When you engage the services of a packer-mover to transport your household goods, you expect the service provider to make every effort to ensure their safe delivery. But do they?
Women’s fashion magazines are often full of ads featuring bizarre and grotesque images. Now a study has found that these are not only effective at grabbing consumer attention but also promise a more intense experience of the brand.
Plasma display panel (PDP) technology makers are pinning high hopes on the emerging but uncertain 3D television market to claw back market share after falling behind popular LCD flat screens.
In times of natural disasters, it is natural to want to help. If you don’t know where to go, there is help on hand.
Once upon a time, one associated manipulation of interest rates and similar machinations with the private moneylender. Today, such unfair trade practices have become the forte of banks, particularly private banks. Take, for example, this complaint that came up before the Banking Ombudsman.
Analyse the features of the Figo, Swift, Ritz and Vista, as they battle it out for the buyer’s attention.
Time-sharing of resorts is quite popular in several countries. Europe, for example, has an estimated 1,500 such holiday resorts. But Europe also has a regulation to protect consumers from unfair and unethical practices adopted by time share companies.
Two years ago, Samuel Culbert, a UCLA professor and management consultant, published an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal titled, "Get Rid of the Performance Review!" The piece got a huge response from readers, and he went on to write a book with the same title, which will come out next month.
Kids are not what they used to be. No kidding. Just ask Rasna, the brand that made home-made squash a national trend by combining a variety of value-priced soft drink concentrates with the cuteness of a girl reports Vivek Sinha.
In order to fight piracy, Nokia plans to launch its music service 'Comes With Music' in India in a couple of months to give unlimited music access to its consumers, a top company official said.
It may hark back to the License Raj days and limited production when consumers had to wait for a decade after booking a Bajaj Chetak, but even today some cars and two-wheelers command a waiting period.
The microwave oven market, which at present is very small at 1.4 million units, is expected to grow by 30 per cent in India this year, reports Rachit Vats.
It is almost like a game in which the winner depends on who the umpire is. The budget day last week saw CNBC TV18 emerging as a leader according to TAM data, while overnight TV monitoring service aMap’s figures showed Bloomberg UTV at the top, reports Anita Sharan.
In order to cash in on growing brand consciousness, luxury watchmaker Cartier plans to expand its distribution network in India, a top company official said in Mumbai.
Yahoo Inc plans to integrate Twitter into its collection of websites, as the company seeks to enhance the appeal of its online properties with popular social networking features.