As Telangana Talkies reported yesterday, a delegation of Coca Cola officials met CM KCR yesterday and have expressed interest to set up a Rs. 1,000-crore bottling plant in Telangana and has sought land for the proposed venture. Coca Cola is preferring a location close to Hyderabad. The proposal is made by Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages, Coca-Cola Company’s largest bottling partner in India. A CMO release said Executive Vice President (Coca-Cola Company) and President, Bottling Investments Irial Finan and T.Krishna Kumar (Regional Head, India) of the Coca Cola Company along with their team met the Chief Minister at the Secretariat. The Executive Vice President informed the Chief Minister that the company is interested to setup a mega plant with Rs.1000 crores investment in the state and sought the state Government support. ...
Read More »Coca Cola Planning One Of It’s Largest Plants In Telangana
Representatives of Coca-Cola are scheduled to meet CM KCR today in Hyderabad over plans to build one of their largest greenfield plants in India. Coca-Cola which has been facing quite a few hurdles in opening up new factories, due to land and environmental issues, in India has now shifted focus to Telangana after the State government’s industry friendly steps in last 2 months. Coke executives will brief the Chief Minister on their plans and may put forth their requirements of land, water and power. The location they may propose is not known at the moment. The company, which has 58 bottling plants in India, already has four plants in Hyderabad. Off late, Coca-Cola has been trying to ramp up it’s manufacturing ...
Read More »Telangana’s Women Entrepreneurs Form ALETS
The bifurcation of AP meant that Telangana has now got it’s own association of lady entrepreneurs. Association of Lady Entrepreneurs of Telangana State (ALETS) was launched on Saturday by a group of successful entrepreneurs in the state to empower women. “Women, especially those in rural areas, are very industrious and have a lot of ideas. We will go and give them guidance in business planning, capacity building, marketing awareness through linkages,” said M Sarita Reddy, founder-president of ALETS. Earlier, there was an Association of Lady Entrepreneurs of Andhra Pradesh (ALEAP) established in 1993. That group which is based in Yousufguda, Hyderabad has already started limiting it’s activities to residuary AP. The lady entrepreneur associations work with the mission to leverage entrepreneurship development and ...
Read More »Registrations Open For New TIE Young Entrepreneurs (TYE) Program
The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) is coming up with TIE Young Entrepreneurs (TYE) program, aimed at fostering entrepreneurship among school students. About 40 students from classes 9-12 will be shortlisted for the TYE 2014-15 programme. They will be put through 16 weeks of an inten-sive and interactive Entrepreneurial Training programme. The program aims to nurture the next generation of entrepreneurs. This is a TiE Global initiative dedicated to chapters integrating classroom sessions, mentoring and business plan competition aimed at High School students (grades 9-12 or equivalent college students are allowed). TYE is designed to teach high school students entrepreneurship and leadership skills. The TYE program is designed for a 16 week period, which includes class room instruction, mentoring support for business plan development, and ...
Read More »Medak To Get Central Institute of Plastics Engineering & Technology (CIPET)
The Union Minister for Fertilisers and Chemicals Ananth Kumar said that very soon, financial sanction for setting up a new Central Institute of Plastics Engineering & Technology (CIPET) campus over a 20-acre spread in Rudraram of Medak district at a cost of Rs. 50 crore would be accorded. It would take students intake up from the current 2,500 to about 5,000 in about two years, he said, to applause. It would be the biggest CIPET campus in country. He was speaking after inaugurating the international plastics exhibition. Hyderabad already boasts of a basic CIPET learning centre that trains 2,750 students. Currently, there are over five high learning CIPET facilities across the country — one each in Ahmedabad, Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Lucknow and Kochi. The ...
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