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Nick Wrenn, CNN’s Managing Editor for Europe, Middle East & Africa, has been appointed to the new position of VP, CNN International Digital Services. Wrenn, who will report to Tony Maddox, Executive VP and MD, CNN International, has been with CNN since 2000, joining as a Senior Editor for the international edition of CNN.com. He became Managing Editor for CNN’s operations in Europe, Middle East and Africa in 2003. In that role, Wrenn oversaw CNN’s largest production centre outside the US, which was responsible for more than 10 hours of live programming each day.

e4m Desk Sep 6, 2008 2:57 PM

Wadhawan Food Retail Pvt Ltd (WFRL) has appointed Ashok Bhasin as Managing Director. In this new leadership role, Bhasin will be fully responsible for designing business plans, strategy, and leading the overall operations across all brands under the WFRL umbrella (including Spinach, Sabka Bazaar, Smart, and Sangam Direct), and also future expansions across all formats. Bhasin had earlier worked with companies like Lakme, Reckitt Benckiser (then Reckitt & Colman), Whirlpool of India and Whirlpool Corporation, USA.

e4m Desk Sep 6, 2008 2:55 PM

Mohit Hira, Director, Indiatimes.com, has put in his papers after a four-year stint. Hira began his career in advertising as a copy writer with Contract Kolkata in 1986. He was with Contract for nearly 16 years. Hira has also worked with DDB Needham, Muscat. He returned to India in June 1999 to take charge of the Kolkata branch of Contract. In 2001, he moved to Delhi as Branch Head, Contract Delhi. In 2003, he joined Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd, where he worked as Brand Head for Navbharat Times and the Delhi edition of The Economic Times. Thereafter, he moved to indiatimes.

e4m Desk Sep 6, 2008 2:51 PM

Radio Computing Services (RCS) India has announced the launch of AirCheck, its radio monitoring services for commercial FM stations, in Indore. The Indore launch marks its 14th city and first B category market in India.

exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Sep 6, 2008 10:09 AM

Toyota Kirloskar Motor Pvt Ltd on September 5 announced launch of its new Corolla Altis. The company is targeting to sell 63,000 vehicles this year and is aiming for a 10 per cent market share by 2015.

e4m Desk Sep 6, 2008 10:07 AM

Big Pictures, a division of Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, has forayed into Bengali film production in a collaborative effort with well-known Bengali film director Buddhadeb Dasgupta for his upcoming film, ‘Janala’ (Window).

exchange4media Kolkata Bureau Sep 6, 2008 10:06 AM

Linc Pen & Plastics Ltd., manufacturer and exporter of writing instruments, has appointed Hanmer MS&L as its PR partner. Hanmer will handle the entire PR mandate for Linc, which includes, brand communication, product launches, corporate image build up and financial communication.

e4m Desk Sep 6, 2008 10:06 AM

International human rights organisation Breakthrough has launched its third multimedia campaign – ‘Bell Bajao’ – a call to both men and women to put an end to domestic violence. The campaign has been designed by O&M on a pro bono basis. The campaign is supported by the Ministry for Women and Child Development, UNIFEM and the UN Trust Fund.

e4m Desk Sep 6, 2008 10:05 AM

Radio may be older than television in this country, but FM radio is the youngest media. Everybody jumped onto the FM bandwagon but seem to be struggling to come into their own, be it programming, differentiation, bottomlines. In this article, Vineet Singh Hukmani, CEO, Radio One, takes a tongue-in-cheek view of the FM radio scenario.

Vineet Singh Hukmani Sep 6, 2008 9:57 AM

Global market information and insight group TNS has just released its ‘Asia Pacific’s Top 1000 Brands’ survey for 2008. Sony, Nokia, Hewlett Packard and ICICI are among the brands most people called as best in their respective categories. Following these brands were Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Dell and SBI.

e4m Desk Sep 6, 2008 9:56 AM

Gujarati Mid-day, Mumbai's Gujarati evening newspaper, has introduced a 16-page real estate broadsheet section, ‘Hot Property’, that goes out with the newspaper every Saturday. The supplement has already signed up 23 advertisers.

exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Sep 6, 2008 9:55 AM

Ashish Medhekar has been appointed as Executive Vice-president and Head - Mumbai Operations of Everest Brand Solutions. He brings 17 years of advertising and direct marketing experience.

exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Sep 6, 2008 9:54 AM

Sony Entertainment Television has announced its ‘Indian Idol 4’ marketing campaign. This season the show will address the aspirations of ‘Young India’. The tagline for the campaign is ‘Yeh Style, Yeh Music, Yeh World Hamara Hai’. Leo Burnett has conceptualised and executed the campaign.

exchange4media Mumbai Bureau Sep 6, 2008 9:53 AM