Pvt life insurers are planning to foray into health covers, with standalone health insurance policies.
Aimed at small businesses with upto 10 employees, the 'GoConnect' service will help companies send information on products and other details to their customers in a personalised manner.
The Aditya Birla Group mayrestructure plan to bring all its retail verticals under Pantaloon Fashion & Retail.
Limited opportunities in his 100-year power business might have prompted Sanjiv Goenka to enter a new business area, but there could be other growth plans up his sleeve.
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Indian small and medium enterprises are expected to emerge as major buyers of the information technology products by 2008. According to Joydeep Datta Gupta, executive director of Deloitte & Touche Consulting, any IT-led SME business transformation project could succeed only if the project was sustained.
Tata Global Beverages has set out on a journey to become a global leader in branded beverages through innovation, strategic acquisition and organic growth.
India and the United States signed an agreement to establish a bilateral energy cooperation programme under which the two countries will promote clean and energy-efficient businesses.
The US-India Business Council (USIBC) in coordination with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (Ficci) is preparing a list of invitees for the business summit to be addressed by visiting US President Barack Obama.
Sebi has approved the norms for financial institutions setting up shop at GIF City in Ahmedabad.
Although exports of gold jewellery have increased from Rs 5,220 crore (Rs 52.20 billion) during FY 2001 to Rs 23,516 crore (Rs 235.16 billion) during FY 2007 (source: Icra industry monitor), the export business has been constrained by an inability to compete in global markets on basis of price and superior design capabilities.
With Facebook serving as an impulse-buying medium, Indian e-retailers are increasingly relying on the social networking site to introduce new products and services, and notch up high sales.
With this acquisition, Airtel will be second company, after Reliance Jio, in the country to have pan-India presence in 2300 Mhz band
The Bombay high court in an order said bakshish can be considered as business expenditure. Observing that paying over and above the contractual amount to sugarcane harvesting workers was "necessary incidence of business," the division bench of Justices F I Rebello and J P Deodhar upheld a decision of Income Tax Appellate Tribunal.
Oracle's Service Oriented Architecture is a business integration solution which enables telecom operators and other players like internet service providers, DTH to launch value added services in minimum time frame and with reduced costs.
The staggering Rs 35,000-crore (Rs 350-billion) debt of RCom makes it the most indebted telco in the country, and constitutes nearly 10 per cent of the industry's debt of Rs 3.5 trillion.
Govt to bring 'Bankruptcy Code' for ease of doing biz
Amid the rapid industrialisation and environmental degradation, industries and corporates have chalked out a mantra for economic growth, environment and equity or EEE.
The company has also expanded its SAP services in the utilities industry, supply chain management and customer relationship management domain.
The business council aims to give impetus to trade.
Having drawn the blueprint to pass on his over Rs 7,000 crore (Rs 70 billion) business empire to his daughters and grandchildren, India's grand old industrialist B K Birla has set about restructuring unlisted companies in the group.
The Allianz Group, the German financial services powerhouse, is planning to foray into the booming asset management business in India.
The tourism ministry's Incredible India website acquired a business dimension on Wednesday with the launch of an e-commerce platform that will allow firms to conduct a host of travel-related activities.
ITC Limited is planning to aggressively scale up its FMCG business and expand the portfolio by staging an entry into the home and personal care market, in an attempt to be the leading FMCG player in the country.
An increasing number of contractors managing parking lots at malls, multiplexes and five-star hotels are buying parking insurance covers
Indian corporates' business confidence has seen a sharp erosion in June on account of deterioration in the macro-economic situation during the last six months, an industry chamber survey said on Thursday.
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Leading diamond jewellery manufacturer and retailer Gitanjali Gems Ltd is entering into real estate business through its maiden residential project at Borivli, in Mumbai's western suburb.
Looking to attract foreign investors to Maharashtra, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has promised them easier business environment and faster clearances as he works towards making his state the most preferred destination within India for investors.
Japanese electronic companies Toshiba and Fujitsu will merge their mobile phone businesses in October this year.
In India, Walmart provides service to over 6,00,000 business members and small mom and pop stores.
Reliance Communications, India's second-biggest mobile operator, has decided to demerge its telecom tower business -- Reliance Infratel (Rel Infra). The company's board has approved a proposal to restructure the ownership of the tower firm to help create an independent tower company.
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US-based Abbott on Friday said it will acquire India's Piramal Healthcare's domestic formulation business for $3.72 billion (about Rs 17,484 crore).
Those held back from developing their full potential within the broader family setting are able to find full rein when they operate on their own and are answerable primarily to themselves and not to family elders.
Bharti Airtel on Thursday said it has acquired 49 per cent stake in Qualcomm's broadband wireless access (BWA) business in India for USD 165 million (about Rs 922 crore).
A motley group of Indian entrepreneurs, an economics professor and a leading Indian Muslim leader and industrialist are among more than 250 from nearly 60 countries, who have descended on Washington, DC on the invitation of the White House to attend the two-day Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship hosted by President Barack Obama beginning today.
A volcano named 'Eyjafjallajoekull' has spread havoc across Europe hitting businesses across the world.
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