Ginger Hotels, the budget hotel brand of the Tata group, has had a solo run since its launch in 2004 &mdash; unchallenged by any international or domestic organised sector player.

New players seek to ginger up budget hotel market

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Rabindranath&rsquo;s works and his fans are known to turn up at the most unexpected of places.

On the Tagore trail

One of the most interesting websites doing the rounds on social networking sites is called &lsquo;Things Parents Text&rsquo;. For the uninitiated, it consists of weird goofy explicit SMSes received by disgusted/shocked embarrassed/or just bemused kids from parents who are either drunk/ stoned/ or obviously one sandwich short of a picnic basket.

Who let the parents out?

On October 8, 2003, Business Standard organised a round table conference with the whos who of Indias financial sector. Three top bankers, two corporate chiefs and one

'No need for Lenders' Liability Act'

The past year has been a turning point for Indian banking. Bank stocks have been re-rated by the market, reflecting the vast improvement in the sectors fundamentals. There are several reasons for the

Heralding good times

Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon, will be organising Delphique03, a national management convention on November 21-22, 2003. 



Ideas Exchange At Mdi

Firm looking to make deeper inroads into entry D-segment

Skoda to bring third-generation Octavia to India this Diwali

When the focus at Europe's premier auto show is firmly on Ferrari and McLaren's hypercars rather than regular, mass driven cars, you know something's amiss

Cars catch cold at Geneva

This brand's story is forged by work and driven by life. It urges its customers and followers to become earthmovers - who are bold and confident enough to transform status quo into extraordinary. Name the brand.

Answers to last week's quiz (#294)

Suzlon gets its name from the Gujarati word sooj-booj which means clever thinking and loans which is pronounced as Lon

Answers to last week's quiz (#292)

Mars, the 3rd largest private company in the US and the worlds leading chocolate, food and pet care company.

Answers to last week's quiz (#291)

While B-school education helped me realise some of my strengths as I stepped into the corporate world, I also felt somewhat inadequate. 


Collaborate, not just compete

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<LI>Which industry came into existence in 1955 thanks to a company called Cummings &amp; Sanders being granted the metal-to-metal buckle patent? 
<LI>Chili, Ginger, Green, Hell,

The Strategist Quiz #014

Light, they say, is the darkest chapter of physics. No wonder that 128 years after Thomas Alva Edison invented the light bulb out of fear of darkness, it continues to rule the roost in terms of

LED to lead the way

As a fairly peripatetic, urban sort of person myself, Ive often wondered what it might be like to live in a small and/or isolated town. I was wondering that again last week, when I found myself in a

Highlander capers

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<LI>In the advertising industry, what is an afternoon drive? 
<LI>Who said this to whom: Look out for the dirty tricks of British Airways. BA ruined me? 
<LI>The

The Strategist Quiz #015

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<LI>The seatbelt or passenger restraint industry. Cummings &amp; Sanders was taken over by Amsafe, a Phoenix, Arizona-based company. 
<LI>Beer 
<LI>She was the first

The Strategist Quiz Answers #014

THE FRENCH LUXURY goods company Louis Vuitton hosted a party last week to celebrate the coming festive season. So far, so good. In a discreet corner of the invitation, the dress code stopped me dead

It`s a party, not a wedding!

The other day my neighbour woke me up with an insistent lean on the doorbell at an hour that I estimated to be just before the dawn of mankind. 


Waterboobies

THIS WEEK: THE INDIAN GOURMET FOOD MARKET

Strategic tools for the practising manager

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<LI>This garment could have up to 30 components. It appeared under its present name for the first time in Vogue in 1907 and is celebrating its 100th year in 2007. Identify it.

The Strategist Quiz #016

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