AUTO SALES<br />*New model launches and festivals helped auto sales grow for the fifth month in a row in September.<br />*Trend likely to continue in the forthcoming months.<br /><br />HARISH MANWANI <br />* Manwani, 62, will retire as the chief operating officer (COO) of Unilever Plc<br />* Joined company as a management trainee in 1976<br />* Was appointed COO in June 2011<br /><br />USL<br />*Vijay Mallya was re-appointed as non-executive chairman. <br />*UBHL is no longer entitled to recommend an independent director to USL board following a reduction in its shareholdings in USL.
