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THIS WEEK: THE JEANSWEAR MARKET IN INDIA

Strategic tools for the practising manager

Crompton Greaves has powered its way into the big league with three acquisitions in three years.

Gobbling to globalise

Vandana Gombar test-drives electric vehicles for the good of the planet - and her wallet! 
I drive 30 kilometres every day to work, one way, using a fuel-guzzling hatchback, and the petrol price hurts.

Get a change out of your journey

&nbsp;Indians are still unused to champagne - and hesitant about uncorking it. Anoothi Vishal has a complete guide for those willing to experiment.

Bubbly for all occasions

Here's a ground reality: You may not pay a great deal of attention to what's beneath your feet, but truth be told, the difference it can make to a space is underestimated.

What lies beneath: Marble chic

I am moving from Chennai to Bangalore, and I need to drive from Bangalore to Hosur and back everyday.

Swing low...

Having acquired Spice, Kumar Mangalam Birla believes his mobile phone service provider can be among the top three.

Has Idea`s time come?

Shorts by young filmmakers, flicks out of Pakistan, a restored oldie, works by international masters.

Cinema, beyond Bollywood

Will the very large number of majolica tiles coming up for sale next month make them collectibles.

In an antique land

There was an episode in Friends where Ross tried  in vain  to teach Phoebe to ride a bicycle.

Bicycles are in fashion again

What do young people (and many older ones too) read in newspapers  if anything at all? Those of us in the business of writing certainly hope that there are enough "hooks" within the pages of any publication to make people spend more than a few seconds on things other than "briefs" or trivia, the sports pages or just plain gossip.

What the stars don`t tell

Microsoft India is knocking on the doors of adulthood, hoping to find its own identity as distinct from its Redmond parent.

Coming of age

In Followership, Barbara Kellerman asserts the age of the all-powerful executive has ended.

Leaders and followers

&nbsp;A growing list of brands is dropping Sachin Tendulkar. Is this the onset of sanity in celebrity-related advertising? 
&nbsp;Suhel Seth is many things to many people, so many things to so many people that Outlook magazine once wondered in print how many Suhel Seths there were.

Shrunk Sachin

Sitting at her lunch table in Mumbai's sprawling Four Seasons hotel, renowned organisational development and management guru and president of TMI US (a human resource development company), Janelle Barlow, gears up for a hectic week of travel and seminars in Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore on customer relations.

`An emotional bond is most compelling`

I'm rather disappointed to know that not many Indians are heading to Beijing for the Olympic Games 2008.

Beijing`s culinary Olympics

Consumer confidence is a measure of the market conditions and a rise and fall in it is an indication of the direction the economy is taking.

Confidence drops, but optimism high

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<LI>When and where was the term "superstore" first used? The term superstore was first used in 1968, when Tesco opened its store in Crawley, West Sussex, England.

Answers to last week`s quiz

Provocative, seductive, warm, fun or even spicy the way you smell can be one of the most lasting ways to make an impression.

This season`s smells: Fruity or foresty

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