Date-wise News

DHL, the world’s leading express and logistics company, has announced the appointment of Chandrashekhar Pitre as National Marketing Manager for India. He will be responsible for the entire spectrum of DHL Express’ marketing, advertising, promotional and communications activities in India. He succeeds Ramesh Natarajan, who will be moving to a new assignment within the DHL network to Malaysia as Deputy Country Manager in January. Pitre comes in from Development Credit Bank (DCB), where he was head of branch banking.

exchange4media Staff Dec 17, 2005 11:00 AM

Dr. Wilfried Aulbur has been named as DaimlerChrysler India’s new CEO and Managing Director. He will assume his new responsibility from January 1, 2006, taking over from Hans-Michael Huber who headed the Indian operations since April 1, 2002. Dr. Aulbur brings with him a wealth of international experience and extensive business exposure to a variety of functions and activities with the DaimlerChrysler world. Prior to his appointment at DaimlerChrysler India, he was Executive Assistant to the Head of Mercedes Car Group (2003 to 2005).

exchange4media Staff Dec 17, 2005 10:57 AM

Swayam Tiwari has joined Radio City as Regional Sales Manager from December 15. His last stint was with Dainik Bhaskar as Business Manager. He was handling Delhi-based consumer durables, automobiles and services clients like LG, Hyundai, Samsung, Maruti, Whirlpool among others. He worked with Dainik Bhaskar for close to four years. Before that he was Sales Manager with The Times of India for seven years. He has 11 years of experience in the sales field.

exchange4media Staff Dec 17, 2005 10:54 AM

The National Association of Television Programme Executives (NATPE), a global non-profit organisation dedicated to the creation, development and distribution of televised programming across platforms, has announced nominations to its Board of Directors for 2006.

exchange4media Staff Dec 17, 2005 8:46 AM

Electronics and media giants like Charter Communications, JVC, Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America Inc, NBC Universal, Samsung and Sun Microsystems have come together to form the High Definition Audio Video Network Alliance, which will tap the rapidly growing HD market and create standards-based design guidelines for secure High Definition AV networks.

exchange4media Staff Dec 17, 2005 8:45 AM

Japanese Consumer Electronics major Sanyo will enter the Indian market through a wholly-owned subsidiary. After dragging its feet over credit-related issues, the Japanese company has floated a 50:50 joint venture with BPL Limited to manufacture colour TVs, both under its own brand and under BPL’s.

exchange4media Staff Dec 17, 2005 8:44 AM

December 15 was an important date in the 117 year old history of Hindustan Lever in more ways than one. The first was the decison to appoint an expat CEO. It also marked the day that the home grown detergent brand Wheel became a Rs 1000 crore brand. This in effect makes it the largest detergent brand in India, and for a brand that has been around only since 1976, that is some achievement.

exchange4media Staff Dec 17, 2005 8:43 AM

The Andhra Pradesh Paper Mill’s stall was adjudged the best in terms of concept and design at the Paperex 2005 exhibition held in Delhi recently. The concept and design were by Maitri Advertising, while the stall execution was by Showspace.

exchange4media Staff Dec 17, 2005 8:42 AM

Global Broadcast News, a Television Eighteen group company today launched its fully-owned and operated general news channel, CNN-IBN. The channel will be available for cable & satellite television viewers across India starting today.

exchange4media Staff Dec 17, 2005 8:41 AM

Discovery Travel & Living has set its agenda to get viewers hooked on to the channel by providing them with a slew of new programmes on different specific genres. Come 2006, and the channel aims to be one of the preferred destinations on television.

exchange4media Staff Dec 17, 2005 8:40 AM

After spending nearly 13 years with Moving Pictures as Creative Head and Executive Producer, Nilendu Sen has decided to move on. He is all set to join Channel 7 as Creative Director.

exchange4media Staff Dec 17, 2005 8:19 AM

Amit Tripathi, Regional Manager, North, Zoom Television, has put in his papers and will be joining Zee News as National Sales Head shortly. He replaces Sanjay Dua, who recently joined the TV18 Group. Tripathi will report to Laxmi Goel, Director, Zee News Group and Vice-Chairman, Essel Group of Industries.

exchange4media Staff Dec 17, 2005 8:15 AM

FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp, has launched a region-wide viral marketing campaign across Europe, the United Arab Emirates and India. The campaign is designed at increasing brand awareness and promoting key FedEx brand attributes.

exchange4media Staff Dec 17, 2005 8:14 AM

Internet could be a perfect medium for marketers of mobile services to interact with a young, upwardly mobile, tech-savvy demographic as 47 per cent respondents indicated that they would be willing to pay for mobile content in a recent survey conducted by the Internet and Mobile Association of India and Cross Tab Marketing Services.

exchange4media Staff Dec 17, 2005 8:13 AM

In a sudden development, Colvyn Harris, CEO, JWT, on Thursday evening effected several top-level changes in the agency. M S Balaji, Senior VP and GM of JWT, Kolkata, will be moving to Bangalore to head Contract operations in the South. Raji Ramaswamy from JWT, Mumbai, will be taking charge of the Kolkata office as Senior VP.

exchange4media Staff Dec 17, 2005 8:12 AM

The National Marketing Summit organised by the All India Management Association brought forth the diverse and distinct marketing strategies being deployed to lure the new breed of consumers. The two-day seminar titled 'Chakravyuh aur Chakradhar' saw corporate heads brainstorming on the arduous task of winning and retaining customers.

exchange4media Staff Dec 17, 2005 8:11 AM

GroupM Media India is scaling up its expertise in the data analytics space by launching Meritus Analytics India in partnership with global consulting company, Covansys (India). Meritus is expected to commence operations on January 2, 2006, and will be headed by V. Balasubramanium, Head of GroupM’s ATG and Global Analytic Centre.

exchange4media Staff Dec 17, 2005 8:10 AM

<p align=justify>I believe clients love our honesty. We are simple people, who work hard and think hard for our clients. We want our clients to win, and in that is our success. They like the freshness that we bring, along with the flexibility to mould ourselves according to our clients needs. They like our thinking, they like our working process, which is collaborative. This has worked wonders for us in India and this will be the process around the world wherever possible.”

exchange4media Staff Dec 17, 2005 12:00 AM