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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (5441)	8/4/1999 8:59:00 AM
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Online shop launch by Nilgiri's by January nilgiri.com Source : FE Aug 4, 1999, 8:03:29 AM Nilgiri's, the ninety year old retailer is set to open 13 outlets in the south by December next year, six in Chennai, four at Bangalore and one at Hosur. The Rs 100 crore chain is also set to go the e-commerce way with its online shopping site due for test marketing at Bangalore next January. The retail chain is also entering Kerala with two outlets. All the outlets are to be established through the franchise route. Nilgiri's currently has 17 outlets across Bangalore, Chennai, Mysore, Pondicherry, Salem, Erode and Coimbatore, twelve of which were opened during the last three years. S Alva, general manager. Nilgiri Diary Farm Ltd, said, "We expect the company's turnover to touch Rs 200 crore, once the new outlets are in place. Our strength lies in the 1,200 in house bakery and diary products, which constitute 50 per cent of total sales. People come to buy Nilgiri's products and incidentally end up buying other products. We want to maintain that tradition."

To: Mohan Marette who wrote (5441)	8/4/1999 9:05:00 AM
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India to have 5m Net users by 2003 Our Bureaus (Econ Times) Bangalore, mumbai 3 AUGUST INDIA will be among the four Asian markets to have five million Internet users by the year 2003. Market research agency IDC India Ltd made this forecast at its 12th annual industry briefing. China is expected to have over 15m users, followed by India with about 8m, and Australia and Korea slightly behind. IDC has forecast that personal computers (PC) will continue to drive hardware market growth and that the future would see a tussle between multinational and local PC brands. HCL led in desktop numbers sold in '98-99 with an 8.6 per cent market share, followed by Zenith with 7.1, Compaq with 7, while IBM and Wipro had 3.5 per cent each. However, Compaq led in portables followed by IBM and Toshiba, said Mr Aditya Pant, manager, supply-side research, IDC (India) Ltd. The Indian market is set to become the third largest market in the Asia Pacific (Apac) region by the year 2003 from its current fifth position. IDC also said that a 28 per cent compounded annual growth rate between '98-2003 would catapult India into the third largest market in the region after China and Australia, said Mr Dane Anderson, vice-president, computing systems, IDC Asia/Pacific. Much of the growth will be fuelled by demand in the consumer and small business segments. The Asia Pacific region however, traditionally excludes the Japanese market. As for networking, the choice for access options will not only shift towards new technologies such as DSL-based variants (digital subscriber loop) but also points towards a prominence of Frame relay and E1 technologies. At the same time, the analogue leased lines in vogue today are expected to face diminishing usage over the next one year. In software, the enterprise resource planning (ERP) package sales and services are continuing to grow in India, though elsewhere they may be falling, said Mr Dewang Mehta, president, National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom). In India, ERP software sales will reach Rs 315 crore in '99-2000, with a growth percentage of 43.2 per cent over the '98-99 figure of Rs 220 crore. Between '97-98, where sales were worth Rs 137 crore and '98-99, the growth percentage was 60.9 per cent.In ERP vendor share by customer base, SAP led with 20 per cent as on March '99, followed by Baan with 13 per cent, QAD with 12 per cent and Ramco and Scala with 11 per cent each, Mr Mehta said. Interestingly, while ERP vendor shares among new customers in '98-99 indicate SAP still leading with 23 per cent, followed by Baan with 18 per cent, QAD with 15 per cent, Ramco with 11 per cent and Oracle with 10 per cent, the shares of SAP, Baan and Oracle have decreased from '97-98, while that of QAD has increased considerably and that of Ramco marginally.http://www.economictimes.com/today/04tech01.htm

To: Mohan Marette who wrote (5441)	8/4/1999 9:16:00 AM
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Saudi-Pak 'nuke axis' shocks the West Paul Taylor in London Western governments are concerned that Saudi Arabia may be seeking to acquire a nuclear weapons capability after its defence minister visited Pakistan's secret nuclear facilities, a senior British official has said. Saudi Defence Minister, Prince Sultan toured the Kahuta uranium enrichment plant and missile factory with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharief in early May and was briefed by A Q Khan, the father of Pakistan's atom bomb, diplomatic sources said. The visit, reported briefly in a Pakistani newspaper at the time, raised eyebrows in London and Washington. The site is so sensitive that former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto has said she was not able to visit the installations during her time in office. ''There is concern that... the Saudis are showing interest in acquiring a nuclear capacity,'' the British official said. US President Bill Clinton was reported to have raised the issue of the spread of nuclear weapons with Sharief when he visited Washington in early July for talks on the Kargil issue. The New York Times quoted a US official as saying that Washington had also asked the Saudi government to explain the purpose of the visit but had received no clear response. The diplomatic sources said there was concern that Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil producer, might have agreed to finance the Pakistani effort and might try to buy missiles and nuclear know-how for itself. Although Saudi Arabia is an ally of the West, and a major client of the US and British arms industries, Washington is keen to avoid a missile and nuclear arms race in the West Asia. UNI 216.32.165.70