The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, June 07, 2005

Godrej HI CARE to invest Rs 12 cr on expansion
GODREJ HI CARE Ltd is eyeing a 130-per cent growth in turnover this year to Rs 30 crore. The two-year-old company, which was a division of Godrej Sara Lee till 2002-03, plans to take its pest management operations national, and has earmarked ... More

IPR

Developing world relies on Indian ARVs: LSE Update
PRIOR to January 2005, India was the last country in the world with an advanced pharmaceutical sector that did not offer product patents on drugs. Indian firms served as principal suppliers of affordable antiretrovirals (ARVs) to developing ... More

PROMOTIONS & OFFERS

Air Deccan launches Re 1 fare from today
GET set to fly in the domestic sky for Re 1! In a move that could lead to a fare war in the domestic arena, Air Deccan is starting to sell 1,000 tickets every month priced at Re 1 from Tuesday. The tickets will be available for flights ... More

RETAILING

Provogue plans more Studios
PROVOGUE (India) Ltd is expanding its shirt manufacturing facility at Daman from 2,000 shirts a day to 3,000 shirts a day. The company, which is entering the capital market with its initial public offering on June 10, is also setting up a ... More

Shell India may tie up with more local suppliers
OIL major Royal Dutch/Shell, which sources petrol and diesel solely from Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd for its retail operations, said on Monday that it might have to tie up with more Indian suppliers as it expands. Shell India's ... More

BRANDS

Bank of Baroda opens 24-hour branch in Mumbai — Rahul Dravid appointed brand ambassador
IN a bid to stay ahead of competition, Bank of Baroda will extend banking hours in select branches. The bank will be opening its first 24-hour branch in Mumbai this month and extending banking hours from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. in over 100 branches ... More

`Flavourit' brand spices sales top Rs 10 lakh
"The highest demand has emanated from Gujarat followed by Kerala, where the visiting tourists have been the main buyers." More

ONLINE MARKETING

eBay to reach out to small entrepreneurs
EBAY, the global trading platform with over a million registered users in India, of the 135 million-plus users worldwide, has initiated a move to rope in entrepreneurs and reach newer towns. The move has begun to pay off with Bollywood ... More

STANDARDS & BENCHMARKS

FDA forces Parle to change packaging of its cream biscuits
BISCUIT-MAKER Parle Products Pvt Ltd has been forced to make changes in the packs of its pineapple and orange cream biscuits after the Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA) trained its guns on it. In February, the FDA had asked the ... More

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES

Scientific American India to hit newsstands soon
THE India Today Group has launched the Indian edition of Scientific American, the world's oldest science and technology magazine published since 1845. Titled Scientific American India, the journal will bring to its readers ... More

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