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InterGlobe has appointed Siddhanta Sharma as Executive Director – Corporate Affairs. Previously, Sharma had been Managing Director - India with ABF Grain Products Ltd (a subsidiary of Associated British Foods Plc), wherein he grew the company’s commodities procurement business. Sharma had also been Country Head and Commercial Director of Allied Domecq Plc’s Indian subsidiary and had been credited with establishing Teacher’s as a pioneer brand of ‘Bottled in India’ Scotch whisky with a nationwide footprint.

e4m Desk Jul 25, 2008 3:53 PM

Santosh Ghosh, Vice-President, Advertising Sales & Alliances, CarWale.com, has put in his papers. He is setting up his own enterprise. He has been with CarWale.com since June 2007. Prior to CarWale.com Ghosh was with Hindustantimes.com as Head of Ad Sales. He had also been Head of Ad Sales (West & South) at Sify.com, Samachar.com and Rediff.com. He had also headed Rediff’s India Abroad, a weekly publication that is published in seven states of the US.

e4m Desk Jul 25, 2008 3:52 PM

Shilpika Grover has been appointed as Integrated Sales Head at Big FM Mumbai. She took charge from July 15. Prior to this, Grover was with DNA newspaper for three years as a key player in launching and generating revenues in the Delhi and Mumbai markets. She has had varied experience in financial, display, PSU and Government verticals during her seven-year stint at The Times of India.

e4m Desk Jul 25, 2008 3:51 PM

Corporate Voice | Weber Shandwick has appointed Nazneen Barodawala as General Manager for Mumbai. Barodawala comes with 13 years’ industry experience. Her earlier work experience includes handling FIIs at Deutsche Bank’s Securities & Custodial Services in Mumbai for over two years. In addition, she has been associated with well-known financial companies such as Tata Finance, Mani Investments Pvt Ltd, etc.

e4m Desk Jul 25, 2008 3:50 PM

Vishal Pandit has come on board Hewitt Associates as Head of Consulting for India, the Middle East and SAARC regions. Pandit joins Hewitt from GE Consumer Finance, where he was President and CEO, GE Money India. Prior to this, he had a year-long stint as Country Manager and Managing Director with Associates First Capital, and another year as Country Manager with Visa International (South Asia).

e4m Desk Jul 25, 2008 3:49 PM

Online News Association Conference and Awards, one of the world’s premier conferences scheduled for September 11-13, 2008 at Washington, has invited Sanjay Trehan, CEO, NDTV Convergence to be part of a handpicked panel of speakers from around the globe. Trehan is the only Indian speaker to speak at the conference.

e4m Desk Jul 25, 2008 8:24 AM

Gordon Hughes, President & CEO, American Business Media; Glenn Hansen, President & CEO, BPA Worldwide; and Chander Rai, President & CEO, Cross Border Media Inc have jointly announced the First International Business Media Conference that would be held in Delhi on February 12-13, 2009. The three had met at the American Business Media headquarters in New York to discuss their India initiative on business media.

e4m Desk Jul 25, 2008 8:23 AM

Sepia Advertising Pvt Ltd has bagged the creative and media mandate for BL Agro Oils Ltd. The account size is pegged at Rs 5 crore. BL Agro’s flagship brand, Bail Kolhu Mustard Oil, enjoys a clear leadership position in Uttar Pradesh and parts of Uttarakhand.

e4m Desk Jul 25, 2008 8:22 AM

With rising prices, gold has somewhat lost its glitter. In a bid to boost sales World Gold Council is doing away with the three-year-old ‘Speak Gold’ campaign and has instead come up with a new campaign – ‘Only Gold’. Rs 3.5 crore have been earmarked as ad spend for this fiscal for brand Collection G. O&M is handling the creative duties.

e4m Desk Jul 25, 2008 8:22 AM

If the ‘Darr ke aagey jeet hai’ tagline in the latest action flick ‘Mission Istaanbul’ rings a familiar bell, you are right. It is the tagline sported by soft drink brand Mountain Dew that has been integrated into the name of the movie, a first for both Bollywood and any brand. With the movie releasing today, a look at how this association came about.

e4m Desk Jul 25, 2008 8:21 AM

Paprika Media has launched its city-centric magazine Time Out in Bangalore. Priced at Rs 30, the fortnightly will hit newsstands every alternate Wednesday. Time Out will provide an insider’s view on art, books, wellness, film and TV, theatre, shopping, music, etc. Time Out Bangalore will have an initial print run of 35,000 copies.

exchange4media Bangalore Bureau Jul 25, 2008 8:20 AM

Following the decision of Sanjoy Narayan to move out, the India Today Group on Thursday announced the new editorial leadership for Business Today. Rohit Saran will take over from Narayan as Editor from August 16, 2008. Simultaneously, Brian Carvalho, currently Executive Editor, Business Today, is being promoted as Managing Editor.

e4m Desk Jul 25, 2008 8:19 AM

Bates 141 Chennai has been assigned the creative duties for Chennai Live, the FM venture of Muthoot Group. Though no formal pitch was involved, the Group considered a couple of agencies before zeroing in on Bates 141.

Judy Franko Jul 25, 2008 8:18 AM

Radio as a medium has come on its own over the years, more so with the advent of FM radio. In a bid to better understand the medium, impact, the weekly from the exchange4media Group, is organising a Roundtable on the Indian radio industry. The theme of the Roundtable is ‘Radio Effectiveness - How to exploit the best out of Radio’. The impact Roundtable on Radio is presented by Radio City.

Robin Thomas Jul 25, 2008 8:17 AM

Umesh Shrikhande has been promoted as CEO of Contract India. With this, Contract has completed changes in its top management, following the appointment of Ravi Deshpande as Chairman and Chief Creative officer, and Jagdip Bakshi moving on to a global role at JWT. Shrikhande has spent more than a decade with Contract.

exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Jul 25, 2008 8:16 AM

The spat between Tata Sky and ESPN might reach a conclusion with TDSAT allowing Tata Sky to beam ESPN’s channels on a la carte basis, based on the choice of the DTH operator’s customers and as per the rules and regulations. This apart, TDSAT also directed Tata Sky to pay the due amount to ESPN for all of its three channels till May 31 within 10 days.

e4m Desk Jul 25, 2008 8:14 AM

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (TRAI) draft recommendation on policy guidelines for ratings system in India has mixed signals for the industry. TRAI has stated that there should be no Government intervention in ratings. The recommendations, however, involve the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting in every stage, including nomination of Ministry officials on the Board of Directors of the Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC), which is recommended as the sole custodian of broadcast ratings systems.

Noor Fathima Warsia Jul 25, 2008 8:14 AM

TRAI has issued draft recommendations on the policy guidelines and operational issues for television audience measurement / Television Rating Points (TRPs). TRAI has concluded that for the present, self regulation may work best and stated that the industry initiative – Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) – could be recognised as the institutional framework.

e4m Desk Jul 25, 2008 8:12 AM