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Articles 21 through 120 of 104:
- Hll Launches Water Purification System (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 04, 2007)
Hindustan Lever Limited on Thursday launched its domestic drinking water purification system in Guntur market.
- Rel Comm Adds Colour To Pale Markets (Singapore Times, Correspondent or Reporter, May 01, 2007)
If the market slumped owing to disappointing earnings numbers from ICICI Bank and Hindustan Lever, then Reliance Communication did a good job boosting it and helping it recover from the day's lows on Monday.
- Hll Q1 Net Profit Down To Rs 393 Cr (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 01, 2007)
The FMCG major Hindustan Lever Ltd (HLL) has posted a net profit of Rs 392.89 crore for the quarter ended March 31, 2007 as compared to Rs 442.86 crore for the quarter ended March 31, 2006.
- Hands-Off, Deliberately (Business Line, A. Seshan, Apr 25, 2007)
The RBI has not, rightly, touched any of the policy rates but it is quite inexplicable that it should be projecting 17-17.5 per cent rise in money supply even as the economy is drowning in liquidity.
- Mkt Buoyant, Sensex Closes 277 Pts Up (Singapore Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 21, 2007)
The market ended the week on a positive note on Friday, allowing the investors to have a happy weekend. Impressive earning numbers from IT big boys– Satyam Computers and Wipro brought in positive sentiments in the market.
- For Many Big Banks, Investing In India Is No Longer Optional (New York Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 13, 2007)
India’s financial capital has been invaded by Wall Street.
- Sensex Rose 16% In 2006-07 (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 31, 2007)
Shares rose 0.71 per cent on Friday to end 2006-07 up 15.9 per cent, clocking their fourth straight fiscal year of gains although the increase was well below the 73.7 per cent rise in 2005-06.
- Farming Excuses Over The Punjab Defeat (Indian Express, Varghese K George, Mar 21, 2007)
Rise in prices, the neglect of the rural sector and the new emphasis on reform — many in the Congress were quick to list these as the reasons for the party’s defeat in Punjab.
- U.S. Prelim Anti-Dumping Duty On Shrimp (WhatIsIndia Publications, Aravind Sitaraman, Mar 05, 2007)
The U.S. Department of Commerce announced preliminary anti-dumping duty (averaging 10.54%) on shrimp from India, China, Vietnam, Brazil, Ecuador, and Thailand.
- Hll By Another Name (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Feb 22, 2007)
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet”, says Juliet, in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, assuring Romeo of her love for him.
- Sensex Shrugs Off Inflation, Vaults 346 Pts (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 16, 2007)
The Coast Guard's interception and seizure in Indian waters, close to the Tamil Nadu coast, of a boat carrying deadly arms and ammunition, including a 7 kg suicide belt, has spotlighted the deadly terrorist menace the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam pose
- Tata's Offer On Bhopal (Frontline, V. VENKATESAN, Feb 02, 2007)
Ratan Tata's offer to help find funds to remove the toxic waste in UCC's Bhopal plant is inconsistent with the `polluter pays' principle.
- World Winners Emerging From `New Economies' (Business Line, D. Murali , Jan 23, 2007)
By under-rating corporations from developing economies you will be repeating the mistake of discounting the so-called Third World countries which are now turning winners globally, says The Emerging Markets Century, even as Sweet Spot suggests . . . .
- Nestle Returns Cash To Shareholders (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jan 13, 2007)
Nestlé India’s decision to utilise part of its general reserves and share-premium account to return cash to shareholders should encourage other Indian companies to manage capital better in order to enhance shareholder returns.
- Permanent Shelters In North Chennai In Two Months (Hindu, Sandhya Soman, Dec 26, 2006)
Chennai Collector directed to finalise the list fast
- Rider Of The Surf (OutLook, HARI MENON, Dec 11, 2006)
Much like other IIM-lit, wastes early chapters in alarmingly self-congratulatory appraisal of the IIM grad.
