The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, August 04, 2005

Game show or shaadi this weekend?
IT'S a Big Friday for broadcasters. This weekend, channels seem to be determined to keep you in your couches glued to the television screen. While Star Plus is attempting to cash in on the Amitabh Bachchan charisma with the final season of ... More

FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT

Pushing for retail FDI
ICRIER says allowing FDI in retail will actually help existing retailers on several fronts. More

EVENTS

Business Line BrandQuest
READERS of BrandQuest, the business quiz that appears in Business Line's Catalyst supplement, now have a chance to win prizes every week. The top three entries for the online quiz, to be uploaded every Thursday, will be awarded Rs 1,000 ... More

Thai Food Festival in Coimbatore from today
THE Residency, Coimbatore, is hosting a Thai food festival from August 4 to August 14 between 7.30 p.m. and midnight at Chin Chin, its Chinese restaurant. The Festival is offered as a special a la carte menu along with the standard ... More

Garment trade show in Chennai
THE second edition of Gar-Fab Tx, a garment industry trade show, will be held here from August 5 to 7. Mr B.P. Mishra, CEO, Xhibitions & Konferences India, the organisers of the trade show, said there would be 50 exhibitors displaying over 150 .. More

PROMOTIONS & OFFERS

Discovery, Nokia join hands for mobile phone filmmaking contest
DISCOVERY Networks Asia, a division of entertainment company Discovery Communications, and Nokia, a mobile communications player, have partnered to launch the Mobile First Time Filmmakers Contest 2005, which will give consumers the opportunity to ... More

Toyota's service offer for rain-hit vehicles
TOYOTA Kirloskar Motor (TKM) today reported that it has extended special rates to service all Toyota vehicles damaged in the heavy rains and flooding that hit the city recently. "The special service offered by Toyota dealerships in Mumbai is ... More

CHANNELS AND FRANCHISES

Vascular Concepts plans Europe foray
NEW DELHI:Stent manufacturer Vascular Concepts is planning to enter the European market with its `Pronova' brand of drug-coated stents. Mr Swaminathan Jayaraman, Managing Director, said, "The company is in the final stages of setting up ... More

RETAILING

Mangalore-based co-op takes to retailing arecanut
AT a time when import of arecanut is affecting the domestic market, a Mangalore-based agriculturists' co-operative has begun retail marketing of arecanut with an aim to protect the market. The Mangalore Agriculturists' Souharda Sahakari (MASS) ... More

Jewellery brand Avenue Montaigne to set up 40 large format stores
BRANDED jewellery store Avenue Montaigne on Wednesday announced expansion plans entailing setting up of 40 large format stores across the country and 10 showrooms outside India within the next five years, at an investment of Rs 90 ... More

Classic Polo plans 30 more stores
TIRUPUR-based Royal Classic Group (RCG) plans to add 30 more Classic Polo stores by 2007 to its existing 20 outlets across the country, in a bid to strengthen its retail stores chain. The group would be adding six stores during the current year ... More

MARKETING RESEARCH

PDA shipments up 32 pc in Q1
A SURVEY on the PDA (personal digital assistant) market by Gartner has shown a quantum jump in worldwide shipments in the first quarter of the current fiscal compared to the corresponding previous period, signalling a recovery of the slumping PDA ... More

BRANDS

Continental brand in SAARC: Metro hopeful of pact soon
THE Rs 300-crore Metro group may soon acquire rights from German tyre company, Continental AG, to sell automotive tubes for the SAARC region under the `Continental' brand name. The automotive tubes, including four-wheeler tubes, would be ... More

STANDARDS & BENCHMARKS

MAA Bozell implements total quality management system
MAA Bozell, part of the Rs 180-crore MAA group and a player in integrated communications , has introduced total quality management (TQM) for all its processes. TQM, a quest for perfection and improvisation at every level, is largely ... More

OUTLOOK

Adidas to buy Reebok — May swing equations in India too
ADIDAS-SALOMON AG's decision to purchase Reebok International would have a significant impact on market share equations in the Indian sporting goods segment as well. Reebok is currently the market leader in the domestic premium sports shoes ... More

TRENDS

PARRY'S PANORAMA-3

Chennai's chemical corner — an extended mall
Shop-filled streets bustling with activity, vehicles, pedestrians and roadside vendors, buildings that house businesses as old as Chennai itself... that's Parry's for you. Nyniappa (Naicken) Street near `Kandakottam,' the centuries-old Murugan ... More

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES

Tata Motors bets on Dicor to drive Safari sales
TATA Motors today launched a variant of its sports utility vehicle Safari, fitted with a common rail direct injection (CRDi) engine, and said that it had plans to offer the CRDi engines on its other models as well. "The Safari was the first ... More

Brand Quest

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