Reliances vegetable store in Ranchi
Reliance’s vegetable store (Reliance Fresh) in Ranchi has been attacked by members of a local vegetable vendors association. The vendors alleged that the store has eaten into their business.
Currently, there are four Reliance stores in the city and four more such stores are to open soon. Reliance Fresh is the company’s brand for neighbourhood fresh-food [...]
Tech MNCs step up hiring pitch
The IT recruitment scene these days is buzzing with activity. The top three multinational software/BPO firms, IBM, Cognizant and Accenture possibly added more people to their Indian operations than the top three Indian IT/BPO companies TCS, Infosys and Wipro. While the net additions made by TCS, Infosys and Wipro to their headcount in 2006 were [...]
Murdoch plans to launch Sun with Sun group
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is entering the Indian newspaper space in association with Chennai-based Kalanithi Maran, owner of the Sun group.
The Sun, the flagship publication of Murdoch’s News Corporation, is in talks with Maran’s Sun group to launch an English tabloid in the country.
Sources close to the development said the tabloid was likely to be [...]
Buy one and get another free
For companies to observe founder’s day or an annual day is commonplace. But Henkel India Limited (HIL), a Chennai-based FMCG company, celebrated its annual Market Day on Tuesday (as it has done every year on May 8 for the past three years), in an initiative that coupled employer branding activity with consumer connect to enhance [...]
Microsoft, TCS, Make RFID Plans for India
Indian outsourcer Tata Consultancy Services is working to implement Microsoft’s BizTalk RFI technology. And media outlets are considering the “why” …
The RFID partnership between TCS and Microsoft “comes as interest in the technology among businesses in the West is heating up,” says a report by Information Week. T
he North American market for passive RFID readers [...]
HCL to open 100 career development centres
HCL Infosystems Limited, an information enabling company, plans to set up 100 career development centres (CDC) across the country in the next 12 to 15 months.Â
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Addressing the media here, STM Eswar, associate vice-president (technical support and services) of the company, said 20 centres were already operational in seven cities and the company planned to set [...]
Cookie Man to offer new product range
As its diverse line of cookies do brisk business, Australian Foods, the owners of Cookie Man India, is constantly innovating its product range to tickle tastebuds even as plans are afoot to enter 16 cities across the country by the end of this fiscal. “From snacking to gifting, the cookie category has evolved since we [...]
Nokia plans to up capacity in Chennai plant
Asked whether Nokia plans to invest further to ramp up its capacity, Mr Peterson said, “I expect that we shall increase the capacity. But how much and when and what what will be the investment, we are looking at all these issues.â€
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Having shipped more than 25 million phones in one year, Finish mobile phone giant [...]
CUB crosses Rs 8,000 cr turnover
The City Union Bank Ltd, India’s oldest private sector bank, announced in Chennai that it has achieved yet another milestone of posting total business in excess of Rs 8,000 crore as on March 31, 2007, an overall growth of 32 per cent. The deposit figure stood at Rs 4,698 crore up 34 per cent (Rs [...]
Microsoft eyeing deal to buy Yahoo:
Microsoft Corp. has stepped up its pursuit of a deal to buy Yahoo Inc., two newspapers reported on Friday, as the two companies reenter talks to strike a deal amid huge growth from rival Google Inc.
Yahoo shares jumped 14.6 percent to $32.20 in electronic trading on Friday, while Microsoft shares fell 1.4 percent to $30.53.
The [...]