- `We Expect India To Be To Unilever What China Has Been To Other Companies' (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Dec 06, 2006)
I expect HLL to be a net provider of talent and technology to Unilever.
- Applying Cosmetics To Budding Markets (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Nov 28, 2006)
Western beauty firms push into developing countries, creating customers and critics.
- Beauty Industry Looks Abroad (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Nov 28, 2006)
Nonita Kalra remembers the frustration of shopping for cosmetics on the streets of Mumbai, India, a decade ago, when three or four local companies sold a few basic products.
- Good Q2 Results Drive Fmcg Majors Into Ad-Madness (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Nov 13, 2006)
Enthused by the feel-good Q2 results, fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) majors are boosting their advertising budgets to drive volumes in an increasingly competitive market.
- Reliance Is India’S Most Valuable Company (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 13, 2006)
Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) has ousted ONGC as India’s most valuable company.
- The Cag Report (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 28, 2006)
The CAG's latest report indicts the NDA government's disinvestment exercise which resulted in grave losses to the exchequer.
- Mirage At The Bottom Of The Pyramid (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Sep 22, 2006)
We need to view the poor primarily as producers, not as consumers, and emphasise buying from them, not selling to them.
- Sensex At 12,000: Rally Thin (Business Line, Raghuvir Srinivasan, Sep 17, 2006)
1,664 stocks trading below April 20 level
Banking, auto components and tyre stocks are leading the current rally; some banking stocks such as Bank of India and Bank of Baroda are trading more than 20 per cent higher than their prices on April 20.
- Sensex Regains 12,000 Peak (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 16, 2006)
The Bombay Stock Exchange’s 30-share sensitive index (Sensex) on Friday recaptured the 12,000 peak, which it had first climbed on April 20 but had to beat a retreat, after the market meltdown in May.
- When Cure Is Better Than Prevention (Business Line, S. Murlidharan , Aug 26, 2006)
About a decade ago, the Supreme Court refused to halt Hindustan Lever Ltd's M&A (mergers and amalgamations) juggernaut, which according to the petitioners, threatened to make HLL the monopolist in the FMCG sector.
- Pepsi Understands India Better Than Rbi? (Indian Express, RAJEEV DUBEY, Aug 16, 2006)
Two exceptional women met with two exceptionally dissimilar treatments on Monday. In the US, the $27 billion PepsiCo announced that it would hand over the reins of the company to Chennai-born Indra Nooyi who would be the first woman, first . . .
- Sun Shines On Hill Towns, Thanks To Delhi (The Financial Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 06, 2006)
If you thought Infosys founder NR Narayanamurthy’s driver is India’s only millionaire chauffeur, here’s a surprise. “My driver is a million- aire too,” chuckles Arun Rawat, owner of Kanha Biogenetics, a tiny drug making unit in Baddi, a small town . . .
- The Right Distance (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jul 18, 2006)
We have superstitions about reform.
- Pepsi Hub (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jul 17, 2006)
More action needed to boost contract farming
- The Right Distance (Telegraph, S.L. Rao, Jul 17, 2006)
We have superstitions about reform. If one is violated, people say reforms have stopped. An important measure of the commitment of an Indian government to reforms for the chambers and analysts is privatization and disinvestment.
- Controlling Creativity Through Statute (The Financial Express, Sucheta Dalal, Jul 10, 2006)
But instead of regulating advertisements through laws, it is best done through self-regulation.
- Learning From The Left Parties (Daily Excelsior, Dr Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Jul 03, 2006)
Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has said that the BJP should learn from the Left Parties how to secure people's mandate repeatedly.
- Energy: Kalam Sets A 25-Year Deadline (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 27, 2006)
Emphasising on a national target to achieve energy security within 25 years, President A P J Abdul Kalam on Monday called for an intense research on renewable energy, bio-diesel and nuclear power to realise the goal.
