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General Motors India has appointed Ankush Arora as Vice-President-Sales, Marketing & Aftersales. Arora will replace Amit Dutta, who has been transferred to GM Japan as Director, Marketing. Arora will take charge from January 1, 2006.

exchange4media Staff Nov 30, 2005 5:51 PM

Michelin India has appointed TBWA India as its creative agency following a comprehensive selection process. The size of business is pegged at around Rs 6 crore. The French tyre company had recently tied up with Apollo Tyres to manufacture bus and truck radial tyres.

exchange4media Staff Nov 30, 2005 4:36 PM

Everest Brand Solutions has bagged the creative duties of JK Tyres’ radial truck tyres following a multi-agency pitch. The account size is pegged at around Rs 10 crore.

exchange4media Staff Nov 30, 2005 3:06 PM

Even as large FMCG companies consolidate their portfolio by focusing on a handful of “power” brands, small regional companies are flooding retail shelves across the country with their brands.

exchange4media Staff Nov 30, 2005 7:58 AM

Like several other low-cost airlines, A-I Express has decided to sell space on its aircraft exteriors and interiors to raise additional revenues. It has signed up with the Mumbai-based Network Media Solutions, an advertisement concessionaire, for the project.

exchange4media Staff Nov 30, 2005 7:56 AM

Designed to connect people and build local communities, Kijiji is now available in India. Kijiji is a new online classifieds-style website that allows local communities to meet, help one another and interact in various areas, such as real estate, jobs, community, etc

exchange4media Staff Nov 30, 2005 7:54 AM

StarSight, an affiliate of Starcom, has been roped in to handle the outdoor business of travel website MakeMyTrip.com. The website is doing some outdoor campaigns around the domestic airport in Delhi, for which they wanted to focus on the lowest airfare guarantee logo, designed by Leo Burnett.

exchange4media Staff Nov 30, 2005 7:52 AM

Online travel business is growing in more ways than mere ticket sales. Having registered over 40,000 members in its first 18 months with its ‘structured approach to w-o-m (word of mouth)’ in the travel space, IndiaResortsSurvey.com is looking to touch the 15 lakh-member mark in the next 24 months.

exchange4media Staff Nov 30, 2005 7:51 AM

STAR Gold has lined up an exciting range of movies for viewers in December. This is one of the initiatives that the channel has taken to end the year with a big bang. Starting December 10, Super Six will feature Bollywood hits like ‘Main Hoon Na’, ‘Black’, ‘Ab Tak Chhappan’, ‘Kya Kool Hain Hum’, and ‘Hera Pheri’ among others.

exchange4media Staff Nov 30, 2005 7:50 AM

The WPP group agency, Rediffusion DY&R, is floating a division in the area of design consultancy. The agency has already appointed Mr Tejinder Singh as the creative director of its newly-formed design unit, and intends appointing a business head as well.

exchange4media Staff Nov 30, 2005 7:49 AM

B Surender has left Indian Express as its GM, Sales & Marketing, North India, to join Red FM as its National Sales Head. He will be joining in his new position in the first week of December.

exchange4media Staff Nov 30, 2005 7:48 AM

Devapriya Mohanty (popularly known as Deboo), Business Director, Maxus Delhi, is moving to MindShare, Vietnam as Business Director with effect from December 1. The move is the latest in the many transfers of GroupM India staff to key assignments in the region.

exchange4media Staff Nov 30, 2005 7:46 AM

Business and academia come together in a remarkable partnership as John Goodman, CEO, India and South Asia, and Kunal Sinha, Executive Director, Discovery, at O&M, India collaborate with Harvard Business School’s Professor John Quelch on a paper on ‘Marketing to India’s Underserved’.

exchange4media Staff Nov 30, 2005 7:44 AM

Triton Communications’ Executive Director, Jayesh Ravindranath, has called it a day at the agency after two and a half years. He now moves on to the other important domain of market – marketing. He will be joining the largest Dubai-based retail chain, Landmark, as Head of Marketing and will be based in Dubai.

exchange4media Staff Nov 30, 2005 7:43 AM

By receiving over 125 million registration calls, ‘KBC 2’ has already created a record of sorts. What is more interesting, however, is the pan India mixture of the people who have called, where the smaller towns see more volume than the metros.

exchange4media Staff Nov 30, 2005 7:42 AM

Mudra has emerged as ‘Agency of the Year’ with a four-gold, two-silver and one-bronze tally at the annual Cochin Ad Club Creative Awards 2005. TBWA won two each of gold, silver and bronze, while Stark Communications won one gold, two silvers and a bronze.

exchange4media Staff Nov 30, 2005 7:41 AM

TRAI has allowed cable operators and Multi System Operators to raise the tariff by an additional 4 per cent over the ceiling cable charges to give effect to inflation adjustment from January 1, 2006.

exchange4media Staff Nov 30, 2005 7:41 AM

The wily Jagmohan Dalmiya has finally been humbled. Maratha strongman Sharad Pawar is the new BCCI boss. Logically speaking, Dalmiya is a common enemy of both Pawar and Zee’s Subhash Chandra. Reopening the messy cricket rights issue is perhaps the best way to drive home a point.

exchange4media Staff Nov 30, 2005 7:40 AM

Hyundai Motor India offices are abuzz with action. The auto major is shopping for an agency to take care of its media duties and a decision on the same is expected in a week to 10 days’ time. The account is pegged in the region of Rs 50 crore.

exchange4media Staff Nov 30, 2005 7:39 AM