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Ashish Chopra has joined Pyramid Saimira Group, which is into malls and multiplex construction, as Manager-Marketing, Delhi. Prior to this he was with Media Transasia India as Senior Manager, handling corporate sales. Chopra has 10 years of experience in print media, beginning his career with Hindustan Times as Senior Executive, Sales, looking after the Delhi and Chandigarh regions. Later, he moved to Tribune and Amar Ujala Publications to handle their corporate sales.

exchange4media Staff Jan 18, 2008 8:30 AM

Rahul Gambhir, after a three-year stint as Head of Red Bull Energy Drink for India, is all set to join Tommy Hilfiger as India Business Head. At Red Bull he spearheaded Marketing & Sales and growing the brand significantly to its current high levels. From a hardly known brand, today Red Bull has become the energy drink of choice for a fast growing segment of active adults. Gambhir has earlier worked with Madura Coats, Standard Chartered Bank and Johnson & Johnson.

exchange4media Staff Jan 18, 2008 8:29 AM

Canaan Partners, a global venture capital firm specializing in early-stage technology and life sciences companies, has appointed Harish Gandhi as Executive Director. His mandate is to strengthen and expand Canaan’s investments in the technology space. He moves from Bharti Airtel where he headed the VAS business and New Products Development team. He has also worked as VP, Business Strategy & Planning at Bharti Airtel where he was responsible for leading the 3G effort. Gandhi has also served as Director-Marketing & Technology at Nokia.

exchange4media Staff Jan 18, 2008 8:28 AM

Faisal Khan has joined Outlook Profit as Regional Head-North. Outlook Profit is a new magazine from the Outlook Group launching in February that will cater to serious stock market investors. Khan’s last stint was with Tribune as Branch Head for Delhi for four years. Khan has also worked in Indian Express, Delhi, for four years. After Indian Express, he moved to Outlook Group for three years as Assistant Manager where he handled split editions of Delhi and Mumbai. He has thirteen years of experience in Marketing and Sales of a range of products and services.

exchange4media Staff Jan 18, 2008 8:23 AM

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- "If anyone leaves here with just one thing, let it be this: Google is not starting an ad agency."

exchange4media Staff Jan 18, 2008 6:54 AM

BBC World, BBC’s international 24-hour news and information channel, will be hosting the third Spirit of Golf tournament on January 19, 2008 in Delhi. The channel has joined hands with the Ministry of Tourism for this tournament.

exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Jan 18, 2008 6:48 AM

Xerox India has unveiled a new logo and corporate identity, touted as the company’s most significant change in its brand identity in the last 40 years. Along with this change Xerox wants to move away from the copying image to a stronger technology platform with a vibrant, energetic and young look.

exchange4media Staff Jan 18, 2008 6:47 AM

In a bid to differentiate itself in a cluttered FM market like Chennai, Big FM has repositioned itself as a channel celebrating Tamilian’s pride. Besides integrating the new concept into all its offering, the FM channel would be celebrating ‘Tamilian's pride’ everyday, in every possible way.

exchange4media Chennai Bureau Jan 18, 2008 6:46 AM

This might not go down too well with the bosses, but according to a recent I-Cube report, a majority of Zapak’s registered user base of 3.2 million accessed the gaming site from offices, with an average 20 minutes spent every day gaming. Keeping this figure in mind, Zapak has announced the Corporate Gamer 2008 tournament targeting office gamers.

exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Jan 18, 2008 6:45 AM

The New Year has seen a spate of molestation cases, covered and debated on extensively in the media. Women all over India are a worried lot given the sharp rise in such cases. Given the sensitivity and immediacy of the issue, Network18’s Zubin Driver has launched a campaign against molestation, aptly called ‘Fight back’.

exchange4media Staff Jan 18, 2008 6:44 AM

Rohit Bansal has been elevated as COO of Independent News Service (INS), the holding company of India TV. The announcement was made today by India TV Chairman Rajat Sharma and MD Ritu Dhawan. Prior to his elevation, Bansal was Managing Editor handling integrated marketing.

exchange4media Staff Jan 18, 2008 6:43 AM

Sanju Saha has put in his papers as Executive Vice President-HR at Star News. He is still evaluating his options. Saha is currently serving out his notice period at Star News, which will end in the first week of February.

exchange4media Staff Jan 18, 2008 6:42 AM

RMG Connect has appointed Meera Sharath Chandra as President and National Creative Director. Chandra takes the reins at RMG Connect India on January 25, 2008. She has over 17 years’ prior experience at JWT and her last two years were as NCD for non-traditional services at Mudra Marketing.

exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Jan 18, 2008 6:41 AM

While India might not be known as a ‘sporty’ nation, the near religion status of cricket with an occasional detour towards hockey, football, tennis and F1, are reasons enough for companies to put in mega bucks into sports events. Following the success of movies like ‘Chak De! India’, and with the upcoming Commonwealth Games, etc, companies are putting in place their strategies to gain maximum brand mileage out of sports events.

exchange4media Staff Jan 18, 2008 6:40 AM

Media major NDTV has reported a 50 per cent hike in its Q3 FY08 net profit at Rs 10.57 crore as compared to Rs 7.06 crore for the corresponding period last fiscal. The company also reported standalone revenues of Rs 89.5 crore y-o-y, up 33 per cent against Rs 67.5 crore in the corresponding quarter of the last fiscal.

exchange4media Staff Jan 18, 2008 6:39 AM

Dipankar Chatterjee, who has put in his papers at Portland India as National Director, is joining JCDecaux India Street Furniture as COO. He will be reporting to Pramod Bhandula, Managing Director, JCDecaux India.

exchange4media Staff Jan 18, 2008 6:38 AM

While the three Forces chiefs might lament the fall in armed forces recruitments, India’s bravehearts got the two thumbs up from jury members and voters alike and declared the NDTV Indian of the Year. Dr Manmohan Singh, R K Pachauri, and Mukesh Ambani were among the other luminaries voted Indian of the Year under various categories.

exchange4media Staff Jan 18, 2008 6:37 AM

Outlook Profit, the new magazine from the Outlook Group targeted at investors, is slated for launch by February end. Priced at Rs 50, Outlook Profit is the third finance related magazine from the Group after Outlook Money and Business Outlook.

exchange4media Staff Jan 18, 2008 6:36 AM

"Our editors run their businesses without any commercial considerations. Let me give you an example. It came to me as a compliment from somebody the other day. On CNN IBN, our film 'Welcome' (a film we've taken a large bet on) was reviewed by Rajiv Masand, on his very popular show. Rajiv said, "The film is so bad that anyone who goes and sees it and enjoys it, I will personally pay for his psychiatric treatment." This was his line, on our own channel, about our own film. There is no influence on our editorial."

exchange4media Staff Jan 18, 2008 12:00 AM