The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, May 18, 2002

Invensys project for EID Parry pays off
INVENSYS India Pvt Ltd, a unit of the London-headquartered Invensys Plc, has completed a performance-based automation project at the Pudukkotai sugar mill of EID Parry Ltd. According to a press release from Invensys, the project objective was ... More

ANNOUNCEMENTS

B4U puts off IPO plans
THE promoters of B4U Television Network have further deferred their plans for an initial public offering (IPO) till the end of this year. They may rope in fresh partners if the situation forces them to defer the IPO plans even further. The ... More

Tata Tea to pay 70%

OPEN OFFERS

Parent makes final offer for purchase of Cadbury shares
CADBURY Schweppes Plc and Cadbury Schweppes Mauritius Ltd, formerly known as Clarendon Investments Mauritius Ltd, have informed the Bombay Stock Exchange that they are making a final cash offer to purchase the outstanding public shareholding of ... More

AWARDS & HONOURS

Clean Energy Personality award

COURTS/LEGAL ISSUES

Jessop sell-off: HC declines stay on interim order
MR Justice K.J. Sengupta of the Calcutta High Court today refused to vacate the interim order passed in the Jessop & Co Ltd's disinvestment case. Earlier, on March 7, the court directed the Board for Financial and Industrial Reconstruction ... More

TECHNOLOGY

The strength of `lean' manufacturing
IN the last few years, the Indian industry has seen a revolution of sorts — any company worth its name has kaizen programmes, in which, basically, workers suggest and effect improvements in whatever they are doing. Many companies have ... More

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

Indian ally to pick Allied Domecq stake in jt venture
THE Ghai group, the Indian promoter of Maharashtra Dairy Products Manufacturing Company Pvt Ltd, producers of Baskin Robbins ice-cream, will buy out its UK-based partner's stake in the company. The UK-based partner - the Allied Domecq group - ... More

NEW PROJECTS

Rupa sets up new plant
RUPA & Co Ltd, a leading manufacturer of hosiery products, has set up a new plant at Domjur near here, at a cost of Rs 15 crore. Mr Ramesh Agarwal, Director of the company, told reporters that the plant was designed to produce over 150 tonnes ... More

REGULATORY BODIES & RULINGS

Vanishing cos: `DCA to go for hot pursuit'
THE Department of Company Affairs (DCA) is in hot pursuit of companies which duped gullible investors by floating public issues and vanished subsequently, according to Mr Vinod Dhall, Secretary, DCA. Speaking at a meeting organised by the ... More

Investment mode for `producer co' in offing
THE Government may be allowed to prescribe any mode in which investments can be made by the "producer company'' since the proposal envisaged in the Companies (Second Amendment) Bill, 2001 restricts the investment of general reserves in approved ... More

SICK UNITS

BIFR sanctions Rs 38-crore revival scheme for AB Corp
BIG B's entertainment company, AB Corp Ltd, seems to be on the path of revival. The Board for Industrial & Financial Reconstruction (BIFR) has sanctioned a Rs 38.06-crore rehabilitation scheme for the ailing Amitabh Bachchan Corporation Ltd ... More

OUTLOOK

Baxter feels its time has come
BAXTER India, a wholly-owned subsidiary of $8- billion Baxter International Inc, has weathered a few storms during its five-odd years in the country. Keeping pace with growth in other regional markets like China, the Indian subsidiary has seen ... More

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