Shoppers Stop appoints Debasish Gupta as marketing head

Fashion retailer Shoppers Stop today announced appointment of Debasish Gupta as Customer Care Associate and Head - Marketing, Loyalty and Analytics.
Gupta will report to Salil Nair, Customer Care Associate and Chief Executive Shoppers Stop.
As head of marketing, loyalty and analytics, Gupta will lead Shoppers Stop's marketing strategies, in-line with the omni-channel strategy, expand and grow the first citizen loyalty programme and create incremental revenue growth through big data and analytics initiatives, the company said in a statement.
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Klowlarity partners Zoho for integrating products. * Communications company Knowlarity and business application platform Zoho today announced integration of SuperReceptionist, a virtual contact centre solution, and Zoho CRM, an advanced customer relationship management platform.

Knowlarity and Zoho users will be able to make calls using SuperReceptionist from within Zoho CRM, Knowlarity said in a statement here.

"With this integration, call centre agents will have all the customer information accessible in one place during the call, hence achieving more results in a day," Prashanth H N, Director and Head of Product Management, Knowlarity Communications said.
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Quikr launches Quikr Doorstep
* Online classifieds business Quikr has launched Quikr Doorstep by facilitating price negotiations, payment, pickup and delivery, to make sale of pre-owned goods simpler.
Quikr Doorstep has been launched across mobile phones, electronics and appliances, household furniture and other such products and the company plans to aggressively scale this business over the coming year, it said in a statement.

"It addresses genuine consumer issues of trust, payment and logistics in C2C transactions in the country. It also directly puts us in the middle of the transaction loop, making us the only player in India that is monetizing this category in a meaningful way," Pranay Chulet, Founder & CEO, Quikr said.
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Clovia appoints new CFO Abhay Batra
* Online lingerie brand Clovia today announced appointment of Abhay Batra as its Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
In his previous role, Abhay was working as the Chief Accounting and Corporate Controller at MMTC- PAMP India, a joint venture between the Swiss commodity giant MKS PAMP Group and the Government of India for refining and trading of precious metals, where he led multiple functions and managed a multi-billion dollar balance sheet.

Ultrabooks growing at 25-30 per cent: Dell India
* Technology giant Dell today said it is witnessing a growth of 25-30 per cent in enterprise ultrabook sales in the country.
The company, which has a range of notebooks for enterprise customers under the 'Latitude' range, has unveiled two new devices priced Rs 79,999 onwards.
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Ola adds autos in Gurgaon and Noida
* Transportation aggregator Ola today said it has launched auto-rickshaw services on its platform in Gurgaon and Noida, allowing users to book auto rides.
With the launch in these two markets, Ola Autos are available in 12 cities in India, including Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Pune, Chandigarh, Indore and Jaipur.

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Bajaj Finserv Ltd announces interim dividend * Bajaj Finserv Ltd today announced an interim dividend of 35 per cent.
The company has declared an interim dividend at the rate of Rs 1.75 per equity share of Rs 5 each (ie 35 per cent), for the financial year ending March 31, 2016, Bajaj Finserv Ltd said in a regulatory filing.
Besides, its subsidiary Bajaj Finance has declared an interim dividend of 180 per cent on the face value of Rs 10 each.
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TVS launches Victor Karnataka
* Two-wheeler maker TVS today launched the all new TVS Victor in Karnataka.

First launched in 2002, TVS Victor is among the top-selling commuter segment bikes in the country.
TVS Victor was the first product indigenously developed by the company.
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ONGC declares interim dividend
* State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) today declared a second interim dividend of Rs 0.75 per equity share for the 2015-16 fiscal.
The company had previously declared Rs 4.50 per share interim dividend in November last year.
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PTC Energy commissions 30 MW wind power project in MP * PTC Energy Limited (PEL) today said that it has achieved successful commissioning of it's 30 MW wind power project at Jaora in Madhya Pradesh.

"The Project comprising of 15 Gamesa make Wind Turbine Generators (WTGs) of 2 MW capacity each has been successfully synchronised through two 33kV Ratlam Wind Farm Feeders at 132/33kV Jaora substation of MP Paschim Kshetra Vidyut Vitran Co Ltd," the