Author: HBI Staff | New Delhi

According to a report in The Hindu Business Line, CK’s Bakery chain, which sells sandwiches and paninis along with cakes, is expanding to Madurai through the franchise model. The chain is in talks with partners to open outlets in four months. Manuranjith Ranganathan, Founder and Managing Director, CK’s Bakery, said, “an initial market survey conducted by the company found that with many companies setting up operations in Madurai, the workforce is younger, more exposed to different food cultures and have more disposable income.” “People want variety at an affordable price. With our INR 50-100 price range, we are ideally placed…

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Flou, the Italian luxury bedroom and furniture designs brand, has opened their first flagship store in India at Mahipalpur in Delhi. The Italian company has joined hands with Capt Mukesh Kumar, Founder of Kanu Kitchen Kulture, to open the flagship store in Delhi. Known for introducing new sleep culture to the world, Flou produces more than 50 different beds, technical and furnishing accessories and wardrobe collection. The newly opened store offers a great opportunity to general public, design professionals and their clients to look at and experience the best of modern design in an expansive environment. A spacious zone inside…

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Elanpro, India’s leading commercial refrigeration company, has introduced Elanpro EKG Series – a new range of Glass Top Chest Freezers – in the market. Boasting of eye catching style and cutting edge technology with economical solution for safe storage of perishable goods, EKG Series is packed with latest innovation in seven variants in capacities ranging from 150 to 625 liters at a price range starting from Rs 18000 onwards. The newly launched Elanpro EKG Series comes exclusively with best-in-class 82 mm insulation ensuring minimum heat ingress and low power consumption. This feature is chiefly relevant for the Indian market conditions…

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Parryware, a manufacturer of bathroom products in India, partnered with Rotary International Dist 3000 and Savlon for a hand wash relay aimed at sensitising kids on hygiene through hand washing. The activity has set a World Guinness Record of 2679 Students washing hands continuously without any break. Students from a college in Tamil Nadu participated in the hand wash relay organised by Parryware and Savlon. The average time taken for one hand wash was 12 seconds. Breaking the previous record of 1470 students washing hands continuously in Pakistan, the event has entered in to the books of Guinness World Records…

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At the 7th CMO Asia Awards for Excellence in Branding and Marketing held at Singapore recently, Mattress brand Kurl-on bags award for ‘Best Use of Social Media in Marketing’. Kurl-on has succeeded in emerging as a thought leader of the mattress industry by educating, entertaining and engaging the audiences with various appealing and relevant campaigns. The real success lies in Kurl-on’s clever approach of gathering consumer insights through various crowd-sourced initiatives and using them to create hard hitting messages through campaigns such as #GoodSleepIs and #KurloShaadi. Kurl-on successfully integrated and achieved their business objectives with their social media initiatives such…

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Saint Gobain India Pvt Ltd was honoured as the winner of the HR Excellence Award 2015 by V S Oberoi, Secretary, Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India. It demonstrated a robust and sustained system of HR practices making it the first organisation to reach this level of distinction in 6 years since the conception of this award confluence. Presenting the Awards at the 6th CII National HR Excellence Award Confluence organised by Confederation of Indian Industry, Oberoi raised some highly relevant points in his exceedingly insightful and eloquent address. While congratulating the winners of…

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HSIL, leading sanitary equipment manufacturer and promoter of brand Hindware , has launched an umbrella brand for their emerging consumer business space called ‘Moonbow’. The company has also announced a new product, Air Purifier, under the Moonbow brand here in Delhi today. Besides, Air Purifier, the company will be coming out with new products like Water Purifier and Food Ozonisers under the Moonbow branding in coming months. Announcing this in a press conference here, Sandip Somany, Jt. Managing Director, HSIL said that the brand ethos of Moonbow will be ‘Expect the Unexpected’. Moonbow, unlike Rainbow, is a rare phenomenon and…

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Selection of right cleaning tools for right application save money, time and improve effective cleaning result MyCleaningStore.in launched recently by Rakesh Lal, Founder of Classic Maintenance Services, is into providing quality wholesale janitorial, products online and offline, as well with cost effective solutions and exceptional service for all cleaning and maintenance supply needs. The services of MyCleaningStore will be available in the Delhi NCR region and surrounding areas in a radius of 150 km, initially, with an intend to expand their online coverage to other states as well in future. The company offers wholesale cleaning supplies for commercial, residential, institutional…

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Honeywell Building Solutions, a global leader in access control solutions to buildings, has released Honeywell Integrated Security, a new access control technology, powered by the company’s Enterprise Buildings Integrator (EBI) management system. The technology will enable organisations to integrate buildings and manage their system more efficiently with enhanced capabilities, mitigate business risk and provided an enhanced customer experience. Honeywell Connected Security is a UL294–certified, Edge/IP-based door access controller that supports a broad number of cards and communicates on 128-bit length encryption, providing a highly secure system. Facility Managers can now minimise points of failure with the help of Connected Security,…

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Subodh Kant Sahai, Minister for food processing industries, is lamenting that the Planning Commission has not understood the food processing sector’s importance. He said that despite its more than 15 per cent annual growth, the sector had still a long way to go and urged the Planning Commission to give priority to the sector. The minister was speaking at the Confederation of Indian Industries’ (CII) second Food Technology Summit in New Delhi. Reiterating the need to give the sector a ten year tax holiday, Sahai said food processing is the key to generate jobs for the rural population, which forms…

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