Personal is a word one uses generously in connection with the Photographers Guild of India’s (PGI) yearly event, Exhibit A. The work showcased is personal and not funded by any client.
With a name like that, you would be excused for wondering what’s going on… For those in the dark, Bang & Olufsen (B&O) is an 80 year old Danish company, well known for their state-of-the-art sound systems, televisions, speakers and telephones.
Hindustan Lever Ltd, which undertook major supply chain and distribution restructuring for its foods business, is finding comfort in backing its revenue and profit earning segments like beverages.
IT People (India) Ltd has launched a new portal, which targets the IT Job market and provides a seamless platform for bringing together organisations, placement consultants and IT professionals from across the globe. The promoters of this portal are Adi R Cooper, Ketan Sheth, Rajiv Puri (erstwhile CEO of Jobsahead.com) and Vikram Shah.
Can India become an outsourcing hub for the advertising industry? Will egonomics (new jargon for ego problems) prevent creative work from moving from one country to another? These are the issues being debated within the advertising world.
Telephone companies know the value of each customer they own — because the market for investment in telecom has established the value per customer, depending usually on the average revenue per user in a specific market. But what about a newspaper buyer — what is s/he worth to a publishing company?
‘Incredible’ India is going to be the next destination point for FASTTRACK, the weekly global roundup of travel news for both leisure and business sectors, from BBC World’s stable. Akhtar Khan, the show’s presenter, an Indian by origin, will be revisiting the country through the lens.
K Sera Sera Productions in a board meeting on Monday (April 11) informed the BSE about the induction of independent directors into the Board in pursuance of Clause 49 of the Listing Agreement.
The Business Today Best CFO Awards, instituted by the group in association with Ambit RSM, were presented at a glittering ceremony in Mumbai recently. Bharat Doshi, Executive Director-Finance and Corporate Affairs, Mahindra & Mahindra, was adjudged the Best CFO.
Shaalu Wadhwa, ex-Associate Director-Marketing, Cartoon Network, will be joining Zee Network as Assistant VP Marketing at Zee Café and Zee Studio from April 18. Wadhwa will be reporting to Ajay Trigunayat, business head for Zee's English channels.
According to Eurodata TV Worldwide survey, the average daily television viewing time has increased on all the continents except for Asia.
Amrita TV, the 24-hour Malayalam television channel promoted by devotees of spiritual leader Mata Amritanandamayi or 'Amma,' is expected to go on air on April 14. According to the promoters, they may look at a Hindi channel on similar lines in the near future.
Good Relations India has just witnessed a mass exit of staff from its Chennai branch. While the agency insists that the seven employees were asked to leave, the staffers who have 'defected' to Hanmer & Partners claim that they left on their own, dissatisfied with the lack of systems at GRI.
Advertising in the current day is about real people, real situations and the chocolate hero seems to have made a heady exit from the back door. Is the aspirational factor making way for 'real communication' and 'everyday people'?
It was a meeting nobody wants to talk about. Heads of a handful of Indian broadcasting companies quietly converged in Mumbai last week to revive the Indian Media Group. This time the agenda was to rake up the issue of anamolies in taxes that the Indian and foreign broadcasters pay.
The Information & Broadcasting Ministry has kept its word about allowing some liberalisation in the private FM Radio. The Ministry has cleared 20 per cent Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) for the sector. However, the ban on news and current affairs programmes stays.