The Hindu Business Line : Friday, January 07, 2005

Ticket to riches
The competition among private bus services in Kerala has become so stiff that they have started adopting new marketing gimmicks. Shown here is the `Whiteline Service' scheme introduced by the Vyttila Circular Bus Owners' Association where the ... More

ADVERTISING

Life insurance ad spends up 84 pc
LIFE insurance advertising on television between January and November 2004 registered a rise of 84 per cent over the corresponding period in 2003. The total amount spent up to November was Rs 257.5 crore (Rs 139.7 crore). Life Insurance ... More

CHANNELS AND FRANCHISES

HLL to focus on franchisee route for Modern bread
ABOUT two years after completing the acquisition of Modern Foods India Ltd (MFIL), Hindustan Lever Ltd (HLL) has decided to de-emphasise direct bread manufacturing operations and focus predominantly on the franchisee route, leveraging the ... More

RETAILING

Bally enters India with its first store in Mumbai
BALLY, a Switzerland-based leader in luxury products launched its first store in Mumbai at the Grand Hyatt on Tuesday. The Mumbai store is in line with the new generation stores that Bally has opened in the US and South East Asia. The store ... More

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES

P&G relaunches Ariel in two variants
PROCTER & Gamble today relaunched Ariel in two new variants while keeping prices constant. P&G, which owns global fragrance brands including Hugo Boss, Lacoste, Old Spice and Valentino, decided to combine the cleaning function of a detergent More

Maran launches system for better use of spectrum
THE Minister of Communications and IT, Mr Dayanidhi Maran, today launched an Automated Spectrum Management System (ASMS) with features aimed at optimising the use of scarce spectrum resource. "The system has two components, namely ASMS and ... More

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