- Kalam’S Prescription For Energy Independence By 2030 (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 27, 2006)
Terming energy independence as India’s ‘‘highest priority’’, President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam today said power generation in the country needed to grow over three-fold by 2030, including 50,000 mw by way of nuclear energy.
- President Kalam Sets Road Map To Achieve Energy Independence (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 27, 2006)
He calls for increasing power generation capacity to 400,000 MW by 2030
- More Wheat In Private Hands (Frontline, V. Sridhar, Jun 21, 2006)
The decision to import wheat reflects the government's failure to procure enough wheat after the last harvest.
- War Of Soaps Skids Into Slushy Waters (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 19, 2006)
The war between detergent manufacturing giants Hindustan Lever Limited (HLL) and Reckitt Benckiser India Limited (RBIL) has spilled over into the legal turf, with HLL seeking a ban on the latest advertisement campaign for Dettol soap launched by . . .
- Leveraging The Small (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jun 03, 2006)
The challenge is to design a combination of performance and cost that defies ancient managerial dogma.
- Fluid Job Market (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, May 16, 2006)
Information technology majors Infosys, Wipro, TCS and Satyam together added nearly 60,000 employees in 2005-06, pushing up their combined wage bill by over 50%. In contrast, wage expenses rose sedately for the non-IT majors.
- Sensex Tanks 463 Points (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, May 16, 2006)
Stock markets on Monday crumbled under pressure from a slump in metal prices and weakness in emerging markets. The Sensex lost 463 points and ended trade at 11,822, down by 3.77 per cent from Friday’s close.
- What Affirmative Action Can Be All About (The Financial Express, YRK REDDY, Apr 29, 2006)
Corporates should make affirmative policy a part of their recruitment and outsourcing strategy
- Quotas In Private Sector (Tribune, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Apr 28, 2006)
NO sensible Indian would disagree with the view that a lot needs to be done to improve the conditions of those belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes.
- Bears Come Out Of Hibernation (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 26, 2006)
The benchmark sensex on Tuesday went into downward tailspin and lost 268 points, wiping off nearly Rs 34,000 crore of market cap as the sentiment was affected by an increase in trading margins, high crude prices and a poor monsoon forecast.
- Creating Quality (Telegraph, S.L. Rao, Apr 24, 2006)
The author is former director-general, National Council for Applied Economic . . .
- O, In What Sweets Dost Thou Thy Sins Enclose! (Business Line, D. Murali , Apr 01, 2006)
Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy, sang the Bard in a sonnet.
- Fast-Consuming Customer Brings Bounce Back In Fmcg (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Mar 31, 2006)
Fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) company Hindustan Lever Ltd has just announced a 32% increase in the price of one of its detergent brands. The hike by itself is not unique.
- Watch How The East Is Being Won Over... (The Financial Express, AJAY KHANNA, Mar 30, 2006)
Recently, at a conference in Delhi, Malvinder Singh, the young CEO of Indian multinational, Ranbaxy Laboratories, was asked to list the one most important factor for creating a successful multinational firm. Malvinder’s response:
- Pfizer India: Right Prescription (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 29, 2006)
Pfizer India has reported strong numbers for the February 2006 quarter. Operating profit (including service income) has grown 53.1 per cent y-o-y to Rs 43.1 crore in the last quarter and operating profit margins too have expanded 772 basis points to 28
- Infosys Tops List (Deccan Herald, Aditya Raj Das, Mar 20, 2006)
based software major Infosys has topped the all India Corporate Reputation Index compiled by ACNielsen, world’s leading marketing information provider.
- Going Gets Tough (Business Standard, Niraj Bhatt, Mar 14, 2006)
MFs find it tough to make a kill in a selective bull market
- Target Topline: A New Script For Hll (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Feb 16, 2006)
The stock market has responded enthusiastically to Hindustan Lever’s 14.4% topline and 22.7% bottom line growth (before exceptional items) in the December 2005 (Q4) quarter. Since stock prices are forward looking, the market is clearly betting on the FMCG
- Hll: High On Growth (The Financial Express, Abhijeet Virmani, Feb 16, 2006)
Hindustan Lever Ltd (HLL) had a surprise in store for its investors and analysts as it reported its quarterly results on Valentine’s Day. In summary, net sales for the December ’05 quarter (DQ05) has jumped 14.4%, compared with DQ04, and . . .
