Category: Corporate

Budweiser has committed to a long-term Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) in India for 3.6 gigawatt hours per year for a period of ten years with Amp, a global renewable power provider for its brewery in Mysore, Karnataka. Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev), one of the leading brewers in the world, brews Budweiser and offers the most diverse portfolio of brands in the country. This new agreement is in line with AB InBev’s global commitment to secure 100% of the company’s purchased electricity from renewable sources by 2025. The solar power plant…

Nippon Paint (India) has recently announced the successful completion of the first batch of its training program ‘nshakti’. Leading architects Ponni Concessao and Oscar Concessao attended the event in Sirudhamur village to hand over the certificates, and expressed their solidarity towards this initiative.   Nippon Paint’s nshakti training program is an initiative to train rural women in professional wall painting. Its sole objective is to make rural women employable and transform their lives positively. The first batch of womentrainees (13 totally) between the ages 18 to 35 were trained by…

MakeMyTrip has installed the first plastic crushing machine at DLF Cyber Hub, Gurgaon, as part of its ongoing campaign to beat plastic pollution especially focusing on single-use plastic. The first such machine was placed at Gurgaon’s popular hub and will be fast followed by placements in Andamans, Ladakh and Bangalore next. The maintenance of this machine will be taken care by the DLF team on day to day basis. The team will also take care of the recycled waste.   Deep Kalra, Founder & Group CEO, MakeMyTrip, said, “Today the…

Nippon Paint (India) has received the Guinness World record for forming the largest human recycling logo, consisting of 1726 people. The occasion was marked at an Award Ceremony at Radisson Blu, Egmore on June 5, 2018 – that commemorates the conclave on World Environment Day.   The record attempt was the initiative of “Nippon Paint India” in association with B.S Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology and The New Indian Express to create awareness on the 3R’s of Water conservation message (Reduce, Recycle, Reuse) on the occasion of…

With an intention to promote staff health and encourage fitness among its employees, NetRack has successfully concluded 2 day health check-up program. The check-up consisted of Physical Examination, Blood Pressure monitoring, Lipid Profile, FBS, HBA1C, TSH, Complete Hemogram, ECG, Serum Creatinine and Urine analysis.   Certified medical practitioners from Apollo Diagnostics visited the company premises to screen and prescribe necessary medications to the staff. The management recorded an overwhelming response as 176 employees participated in this health check-up program. The program showcased how important its employees are and how it cares for…

Ambuja Cements has celebrated the ‘Global Health and Safety Days 2018’, strongly reiterating its commitment to achieving ‘Zero Harm’ goal in all its operations.   Having made great strides in the Health & Safety (H&S) journey since the first exercise held in 2016 as part of its parent company Lafarge Holcim’s annual campaign, Ambuja Cement recently observed this initiative for the third consecutive year with great enthusiasm. A host of activities were organised for two weeks under the theme – ‘I improve health and safety every day in my workplace’…

Delta Electronics India has launched Mumbai’s first DC Fast-Charger station at Maharashtra Mantralaya.     The EV Charging Station was launched by Dr. Harsh Vardhan Union Minister for Science & Technology & Earth Sciences, Government of India and Devendra Fadnavis, Chief Minister of Maharashtra.   Akshaye Barbuddhe, Business Head of EV Charging Solutions business of Delta Electronics India said “With our new range of electric vehicle charging solutions, we intend to support the GOI’s mission to drive electric mobility. Our entire suite of solutions in EV Charging including the Bharat Chargers…

Detel has announced the launch of its new campaign- ‘Tobacco-free India’. The company in association with e-distribution platform B2BAdda.com has pledged to turn Tobacco sellers (Tobbaconists) who have been selling Tobacco to earn a livelihood into entrepreneurs. With the launch of this campaign, the company aims at bringing a change in the lives of Tobacco sellers. It aims at encouraging them to move towards creating Tobacco-free India by extending to them an opportunity to become Entrepreneurs with Detel.    Tobacco is one of the most common and preferred forms of…

Over 75 lakh Mumbaikars travel on Mumbai’s local trains each day. In 2017, over 3000 lost their lives while crossing railway tracks in Mumbai. The employees of Mumbai’s most preferred telecom services network decided to do their bit to spread awareness on the hazards of taking shortcuts across railway tracks.   Vodafone India has initiated a campaign urging Mumbaikars to refrain from crossing railway tracks in the interest of their own safety. Recently conducted across 14 suburban railway stations in Mumbai, the campaign connected with several thousand rail commuters, exhorting…

Punjab state police has been awarded with the FICCI Smart Policing Awards 2018, at the annual conference on homeland security for its smart policing technology” PAIS” that held at FICCI in New Delhi. FICCI this year received more than 200 entries from various CAPFs & State Police Forces across India for the Awards.   The Punjab police have won the award under the category of Crime Prohibition, owing to a host of trailblazing and farsighted measures undertaken by the police department to ramp-up the policing initiatives in the state. The…