Rajan Wahi, CEO, MAD Films, has put in his papers after a six-year stint. Wahi now plans to roll out his own production house. At MAD Films, he used to look after the management and marketing of the entire ad films business. The production house has also ventured into movie making. Tere Naam, Salaam E Ishq, and Chini Kam are a few Bollywood films that MAD has produced.
Devendra Garg, Executive VP – Marketing, Consumer Care Division, Dabur, is now heading the Dabur Ayurveda division. In his earlier role he used to report to VS Sitaram, Executive Director, Consumer Care Division. He will now report to Sunil Duggal, CEO, Dabur. Vikas Mittal has joined as VP - Personal Care to fill the position left vacant by Garg.
Anees Cementwala, who was Head of Design at Times Entertainment, has called it quits. He is moving to Aditya Birla Group's retail venture to head its in-house design cell. This will be Cementwala’s fourth start-up in his 11-year career. He has previously set up Marico's in-house Design and Packaging Dept. At Times Entertainment, he initially set up Times Music and then went on to work for other Times Group brands like The Economic Times, Zoom TV, Times Multimedia, where he worked in the print medium. He has designed special packaging for music albums, music merchandise, POS, collaterals, events, below the line, expos, etc.
It's official: Johnson & Johnson has put its $3 billion global media-buying and -planning account into review. A global media review has been anticipated since J&J began the $16.6 billion acquisition of Pfizer's over-the counter drug and personal-care business in October 2006.
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With a new CEO in place, PepsiCo India Holdings Private Ltd is on an expansion spree. It has identified three major focus areas — juices, milk-based nutritional foods and value-added variants to the water category.
The online travel community site will provide travel enthusiasts the best places for sharing travel experiences, get unbiased travel advice about travel in India, and more.
Just Dial Services has announced the launch of India’s first cutting edge local search engine — www.justdial.com. The website provides users access to any local information across leading cities and multiple categories, with extremely relevant search results instantly. Just Dial receives approximately 26 million phone calls a year.
HBO and Star Movies have announced their lineup of films for April. With the mini-series ‘The Triangle’ and ‘Lost’ to be aired on Star Movies, it would be some tough competition for the channels.
MTV has launched a new show in its morning slot of 7 am to 11 am. ‘MTV Kick Ass Morning’ will focus on Health, Horoscope, Humour and Hits.
CNN International has launched ‘The Screening Room’, which looks at the world of international cinema. The monthly show will also travel to essential film festivals — Los Angeles, London, Tokyo, Tribeca, Sydney and Sundance.
Amway India Enterprises has announced the appointment of Hanmer & Partners to partner the company in its national communication objectives. The agency will work closely in creating a national image campaign.
Nayyar has won over a dozen international awards in the last two years. Most notable among them was being a Film Finalist at Cannes last year for his film for The Cancer Patients Aid Association.
TDSAT has directed a South Delhi-based cable operator to clear a huge outstanding of Rs 1.55 crore towards Zee Turner Limited, along with the interest of 10 per cent per annum. The operator had defaulted to pay the agreed subscription charges to Zee Turner.
GoaFest 2007 has seen a huge number of entries with more than a 100 advertising agencies across the country sending in more than 3,000 entries for the two-day advertising festival to be held in Goa on April 20 and 21 this year.
"We are very interested in India, otherwise we wouldn't be here. India is a complex country with various religions and languages. Entering Indian market primarily requires finding a very good partner who has some local knowledge and understands each market. Given the additional complexities in India, I think we have to go in with a partner."