- Health Foods — Targeting The New Age Disorders (Business Line, V. V. Ravi Kumar, Feb 15, 2006)
New age Indian patients comprise a growing niche segment which marketers have been quick to tap into with customised health-food products.
- Advertising Often Doesn't Work (Daily Excelsior, Prakash Nath, Feb 05, 2006)
In this age of market economy you can sell your products with the help of advertising, which was earlier considered as wasteful expenditure.
- An Evening With Legends (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 03, 2006)
Premaanjali Educational Trust, a registered charitable organisation, is engaged in several activities focused around the homeless, destitute, and needy children. In order to raise funds for the trust, Premaanjali has been organising cultural festivals.
- Retailing Is No Rocket Science (The Financial Express, S NARAYAN, Feb 01, 2006)
Last Tuesday, the Cabinet announ-ced FDI liberalisations in a slew of sectors.
- Value Opportunities Lie At The Edges (Business Line, D. Murali , Jan 14, 2006)
Companies that "find themselves walking a fine line between significant value creation and commensurate value destruction"
- Soul's Welfare (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 10, 2006)
Integral to the quest for liberation is the need to gain Atma Jnana, the knowledge of the soul. Initially this involves an understanding of the soul's relationship with the body
- Permanent Shelters Ready For Tsunami Hit (Hindu, Sandhya Soman, Dec 24, 2005)
Slum Clearance Board has completed construction of 5,000 houses at Chemmenjery
- The Global Indian Manager (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Dec 19, 2005)
Forty-five years after Mr Stephen Turner handed over to Mr P. L. Tandon as the first Indian Chairman of Hindustan Lever Limited, the top job in India in the Anglo-Dutch multinational has gone to a non-Indian, Mr Douglas Bailee.
- Hll Stands Firm; To Hire More In Jan (The Economic Times, A N Sudarsan Rao , Dec 17, 2005)
Eight months after he took over the reins at Hindustan Lever, Harish ‘Punter’ Manwani is beginning to make discernible and important changes in the way India’s largest consumer goods company manages its leadership position and functions in the market plac
- Hind Lever Reshuffles Management (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 17, 2005)
Douglas Baillie has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Hindustan Lever Limited (HLL).
- Hindustan Lever Signs (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 15, 2005)
Hindustan Lever Limited (HLL) and Mcleod Russel India Limited(MRIL) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for transfer of HLL's 100% shareholding in Doom Dooma Tea Company Limited (DDTCL) at Mumbai yesterday.
- Icici Is Now Bank No.1 (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 12, 2005)
ICICI Bank has become the most valuable bank in the country overtaking State Bank of India following its $1.8bn public issue which has vaulted the bank into the $10bn market capitalisation club.
- Management Lessons From Dunlop (Business Line, S. Ramachander, Dec 08, 2005)
An important object of this column is to draw, to the extent possible, generalisable managerial lessons from recent happenings in the business world.
- The Bull-Bear Derivative Dance (Indian Express, Sucheta Dalal, Nov 28, 2005)
The Sensex closed at an all-time high on Thanksgiving weekend, after an amazing tug-of-war between the bulls and bears in the run-up to the expiry of November futures contracts on Thursday.
- Money In Mushrooms (Tribune, Reeta Sharma, Nov 28, 2005)
A revolution in the mushroom farming is brimming right in the backyard of Chandigarh in Lalru. Of the 25 per cent quota of mushroom exports from India 24 per cent is being grown at Lalru alone.
