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Anand Kripalu, managing director - east Africa operations, Unilever, will take over as managing director of the Indian sub-continent of Cadbury Schweppes Asia-Pacific.
exchange4media Staff Sep 20, 2005 8:10 AM
Wireless solutions provider Mauj Telecom has announced the launch of its first-of-its-kind ringtone service called video ringtones. Essentially, video ringtones are brief video sequences from music videos or animation clips to announce incoming calls.
exchange4media Staff Sep 20, 2005 8:07 AM
Indiagames has appointed Samir Bangara as Senior Vice-President, heading corporate development for the company and business development for the Asia-Pacific operations. Bangara joins Indiagames from Ernst & Young, where he served as Vice-President in the Transaction Advisory Services Practice.
exchange4media Staff Sep 20, 2005 8:07 AM
Raj TV is engaging in a promotion campaign that promises goodies by the day, literally. In a ‘guess whose birthday it is’ contest, the channel is set to give away gifts to four winners each day, each of them winning a Videocon TV, a refrigerator and a walkman.
exchange4media Staff Sep 20, 2005 8:03 AM
Mobile marketing and content company Mobile2win has been chosen by the prestigious Stanford University as a case study on mobile marketing, thus recognising the accomplishments of the new economy company.
exchange4media Staff Sep 20, 2005 8:02 AM
PrimeOutdoors, a division of Primetime-IP Media Services (Pvt) Ltd., has retained the out-of-home advertising for UltraTech Cements. The win comes after a multi-agency pitch invited by the cement major.
exchange4media Staff Sep 20, 2005 7:57 AM
In a move to capitalise on the booming cartoon-based toys retail market, Funskool India has entered into an agreement with the Walt Disney Company to woo little girls with Disney’s Princess range of dolls and role-play sets.
exchange4media Staff Sep 20, 2005 7:56 AM
Bharti Tele-Ventures on Monday announced a tie-up with ICICI Bank and Visa to launch credit card on the mobile phone. The new service - mChq - will allow Airtel subscribers in Delhi and Mumbai to purchase goods for as low as Rs 50.
exchange4media Staff Sep 20, 2005 7:55 AM
UTV Toonz, the animation division of UTV Software Communications Ltd, has entered into yet another animation deal of $10 million with New York based BKN New Media Inc. With this deal, international toon house BKN will be outsourcing animation production to UTV Toonz.
exchange4media Staff Sep 20, 2005 7:54 AM
Maruti Udyog has gone in for massive restructuring of its marketing network to make the company more nimble and responsive to local/regional needs. Under the new structure, Maruti has cut down on overlapping functions and lines of authority and streamlined the entire structure to concentrate both responsibility and accountability in the hands of four zonal heads.
exchange4media Staff Sep 20, 2005 7:53 AM
HBO has swept the 57th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards with the most wins of any network once again – a glowing 27 Emmy wins for its highly-acclaimed HBO Original series and movies. The results were announced on Monday in Los Angeles.
exchange4media Staff Sep 20, 2005 7:52 AM
Janmat, a 24-hours views channel promoted by Sri Adhikari Brothers, is slated to go on air in early October. Names at the helms of affairs include Harish Gupta as Director, News, and Umesh Upadhyay, also Director, who will look after the day-to-day affairs of the channel.
exchange4media Staff Sep 20, 2005 7:51 AM
The diamond industry is set to see more action. Laxmi Diamond, owner of brands like Cygnus, is geared to make its presence felt and launch more brands by Diwali this year. For this, the company has signed on Carat Media as its media partner. The account size is currently in the vicinity of Rs 8-10 crore.
exchange4media Staff Sep 20, 2005 7:51 AM
Right now I am competing with myself, I am not competing with anyone else so I don’t know if I want to be the largest or I want to be the biggest or if I want to be the best. One thing I am very clear – whatever we do we will do great work. At the end of it I want Insight to be a happy challenging enthusiastic environment to be in.
exchange4media Staff Sep 20, 2005 12:00 AM
<p align=justify>“Frankly, it’s (the cola wars) not about attacking each other but just about keeping the cola industry alive. And consumers really wait for the battle. It’s not like they swing their choices, but they do enjoy the colas slug it out. And for sure, we haven’t become quiet, in fact, we are speaking more.”
exchange4media Staff Sep 20, 2005 12:00 AM
