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NEW: AdAsia 05 – Day 3: Agencies must shift from being creative suppliers to solutions providers, says FCB-Ulka’s Anil Kapoor
FCB-Ulka’s MD & CEO, Anil Kapoor, calls upon ad agencies to shift to a new paradigm in the way they perceive themselves: agencies should be strategic partners of their clients and play a brand architect’s role, to get out of the destructive cycle the industry is in.
NEW: AdAsia 05 – Day 3: Becoming a global brand the Samsung way – Create the future
SINGAPORE: As the focus shifted to ‘Asia to the World’ on Day 3 of AdAsia 05 here, Samsung became the case study of a great Asian success in ‘Rising to the global challenge’. How did this South Korean conglomerate achieve the position of a global brand?
NEW: AdAsia – Day 3: Can Asian brands rule the world?
SINGAPORE: There are great brands, global brands emerging from Asia. But can they rule the world in a highly competitive market place? Paul Temporal, Group Managing Director, Temporal Brand Consulting, Singapore, thinks they can in certain categories like automobiles, but will find it difficult in the luxury products segment.
NEW: AdAsia 05 – Day 2: Print in danger? Says who, asks Bhaskar Das and wins a fan following
If there is one session that will be remembered by delegates at this year’s AdAsia, it will be today’s last sitting on ‘Beyond Print: Lessons from Genghis Khan’. Bhaskar Das, Executive President, Bennett, Coleman & Co Ltd, literally sprang to the defence of the print media with a fusillade of interesting insights.
NEW: AdAsia 05 – Day 2: ‘Marketing an Asian Brand to Asia’, Channel News Asia shows the way
SINGAPORE: ‘Winning in Asia’ is the theme of the ongoing AdAsia here. In keeping with that, the Channel News Asia experience was taken up as a case study for ‘Marketing an Asian Brand to Asia’ today.
NEW: AdAsia 05 - Day 2: Some insights into marketing low-cost airlines
SINGAPORE: The second day of AdAsia 05 here took off smoothly with a lively discussion on whether marketing can make a difference to low-cost airlines. Holding stage was the Richard Branson of Asia – Tony Fernandes, Group CEO, Air Asia, Malaysia – and Ken Ryan, CEO of Singapore-headquartered Jetstar Asia
AdAsia 05 - Day 2: Sri Lanka makes a strong bid, but Pakistan will host AdAsia 2009 in Lahore
This was the talking point right through the day at the Convention Centre at Suntec City: who will win the bid to host AdAsia 2009 – Lahore or Colombo? The buzz was that Pakistan has romped home.
NEW: AdAsia 05 – Day 1: No Neil French as WPP bosses tell him to shut up; but Ogilvy’s Tham takes a peep into creative irreverence
AdAsia 05 kicked off on Monday minus one star speaker – Neil French, WPP’s celebrated Global Creative Director, who has now put in his papers and is serving his notice period. Sexism may not have been on his mind when he spoke to an audience in Toronto last month, but his outspoken remarks about women appears to have made WPP bosses see red and ask him not to speak at the ongoing event.
NEW: AdAsia 05 – Day 1: Singapore sets the theme for ‘winning in Asia’
SINGAPORE: The three-day AdAsia 05 kicked off on Monday morning at the impressive and gargantuan Suntec City Convention Centre here with Dr Lee Boon Yang, Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts, calling for the 1,000-strong gathering to “discuss strategies and ideas on winning in Asia”.
ADASIA 2005 all set to make its mark again with new strategies for a changing Asia
ADASIA 2005, the biennial event that sees Asian markets hosting one of the strongest B2B events, is all set to debut on November 20, 2005 with the inaugural dinner. The event, spanning from November 20 to 23, 2005 has been organised at Suntec City in Singapore this year and the biggest delegation is from India, with over 150 attendees.
Indiatimes mulling IPO; claims to be way ahead of Rediff
Indiatimes, the Internet arm of media behemoth Bennett, Coleman & Co Ltd, is mulling to explore the capital market after diluting close to 6 per cent of its stake to WestBridge Capital. “We will go for an IPO when we will be sizable enough to be attractive to investors,” reveals Mahendra Swarup, CEO, Indiatimes, exclusively to exchange4media.
HT Media sees Rs 731 high, Rs 557 low on debut
HT Media on Thursday debuted at Rs 685 on the Bombay Stock Exchange and hit an intra-day high of Rs 731 before closing at Rs 557.67, a 5.22 per cent premium over its issue price.
Media stocks enter prime time
Media sector stocks hogged the limelight on renewed buying interest after the government allowed FDI/ FII investment upto 20 per cent in private FM radio firms. Smart gains in the stocks of private FM players such as Mid-Day Multimedia and TV Today rubbed off on the entire media stocks.
Television channels beat movie houses, content providers
Stocks of television channels, including NDTV and TV18, have performed better on the bourses than some of their moviemaking counterparts such as Balaji Telefilms, Padmalaya Telefilms and campaign Ltd.
CyberMedia stock does well on BSE and NSE
CyberMedia(BSE:532640/NSE:CYBERMEDIA) listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange on Friday at Rs 106 as against its offer price of Rs 60. The CyberMedia stock on NSE touched a high of Rs. 109.30 on Friday.
Vishal Mega Mart to float Rs 50-crore IPO to fund expansion
Vishal Mega Mart, a leading player in hyper-market, will launch a Rs 50-crore IPO by the yearend to fund its expansion plan.
UTV Software's IPO price-band fixed at Rs 115-130
UTV Software Communications Ltd. (UTV), an Integrated Media and Entertainment Company, has fixed the price band at Rs 115-130 for its public issue of 6,999,950 equity shares of Rs.10 each through a 100 per cent book building process to part finance its expansion plans.
Durables stocks a big hit in August
The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) consumer durables sector index has outperformed all other sectoral indices in August by a huge margin. The consumer durables index has gained almost 15 per cent while the benchmark BSE Sensex managed to end just 0.42 per cent higher from 5170.32 on July 30 to 5192.08 on August 31.
Consumer durable stocks perk up in July, Aug on monsoon revival
Revival of monsoon has brought cheer back to consumer durable stocks. Stocks like Titan Industries, Videocon, Blue Star, BPL and Samtel Color have shot up 18-58 per cent in the past two months after remaining flat in June.
HLL displaced from top 3 in market cap
Fast moving consumer goods major Hindustan Lever Ltd (HLL) has been displaced from the Big Three Club in terms of market capitalisation (m-cap). HLL has slipped to the eighth slot from third position a year ago.
Zee Tele goes up anticipating better performance
Media company, Zee Telefilms was in the limelight gaining nearly 4 per cent on renewed buying. The stock continued its recent gains on back of strong volumes which accounted for more than 14.4 lakh shares on the BSE.
NDTV eases after promising debut on bourses
NDTV had a fabulous debut on the bourses yesterday. The scrip got listed at a premium of 44.29 per cent to the final offer price of Rs 70.
TV18 to raise Rs 500 mn, appraises BSE of roadmap
TV Eighteen has decided to raise up to Rs 500 million for funding its expansion. It plans to raise this amount through rights issue, preferential issue, private placement of equity, preference shares and/ or debt.
Balaji Telefilms announces change in Directorate
As per the company’s notice to the stock exchange, Pradeep Sarda has been appointed as Additional Director to hold office up to the next AGM of the company.
Media stocks crash with index, NDTV to debut on Wednesday
Surprisingly, Zee Telefilms was the only stock that bounced back from a low of Rs 102 to Rs 125 in an otherwise southbound market in the intra-day trades. It finally settled at Rs 120.65, up 6.44 per cent over its previous close.