Walt Disney has entered into a strategic tie-up with Sierra Industrial Enterprises to manufacture and market Disney shoes for kids in India. The Disney shoe range will cater to kids up to 10 years old.
Narain Karthikeyan is set to become the first Indian on the F1 circuit. Karthikeyan announced that he had, in principle, agreed to race for the Jordan F1 team in the 2005 season. The agreement is expected to be finalised in the next few days.
LG Electronics India Pvt Ltd on Monday announced its entry into third generation (3G) services and showcased a whole new range of 3G handsets. The company is looking at an annual turnover of Rs 9,000 crore, with 8 per cent contribution from the sale of two million GSM handsets.
Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM) has decided to withdraw one of its best selling model - Qualis - from the Indian market. Qualis was introduced in January 11, 2000 and quickly redefined the Multi Purpose Vehicle (MPV) segment in India.
Volvo has appointed Eric Leblanc (46) as the new Managing Director to succeed Ulf Nordqvist in Volvo, India. Ulf Nordqvist will return to Volvo in Sweden to take up position in Volvo Truck Corporation, Head Office.
Hindustan Lever is planning to raise the prices of Surf Excel and Rin, while Procter & Gamble would raise the prices of Ariel and Tide by about 5 per cent from March.
Apple has introduced its new range of product line for the Indian market. These include Mac Mini, iPod Shuffle, iLife ’05, iWork ’05 and Final Cut Express HD.
Good Relations (India) has appointed Meenakshi Sachdev Varma as its Chief Operating Officer with immediate effect. GRI also announced several new business acquisitions in each of its offices in Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai and Kolkata.
Aaj Tak has been awarded the Finalist Certificate in the 2005 International Television Programming and Promotion Competition of the New York Festival for the police bribery case story in the ‘Best Insert Category.’
What is common between a woman putting colour on a railway official standing on the platform, an old man taking out colour from his pocket while feeding pigeons, and colour coming out of clothes while they are being washed? They all dissolve into one thing – the commercial of Nokia 2600.
SAB TV has set the ball rolling to launch a Current Affairs channel in April-May this year. Confirming this to exchange4media, Markand Adhikari, Vice-chairman and MD, said the new channel will be different from a conventional news channel. Umesh Upadhyay has been appointed as the channel head.
Jasubhai Digital Media announced on Monday that it has appointed L. Subramanyan to the position of President and Publishing Director. Prior to this, he was Head Marketing and Strategy at Zensar Technologies Limited.
Suresh Balakrishnan, Vice-President, Media Marketing, Hindustan Times, has put in his papers. Even though he is tight-lipped about the offers in hand, sources say that one of the possible destinations could be Zee Telefilms as Head of Advertising, Sales and Marketing.
Jagran TV Pvt. Ltd. has been granted the uplinking licence by the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting to broadcast its news channel. The group has decided to name it ‘Channel 7, which will be a premium 24-hour free-to-air channel in Hindi and is gearing up for the launch in March 2005.
After its launch a fortnight ago, it is time to capture eyeballs. This is what NDTV has been gearing up for since the launch of their new business channel, NDTV Profit. The channel claims it is reaching close to 20 million C&S households across 125 top towns in the country.
The year 2004 sure had paid off for award functions and what 2005 holds, is beginning to unfold with the first awards off the block ‘STAR Screen Awards’. As per TAM Media research data, the award show has given STAR Plus a rating of 7.5 for the C&S 4+ in the Hindi speaking market.