Sanjeev Kulkarni
Sanjeev Kulkarni, Deputy General Marketing-Mumbai, Vijay Karnataka, has been elevated as General Manager-North and West.
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Manoj Padmanabhan
Manoj Padmanabhan, who was Marketing Manager at Sansui, is moving to Tata Tele Services as Group Product Manager. Padmanabhan has been with Sansui for nine years
Prem Mehta appointed to Global Management Board of Lowe Worldwide
As part of the global restructuring at Lowe Worldwide, Lintas India’s Chairman & Managing Director Prem Mehta has been appointed to the Global Management Board of Lowe Worldwide.
Debasis Ray
Corporate Communications Manager, Hindustan Lever, is qutting after a 14-year stint with the FMCG giant. He is joining Tata Motors from July 1, 2005, Head-Corporate Communications. Prior to HLL, Ray was a journalist for five years with The Telegraph, Kolkata.
Swedish Match to sell its entire Wimco stake to ITC arm
Swedish Match today announced selling its entire stake in Wimco to Russell Credit Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ITC. The company, however, did not divulge the financial details of the deal.
Philips launches Hi Fi Stereo headphone at Rs 1, 195
Philips India Limited, a subsidiary of Netherlands-based Royal Philips Electronics, has recently introduced the Hi-Fi Stereo headphone-SBC HP800 at Rs 1,195.
Finally, some relief for credit card users
In a welcome move that will wipe the frown off the face of many credit card holders, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has proposed a set of guidelines to regulate credit card operations in the country.
Coke sends new bottling chief
Coca-Cola is on the verge of announcing changes in its India operations. Indications are that it will release a statement tonight in Atlanta splitting its marketing and bottling operations in the country. John Eustace, head of one of Coke’s largest bottlers in the world, Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling company, is tipped to become the head of the bottling operations in India.
Adlabs scripts new expansion strategy
Adlabs Films, a film processing laboratory, plans to broaden its horizons and become an entertainment powerhouse.
Business Today felicitates Young Super Performers Kumar Mangalam Birla, Ashish Dhawan & Michael Foley
Birla was selected in the CEO category for ‘steering his organisation to greater glory’, Foley was the Ideator for ‘owning the year’s biggest idea’ and Ashish Dhawan as an Entrepreneur for ‘creating a business from scratch, altering the rules of the game’.
TOI Response hands to head DNA’s operations in Chennai, Hyderabad
Following Pratap Ravindranath, who joined as South Head, and Arun Sequeira, who moved in as Chief Manager for its Bangalore operations, DNA has now roped in Satish Mukundan and Rebecca Pothan from Times of India’s Response to complete the city heads list for South India.
TAM to scale up TV AdEx operations to cover 300 channels by end 2006
AdEx India speculates that it will have to monitor advertising on more than 150 channels by the end of 2005 and 300 channels by the end of 2006. A roadmap for this required expansion is currently being worked out.
Encouraged by Time Bomb’s opening numbers, Zee plans more action in 10 PM band
Zee TV is seeing some action in the 10.00 PM band with the weekly ‘Time Bomb’ opening to impressive numbers. The channel has also embarked on a major awareness drive for ‘Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2005’.
RK Swamy National Creative Director K S Gopal is quitting to join rmg david as Creative Partner
After having spent just seven months at RK Swamy/BBDO as National Creative Director, K S Gopal is moving out to join rmg david as Creative Partner from July 4. In his new role he will be reporting to the agency's Country Manager and NCD Josy Paul.
Electrolux MD Rajeev Karwal announces he has put in his papers
Rajeev Karwal, CEO & Managing Director, Electrolux Kelvinator India, has announced that he has resigned. Karwal said that he had put in his papers on May 2 this year. He said he is not joining anywhere at present as he wanted a sabbatical from corporate life.
Vijaya Karnataka launches Kannada eveninger; all Kannada dailies hike prices
Leading Kannada daily, Vijaya Karnataka, has entered the eveninger space in Bangalore from Friday. The evening edition, also called ‘Vijaya Karnataka’, is priced at Rs 2. In another development, all mainline Kannada dailies have raised their price from the current Rs 2 to Rs 2.50, owing to an increase in input costs.
<b>Malcolm Rankin</b>, Chairman Asia Pacific, Aprais
<p align=justify>“The service that Aprais provides is more like auditing the relationship between client and agency for longevity of their partnership and for better outcome. It aims at clients and agencies wishing to arrive at equitable solutions for agency compensation. Aprais works with marketers and their advertising, direct marketing, PR and other communications agencies to help them interact more effectively.”