After finalizing a $200 million buyout transaction with French bigwig Groupe Danone - for its equal stake in biscuit major Britannia – the Wadia group will get complete control over Britannia Industries. Danone will sell its complete 25.48 percent stake to Leila Lands, a Wadia group firm which indirectly holds a similar stake in the biscuit company.
The takeover of the biscuit joint venture company, Britannia Industries, by Wadia will bring to an end the rancorous three-year scuffle between Wadia group and Danone, as the deal will mark the complete exit of the French foods’ company.
Hyderabad based IVRCL Infrastructures & Projects has informed the market that it has bagged project orders worth Rs.359.52 crore from different agencies for construction related works.
In a disclosure to the Bombay Stock Exchange, the company has received the first order of Rs 164.64 crore from Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority. Under the project, the company will construct Vivekananda Road flyover on turnkey contract basis in Kolkata in a period of 18 months.
According to the recent IDC India survey, 66 percent of the Chief Information Officers (CIOs) of 467 mid-sized and large companies surveyed expressed the hope that the ongoing global economic crisis will come to an end by December 2009.
As per the CIOs surveyed, the key investment priorities in 2009 would include software-as-a-service; unified communications; business outsourcing and data warehousing; virtualization and open source.
Carrying forth its gains into the fifth week, the Bombay Stock Exchange's Sensex was up 186 points on Monday, and closed at 10,534, while the Nifty was up by 45 points to close at 3,256. With the Indian markets consolidating, the index traded between 10,654 and 10,411.
The figures marked the highest level of the benchmark index since 10 November, 2008; thanks to the rising sanguinity about the global economy, and metals and capital goods, and auto stocks showing robust gains.
The 59th PTC India Ltd Board Meeting on Monday, April 5, was marked by the amendment of the decision taken by the company's board at the 57th meeting. The previous decision went thus: "subject to the approval of shareholders raising of funds up to Rs. 12 billion through the Qualified Institutional Placement - NCDs upto Rs. 4 billion; plus warrants of upto Rs. 8 billion."
The bigwig information technology service provider HCL Technologies has signed a $100 million six-year transformation deal with document management firm, Xerox Corporation, for the outsourcing of data-center services. The two companies already entered into a partnership in November, according to which HCL would facilitate companies in the incorporation of Xerox's manage print services into their systems.
After finalizing a $200 million buyout transaction with French bigwig Groupe Danone - for its equal stake in biscuit major Britannia – the Wadia group will get complete control over Britannia Industries. Danone will sell its complete 25.48 percent stake to Leila Lands, a Wadia group firm which indirectly holds a similar stake in the biscuit company.
Hyderabad based IVRCL Infrastructures & Projects has informed the market that it has bagged project orders worth Rs.359.52 crore from different agencies for construction related works. 
According to the recent IDC India survey, 66 percent of the Chief Information Officers (CIOs) of 467 mid-sized and large companies surveyed expressed the hope that the ongoing global economic crisis will come to an end by December 2009.
Carrying forth its gains into the fifth week, the Bombay Stock Exchange's Sensex was up 186 points on Monday, and closed at 10,534, while the Nifty was up by 45 points to close at 3,256. With the Indian markets consolidating, the index traded between 10,654 and 10,411. 
The 59th PTC India Ltd Board Meeting on Monday, April 5, was marked by the amendment of the decision taken by the company's board at the 57th meeting. The previous decision went thus: "subject to the approval of shareholders raising of funds up to Rs. 12 billion through the Qualified Institutional Placement - NCDs upto Rs. 4 billion; plus warrants of upto Rs. 8 billion."
The bigwig information technology service provider HCL Technologies has signed a $100 million six-year transformation deal with document management firm, Xerox Corporation, for the outsourcing of data-center services. The two companies already entered into a partnership in November, according to which HCL would facilitate companies in the incorporation of Xerox's manage print services into their systems. 
