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Rather than move up the echelons of finance management, he was part of crisis management at his first employer, and then the commercial head of home and personal care products and, lately, chairman of Middle East and North Africa for Unilever, the second-largest fast-moving consumer goods company in the world.
The English industrialist William Hesketh Lever launched Sunlight, in 1884 as a laundry soap to lessen work for women and increase hygiene.
While company would hold on to prices for now, hike likely by end of 2013
Relatively new brands of HUL, such as Closeup, play second fiddle to other legacy brands such as Colgate from Colgate-Palmolive and Vicco.
With Ju-C, the beverage maker launches a price war in the fruit juice space.
For a contiguous plot, the company may need to pay almost three times more for 40 acres at Hansalpur.
Company has already put in place around 100 charging points across Delhi and Bangalore.
Company has taken preliminary tests of 1,181 candidates from state ITI.
While the peak holiday season failed to bring in much business to the hotel industry, the online travel booking space has done reasonably well.
Maruti Suzuki India Limited (MSIL), which witnessed labour unrest at its Manesar facility, is set to complete the process of regularisation of contract workers at the unit by November-end.
Going all out to market the all new Alto 800, pricing the base variant of the new car lower than the outgoing model, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd (MSIL), today said it will start exporting the car from Gujarat's Mundra port from December this year. The first export market is likely to be Chile in South America.
As expected, land prices in the region have shot through the roof in the last three to four months, rising about 12 times compared to prices a couple of years earlier.
Nestle India, the subsidiary of Swiss dairy major Nestle, is all geared to set up its ninth plant in the country. The company had acquired about 50 acres of land at Sanand, nearly 30 kilometres from Ahmedabad, for a manufacturing plant, said Gujarat government officials.
Trai's latest proposal to cut ad inventory in channels has already prompted some of the leading broadcasters (Zee News being the latest) to cut their total commercial time and increase rates.
First up are two movie channels from STAR and one of these could be launched as soon as the end of next week, according to sources.
The double whammy of spiralling petrol prices and volatile interest rates on loans is driving car buyers to make payments out of their pockets rather than opting for bank loan.
Hero Electric is set to test waters in the European markets with electric bikes
According to a Pricewaterhouse Coopers Report titled 'India Pharma Inc: Capitalising on India's Growth Potential', leading pharmaceutical companies in the country have increased their sales forces by around 50 per cent in 2010.
Future group has gone premium for the first time with Holii. A bag and accessories brand, it was soft-launched in 2009. The prices begin at Rs 700, with most of the bags costing upwards of Rs 1,800.
In May 2005, Tata Motors had launched the Ace, a small truck of 0.75 tonne. The company had studied the market for three-wheeler goods carriers for a while and had concluded that small transporters were ready to switch to a mini truck.
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