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Siva Group buys 50% in Norway's Isklar for $22 mn
Posted: March 10th, 2010, 3:06pm EST
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Siva Group said on Wednesday it has acquired a 50% stake in Isklar, a Norwegian Glacial natural mineral water company and a premium-bottled water brand in the UK and Norway. -
Jay Shree Tea lines up Rs 120 cr for acquisition
Posted: March 10th, 2010, 3:02pm EST
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Jay Shree Tea & Industries, a BK Birla Group company, is poised to acquire a company in the agro-commodity space. -
'Parallel' college pioneer Nair sees opportunity in micro dairies
Posted: March 10th, 2010, 5:37am EST
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College kids and cattle are as different as chalk and cheese, but the pioneer of ‘parallel college’ education in Kerala, Achuthan Nair, is proving that he can help make cheese as well as he could handle chalk. -
Sweet taste of success for Weikfield
Posted: March 9th, 2010, 3:39pm EST
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Weikfield has a strategy of choosing segments where the competition is not the big food daddy. It prefers to concentrate on segments that are too small for the big players. -
Nestle weighs Jenny Craig India debut
Posted: March 9th, 2010, 3:21pm EST
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Nestle, the world's largest food company that makes KitKat chocolates and Maggi instant noodles, is looking at bringing its weight management programme Jenny Craig to India. -
Danone plans health drinks' JV
Posted: March 7th, 2010, 4:14pm EST
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Groupe Danone is close to formalising a joint venture with the Mumbai-based Narang Hospitality Services for manufacturing, marketing and distributing nutritional beverages such as fortified water and juices in India. -
60% of acquifers may run dry in 20 yrs if unchecked: WB report
Posted: March 5th, 2010, 12:26pm EST
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If current trends of acute groundwater use continue, 60% of all acquifers in India could run dry in in 20 years or will be in a critical condition, a World Bank report has said. -
Ourtime Ice Cream: Owner Raghunath Kamath to taste success
Posted: March 2nd, 2010, 1:50pm EST
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It was an unexpected surprise for the Mumbai-based owner of Ourtime Ice Cream when Sir Vivian Richards told Sunny Gavaskar that he loved Natural’s Custard Apple flavour Ice Cream. -
Dairy sector wants meat subsidy to go
Posted: March 1st, 2010, 3:14pm EST
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The dairy industry has explained how the subsidies help slaughterhouses and thereby impact the milk production in the country. -
Activists question Bt brinjal clearance process
Posted: February 27th, 2010, 10:13am EST
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Environment activists today dubbed as illegal the entire process of the clearance given for Bt brinjal by the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) contending that it violated the Biological Diversity Act.