Girish Agarwal, Director, Bhaskar Group has been declared the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year at an awards function in Mumbai. The Award symbolises entrepreneurial excellence in 125 cities in 40 countries. Agarwal won the Award in the IT, Communications and Entertainment category.
Sir Martin Sorrell has warned that Ofcom's junk food ad ban for children's TV could result in marketing budgets switching to the internet.
The International Olympic Committee said it has asked four contenders to submit proposals for its global marketing campaign. Havas Sport, Publicis Groupe's Leo Burnett and Saatchi & Saatchi and WPP Group's United made the cut following an evaluations of the IOC's proposal request issued in October.
The Earth Communications Office-India Association (ECO India) has announced the names of the three winners of the third annual nationwide Energy Conservation contest. The contest this year has been supported by exchange4media.com as the online partner and Kodak and Reliance Infocomm as the prize sponsors.
Khaitan electricals Ltd is foraying into the highly competitive retail space with the launch of Khaitan City and Khaitan Fantasy. The Khaitan City outlets will be open within a week’s time, while the Khaitan Fantasy will open by January 2007.
The film might be dealing with the age-old issue of widow remarriage, but the people behind Amitabh Bachchan, Rani Mukherjee starrer ‘Baabul’ are sparing no efforts to connect with today’s youth. The movie has tied up with Hungama and Mauj Telecom to launch online and mobile multiplayer games as part of the promotion initiative.
The call for entries for Spikes Awards 2007, stated to be the region’s most ‘Annoyingly Hard to Win’ creative awards, has begun. This time an interactive portal has been created dedicated to the Asian Advertising Awards to be held in Bali from April 25-27, 2007. Those interested in taking part can do so by visiting the portal, Mediaspikes.com.
MTV Networks had announced the launch of two of its brands – MTV and Nick – in Pakistan. While MTV is being launched through a licensing agreement with Indus Media Group (IMG), Nick would be distributed in Pakistan by ARY Digital Network.
Sangeeta Talwar, Executive Director-Marketing, who heads the branded business of Tata Tea, says that due to lifestyle changes more and more people are spending time out of home and tea is not exactly seen as a beverage on the move. This is the main area that Tata Tea wants to address by developing superior formats and value.
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has notified tariff order for commercial subscribers in CAS and non-CAS areas holding that the bouquets offered to this category should be subject to restrictions on maximum bouquet price in relation to sum of individual channel prices.
Dentsu India is launching a knowledge-series on consumer insight titled ‘What If…’ The initiative will be headed by Aiyana Gunjan, Director, Strategic Planning. The series will focus on emerging consumer trends, new market realities, changing behavioural patterns and new buying stimuli.
After launching stations in Bangalore, Jaipur and Hyderabad, Radio Mirchi is regrouping its management team in some of its stations with fresh appointments. It has recently appointed Mahesh Shetty and Sriram Kilambi as Station Directors of Chennai and Kolkata, respectively.
In the recent past, we saw D&AD take time out to speak to the Indian advertising industry. The importance of entries from India comes to fore once again with Clio Awards intensifying their initiatives here. Clio’s Executive Director, Ami Brophy, speaks on some of the plans for India.