by rakesh | Sep 22, 2007 | Business
The popular and endearing brand, Hutch, will be transitioned to Vodafone across India. This marks a significant chapter in the evolution of Vodafone as a dynamic and ever-growing brand. The brand change over the next few weeks will be unveiled nationally through a high profile campaign covering all important media.
Vodafone, the world’s leading mobile telecommunication company, completed the acquisition of Hutchison Essar in May 2007 and the company was formally renamed Vodafone Essar in July 2007.
Asim Ghosh, Managing Director, Vodafone Essar, said “We’ve had a great innings as Hutch in India and today marks a new beginning for us. Not as a departure from the fundamentals that created Hutch, but an acceleration into the future with Vodafone’s global expertise.”
Harit Nagpal, Marketing and New Business Director, Vodafone Essar, said, “This transition is probably the largest brand change ever undertaken in this country and arguably as big as any in the world. It is even larger than our own previous brand transitions as it touches over 35 million customers, across 400,000 shops and thousands of our own and our business associates’ employees.”
The Vodafone mission is to be the communications leader in an increasingly connected world – enriching customers’ lives, helping individuals, businesses and communities be more connected by delivering their total communication needs.
About Vodafone Essar Limited
Vodafone Essar in India is a subsidiary of Vodafone Group Plc and commenced operations in 1994 when its predecessor Hutchison Telecom acquired the cellular licence for Mumbai. Vodafone Essar now has operations in 16 circles covering 86% of India’s mobile customer base, with over 34.1 million customers*.
Over the years, Vodafone Essar, under the Hutch brand, has been named the ‘Most Respected Telecom Company’, the ‘Best Mobile Service in the country’ and the ‘Most Creative and Most Effective Advertiser of the Year’.
Vodafone is the world’s leading international mobile communications company. It now has operations in 25 countries across 5 continents and 40 partner networks with over 200 million customers worldwide. Vodafone has partnered with the Essar Group as its principal joint venture partner for the Indian market.
The Essar Group is a diversified business corporation with interests spanning the manufacturing and service sectors like Steel, Energy, Power, Communications, Shipping & Logistics and Construction. The Group has an asset base of over Rs.400 billion (US$ 10 billion) and employs over 20,000 people.
*Figures from Cellular Operators Association of India, August 31, 2007.
by rakesh | Sep 22, 2007 | Business
The Exchange (NSE), in order to verify the accuracy or otherwise of the information reported in the media and to inform the market place so that the interest of the investors is safeguarded, had written to the officials of the company.
Reply is awaited from Reliance Natural Resources Limited. (NSE, India)
by rakesh | Sep 22, 2007 | Business
The Exchange (NSE), in order to verify the accuracy or otherwise of the information reported in the media and to inform the market place so that the interest of the investors is safeguarded, had written to the officials of the company.
Escorts Ltd has vide its letter inter-alia stated, “No official communication was given by us to anybody on the above matter. Further, we deny any such news”.
by rakesh | Sep 10, 2007 | India News
As per the information provided by the University Grants Commission (UGC), the Commission has issued a letter to all the applicant Trusts/Societies/Institutions to get the institution/courses accredited from the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) and National Board of Accreditation, as the case may be, depending upon the courses offered by them.
The Central Government is empowered by the UGC Act, 1956 to declare an institution of higher education, other than a University, as Deemed to be a University, on the advice of the UGC. The UGC has laid down guidelines for consideration of proposals for declaring an institution as deemed to be a university. The proposals received for conferment of status under Section 3 of the UGC Act, 1956 are examined as per the provisions of these guidelines. The UGC evaluates the proposal by deputing an Expert Committee to the applicant institution that inspects and makes an on the spot assessment of the applicant institution and the facilities available there, including those of the infrastructure and faculty, and submits a report to the Commission. The UGC considers the report in its meeting before making its recommendations to the Central Government.
This information was given by the Minister of State for Human Resource Development Smt. D. Purandeswari in a written reply to a question raised by Ms. Sushila Triya in Rajya Sabha today.
by rakesh | Sep 10, 2007 | India News
Two more IISERs are being set up at Bhopal and Thiruvananthapuram. These Institutes have been/are being set up on the recommendations of the Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (SAC-PM). The total estimated project cost of each IISER is Rs. 500.00 crores which includes Rs. 241.00 crores fro construction of building and other infrastructural facilities and Rs. 259.00 crores as recurring expenditure, spread over a period of 7 years.
This information was given by the Minister of State for Human Resource Development Smt. D. Purandeswari in a written reply to a question raised by Shri Ravula Chandra Sekar Reddy in Rajya Sabha today.
