COMPANIES

• Apollo Tyres to invest Rs 230 crore in Kerala
• Ajanta Pharma to spend Rs.50 crore on brand acquisitions
• Tisco reports lower net profits
• Shaw Wallace to launch new brands
• L&T plans contract manufacturing of medical equipment
• Ambassador car to be relaunched with new looks
• Indian Hotels offered stake in Tata Travel
• New L&T arm set up for embedded software

GENERAL

• Rabo Bank study says food retailing set to register a ten-fold growth
• BIS to issue Indian version of ISO 9000
• Crisil upgrades Reliance Petroleum Ltd