- Retail: Bonanza Or Trap? (Business Line, S. Ramachander, Nov 07, 2005)
The story is told by the late Mr Prakash Tandon, former Chairman of Hindustan Lever, in his memoirs of Unilever considering company-owned retail shops taking control of their retail distribution in India back in the 1950s.
- What Is In A Brand? Everything. Say Economists (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Nov 01, 2005)
In Kashmir the concept of branding must gain roots to ensure a vibrant economy.
- Maoists Threaten Unilever Unit (Deccan Herald, SUDESHNA SARKAR, Aug 14, 2005)
The rebels had pasted a notice on the industrial unit threatening the closure of Unilever Nepal in case their demands were not met.
- Riddhi Siddhi To Make Pondy Unit R&d Hub (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 11, 2005)
Ahmedabad-based Riddhi Siddhi Gluco Biols Ltd (RSGBL) is all set to become the market leader in modified starches production,
- Rainforest Revival (Hindu, JANAKI LENIN, Jul 17, 2005)
Every year, hectares of rainforest vanish in the Western Ghats, partly the result of expanding plantations. After decades of bad press, a group of estates in Tamil Nadu decide to prove the critics wrong.
- Oye, Oye, Bubblee, Watch Out (Indian Express, GAUTAM CHIKERMANE, Jun 27, 2005)
On June 18, the brothers Ambani finally patched up. The Reliance duo, Reliance Industries and Reliance Energy, jumped 11 per cent in a week and pulled up the Sensex, taking it beyond the 7,000-mark
- Local Expertise (Hindu, S. Ramachander, Jun 05, 2005)
Indian readers have long felt a need for local wisdom, which this work seeks to fill.
- Industrial Upsurge In Himachal (Tribune, Pratibha Chauhan, Apr 20, 2005)
In the past two years, more than 500 medium and large and 4,613 small units have been cleared to be set up in Himachal Pradesh after the grant of a special package by the previous NDA regime in 2003.
- Putting Results Ahead Of Resources (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Apr 19, 2005)
The ownership and deployment of corporate resources will be determined by how critical they are to the accomplishment of a company's core market objectives.
- Rupee's Rise Means India Can Cut Interest Rates: Andy Mukherjee (Bloomberg.com, editorial Bloomberg.com, Mar 25, 2004)
With the rupee soaring to its highest level against the dollar in almost four years, Indian central bank Governor Y.V. Reddy has been presented a great opportunity.
- India Mustn't Devalue Best Business Brains: Mukherjee (Correct) (Bloomberg.com, editorial Bloomberg.com, Mar 02, 2004)
Here's lopsided social justice at its worst.
India is raising the subsidy for the nation's top 1,500 management students at a time when the government doesn't have enough money to provide blackboards to all primary schools.
- As India Inc Forays Abroad... : A New Mantra To Remember (Business Line, Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Dec 08, 2003)
REMEMBER the acquisition of Tomco by Hindustan Lever? It was feared at that time that India Inc would be taken over by the MNCs. Nothing of the sort has happened. On the contrary, Indian business houses are reported to have already announced about 35 ...
- ‘we Made Mistakes Like Discouraging Private Sector, We Are Changing Now’ (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Oct 13, 2003)
You are the only Marxist ruler, if I could call you so, in the whole world. Isn’t it so, and an elected one at that, barring the small government in Tripura
- Reviving The Market By Ipos (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Jan 28, 2002)
IT is unlikely that the stock market would get a boost, as envisaged by the expert committee of SEBI, if banks were asked to expedite their equity offerings.
- Budget Musings 2002 — Ii: Bringing Prosperity Within Reach (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Jan 18, 2002)
THE Finance Minister, Mr Yashwant Sinha, will be the first to admit that by effecting savings within the Government itself, he will be able to lessen the pressure on resources to a great extent. There are many avenues that immediately suggest themselves.
- When The Doctor Is Sick... (Business Line, D. S. Narain , Jan 24, 2001)
Speaking at the inauguration of the 15th India Economic Summit in New Delhi, the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, said: ``Our goal is clear.
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