The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission of India has dismissed an appeal by Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages, a part of The Coca-Cola Company’s Bottling Investments Group, against an order by a lower court awarding compensation to customer who found dead insects floating inside a Fanta bottle. Asking for relief, Hindustan Coca-Cola said there was no proof […]
Maruti Suzuki India Limited today announced that it will replace ‘fuel filler necks’ of 103,311 vehicles (42,481 units of DZire, 47,237 units of Swift and 13,593 units of Ertiga) manufactured between 12th November 2013 and 4th February 2014. The move is limited to vehicles within the above specified range and does not pertain to any […]
Infosys Ltd confirmed its CEO SD Shibulal will retire on or before Jan 9, 2015, and that the company has appointed firms to find his successor. “Mr. Shibulal has expressed his desire to retire as the CEO and MD of the company and as a member of the Board of Directors either on the date […]
Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), announced a new sponsorship deal along with Jet Airways naming both airlines as principal sponsors and official airlines of the Mumbai Indians cricket team. This is the Abu Dhabi-based airline’s first high profile sports sponsorship in the region. Crowned as champions of the 2013 […]
India software market expanded 10 percent to $4.765 billion in 2013, a increase from 2012 revenue of $4.334 billion, according to Gartner, Inc. The growth rate is twice the global growth rate of 4.8%, and is high despite the sharp fall in the value of the rupee against the dollar. Oracle, which makes enterprise software […]
If elections were to be held on popular news websites like Firstpost.com, ZeeNews, Hindustan Times etc, the Bharatiya Janata Party would have a clean sweep – going by its total domination of the online comment space. According to an analysis of the top commenters on four of India’s top news websites, 61.4% of the top […]
With increasing purchasing power and aspiration for a better life in the villages, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and Gujarat have registered a phenomenal growth in ‘rural’ consumption of consumer durable goods and the overall growth in rural areas during the period of 2007-08 and 2011-12 was higher than the cities, according to […]
After tying up contracts for leasing out towers and inter-city (between city) fibre connections, Anil Ambani’s Reliance Communications has signed a deal with Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Jio Infocomm to lease out intra-city (within city) fibre to connect individual towers. The agreement comes three months after RCom said it was in talks with Reliance Jio to […]
India has fallen behind China in Internet usage in the last few years as the Chinese government invested aggressively in promoting Internet in the country, while India did not, a report by a prominent international brokerage said. It said India, at the end of last year, was where China was in the year 2007. “The […]
IIT Roorkee said the highest offer under its campus placement program this year was Rs 73 lakh (Rs 6 lakh per month), while the highest by a domestic company was Rs 32 lakh (Rs 2.66 lakh per month). In all, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee received 1047 job offers through campus recruitments out of the […]
Hardcastle Restaurants Private Limited (HRPL), a Master Franchisee for west & south India operations of McDonald’s, said it would launch new sandwiches – McPaneer Royale & Grilled Chicken Royale. The McPaneer Royale grilled paneer patties marinated with herbs, layered with different types of lettuce, red cabbage and carrot sandwiched between 4.5” long cornmeal dusted buns. […]
SpiceJet has denied the Director General of Civil Aviation’s reported statement that its scheme of offering air tickets, effectively for as low as Rs 400 each, was ‘predatory’. Predatory means acts that are meant solely to destroy competition, and not for own business benefits or for the benefit of the consumer. However, SpiceJet said the […]
March continued to be dominated by Honda, with Hero, Yamaha and TVS trying to play catch up. Sales growth in the scooter segment was 53%, while motorcycle growth was 57%. Market share increased to 28% while market share in domestic and exports combined was 26%. It saw the highest monthly and yearly sales in March […]
Jet Airways and Air France, the flag carrier of France, announced the expansion of their code share partnership, which will offer enhanced network connectivity to 12 major cities across Europe and the United Kingdom. The new code share flights open for sale from 2nd April, and will be available for travel effective 14th May 2014. […]
SpiceJet today announced a three-day only sale (domestic flights only) with fares starting at Re 1 (not including statutory taxes and fees), for travel starting July 1 onwards. This sale has been launched to introduce SpiceJet’s all-new network that came into effect on March 30. The all-new new enhanced network has improved connectivity, increased frequencies […]
Croma, the electronics chain, will open its 101st store in Mumbai on Wednesday. The chain, owned by retail chain Infiniti Retail, is one of the pioneers of India’s modern retail revolution, and India’s biggest electronics retail chain. The store, to be located at Prabhadevi in central Mumbai, will be inaugurated by Ajit Joshi, MD & […]
Flipboard, often billed as the Google News of the mobile world, has won its first media client in India in the shape of Condé Nast, the global publisher that runs magazines such as Vogue and The New Yorker. Vogue India has become the first magazine from India to have a customized version made available on […]
Tablets will overtake traditional PCs in monthly shipments somewhere in the second half of this year, according to the latest projection from Gartner Inc. The market tracker has pointed to total shipments of 276.7 mln PCs in 2014 compared to 270.7 mln tablets. While that looks like it favors the PC market, it also means […]
BSNL will offer 10% extra talk time for users recharging with Rs 1,000 or more and waive off processing charges and others levies for those with Rs 200 to 999. The offer will be applicable for 90 days from 25.03.2014 in all circles. BSNL has increasingly found the going tough as private competitors often offer […]
In addition to technology and HR operations, Indian IT companies can now also look at outsourcing marketing functions for their clients due to the increasing role played by social media in marketing, a new report said. The report, published by Nasscom in association with SapientNitro, finds that there will be USD 37 billion of CMO […]
