tech launches graphic cards
ATI Technologies Inc has launched the Radeon X1900 XT 256 MB, Radeon X1650 Pro and Radeon X1300 XT graphics cards for the gaming and digital entertainment PC market. The new cards would offer better shader performance, ... More

Natco launches cancer drug
Natco Pharma Ltd (NPL) has launched a drug for the treatment of multiple myeloma in the injection form under the brand Bortenat (Bortezomib) in 3.5 mg dosage. Multiple myeloma (characterised by the abnormal plasma cell in the bone marrow) is ... More