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TRENDS: Long queues outside jewellery shops, now to sell
GOLD RUSH. Mumbai, Feb. 20 People have found a golden opportunity in the sharp rise in bullion prices. Even as gold jewellery buyers seem to have almost vanished in thin air, there are long queues outside jewellery shops which buy back old ...

RETAILING: Next to retail toys, gifts
To stock national & international brands; plans 700 stores this year. Mumbai, Feb. 20 Videocon Industries’ promoted Next Retail is expanding its portfolio to include toys and ...

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: Wipro unveils new notebook
Wipro Infotech has launched e.go a premium and stylish range of notebooks for the Indian market. The new range comes with enhanced security features, including hard disk user password protection that helps to secure data and interface security ...

CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT: ‘Value the customer to beat the economic slump’
Bangalore, Feb. 20 While it’s always been important for companies to value the customer, never before has it been so critical as it is now. Enhancing customer experiences and service is extremely crucial to beat the economic slump, ...

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: Geojit launches property services division
Kochi, Feb. 20 Geojit Financial Services has announced the launch of its Property Services Division offering investors and builders a single platform to buy or sell office and commercial spaces and residential apartments or ...

STRATEGY: Gemfields to sell Zambia emeralds in India
Mumbai, Feb. 16 Gemfields Resources Plc, an UK-based mining and processing company, will be marketing precious Zambian Emeralds in pairs, suites and layouts in India. Listed on AIM Exchange (Alternative Investment Market) of London ...

STRATEGY: SkodaIndia to roll out pre-owned car business in new format
Spare parts warehouse in Aurangabad coming up. Pune, Feb. 20 Automaker SkodaIndia is set to launch a car exchange programme in a new format that is bigger and different from Signature, its existing pre-owned car business, and is working on ...

RETAILING: Yamaha opens music instruments store
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PROMOTIONS & OFFERS: ‘Discount formats making large stores unviable’
Chennai, Feb. 20 The present slowdown has reduced walk-ins by around 20 per cent to retail stores across formats and towns. Enhanced value-seeking attitude and discount expectations and the resultant growth of value and discount formats ...

RETAILING: Costa Coffee opens more outlets in Pune
Pune, Feb. 20 Catering to the coffee taste buds of the city, UK’s coffee chain, Costa Coffee, have opened outlets at three locations in ...

RETAILING: Provogue to invest Rs 25 cr on stores expansion
City-based retailer Provogue plans to invest Rs 25 crore for setting up about 35 Provogue stores and eight Promart ...

PROMOTIONS & OFFERS: SriLankan Holidays’ new package
Thiruvananthapuram, Feb. 20 SriLankan Holidays, the leisure arm of SriLankan Airlines, has launched a special ‘second passenger travels at one rupee only’ holiday package. Every traveller who buys the two days/three nights ...

From Brand Line

ADVERTISING: Marketing in a slowdown
The bold ones say they will not cut ad spend, the conservative ones say they will wait and watch, but all are agreed that a downturn calls for swifter and more efficient marketing tactics.. You could call it a sense of déjÀ vu. In late ...

BRANDING: ‘An opportunity in reverse’
Prioritise needs, explore consumer segments deeper. Santosh Desai, Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Futurebrands, calls the slowdown “an opportunity in reverse”. “For No 2 and 3 brands, it’s a great ...

BRANDS: Brands need to ...
First, continue sensible investments in brand marketing. A strong brand can best weather an ...

STRATEGY: Fuelling growth
Organisations can grow even as individual businesses plateau or wither. Read on to see how the momentum can be maintained.. Ved (not his real name), CEO of a US-based multinational company, was contemplating the rapid growth of his company with ...

BOOKS: A 360-degree view of customer bookmark
Liberal trends abroad have begun to reach the Indian soil, and as a result the debate over obscenity and pornography has intensified, writes Girja Kumar in Censorship in India: Studies in Fundamentalism, Obscenity and Law ...

BOOKS: Who is a celebrity?
Celebrity culture is a very visible, significant and commercially viable component of a society’s public culture today, says Pramod K. Nayar in Seeing Stars: Spectacle, Society and Celebrity Culture ( ...

INTERVIEW: ‘Solutions will drive Nokia consumption’
D. Shivakumar, VP and MD, Nokia India, says good innovation benefits the consumer, the ecosystem and the manufacturer.. The mobile phone is all poised to take the world by storm, believes D. Shivakumar, Vice-President and Managing Director, ...

ADVERTISING: Taking advantage of the downturn
Companies that continued to spend money on marketing despite a slowdown have grown.. We are seeing pretty bad times these days and we may see worse before it all gets better. So what are companies doing today? What should they be doing? What ...

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: Smarter Bose
Bose has introduced a new and enhanced 3•2•1 series of DVD home entertainment systems. The 3•2•1, 3•2•1 GS and 3•2•1 GSX Series III systems will include an HDMI output for simple HDMI ...

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: Glide shaving
Glide, a range of personal care products manufactured by the US-based American Safety Razor, has launched a glycerin-based shaving cream in the Indian market. The product will be distributed in the country by Radiohms Agency. Available in ...

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: For your eyes
The Himalaya Drug Company has launched an under eye cream containing a blend of herb actives that are specially created to care for the area around the eyes and prevent the formation of under eye dark circles. Available in a pack of 15 ml, ...

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: Get floored
Vista, the brand of Alps Industries, has launched its collection of hardwood floorings in 9.5mm. The new range, which is a collection from Brazil, includes Jatoba, Taurai, Cumaru, Muiracatiara, Sucupira and Angelina Pedra. The floorings ...

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: Kiss and tell
Revlon is re-launching its Velvet Touch lipstick in new packaging. It has 16 new shades with an upgraded formula. The shades include Wicked Chocolate, Hot Café, Matte Brownie, Roasted Coffee, Choco Berry and Royal Burgundy. Each ...






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