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After serving for nine years at the helm, Rik Dovey will be succeeded by Jamie Davis. Davis is currently serving as the President of STAR China and the changes will be effective from 1 September 2005.

exchange4media Staff Aug 10, 2005 3:03 PM

Parle Bisleri Pvt Ltd, which owns one of the top-three packaged water brands in the country, has firmed up plans for a diversification into the fruit juice business. Parle Bisleri Pvt Ltd, which owns one of the top-three packaged water brands in the country, has firmed up plans for a diversification into the fruit juice business.

exchange4media Staff Aug 10, 2005 7:49 AM

The value of the Tata brand is expected to have gone up six times over the past eight years—from $1 billion in 1997 to $6 billion now. The latest round of brand-valuation exercise of the group is being conducted by Interbrand, an independent agency, using data available in public domain.

exchange4media Staff Aug 10, 2005 7:48 AM

The verdict is out and the speculation as to who will head Coke India is over. Atlanta has decided to bring in Atul Singh from China as its man in India. In a letter addressed to all Coca-Cola employees, the company’s Asia-Pacific Chief, Patrick T Siewert, has mentioned that Singh will be the new President of the India Division for Coca-Cola with effect from September 1.

exchange4media Staff Aug 10, 2005 7:47 AM

Raj TV seems to have a discovered an event genre to capture eyeballs – felicitations for the creative czars of Tamil filmdom. Following its events to honour veteran director K Balachander and singer T M Soundararajan, it will now organise a show to felicitate Tamil poet and veteran lyricist Vaali.

exchange4media Staff Aug 10, 2005 7:46 AM

After ‘Hum Tum’, and more recently, ‘Mangal Pandey-The Rising’, Radio Mirchi is all set to greet the world with ‘Salaam Namaste’. The station has got the rights to promote the flick for a period of 15 days.

exchange4media Staff Aug 10, 2005 7:45 AM

The Internet and Online Association (IOA) has released its latest research on e-commerce trends in India, particularly the e-ticketing segment. The research was conducted along with Cross Tab Marketing Services, a pioneer in the field on ‘Online Research’.

exchange4media Staff Aug 10, 2005 7:44 AM

Monsoon seems to be the right time for Umbrella. The Mumbai-based creative hot shop has recently acquired the image design and corporate identity business of the Kalyani Group.

exchange4media Staff Aug 10, 2005 7:43 AM

Having realised the potential of the web, online editions of newspapers are trying to identify a niche in cyberspace. But their financial viability is still a matter of debate.

exchange4media Staff Aug 10, 2005 7:42 AM

DNA has added yet another senior journalist to its team in Mumbai. This time it is Venkat B Rao, Executive Editor of ‘Today’, the afternoon newspaper from the India Today Group.

exchange4media Staff Aug 10, 2005 7:41 AM

After putting its sales structure in place, the content team of STAR India has got a facelift now. Deepak Segal continues to be the Network Content Head, but now, instead of all channel heads of the network reporting to him, a second rung has been created consisting of Shailja Kejriwal as Senior Creative Director and Harsh Rohatgi as General Manager, Content.

exchange4media Staff Aug 10, 2005 7:40 AM

Orissa Tourism is set to join the aggressive tourism promotion bandwagon that seems to be in vogue off late among various states. A high powered committee is going through presentations from a shortlist of agencies in Bhubaneswar this week.

exchange4media Staff Aug 10, 2005 7:39 AM

JWT and Maxus have won the GE Money and SBI Cards advertising account, according to the official spokesperson of GE Money. The account is worth Rs 15-20 crore. The incumbent agencies were Grey Worldwide and Mediacom.

exchange4media Staff Aug 10, 2005 7:38 AM