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STAR Entertainment has decided to add content to Ajay Vidyasagar’s profile, who is currently looking after the emerging media business as EVP, New Media. He will now be Head of Content and New Media.

Noor Fathima Warsia Jan 11, 2007 9:57 AM

Nirula’s has recently appointed Sudipta Sen Gupta as Senior VP, Marketing and Sales. This new top-level appointment is in keeping with Nirula’s aggressive growth strategy to further expand across India. Sen Gupta’s previous stint was with Café Coffee Day, where she was for over five years as Senior General Manager.

exchange4media Staff Jan 11, 2007 9:49 AM

Those who loved Shah Rukh Khan delivering dialogues in his inimitable style in ‘Uyire’ (the Tamil dubbed version of Mani Ratnam’s ‘Dil Se’), will get love him saying a mouthful ‘Vanakkam, neengal parthukondu irupadhu ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’ (Welcome, you are watching ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’) courtesy Vijay TV.

Judy Franko Jan 11, 2007 9:48 AM

Mudra Group has appointed Ajit Menon as their Executive Vice-President and Head –Leadership Learning and Change (LLC). LLC is Mudra’s human resources team and is responsible for identifying, nurturing and growing talent.

exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Jan 11, 2007 9:45 AM

MSN India has recently appointed Satya Raghavan as Head - Consumer Marketing. This is a newly created role and Raghavan will be responsible for the marketing and PR of the brand portfolio of products. He will be reporting to Jaspreet Bindra, Country Head, MSN India and Windows Live.

exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Jan 11, 2007 9:44 AM

Fever FM, which will be launched in Mumbai on January 15, will be utilising all possible mediums to promote the FM channel’s message of ‘No Bullshit, Just Music’. In an exclusive chat with exchange4media, Sajjad Chunawala, Station Head, Fever FM, talks about the programming content of the channel and their various marketing initiatives.

exchange4media Staff Jan 11, 2007 9:42 AM

Apollo Tyres has signed up Mahesh Bhupathi and Radek Stepanek of the Czech Republic for the ATP and Gland Slam Tours of 2007. Previously, Apollo Tyres had supported the training expenses of Yuki Bhambri.

exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Jan 11, 2007 9:40 AM

Global Broadcast News Ltd, owners and operators of 24-hour English language news and current affairs channel CNN-IBN, is entering the capital market with an initial public offering of equity shares aggregating up to Rs.105 crore. The price band for the issue has been fixed at Rs 230 to Rs 250 per share.

exchange4media Staff Jan 11, 2007 9:06 AM

Vaishnavi Corporate Communications has rejigged its top management. The company has brought in Smarth Bali as Managing Director, while CEO Vishal Mehta will now take on the larger role of CEO of the entire Vaishnavi Group. He would continue to remain on the boards of Vaishnavi Corporate Communications and Vaishnavi Group.

exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Jan 11, 2007 9:04 AM

Animax, the premier youth animation channel from SPE Networks, and AXN have lined up an array of action-packed shows to engage the viewers throughout the year.

exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Jan 11, 2007 9:03 AM

Naren Kaimal and Amardeep Singh, formerly of Dentsu India, have been appointed as Executive Creative Directors with M&C Saatchi. While Kaimal has already joined the agency, Singh will be joining from January 15.

exchange4media Staff Jan 11, 2007 9:01 AM

Starcom MediaVest Group has launched a new agency. Called FutureWorks, the agency will handle all of Future Group’s media duties. Dinesh Rathore, who has been promoted, will head the agency as General Manager, India. FutureWorks will manage the media strategy and investment needs of all the companies and brands belonging to Future Group.

exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Jan 11, 2007 8:59 AM

Triton has begun the year on a good note. Triton Delhi has won the creative business for X-Pert dishwashing bar of Kanpur-based Gharti Industries. The account size is worth Rs 6 crore. Triton Ahmedabad has won the Bodyline menswear and accessories account pegged at Rs 5 crore.

exchange4media Staff Jan 11, 2007 8:57 AM

Be it STAR Entertainment or Group – 2007 has begun on an interesting note for STAR. Is there or isn’t there a change in STAR’s top management? While Sameer Nair has denied there’s any change in the top management and Peter Mukerjea has denied rumours of his exit from the Group, as per media reports STAR Hong Kong’s Sanjay Das has come to India as the Network’s COO.

Noor Fathima Warsia Jan 11, 2007 8:56 AM

Retail major Pantaloon is in talks with Miami-based Burger King for the latter’s India foray. Confirming the development, sources in the know said that both the firms had been talking on the matter for a while.

exchange4media Staff Jan 11, 2007 8:54 AM