The Housing Development Finance Corporation Limited (HDFC) was amongst the first to receive an 'in principle' approval from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to set up a bank in the private sector, as part of the RBI's liberalisation of the Indian Banking Industry in 1994. The bank was incorporated in August 1994 in the name of 'HDFC Bank Limited', with its registered office in Mumbai, India. HDFC Bank commenced operations as a Scheduled Commercial Bank in January 1995.

HDFC Bank's mission is to be a World-Class Indian Bank. The objective is to build sound customer franchises across distinct businesses so as to be the preferred provider of banking services for target retail and wholesale customer segments, and to achieve healthy growth in profitability, consistent with the bank's risk appetite. The bank is committed to maintain the highest level of ethical standards, professional integrity, corporate governance and regulatory compliance. HDFC Bank's business philosophy is based on four core values - Operational Excellence, Customer Focus, Product Leadership and People.

Amongst the various services offered HDFC Bank offers entire range of loan products, which includes personal loans, smart draft, home loans ,two wheeler loans, educational loans, new car loans etc. With HDFC Bank Auto Loan, you don’t have to wait or save for a car it fulfills your dream of owning a car. Just have to decide on make and model, HDFC Bank Auto Loan will bring it to your driveway in no time.

Features and Benefits

• Avail Instant Car Loans – 3 Hour Approval Process.*
• Covers the Widest range of Cars and Multi-utility Vehicles.
• Attractive Car Loan Plans.
• Loans available for used cars.
• Flexible Repayment Options.
• Speedy Processing within 48 Hours.
• Repay with Easy EMIs.
• Attractive Interest Rates.
• Minimum Documentation

IAN is India’s first & largest business angel group having more than 100 members from around the country and overseas. The Network comprises of the who’s who of successful entrepreneurs and dynamic CEOs of India. Some of the leading lights of the network are Raman Roy, Jerry Rao, Sunil Munjal, Ajai Chowdhry, Saurabh Srivastava amongst many others. IAN is also the founding member of World Business Angels Association (WBAA).

IAN’s Angel investors are passionate about entrepreneurship as they see this as a phenomenal instrument of creating disproportionate wealth for all stakeholders as well as to bring about accelerated bottom up economic change. They seek to invest in start up / early stage companies and bring their strategic thought leadership, operational saviness and leverage their networks apart from and of course financial investment. This therefore translates into “smart money”. It is often this critical set investment that enables many promising ventures to scale up and graduate themselves to the point of first / second round of Venture Capital funding.

Since its inception IAN has made investments in 18 ventures, operating in diverse sectors such as IT & ITES, Life Sciences, Robotics, Web 2.0, Outsourcing, among others. The Network mentors and engages very closely with all its Investee companies and helps them with Strategy, Operations, Key Recruitments, Media interaction and Networking. 

1. The Network is sector agnostic in its focus and looks to invest up to USD 1 million as seed / startup / early stage funding, but our sweet spot has been US$ 300-400K.

For more information about Indian Angel Network (IAN), please visit www.indianangelnetwork.com

The Times Group is India's largest media & entertainment conglomerate. The Times Group is a leader in the publishing business and an emerging leader in internet, music, retailing, multimedia and now broadcast.

Brands create a "brand culture" where the organizing principle for all activity centers on delivering the brand promise to customers. A successful brand culture has been created when everyone in the organization thinks and acts on the idea that "I am the brand."

Our brands maintain the leadership position in the marketplace by offering the best quality products and services to our consumers.

Network18 [BSE: 532798, NSE: Network18] is one of India's leading full play media conglomerates with interests in television, print, internet, filmed entertainment, mobile content and allied businesses. Through its holding in Television Eighteen India Ltd (TV18) [BSE: 532299, NSE: TV-18], Network18 operates India’s leading business news television channels, CNBC-TV18 and CNBC Awaaz. It also runs one of India’s largest Internet players - Web18, as well as one of India’s leading real time financial information and news terminals - Newswire18. TV18 has recently expanded into print with Infomedia18, a newly formed entity following the acquisition of Infomedia, India's leading player in the special interest publishing and printing operations space.

Through its holding in ibn18 Broadcast Ltd (ibn18) [BSE: 532800,NSE: ibn18], Network18 operates in the general news and entertainment space with leading general news channels CNN-IBN and IBN7 and has launched IBN Lokmat, a Marathi news channel in partnership with the Lokmat group. ibn18 also operates a joint venture with Viacom, called Viacom18 which houses the MTV, VH1 and Nickelodeon channels in India - as also Studio18, the Group’s filmed entertainment operation and has launched ‘Colors’, a Hindi general entertainment channel. Additionally, Network18 holds the Group’s online & on-air home shopping venture, Homeshop18, its full spectrum events management venture, E18 and its sports management & marketing division, Sports18. In a pioneering foray, the group recently launched Forbes India, the nation's first local edition of a foreign news magazine title and the world’s most influential business brand, in collaboration with Forbes media.

Introduction to Brand Activation Marketing: Advertisers today are going a step beyond traditional mass-media advertising and focusing on unique brand-building initiatives that directly engage consumers and help them connect with the brand instead of the product. To service this new shift in outlook, the Brand Activation Marketing initiative of the Times Group was established in 2006 to offer comprehensive brand-building solutions to clients and their brands. Supported by the gamut of media resources of the Times Group, Brand Activation Marketing has now established its presence and capabilities across six Indian metros, and has the ability to deliver across other major towns and cities across the country.

The Brand Activation Marketing division provides above-the-line and below-the-line solutions through its two arms: Times Red Cell and Times Grey Cell. Times Red Cell:

Breathing Life into Your Brands

Times Red Cell (TRC) is dedicated to giving brand managers and media planners a fresh breath of life to their marketing campaigns. Like the red cells in the human body, TRC spreads the oxygen of innovation to clients’ brand marketing plans.

Armed with a creative team that understands each client and the core business, TRC ideates and designs customized programs that answer clients’ unique marketing needs. TRC provides 360-degree integrated solutions that range from exciting events at malls, quizzes, and road shows to sports-related programs, shopping festivals, and CSR-based community initiatives. In this capacity, Times Red Cell has successfully serviced clients such as Maruti, BPCL, Citi, Nivea, Canon, Acer, SAIL, LIC, Intel among 100+ others.
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