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Rajan Wahi, CEO, MAD Films, has put in his papers after a six-year stint. Wahi now plans to roll out his own production house. At MAD Films, he used to look after the management and marketing of the entire ad films business. The production house has also ventured into movie making. Tere Naam, Salaam E Ishq, and Chini Kam are a few Bollywood films that MAD has produced.
exchange4media Staff Mar 31, 2007 12:24 PM
Devendra Garg, Executive VP – Marketing, Consumer Care Division, Dabur, is now heading the Dabur Ayurveda division. In his earlier role he used to report to VS Sitaram, Executive Director, Consumer Care Division. He will now report to Sunil Duggal, CEO, Dabur. Vikas Mittal has joined as VP - Personal Care to fill the position left vacant by Garg.
exchange4media Staff Mar 31, 2007 12:22 PM
Anees Cementwala, who was Head of Design at Times Entertainment, has called it quits. He is moving to Aditya Birla Group's retail venture to head its in-house design cell. This will be Cementwala’s fourth start-up in his 11-year career. He has previously set up Marico's in-house Design and Packaging Dept. At Times Entertainment, he initially set up Times Music and then went on to work for other Times Group brands like The Economic Times, Zoom TV, Times Multimedia, where he worked in the print medium. He has designed special packaging for music albums, music merchandise, POS, collaterals, events, below the line, expos, etc.
exchange4media Staff Mar 31, 2007 12:19 PM
It's official: Johnson & Johnson has put its $3 billion global media-buying and -planning account into review. A global media review has been anticipated since J&J began the $16.6 billion acquisition of Pfizer's over-the counter drug and personal-care business in October 2006.
exchange4media Staff Mar 31, 2007 9:56 AM
How would you like to advertise in professionally created video content, available online with massive scale and reach?
exchange4media Staff Mar 31, 2007 9:55 AM
With a new CEO in place, PepsiCo India Holdings Private Ltd is on an expansion spree. It has identified three major focus areas — juices, milk-based nutritional foods and value-added variants to the water category.
exchange4media Staff Mar 31, 2007 9:54 AM
The online travel community site will provide travel enthusiasts the best places for sharing travel experiences, get unbiased travel advice about travel in India, and more.
exchange4media Staff Mar 31, 2007 9:53 AM
Just Dial Services has announced the launch of India’s first cutting edge local search engine — www.justdial.com. The website provides users access to any local information across leading cities and multiple categories, with extremely relevant search results instantly. Just Dial receives approximately 26 million phone calls a year.
exchange4media Staff Mar 31, 2007 9:52 AM
HBO and Star Movies have announced their lineup of films for April. With the mini-series ‘The Triangle’ and ‘Lost’ to be aired on Star Movies, it would be some tough competition for the channels.
exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Mar 31, 2007 9:52 AM
MTV has launched a new show in its morning slot of 7 am to 11 am. ‘MTV Kick Ass Morning’ will focus on Health, Horoscope, Humour and Hits.
Tasneem Limbdiwala Mar 31, 2007 9:51 AM
CNN International has launched ‘The Screening Room’, which looks at the world of international cinema. The monthly show will also travel to essential film festivals — Los Angeles, London, Tokyo, Tribeca, Sydney and Sundance.
exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Mar 31, 2007 9:50 AM
Amway India Enterprises has announced the appointment of Hanmer & Partners to partner the company in its national communication objectives. The agency will work closely in creating a national image campaign.
exchange4media Staff Mar 31, 2007 9:49 AM
Nayyar has won over a dozen international awards in the last two years. Most notable among them was being a Film Finalist at Cannes last year for his film for The Cancer Patients Aid Association.
exchange4media Staff Mar 31, 2007 9:48 AM
TDSAT has directed a South Delhi-based cable operator to clear a huge outstanding of Rs 1.55 crore towards Zee Turner Limited, along with the interest of 10 per cent per annum. The operator had defaulted to pay the agreed subscription charges to Zee Turner.
exchange4media Staff Mar 31, 2007 9:47 AM
GoaFest 2007 has seen a huge number of entries with more than a 100 advertising agencies across the country sending in more than 3,000 entries for the two-day advertising festival to be held in Goa on April 20 and 21 this year.
exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Mar 31, 2007 9:47 AM
"We are very interested in India, otherwise we wouldn't be here. India is a complex country with various religions and languages. Entering Indian market primarily requires finding a very good partner who has some local knowledge and understands each market. Given the additional complexities in India, I think we have to go in with a partner."
exchange4media Staff Mar 31, 2007 12:00 AM
