The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, September 10, 2003

Rail tickets now only a call away
A RAIL ticket will soon be just a phone call away, with the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) tying up with call centres of leading banks to accept customers' requests for tickets over telephone. "We are aware that most ... More

COURTS/LEGAL ISSUES

SC says MRTPC will decide on SitiCable plea for signals
Mr Justice B.P. Singh said that whether SitiCable would be entitled to use the HITS-based transmission or not would be decided by MRTPC. More

PROMOTIONS & OFFERS

Sita holidays sop
NEW DELHI: Sita 1001 Holidays of India, the domestic business unit of Kuoni Travel India Pvt Ltd, on Tuesday announced that the first 500 customers to travel with Sita 1001 Holidays of India (classic holidays) this winter will receive a ... More

Tag Heuer signs Shah Rukh as brand ambassador
LUXURY sports watchmaker, Tag Heuer, on Tuesday announced the signing of Bollywood superstar, Mr Shah Rukh Khan, as its brand ambassador in India. The actor has signed a three-year agreement with Tag Heuer covering product development, ... More

CHANNELS AND FRANCHISES

Urban auto dealers pack up, rural dealerships pick up
While the volumes have decreased, the competition has only increased further, not only from rival car companies but also from the same company. More

MARKETING RESEARCH

IMG to launch event evaluation services
IMG — the leading sports, leisure and lifestyle marketing and management company — may soon bring to India Comperio Research, a part of the Mark McCormack group of companies, which specialises in quantitative and qualitative research ... More

BRANDS

Siddhartha Apparels to launch own brand
MORE than two decades of manufacturing readymade garments, especially shirts, for well-known brands such as Park Avenue, Siddhartha Apparels Pvt Ltd has firmed up plans to launch its own range of ready-to-wear garments for men under the UGO ... More

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES

Ranbaxy launches new anti-infective
RANBAXY Laboratories Ltd has launched a high-end anti-infective injectible under the brand name Cilanem. Introduced for the first time in the country, the drug has excellent gram positive, gram negative and anaerobic coverage, according to an ... More

LG lines up new TV models for festive season
"We plan to launch 14 new colour TV models, including projection TVs of 44 and 54 inch sizes. Others include two models each of 14, 20 and 29 inch screen sizes, besides six models in the mass 21-inch range", Mr Chandramani said. More

Archies launches new range of HelpAge cards
THE greeting card industry has reason to be optimistic this year. After seeing negative growth in the past few years, and de-growing by about 7-8 per cent in 2002-03, the industry has clicked a positive growth in the first five months of the ... More

BPCL launches premium petrol
BHARAT Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) launched Speed, its premium petrol, here on Tuesday. Mr S. Krishna Murthy, Executive Director (Retail), said at a press meet that the high-performance petrol, priced marginally higher than the ordinary ... More

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