Thursday, March 11, 1999
Non-grocery shopping to rise in '99
Shopping takes upto 46 minutes of the average Indian woman's time per day as against 36 minutes of her male counterpart according to a recent consumer outlook survey. What's more, over 32% of the survey respondents intend to spend more time on non-grocery shopping this year.
BPL rings in new telecom strategy
The BPL group is putting together a strategic long-range plan for its combined telecom businesses by next week. Accordingly, each company in the telecom business group will be formulating a two-year rolling plan with regard to the company and group strategy in areas of technology, marketing and human resources.
Value versus volume -- The new HLL-Colgate slugfest
In a virtual `creeping acquisition' of market share, Hindustan Lever Ltd (HLL) has taken over leadership position in the north zone urban toothpaste market segment, albeit in terms of value, in the month of January 1999, displacing all-time leader Colgate-Palmolive (India) Ltd.
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