The Dharampal Satyapal group, which owns brands like Rajnigandha (pan masala), Baba (chewing tobacco), Catch (spices and beverages) and Pass Pass (mouth freshener), wants to get a bigger share of the food and beverages market. And the brand it has chosen from its portfolio for this purpose is Catch. Catch salt, pepper and spices sold a little over Rs 100 crore in 2009-10, while Catch beverages (natural spring water, soda and tonic water) sold a little under Rs 28 crore.

Dharampal Satyapal Group: What's the catch?

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Twitter, the micro-blogging site, is now a global phenomenon, with everyone from politicians to celebrities tweeting (a term used to post messages of up to 140 characters) regularly. While most users are obsessed with the number of followers they have, an important factor is &lsquo;who are you following.

Who are you following?

Wynn Telecom, a new entrant in the mobile handset market, has unveiled its launch campaign, &ldquo;Win it all&rdquo;, with Bollywood actors Saif Ali Khan and Bipasha Basu. It wants to be amongst the top three Indian mobile handset brands by March 2011. Wynn Telecom Marketing Head Naved Chaudhary claims that the company has sold 100,000 units in the first 40 days of the launch.

Wynn Telecom: Winning ambitions

This July, engineers from Consumer Reports reported that the iconic iPhone 4 can lose reception when your finger or hand touches a spot on the phone&rsquo;s lower left side &mdash; especially in areas where signals are weak.

A guide to get the best from your gadget

GSK is pitching new Horlicks Foodles as a healthier option in instant noodles.

Foodles in the noodle bowl

3M India is a 76 per cent subsidiary of 3M, the $23-billion diversified technology company. It has a presence in categories like infrastructure, automotive, oil &amp; gas, healthcare, office stationery and home care. Ajay Nanavati, the managing director of 3M India, has had a long innings in the company. He talks about the 3M strategy for India with Bhupesh Bhandari.

Q&A: Ajay Nanavati, MD, 3M India

Bhavdeep Singh, the chief executive of Fortis Healthcare, recently got a letter from a patient. He was full of praise for the nurse who served him. At night, after visitors were asked to leave his room, she would come and play cards with him. That kept him in good cheer &mdash; research shows that a patient&rsquo;s lowest point comes in the evening once family and friends call it a night. Singh, 48, didn&rsquo;t know what to tell the nurse. Playing cards on duty is simply not on. But her gesture made a patient happy with the care he got. He may go to Fortis again when he needs medical attention.

Treating with care

Why Emirates has launched a high-decibel campaign to promote the planes in India even though the country is still not on the A-380 map.

Hardsell in Indian skies

From news to entertainment, most channels are rebranding themselves to showcase their content.

'New' brands on prime time television

Loop Mobile, which owns mobile telephony licences in 21 states, is on an overdrive to launch new value-added services that, it hopes, will increase its revenue market share to around 15 per cent in the next 18 months, from 9 per cent now.

On a value-added Loop

It has been positioned across the globe as a product to take on Coca-Cola&rsquo;s popular Coke Zero, a sugar- free carbonated drink. But the story is different in India where Coke Zero has not even been launched.

Fizz back in cola wars

Two of India&rsquo;s largest selling cars &ndash; Alto and i10 &ndash; operate in different price segments, but they are now taking their fight for market leadership to another level.

Power play by Alto, i10

Setting up of rural BPOs is no longer being perceived as just corporate social responsibility.

States offer support to rural BPO centres

Imagine this scenario. Company secretary Ramesh Tiwari has to get a very important financial transaction cleared by the evening, failing which his company would have to pay a penalty for the delay. However, he learns that one of the two company&rsquo;s authorised signatories is in London.

'Yes' to money deals on the go

Mobile device sales in India are forecast to reach 138.6 million in 2010 &mdash; an increase of 18.5 per cent over the 117 million units sold in India, according to Gartner. The mobile handset market is expected to show a steady growth through 2014, when end user sales will surpass 206 million units.

Handset sales to rise by 18.5%, says Gartner

Fresh from his goalscoring exploits in the World Cup, 31-year-old Uruguayan striker and winner of the FIFA Golden Ball, Diego Forl&aacute;n Corazo, along with elder brother Pablo, arrived in Kolkata on July 30. He was part of a football reality TV show for the newly launched Bengali channel Mahuaa Bangla. As his personal interpreter, I got a chance to interact with the Uruguayan striker. Forl&aacute;n met a group of young Indian footballers, who had been training for the last couple of weeks under Brazilian legend Branco, and who were also coached briefly by another Brazilian great &mdash; Rom&aacute;rio.

On the bench with Forlan

Chinese interest in Liverpool FC shows a need to connect with people.

The softer side

The Pakistan cricket team walks the distance between the sublime and pedestrian.

The good, the bad, the ugly

The Biel Young GM ended in a three-way tie resolved through a slightly unusual process. Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Fabiano Caruana all scored 5.5 from nine games. Son had the best tiebreak score and was seeded through. Vachier-Lagrave and Caruana played a blitz match, which the latter won 2-1. Caruana then beat Son in a second final playoff to win.

CHESS #639

As people, as consumers, how do we choose? Sheena Iyengar has built a career around this question, and in her new book tells us what she has learnt.

A question of choice

In the morning paper is a news photograph from Kashmir showing two policemen and a young protester. The policemen are restraining the young man from joining the funeral procession of a fellow protester who has died as a result of police firing. The man is shirtless, and the two policemen have placed a hand and a finger, respectively, on his bare chest &mdash; in a gesture more officious than threatening &mdash; to indicate that he and the others with him must go no further.

Between dog and wolf

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