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Balaji Telefilms is entering ad films and corporate films production. It has hired Kalpana Ravi to look after this venture.

exchange4media Mumbai Bureau May 15, 2006 3:45 PM

Concerned over a downslide in sales and profitability, Coca-Cola today said it was reworking its marketing and distribution strategy in India along with a higher provisioning for aggressive advertising to reverse the trends.

exchange4media Staff May 15, 2006 7:51 AM

Addressing reporters here after opening the country’s first sport performance centre in Bangalore, Andreas Gellner, managing director adidas India, said the company was looking at opening 90 to 100 smaller format SPCs as well, targeting small and medium towns.

exchange4media Staff May 15, 2006 7:49 AM

Reckitt Benckiser is taking a relook at its Dettol portfolio in a bid to get a larger play in the consumers' everyday life. The FMCG major is planning the brand's extension into new product categories in the beauty and health space. Simultaneously, the company is set to relaunch many of its low-key products within the Dettol umbrella.

exchange4media Staff May 15, 2006 7:48 AM

Mobile handsets have overtaken bicycles as the number one consumer product across the country pushing bicycles to the number two spot.

exchange4media Staff May 15, 2006 7:47 AM

Diamond Group of Publications’ new venture Diamond Junior, in collaboration with Percept Picture Company, has come up with a comic version of the animated movie ‘Hanuman’.

exchange4media Staff May 15, 2006 7:46 AM

Hindi daily ‘Hamara Mahanagar’, which was taken over by newly-formed media company Mahanagar Media Network and was relaunched in August 2005, has appointed Diana Gabriel as Business Head to streamline operations. It will also launch an Urdu daily, ‘Urdu Mahanagar’.

exchange4media Mumbai Bureau May 15, 2006 7:45 AM

Whistling Woods International, the dream film education project of Subhash Ghai, CMD, Mukta Arts Ltd., will commence its first academic year in July 2006. Located in Mumbai, the institute will be headed by Kurt Inderbitzin, a producer-director from Los Angeles.

exchange4media Staff May 15, 2006 7:43 AM

Google has launched a host of new tools including an improved version of Google Desktop. Three other products launched at Google Labs are Google Co-op, Google Notebook and Google Trends.

exchange4media Staff May 15, 2006 7:42 AM

Enthused by the success of ‘Pehal’ on Zee News, Laxmi Goel has taken the initiative to compile select episodes of the programme in his book, ‘Pehal’.

exchange4media Staff May 15, 2006 7:41 AM

Ashok Narain, EVP - HR, PepsiCo, has resigned, to set up Corporate Management Group, a Leadership Search and Talent Management firm, with Rajeev Thakur of New Delhi-based Executive Search firm Grassik Consultants.

exchange4media Staff May 15, 2006 7:39 AM

JWT Delhi has bagged the creative duties of Glaxo Smith Kline brand Iodex. Sources peg the account size at between Rs 5-8 crore. The incumbent agency was Bates Enterprise, Delhi.

exchange4media Staff May 15, 2006 7:38 AM

Final year students from top B-Schools have said that Infosys honcho N R Narayana Murthy is their ‘Most Admired Business Leader’. The fifth annual B-school survey conducted by Brand-comm also finds that Tata is the ‘Most Admired Corporate Brand’.

exchange4media Chennai Bureau May 15, 2006 7:37 AM

Thirty-two Indian entries were in the running for pencils at One Show 2006. Five of them have gone on to win metals, but the Gold still proved elusive for Indian agencies this year. O&M has won three metals (One Silver), while Everest (Silver) and Rediffusion (Bronze) won one each.

exchange4media Chennai Bureau May 15, 2006 7:35 AM

In an interesting turn of events, Association of Radio Operators of India has asked the government to allow FM radio players with multiple stations to have a common frequency in all cities that they operate in.

exchange4media Staff May 15, 2006 7:34 AM

When Sahara One had announced its decision to don a new look and enhance the on-air feel, COO Purnendu Bose promised that at least four new shows would have had released by June 2006.He has kept his word.

Noor Fathima Warsia May 15, 2006 7:33 AM