Earlier this year, Hutchison Essar Ltd had completed the acquisition of BPL Mobile Cellular Ltd, and now it has moved the latter’s media and creative businesses to Maxus and O&M, respectively, as these two are Hutch’s existing agencies. While Carat was handling BPL’s media account, the creative duties were with TBWA.
Justice Vikramjit Sen of the Delhi High Court on Friday morning pronounced a landmark judgement quashing the July 10, 2004 notification of the Government of India, which had abandoned the implementation of CAS (conditional access system) in South Delhi.
Shaadi.com has secured an investment of $8 million from India’s largest and most active venture capital fund, WestBridge Capital Partners. Sandeep Singhal, Managing Director, and Sumir Chadha, Senior Managing Director, at WestBridge will join the board of the company as a part of this deal.
Some of the oldest specialised consumer electronics and appliances makers in India, like Godrej Appliances, Mirc Electronics, Whirlpool and Philips, have begun addressing growth concerns.
The fairer sex might have to make way for the handsome man. Health, fitness and beauty brand VLCC has unveiled the VLCC Fuel for Men, grooming range for men. With an eye on the Rs 7.5 billion male personal care market in India, VLCC seeks to capture the essence of being a man in today’s world with a range comprising a face wash, after shave balm, shaving gel, hair cleanser and hair styling gel.
Travel enthusiasts now have another option. Sahara India Pariwar, which was working on this concept for the last 15 months, on Thursday launched their travel and tourism company, called Sahara Global, in the Capital. Commercial operations are expected to commence by the end of this month.
Toyota Kirloskar Motor has launched the 6th generation Camry in India after its global debut in Detroit and Japan early this year. The new Camry is priced at Rs 19.83 lakh and Rs 21.45 lakh for two variant models. The two models are expensive by nearly Rs 2 lakh than the previous models.
Kolkata TV, the 24-hour dedicated Bengali news channel from SST Media Pvt Ltd, a part of the Kolkata-based Xenitis Group, will be officially launched on March 27. This was confirmed by the Editor of the channel, Sumon Chattopadhyay, in Kolkata on Thursday.
Barely a month after announcing adding business worth Rs 25 crore to its kitty, Carat Media has added business worth Rs 28 crore more to its total billings, taking the new business count in 2006 so far to Rs 53 crore. The new string of wins come from a cross section of categories comprising Luxottica, 3G and Tulip and Escorts Tractors.
Reckitt Benckiser is in the process of reviewing its global creative account, which is pegged at $680 million. The company has operations in 60 countries, sales in 180 countries and has net revenues in excess of $5.19 billion. The global creative business is currently serviced by JWT, McCann Erickson and Euro RSCG.
With the launch of Sony Entertainment Television’s English movie channel PIX soon, a moot point to ponder is whether the industry has enough space to accommodate four players in the genre. Even though it is too early to take a call on this, industry players opine that the majority of the market share will remain between the top two players.
1point size re-asserted its creative strength at Spark 2006, and emerged ‘Agency of the Year’ at Madras Ad Club’s 29th Advertising Awards. With a tally of 285 points from seven golds, 12 silvers and four bronzes, it beat the closest challenge that came from Mudra (120 points), which competed as Mudra (South).
Ace anchor and Executive Producer of Aaj Tak, Ashutosh has put in his papers and is learnt to be heading towards Global Broadcast News-controlled Channel 7, which is to be renamed IBN-7. Q W Naqvi, News Director, Aaj Tak confirmed the news, saying, “Ashutosh has indeed put in his papers with Aaj Tak”.