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    PREFERENTIAL ALLOTMENTS


    Rollatainers AGM today to clear preferential offer
    WITH the financial institutions (FIs) approving a business and financial restructuring package, the board of directors of Rollatainers Ltd, the Faridabad-based ailing packaging company, has adopted a resolution to allot 31.1-lakh equity shares of ... More

    COURTS/LEGAL ISSUES


    Pfizer-Parke-Davis merger: Stay extended
    THE Bombay High Court has extended the stay on the merger of Pfizer Ltd with Parke-Davis India Ltd until September 5, 2003. The court issued an order dated August 12 in this regard.According to Pfizer Ltd, some dissenting shareholders had ... More

    HUMAN RESOURCES


    Jobs on lease turning permanent
    WITH a potential of about 8-10 million jobs in the temporary staffing area in the country, job seekers and the corporate world are on the threshold of a new concept in employment. TeamLease Services, one of the first companies to have ... More

    RESTRUCTURING


    Rayalaseema Alkalies to write down 50 pc equity
    FOLLOWING the corporate debt restructuring (CDR) scheme sanctioned by the CDR cell of Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI) recently, the board of directors of Sree Rayalaseema Alkalies and Allied Chemicals Ltd (SRAACL), the Rs 288-crore ... More

    GAIL to take part in HPL debt revamp
    HPL is now the third largest player in the petrochemical market and the second largest - if the share of Reliance and IPCL were to be clubbed together. More

    MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS


    TV18 hikes stake in CNBC joint venture
    TELEVISION Eighteen Ltd (TV18) has announced that it has concluded its arrangement with CNBC Asia Pacific (CNBC AP), resulting in TV18's stake in CNBC-TV18 going up to 90 per cent. CNBC AP will hold a 10 per cent strategic stake in TV18's ... More

    NEW PROJECTS


    Rs 750-cr TNPL expansion thru bond issue likely
    TAMIL Nadu Newsprint and Papers Ltd may go for a bond issue to fund its Rs 750-crore expansion programme, according to the company's Chairman and Managing Director, Mr P. Rama Mohana Rao. Addressing shareholders at the annual general meeting ... More

    TRADE & LABOUR UNIONS


    ONGC staff stay away from work
    ALTHOUGH most office staff of ONGC in Mumbai stayed away from work on Wednesday, oil and gas production at the offshore and work at offices across the country remained unhampered in spite of a call for "direct action" by some ONGC unions. A ... More

    Chinks surface in ONGC union ranks
    ONGC's largest union - Association of Scientific and Technical Officers (ASTO) - today seemed to distance itself from the anti-management stir in Mumbai. Mr Sridhar Vyas, ASTO's all-India President, told Business Line it was wrong ... More

    ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES


    Fedders Lloyd moves into bus AC, truck refrigeration
    FEDDERS Lloyd Corporation Ltd, a Rs 170-crore air-conditioner major, has entered into a tie-up with Hong Lim Industrial Co Ltd, a Rs 176-crore Korean air conditioner company, to make its foray into bus AC and truck refrigeration business. Bus ... More

    Mumbai Fast to be aired on Zee News
    MID Day Multimedia Ltd and Zee News on Wednesday announced a strategic alliance to produce, Mumbai Fast, a daily news capsule of city news to be aired on Zee News. Starting with a broadcast at 8.30 p.m. on August 15, Mumbai Fast ... More

    INTERVIEW


    `Half of our unviable mines will start making profits'
    THE delegation of Coal India Ltd's major decision-making power regarding production planning, opening up new mines, purchase of equipment, and marketing of coal to non-core sector consumers to its production subsidiaries has not only made the ... More

    STANDARDS & BENCHMARKS


    Ceat gets quality accreditation
    CEAT Ltd has become the first tyre company in the country to be accredited with an ISO/TS-16949: 2002 certificate. The certification has been done by TUV Suddeutschland AG. ISO/TS-16949:2002 standard is a quality management system of ISO, ... More

    OUTLOOK


    GSPC aims at 60 pc topline growth
    We are satisfied that, having done Rs 147 crore in the first quarter, GSPC's turnover will go beyond Rs 800 crore in the next nine months. More

    PEOPLE


    Aventis MD moving to US as head of respiratory sales
    THE Aventis Pharma's Managing Director, Mr Ramesh Subrahmanian, will be moving to Aventis of the US, as Vice-president, Respiratory Sales for the North-East and Mid-Atlantic US. He will take charge on September 1. According to company ... More
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