Essilor Sets Up Vision Foundation In India

Essilor has announced the establishment of the Essilor Vision Foundation in Bangalore, India. The launch of this newly-registered charity is part of the Group’s strategy to meet the vision needs of people in every region of the world and, in particular, the 2.5 billion people who need access to vision correction and currently do not have it. The Essilor Vision Foundation’s expansion into India represents the first of several public charities that will be launched under the Essilor Vision Foundation banner in different countries in 2014.

A public charity to accelerate vision care for underdeveloped communities in India

It is estimated that as many as 550 million Indians have uncorrected poor vision. This has far-reaching social impact on individuals and their communities as well as an estimated economic impact of $37 billion in lost productivity each year in the Indian sub-continent[1]. In addition to its traditional business, Essilor has pioneered several inclusive business models in India over the past 10 years that aim to grow awareness and provide locally affordable eyeglasses to low income individuals and families. The launch of the Essilor Vision Foundation will now help accelerate the Group’s actions in favor of the 400 million people who live below the international poverty line in India.

Emergency Assistance Just A Call Away Across India
Increasing workloads and less time for family and friends has given a steep rise to the trend of weekend holidays among the young professionals apart from their usual travel for work. With increased travel choices at odd hours to the metros as well as to non-popular, secluded and economical destinations comes the feeling of vulnerability and the risk of experiencing an untoward incident, while you are away from the secure and comforting environment of your home.

On calling the Emergency Assist Helpline the subscriber receives On-call assistance for handling the situation, 3 way conferencing and coordination with the local police, hospitals, fire stations, taxi services and other external agencies and coordination with emergency contacts. The OTER Command & Control Centre will provide 24 X 7 quick response and coordination through a well-researched and verified database of third parties such as over 1500 local police stations, nearly 1000 hospitals / nursing homes and ambulance services, 600 taxi services and 350 fire stations etc. This key information is available with OTER for over 65 major metros including Amritsar, Chandigarh, Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore and Chennai.

With a well-established Emergency Response Service already in place within the Delhi NCR, OTER’s on call assistance services are now available across major Indian metros. While the Physical Response Service (within NCR only) is available at a cost of Rs 250 per month, the PAN India on-call Emergency Help Desk service costs Rs 50 per month.

Array Networks, Inspira Together Bags WAN Optimisation Order From Govt Sector
Array Networks Inc, a global leader in Application Delivery Networking, partnered with Inspira, Array's largest Value Added Distributor in India, bags the largest remote hardware WAN optimization order from government sector. This is the second consecutive time that Array Networks has bagged a huge order from the government sector. This win demonstrates the high level of performance offered by Array's aCeleraTM WAN series of products. Array Networks' WAN optimization products will be deployed across 580 locations in various parts of South India.

Inspira has played an instrumental role in delivering Array's WAN Optimization and ADC products in the government sector. Inspira provides technology solutions to global clients in select verticals that demand high performance, high availability, scalability and security. Their low-risk Global Delivery model meets the quality parameters and their rigorous methodologies ensure high quality and delivery predictability for customers. With the help of Inspira's technical resource pool, Array could successfully articulate the benefits of Array's aCelera solution fitment to the end customer.

Amazon.in Enters Into Women’s Ethnic Wear And Sunglasses
Amazon.in announces its first move into Apparels with the launch of ethnic and Indo-western wear for women on www.amazon.in. With over 12,000 contemporary & traditional styles from over 90 apparel brands offered by private labels  and national & regional retailers, there’s a lot in store for the quintessential Indian women of today. It also announced the launch of a dedicated Sunglasses store with the largest selection of more than 2800 styles catering to men, women and kids, across all ages, occasions and price ranges.

With a vast selection of Fashion Jewellery, Watches, Beauty products, Handbags, Clutches , Shoes and now Ethnic Wear and Sunglasses, Amazon.in offers a compelling fashion & lifestyle shopping destination for women.

Outbrain Appoints Gulshan Verma To Lead Expansion In India
Outbrain, an online content discovery platform, has announced that it has appointed Gulshan Verma as Country Manager of Outbrain India, to lead the company’s expansion in the Indian subcontinent.

Outbrain has seen tremendous user growth in South-east Asia and India in the last 18 months – from zero to over 800 million page views on a publisher network that has grown to over 150 strong in the same time period. Outbrain has also had success recruiting the top talent in the industry, doubling its employees over the course of the past 12 months.

In this new role, Gulshan will be responsible for leading the setup and growth of Outbrain in India.

Gulshan brings to Outbrain over 15 years of experience in the digital media industry, having worked in Europe, North America and now Asia. His most recent role was with Komli Media as Chief Revenue Officer. Prior to that, Gulshan was Director of Sales Strategy for Yahoo! India, and before that, Director of Product Marketing for Yahoo! Search Marketing in the United States.

