The Hindu Business Line : Friday, November 01, 2002

DS Foods teams up with Uttaranchal to market tea
THE Uttaranchal Government and DS Foods — the foods division of the Rs 700-crore DS Group Ltd — are set to ink a joint venture arrangement to market tea. While the project will help in expanding tea plantations in Uttaranchal and ... More

Asianet Global to add news programming
ASIANET, the satellite television company, is all set to rework the programming on its Asianet Global channel and transform it into a news-based channel that also caters to the entertainment needs of the `global Malayalee'. Confirming these ... More

ADVERTISING

ACC gets clean chit from MRTPC
ACC has been given a clean chit by the Monopolies & Restrictive Trade Practices Commission (MRTPC) on a contempt petition for alleged breach of the Commission's earlier order, where the company had given an undertaking that it had stopped ... More

RPG pulls Wings from Lowe; Rubecon gains
CHENNAI-based RPG Cellular, part of the Rs 6,500-crore RPG Group, has pulled the advertising for Wings Prepaid service from Lowe, which has handled the account since 1999. The account has gone to Rubecon Communications, which already handles ... More

CHANNELS AND FRANCHISES

Godrej Sara Lee to distribute Kiwi cleaners
AFTER buying out TTK's stake in the joint venture last year, Sara Lee has offloaded the distribution of its Kiwi brand of cleaning products to its other joint venture company in the country - the Rs 422-crore Godrej Sara Lee. A Godrej official ... More

RETAILING

Bikanervala plans retail operations overseas — Ties up with Dubai-based chain
McDONALD'S, Domino's, Pizza Hut and KFC aren't the only ones looking for presence in places other than their home markets. Bucking the trend of international food chains coming in droves to India, the Delhi-based Bikanervala Foods Pvt Ltd is ... More

Amul shops to pop up soon
GUJARAT Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd (Amul) is setting up its own retail network under the Amul brand. The co-operative plans 10,000 stores all over the country to retail all its products under one roof. Mr B.M. Vyas, Managing ... More

Trendy liquor shops to warm up Delhi winter
The State excise administration is in the final stages of scrutinising the private proposals and will decide on the final list through a draw of lots. More

Elite group plans bakeries in metros
KOCHI: The Thrissur-based Elite group of companies with interest in flour milling and industrial baking is holding discussions with a leading supermarket chain to run bakeries in metros such as Mumbai and Delhi. This is a part of the ... More

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES

Buy a Bolero Sportz at under Rs 5 lakh
WITH the introduction of the Bolero Sportz priced at an attractive Rs 4.93 lakh, Mahindra & Mahindra has now broken the Rs 5 lakh price barrier in the multi-utility vehicles segment. An extension of the highly successful Bolero brand - the ... More

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