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TRENDS: Broadcasters seek inflation adjusted price hike
New Delhi, Dec. 18 Television channels could cost you a little more, in keeping with inflation, if broadcasters’ wishes are ...

RETAILING: DLF to bring international premium brands to India
Plans more stores, investments. New Delhi, Dec. 18 DLF Ltd is seeking backward integration with the company’s retail management subsidiary DLF Brands, looking to bring in a clutch of international premium brands to ...

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: Shreya Life’s new insulin spray
The Mumbai-based Shreya Life Sciences has announced the launch of the world’s first DNA human insulin buccal spray under the brand name of ‘Oral-Recosulin.’ The insulin spray would be used for the treatment of Type-I and ...

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: CavinKare extends Spinz to men’s deodorants
Chennai, Dec. 18 Chennai-based FMCG company CavinKare Pvt Ltd has entered the men’s deodorant segment with three variants under the Spinz brand. The company, which has several deos for women under the same brand, intends to ...

MARKETING RESEARCH: India Inc sees trimming salary increases in 2009: Survey
Bangalore, Dec. 18 Corporate India admits it’s happening. In a Mercer survey of over 100 companies across 20 sectors in the country, companies have conceded that workforce reduction would occur and hiring would become more selective ...

ADVERTISING: Dhoni joins Bachchan in Dabur Honey ad campaign
New Delhi, Dec. 18 Dabur’s old and new brand ambassador, actor Amitabh Bachchan and Indian cricket team captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, will promote its brand of honey in a new ...

STRATEGY: Prince Jewellery enters Kerala
Thiruvananthapuram, Dec. 18 The Chennai-based Prince Jewellery has kicked off its expansion programme with a retail outlet here. This will be its first store outside ...

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: Elite Food’s range of Xmas cakes
Elite Foods Pvt Ltd, manufacturers of Elite brand of cakes, has introduced a new range for Christmas. The company’s product range include plum cakes, chocolate plum, bar cakes, tea cakes, sponge cakes, cup cakes and slice cakes. Elite is ...

From Brand Line

ADVERTISING: Is the picture dimming?
Advertising on TV may be hit due to the slowdown but the FMCG sector could well be its insurance.. As the slowdown takes its toll on most industries, it is now going to be the turn of the broadcasting industry to face the blues. The ad ...

INTERVIEW: ‘Indian cos have to spend to defend themselves’
David Haigh, CEO of Brand Finance, says Indian firms can take advantage of the downturn to spend more to reinforce their position.. David Haigh, the CEO of Brand Finance Plc, was in India recently from the UK to evangelise what he has been doing ...

ADVERTISING: Small sceptics
Children are no fools, and exhibit some healthy cynicism when it comes to advertising that seems to make tall claims.. I was watching some TV programmes with a bunch of kids and their comments during a commercial break prompted me to ask them a ...

BOOKS: Fear-based sales relationship is dysfunctional
What would you call ‘the process of helping clients succeed in a way they feel good about’? It’s ‘sales,’ say Mahan Khalsa and Randy Illig in Let’s Get Real or Let’s Not Play: Transforming ...

INTERVIEW: ‘The Indian market has adopted advocacy faster than many others’
Jack Leslie, Chairman of PR major Weber Shandwick, in conversation with BrandLine.. Jack Leslie, the Chairman of Weber Shandwick, one of the world’s major public relations agencies, was in India last month to speak at the World Economic ...

BRANDS: Three brands and a disaster
After the mayhem of November 26, our columnist examines the appeal of the two hotels that took centre-stage and the city that houses them.. The 26/11 terrorist attack on Mumbai basically involved three brands and a disaster. I live very close to ...

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: Hot stuff
Padmini Essentia has launched a stainless steel instant gas geyser brand named ‘Magic’. Its response time is claimed to be comparable with that of an expensive instant geyser. In less than 10 seconds, there is flowing hot water ...

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: World tour
Funskool India Ltd’s latest offering for kids is the Global Monopoly Here & Now: The World Edition, featuring the greatest cities from around the world. It is available in an electronic version and a non-electronic version priced at ...

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: Office chic
LG Electronics has launched its new commercial air-conditioner range, Cassette AC – Highlander. The ACs are claimed to have a unique individual four-way airflow control specially designed to control the angle of each vane and the ...

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: Minty aid
Dabur India has announced the extension of its Hajmola digestive range with the launch of a new variant – Hajmola Pudina. The new Pudina variant comes after the success of Hajmola’s regular, imli (tamarind) and ...






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