Business Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Tuesday, September 09, 2008
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Business Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Tuesday, September 09, 2008 ePaper | Mobile/PDA Version | Audio |
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MARKETING PROMOTIONS & OFFERS: Car makers offer discounts to woo buyers New Delhi, Sept. 8 After a sharp drop in domestic car sales growth rate, car makers such as Hyundai and Maruti have begun to offer discounts to revitalise sales to attract consumers who are shelving their purchasing plans due to high inflation ... FOREIGN INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS: Subhiksha to raise $80-100 m FII funds Chennai, Sept. 8 Close on the heels of the news of Wipro’s Azim Premji taking a 10 per cent stake in discount retail chain Subhiksha, the company now plans to raise $80-100 million by an investment from large foreign institutional ... RETAILING: Videocon’s Next Retail mulls smaller format stores To stock select categories of consumer durables. Mumbai, Sept. 8 Videocon Industries-promoted Next Retail is toying with the idea of setting up smaller format stores under two brands — Next Express and Next Digital. ... ONLINE MARKETING: Art brushes against big bucks at online auction Mumbai, Sept. 8 When art has a brush with the Internet, it could mean big bucks for the ... NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: KSIC opens second showroom The Ernakulam District Collector, Dr M. Beena, has opened the showroom of Karnataka Silk Industries Corporation Ltd (KSIC), a fully owned Government of Karnataka undertaking at ‘My Kingdom’, here at M.G. Road. She also inaugurated the ... STANDARDS & BENCHMARKS: Certification for Adlabs Adlabs, part of Mr Anil Ambani—controlled ADAG, has become the first motion picture services facility in the country to be awarded certification by the UK’s industry body Federation Against Copyright Theft. A large number of film ... PROMOTIONS & OFFERS: Oman Air to celebrate Onam Oman Air, the first foreign airline to commence operations from the Cochin International Airport, has completed seven years of its operations. To celebrate Onam in the skies, the national carrier of Oman has announced the introduction of Onam ... NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: Sabols expanding products range Packaged drinking water major Sabols has launched its range of products such as drinking water, club soda and mango magic in Nellore. The company plans to introduce Sprint (a carbonated drink), flavoured fruit drink in cartons , flavoured ...
NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES:
PaGo Lifestyle showroom in Madurai
STRATEGY:
Asiana Group plans slew of hotels
STRATEGY:
GM India creates sales company
CONSUMER ELECTRONICS: Will it be festive? As the traditional season for major buys approaches, durables majors are trying to keep their chins up in the face of a slowdown.. Come September, it’s festive season again. As consumers plan their shopping, durables majors are working ... STRATEGY: Scattershot strategy Attempting to expand rapidly can be an indiscriminate move for a company to make, as it can tell on long-term prospects.. I’ve been a fan of Fabindia for many years now — for their furnishing fabric, their clothes — and the ... RURAL MARKETING: How rural retail stacks up A new study quantifies all things rural: from how many rural retail outlets there are to how rural folk shop.. Any marketer worth his salt knows that in the wild blue yonder of rural India lies a huge market for many products and brands. He will ... INTERVIEW: Banking on brand Estée Estee Lauder believes the Indian market is ready for what it offers.. Renowned cosmetics brand Estée Lauder has opened its second store in India, a boutique in Bangalore’s premier luxury mall, The Collection at UB City. ... ADVERTISING: A story to tell; a cast to die for Airtel continues to romance the audience conveying different messages tied by one thread — breaking barriers.. A recent headline read: ‘Ad keeps Madhavan busy’. The actor and his co-star from the commercial, Vidya Balan, are ... BRANDS: A ‘brand’ new world Companies draw inspiration from dramatically different categories to coin brand names.. Have you noticed how many modern brand names don’t really belong to their product categories any more? Mango is not merely a juicy fruit; it is an ... ADVERTISING: K. Kurien. R.I.P. K. Kurien is no more. Yet another giant has fallen. And the advertising industry is so much the poorer for it. K. Kurien, we gather from a wide spectrum of industry regulars, was a unique person. Very unlike an “advertising person” ... BOOKS: Consider entering a market nearby The best opportunities are often close to home, says Peter Fisk in Business Genius( www.wileyeurope.com). “When looking to grow, adjacent markets can offer the easiest, ... NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: Silver wash Samsung India announced the launch of its new range of fully automatic washing machines. The new range comprises 17 new models in capacities ranging between 6.2 kg and 7.2 kg. The range is equipped with features such as SilverNano and Diamond ...
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