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Timex Group India Ltd (TGIL) has appointed Gopalratnam Kannan as President. He will be reporting to Kapil Kapoor, MD, TGIL. Kannan brings with him more than 18 years' experience in the watch industry, wherein he has worked for Swatch Group India and Titan Industries Ltd. Prior to joining Timex as Country Manager - India for the Swatch Group, Kannan was responsible for all India operations for brands like Omega, Longines, Rado, Blancpain, Tissot and Swatch. As President of Timex Group, Kannan will be heading the sales and marketing operations and all support functions, including finance and HR.

e4m Desk Oct 25, 2008 1:55 PM

Lifestyle International Pvt Ltd, part of the Dubai-based Landmark Group, has appointed PVK Sundaram as Director - Group Finance. Sundaram has worked in a variety of industries, including manufacturing, retail, financial services and management consultancy. He also has specific experience in all aspects of finance, accountancy, taxation, legal secretarial, human resources and business strategising. Sundaram has 28 years’ experience in companies such as AF Ferguson & Co, SRF Ltd, Samtel Ltd, RPG Group and the BPL Group. He has spent the last five years as Director - Finance with the BPL Group.

e4m Desk Oct 25, 2008 1:54 PM

Wadhawan Food Retail Pvt Ltd (WFRL) has announced the appointment of Rajan Bhalla as Chief Marketing Officer and Pradeep Chechani as Vice- President for Supply Chain. Both would be reporting to Ashok Bhasin, Managing Director, Wadhawan Food Retail. In his new role, Bhalla will be responsible for marketing for all brands and formats under the WFRL umbrella, including Spinach, Sabka Bazaar and Smart. He had earlier worked with McCann, Contract, Whirlpool, PepsiCo and HT Media Ltd. Chechani moves from RPG Group - Spencers Retail. He had earlier been associated with Pantaloon Retail, Steve & Barrys, USA, and Kamal Osman Jamjoom Est, Middle East.

e4m Desk Oct 25, 2008 1:53 PM

Bharti Airtel has appointed Sunil Tandon as Chief Operating Officer of its mobile services in the Maharashtra and Goa circle from October 2008. Prior to this, Tandon was Head - Devices and International Roaming at Bharti Airtel in Delhi. He has been associated with the telecom service provider since August 2003 and has had a multi-faceted exposure in mobile services marketing.

e4m Desk Oct 25, 2008 1:51 PM

Sheetal Mehra has joined Radio City as National Sales Head – Activations. She will be reporting to Ashit Kukian, Executive Vice President and National Head – Sales, Radio City and will be responsible for spearheading Radio City Connect's national team of over 35 professionals. Mishra has over 14 years of rich domain experience in sales, seven of which have been in media spanning print, radio and television. Her previous assignments include working with brands like Mid-Day, Indian Express, Zee TV and Star India, among others.

e4m Desk Oct 25, 2008 1:50 PM

Manish Ajgaonkar has joined Contract as Creative Director, where he will be reporting to Raj Nair, Senior Vice President and Executive Creative Director. He moves from Percept, where he was Creative Director. On Ajgaonkar’s appointment, Raj Nair said, “Manish is a seasoned ideas person, having worked on big brands and developed award winning ideas for the same. He will considerably strengthen our creative team with his contributions and inspire the younger lot.” Prior to joining Percept in August 2005, Ajgaonkar had worked with agencies like JWT, Ambience Publicis, Enterprise Nexus, Saatchi & Saatchi, and SSC&B Lintas in a career spanning over 11 years.

e4m Desk Oct 25, 2008 1:49 PM

Having sleepless nights over why your partner stood you up last Saturday for his ‘all smelly and all loser’ college mates? Or about that whiff of perfume that you vaguely smelt when both of you went for that long drive? Radio One’s ‘Detective Fataafat’ will find out the truth.

exchange4media Bangalore Bureau Oct 25, 2008 8:13 AM

TDSAT has pulled up Ushodaya Enterprises, owner of ETV Network, for not giving signals to a multi-system operator and has asked it to contribute Rs 50,000 to the Prime Minister’s Relief Fund. The judgement was in response to a petition filed by Ortel Communication.

e4m Desk Oct 25, 2008 8:13 AM

Idea Cellular’s tagline ‘What an Idea, Sirji’ and its signature ringtone have been woven into the plot of the forthcoming Sanjay Dutt-starrer ‘EMI’. The mobile service provider has tied up with Popcorn Motion Pictures and Balaji Motion Pictures for this strategic in-film integration initiative.

e4m Desk Oct 25, 2008 8:12 AM

Online community portal Rediff.com has gone live with third party applications on its video and music platform, Rediff iShare. With the addition of these new applications, Rediff iShare has now become a platform that can support any application that is compatible with the Facebook Markup Language.

exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Oct 25, 2008 8:11 AM

Zapak Digital Entertainment Ltd, a Reliance ADA Group venture, is going global. The online gaming company has launched Zapakworld.com in Kiev, Ukraine. This initiative marks the company’s entry in the international market.

exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Oct 25, 2008 8:10 AM

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has launched its first-ever community radio in collaboration with Society for Development Alternatives, an NGO, on October 23 at Taragram, Orchha in Bundelkhand region of Madhya Pradesh. Thirty-four NGOs have so far got MIB’s permission to set up and operate community radio stations in India.

e4m Desk Oct 25, 2008 8:09 AM

Zee News Ltd has reported a 104.4 per cent jump in its consolidated net profit to Rs 11.47 crore for the quarter ended September 30, 2008. Consolidated Q2 revenues stood at Rs 127.7 crore, a growth of 60 per cent over the corresponding quarter last fiscal.

e4m Desk Oct 25, 2008 8:08 AM

Enfatico, the Dell-focused shop being formed by WPP, has made some senior management changes to further strengthen its leadership team. Jeffrey Wilks has been promoted to Chief Operating Officer, while Harish Vasudevan has been promoted to Managing Director for Asia Pacific.

exchange4media Bangalore Bureau Oct 25, 2008 8:08 AM

Superstar Business Solutions, which was set up by Abhijit Pradhan recently, is partnering with Rediffusion Y&R on its group wide change management initiative. Superstar Business Solutions proposes to do this by exploring new management interventions like Executive Coaching to support high performers and potential leaders.

exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Oct 25, 2008 8:07 AM

MTV has set up a new team and division, CAT (Celebrity Content, Acquisitions and Talent), which aims to leverage the channel’s existing celebrity and industry relationships to newer heights. The focus would be to make MTV a single destination for all celebrities and talent, and not just a Bollywood and Pop platform.

exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Oct 25, 2008 8:06 AM

Lintas Media Group (LMG) has launched the Strategic Allocation Model (SAM), a tool to aid media budget decisions. SAM fills the gap in the industry in the area of budget allocation, besides supplementing LMG’s strong bouquet of media tools.

exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Oct 25, 2008 8:05 AM

Taking forward the 'Big' proposition, Reliance ADAG has rebranded its Adlabs Films' cinema chain as Big Cinemas. Starting October 28, Big Cinemas would be leveraged across its 73 properties with the tagline 'Ab Bada Mazza Ayega'. An ad campaign, conceptualised by McCann Erickson, will break on the same day to support the rebranding exercise.

e4m Desk Oct 25, 2008 8:04 AM

I believe differentiation exists and the listener is able to understand and recognise which station he is listening to. Very soon, you will find radio players differentiating and going into profitable niches and it would be an ongoing process. The top three players will make 77 per cent of the money, while the other players would be forced to find other niches where they can be profitable. But these are still early days.

e4m Desk Oct 25, 2008 12:00 AM