The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, December 17, 2005

Mars Hotels plans to go national
THE Mumbai-based Mars Hotels and Restaurants, which owns brands such as Tendulkars, All Stir Fry and Just Around the Corner, will invest an estimated Rs 100 crore in the next three years to expand business and get a national footprint. The ... More

NeST to market `Flavourit' spices
THE public sector STCL Ltd and Kochi-based NeST Condiments Ltd have entered into an agreement under which the latter will market the `Flavourit' branded premium spices, procured, processed and packed by the former, both in Indian and ... More

COURTS/LEGAL ISSUES

ESPN moves Delhi HC on sharing of rights
NEW DELHI: ESPN Software has filed a writ petition in the Delhi High Court challenging the Government's recent notification making it mandatory for private sports broadcasters to share feed with national broadcaster, Prasar Bharati. ... More

PROMOTIONS & OFFERS

Maruti scheme for Kerala Govt staff
KOCHI: Maruti Udyog Ltd has launched a special scheme for the State Government employees, offering discounts and subsidised interest rates. The employees will get a special incentive of up to Rs 15,000, subsidised interest rates and ... More

CHANNELS AND FRANCHISES

SAP to resell Mercury software
BANGALORE: SAP, a provider of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, will now act as reseller of business technology optimisation software from Mercury Interactive Corporation. Load testing software Mercury LoadRunner helps ... More

RETAILING

Shoppers' Stop opens new outlet in Bangalore for home dressings
HOME Stop, Shoppers' Stop's first exclusive home dressings outlet, has been launched here. Apart from the entire range of home needs including furniture, soft furnishings, kitchen appliances, crockery, lighting accessories, heath equipment, the ... More

Ferns `N' Petals to open chaat outlets
FERNS `N' Petals (FNP), the branded domestic chain of retail flower shops, is poised to foray into the Indian street food market. It is planning to open chaat outlets across the country. "We would be opening six chaat outlets ... More

PEOPLE

JWT reshuffles top-level posts
JWT is in for a major top-level organisation restructure. Not only has the agency recruited new people, it has also reshuffled its existing senior executives. Mr Colvyn Harris, CEO, JWT, told Business Line that the restructuring is a ... More

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES

Eicher to enter tipper market
BULLISH on the domestic commercial vehicles segment, Eicher Motors said on Thursday that it would soon launch tippers in the market and go in for higher tonnage vehicles that it is developing in-house. "We have already piloted 4x2 tippers in ... More

Yahoo! offers `style gallery'
MUMBAI: Yahoo! India has launched a mobile `style gallery', introducing a signature series of photographs of model Malaika Arora clicked by well-known photographer Atul Kasbekar. The value-added services space in India is in a high-speed ... More