Navroz Havewala
Articles by Navroz Havewala
UK: Mycokemusic.com opens its doors on Monday
16 January 2004
Coca-Cola has announced that it will open its an online music store on Monday, offering more than 250,000 downloadable tracks to British music fans.
INDIA: Government gets tough on soft drink labelling
28 September 2001
A further notification introduced by the Indian government now makes it compulsory for soft drink producers to print the expiry date and product ingredient details on all soft drink bottles. The government issued similar notification back in December 2000 giving companies three months to fall in line with the new notice. But producers lobbying the government claimed it was logistically impossible because 50m cases of returnable glass bottles, weighing 2.4m tonnes of glass would have to be destroyed and replaced.
INDIA: Close to $1m of spirits destroyed in prohibition fight
10 September 2001
Road rollers and bulldozers were used to destroy 180,000 bottles of "Indian Made Foreign Liquor" (IMFL), under the supervision of 200 policemen, in the prosperous state of Gujarat. Gujarat is the only Indian state still "enforcing" total prohibition. And the alcohol had been siezed from illegal possessors in the State's main city, Ahmedabad.
INDIA: Mexican beer giant Grupo Modelo launches Corona
24 August 2001
INDIA: UB demerges beer arm in plan to part-divest
13 August 2001
INDIA: Pepsi and Coke knock each other for six
15 March 2001
INDIA: UB Group completes its bear hug on Beer.
2 February 2001
INDIA: Muslims accuse coke of blasphemy
9 January 2001
