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MARKETING RESEARCH: Retail realty slows down in Jan-March: Report
‘Low supply trend may help maintain healthy supply-demand ratio’. Bangalore, May 5 The January-March ’09 quarter was a dull period for retail real estate with no fresh mall supply in the southern cities. In the first quarter of ...

STRATEGY: Anoo’s may expand to TN, Karnataka
Hyderabad, May 5 Anoo’s, the clinical and salon services company, plans to expand to at least 5 tier-two cities in Andhra Pradesh this year and is eyeing to enter Tamil Nadu and ...

RETAILING: The Mobile Store unveils ‘Ray’
Essar Group-promoted telecom retail chain The Mobile Store (TMS) has launched its private label handsets under the brand name ‘Ray’. Initially, in the first phase, four models will be rolled out. All these handsets will have ...

PROMOTIONS & OFFERS: Kerala Tourism ties up with Radio Mirchi
Bangalore, May 5 Kerala Tourism has tied up with Radio Mirchi to promote the State to listeners in New Delhi, Mumbai, Ahmedabad and ...

INTERVIEW: Slowdown no crimp in Lifestyle, to keep expanding
To boost store numbers, both departmental and home furnishing. Mumbai, May 5 With customer spending down, retailers will have to embrace a few difficult quarters ahead. Unlike others in the industry, Mr Kabir Lumba, Executive Director, Lifestyle ...

RURAL MARKETING: Murugappa Group to open more rural retail outlets
Chennai, May 5 In 2008-09, Murugappa Group undertook a tactical initiative to take retailing first to rural India, where it would sell goods that are needed by farmers. In the second half of the year, through its company, Coromandel ...

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: Incablenet teams up with Radio Netherlands
Listen to radio on cable TV now, Incablenet has partnered with Radio Netherlands and will be offering radio to its consumers. The Hinduja Group’s business may be the first to do so via cable in India. Some Direct to Home companies are ...

ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES: Samvad, Anderson Knight tie-up
Hyderabad, May 5 Samvad Public Relations Pvt Ltd on Tuesday signed an MoU with Anderson Knight Pty Ltd of Sydney, Australia to provide services in the areas of public relations, market research, communication and training ...

RETAILING: JSW Steel showroom at Siliguri
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From Brand Line

BRANDS: Break-out brands
Successful and established brands are breaking out of their golden cages, and adding fashionable new dimensions to themselves. Why, and how?. Before the Swift, Maruti Suzuki was a middle-class, trusted brand of cars. After Swift, Maruti Suzuki ...

OUTLOOK: ‘The pen business is not dead’
Montblanc’s Handke says the fountain pen will always be special and the company will never give it up.. Montblanc’s Karl-Heinz Handke is very touchy about pens. He believes the love letter must not be written with anything other ...

BRANDS: Gateway to a new brand
The hotel major wants its new business-class set of hotels to be unencumbered by the Taj connection.. Last September, a regular visitor to the Taj Garden Retreat hotel in the salubrious climes of Coonoor in the Nilgiri mountains would have been ...

STRATEGY: Coming out of its shell
Kerala’s Cashew Development Corporation’s move to make profits by launching value-added products pays off.. After more than 70 years of selling cashew kernel in bulk in the domestic and overseas markets, Kerala State Cashew ...

BOOKS: Where Sachin is still 16 years old
This is not a book for those who are allergic to cricket – If Cricket Is a Religion, Sachin is God, by Vijay Santhanam and Shyam Balasubramanian (

BOOKS: Manage your time equity
During valuable selling hours, you must organise yourself to maximise face-time or talk-time, advises Tim Breithaupt in 10 Steps to Sales Success ( www.macmillanindia.com). ...

BOOKS: Excellent service
Here is a simple activity to engineer discussion around products and services, as Mark Barnes explains in Serious Fun: Adding Buzz to Meeting, Training and Communications (Westland). Write the title ‘Excellent Service’ as ...

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: Handy gizmo
Optoma has launched the Optoma Pico PK101, a pocket projector. The latest LED technology, Optoma’s projector expertise, and Texas Instruments DLP chip technology (used in business and home cinema projectors the world over), come together ...

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: Eye candy
Titan Eye+, the exclusive optical retail chain from Titan Industries, has launched ‘Cabana’, a range of casually corporate unisex eyewear. Global eyewear trends such as double temples, textured temples and cutaways have been ...

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: Gold standard
Tanishq has launched the world’s smallest Bhagwad Gita, in the form of a 1 sq. cm. pendant with the entire 18 chapters of Gita inscribed in 24k gold. The inscribed verses can be seen under a 20 x microscope and can be read under a 200 ...

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: Very berry
Asta Berry has launched its Shiny Sheers Glossy lip colours. Enriched with Vitamin E, they claim to impart a smooth satin and colour-rich look available in various shades of pink, red and brown. They are priced at Rs 65 and available at all ...

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: De-stress
Tempur has introduced pressure-relieving seat cushions to enable people working on desks and computers for long hours to do so without stressing the spine. They are available at all Springwell stores ranging from Rs 7,000 to Rs 10,000 and carry ...

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