Edrington Group to launch more whisky brands in India

September 19th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - With affluent Punjabis developing a liking for imported liquor, foreign liquor companies affected by the global slowdown in the West are bullish about their prospects in the market in Punjab. Many international brands are keen to explore latent avenues in Punjab.

September 17th, 2009 KOLKATA - Australian dairy brands, Bega cheese and Pauls Zymil easy to digest milk, were launched in Kolkata Thursday and would soon be available in other Indian cities as well, an official said. "The brands will be initially available in eastern and northeastern India, followed by launches in northern, southern and western India," Debraj Sanyal, director iMBiz Pvt Ltd, told reporters at a press meet.

July 31st, 2009 WASHINGTON - Every fourth new car buyer in the US is now ready to buy the next vehicle from India or China, threatening to challenge the dominance of Japanese and Koreans in the American auto market, according to a new survey. The "Opportunity for Chinese and Indian Brands in the USA" survey by AutoPacific shows that 15 percent of the new buyers would look at buying a car from China, while 11 percent would go for a car from India.

July 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Liquor manufacturer Radico Khaitan, which Tuesday reported a 56 percent jump in its net profit for the quarter ended June 30, is planning to launch two brands in the brown spirits category. "We are looking to launch a whisky and a brandy brand, and both will be in the premium segment," Radico Khaitan's chairman and managing director Lalit Khaitan told IANS.

July 7th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - The Anil Ambani-controlled advertising group Mudra Tuesday launched a new company, Ignite Mudra, specifically for building brands for new entrepreneurs. "The Mudra group has been responsible for building several iconic brands such as Vimal, Dhara, Rasna, Itchguard, Dermicool, Moov and Nutralite for the past three decades," said Ignite Mudra president Chandan Nath at a press conference here.

June 28th, 2009 MUMBAI - Tata Motors, one of India's top automobile manufacturers, launched its Jaguar, Land Rover brands in India on Sunday. Addressing a press conference here on the occasion, Ratan Tata, the chairman of the Tata Group, said: "It's quite a memorable day in the history and heritage of Tata Motors...JLR has been well received and well established in India (in the past), but over the years this brand has been disconnected from India." "I think, the cars will exhibit the levels of technology and levels of performance here.

June 15th, 2009 MUMBAI - Textile major Welspun India has received the Gujarat High Court's nod for the de-merger and transfer of its two divisions into two separate companies, it was announced Monday. "The court has approved the composite scheme of arrangement between Welspun India, Welspun Global Brands and Welspun Investments," the company said in a regulatory filing.

June 1st, 2009 MUMBAI - CEAT is the winner of the Reader's Digest Trusted Brands Gold AwardT 2009 for Tyres category in India. The Reader's Digest Trusted Brand Survey was launched in 1999 and has been carried out annually for the past ten years.

May 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India's Bharti group and Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, have postponed the launch of their first cash-and-carry or wholesale store in Amritsar following the violence in Punjab over the death of a Sikh leader in Vienna. The launch was scheduled for Tuesday, but was deferred after a Sikh religious leader died in the Austrian capital Monday following an armed attack at a gurdwara the previous day.

May 1st, 2009 MUMBAI - Tata Motors-owned British luxury car maker Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) is set to launch its premium brands in the Indian market later this year, the company said in a statement Friday. 'We are delighted to be formally entering the Indian market, an economy which is still growing appreciably, and able to offer our premium products to a whole new group of customers,' a JLR statement said.

March 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Global luxury brand owners who have set up shop in India to tap the growing affluent class seem to have gone wrong in estimating the break-even point, says the man who brought labels such as Gucci to the country. 'Luxury brand owners went wrong in their estimate of returns.

March 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The GMR-owned Delhi Daredevils announced its association with some of the biggest brands in the corporate sector ahead of the Indian Premier League's (IPL) second season. The new partners include Coke and Royal Challenge, Wrigley's India, Virgin Mobile, Fever 104, Big Adda, GupShup.com, the Times of India and the Hindustan Times.

March 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Riding on the success of the Bailey's cream liqueur, Irish companies have lined up the launch of a wide range of whiskeys, stouts and liquors in the Indian market this year to give discerning consumers a taste of their brewing and distilling expertise that dates back 5,000 years. Carolans, a relatively new brand of cream liqueur, Tullamore Dew, among the fastest-growing blended whiskey brands in Ireland, Wild Geese, a brand of whiskey named after Irish soldiers, and Connemara, the country's lone single malt peated pot, are among various brands set to make their way into the Indian market.

February 16th, 2009 KOLKATA - The city-based Rs.20-billion fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) company Emami is eyeing Henkel India's toilet soap brands like Aramusk and Moloy, a top company official said here Tuesday. 'We are studying whether these two brands would be good or bad for us.

December 31st, 2008 NEW DELHI - Those in the habit of downing a few pegs of 'good quality foreign whisky' to beat the winter chill should carefully examine what exactly they are drinking. Going by some cases dealt with by Delhi High Court recently, there are chances that one could be consuming 'deceptive' local liquor, which is not just an imitation of a well-known foreign brand but even uses its discarded, empty bottles, purchased from kabariwalas (scrap merchants).