Tradus.com Launches Delivery Of Groceries From Local Sellers
ibiboGroup owned Tradus.com, an online marketplace introduces grocery delivery by local sellers. Consumers can order their daily needs such as dal, rice, sugar, tea to dry fruits from local sellers all via Tradus mobile apps (android, iOS or windows phone). Buyers will get deliveries within hours, ensuring freshness and reliability of goods.

As per the statement from ibiboGroup: "The launch of groceries is in line with Tradus' strategy of augmenting local deliveries of long tail products on mobile platform. Delhi is the first city where we have launched groceries. We will expand the same to other cities and sellers shortly."

Besides convenience and fast delivery, price and quality are going to be the core drivers for this category. For example, 1 kg of sugar is being sold by a seller from ChandiChowk at Rs 29. Similarly, the sellers have priced branded Atta at a discount of 20 per cent.

Canon Launches Nine Pixma Inkjet Printers; Targets 30% Market Share In 2014
Canon, a digital imaging has introduced 9 new inkjet printers. The new line up includes PIXMA Ink Efficient E400 & E560, Business AIO PIXMA MX 477 & MX 537, Photo AIO PIXMA MG 5570, Compact Single Function PIXMA iP 2870, Business A3+ Single Function PIXMA iX6770 & iX6870 & Photo A3+ Single Function PIXMA iP 8770.

With an aim to enhance appeal of inkjet printers for students, Canon also rolled out a brand new marketing campaign titled ‘Super Student’ to build thrust for its new PIXMA range of printers. The campaign focuses on the star product PIXMA E400 and talks about how this product enables every student to bring out the best in him/ her.

Alok Bharadwaj, Executive Vice President, Canon India said “Today’s techie kids are expressing their talent using state-of-art technology. We are calling such kids as  “Super Student”. They are comfortable using smart devices including cloud and Wifi printing. For them we have introduced new models of ink efficient home printers. These models offer brilliant functionality and super affordable printing as low as 99 paisa per print. They are designed specifically for students enabling them to unleash their creativity with bundled applications and Creative Park Premium access”.

Dell Strengthens Enterprise Solutions Coverage By Partnering With Redington
Dell, leading end-to-end technology solutions provider announced partnership with Redington for the distribution of its enterprise products. The partnership will aim to strengthen Dell’s distribution business strategy launched last month in the Indian market. The Dell-Redington partnership is established on national distribution framework and will enable smooth availability of Dell enterprise solutions in 33 Indian cities. The enterprise solutions available through Redington are Dell’s server and storage products.
 
The partnership will facilitate new business opportunities for both parties, enabling Redington to access and sell Dell’s world class enterprise solutions portfolio, while Dell will leverage Redington’s wide network of 45 sales/branch offices across the country. Dell will now attain further reach in the Indian market and the move will benefit large number of small and medium enterprises.  Redington will now be able to provide Dell’s cost-efficient, high-performing storage and sever products and solutions to enterprise customers in India.
 
The partnership is expected to strengthen the reach of Dell’s enterprise solutions beyond the Top 5 cities of India.
 
Dell’s channel strategy is based on customer feedback and aims at ensuring that customers have easy and prompt access to Dell’s best in class products and services.  The strategy includes extending the reach of Dell’s commercial products across Tier 2 & Tier 3 cities of India.

Agilent Tech Strengthens Aerospace & Defense Portfolio
Agilent Technologies, a premier test and measurement company,  has concluded the 8th annual Aerospace and Defense Symposium in New Delhi. The Symposium is an annual property of Agilent Technologies and is India’s biggest technical gathering of Aerospace and Defense engineers and scientists working on cutting edge Strategic Electronics. This year the symposium focused on military communications, electronic warfare and radar systems, apart from detailing the challenges in test and measurement.

The symposium, organised by Agilent in partnership with IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), Association of Old Crows (AOW)-India Chapter, and IESA (Indian Electronics & Semiconductor Association), spanned across Bangalore, Hyderabad and concluded today in New Delhi. Over 600 delegates participated in various technical sessions on radar, electronic warfare, military communication, avionics, navigation systems, among others, which redefine the design and development of aerospace/defense systems.

Agilent Technologies has been providing the Aerospace and Defense industries with products and services for more than 75 years. For Agilent, the Aerospace and Defense segment is a major contributor to their business in India and worldwide. The Aerospace and Defense Symposium 2014 was attended by key influencers from the aerospace and defense sector. The Symposium was enriched by open forums that featured discussions and demonstrations of the latest products and features from Agilent.