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  • Go natural!

    Go natural!

    NEW DELHI: Veet, one of the leaders in depilatory products, has recently launched a new “Naturals” hair removal cream range. Enriched with 100 per cent natural extracts and formulated with mild and refreshing, nature-inspired fragrances, the new product is a premium and naturally enhanced solution for getting smooth and glowing skin.

    The range will be available in two variants – with papaya extracts for normal-dry skin and with camellia seed oil extracts for sensitive skin. And considering India to be an important market, the range has been first launched in India, before an international roll-out across countries.

    A 360-degree marketing campaign to promote the new range has been launched led with a new TVC starring the brand ambassador of Veet and Bollywood’s reigning actress – Katrina Kaif. In line with the premium beauty codes owned by Veet, the commercial reaches out to savvy women looking for a naturally enhanced hair removal experience.

    The TVC challenges the realms of possibilities by transporting her into an imaginary world of dreams, where nature magically surrounds her and grants her the goodness of its special ingredients, making her skin smooth and glowing, gently.

    Talking about the new range, RB India managing director Akhil Chandra said, “Innovation forms the core of our DNA and being the market leader, we believe it is our responsibility to deliver better solutions to our customers. Our new Veet Naturals range combines Veet’s expertise at hair removal with the goodness of 100 per cent natural extracts, leaving skin smooth and glowing. Plus, this breakthrough innovation is infused with refreshing, nature-inspired fragrances and formulated with a superior technology that ensures a pleasant hair removal experience like never before. We have a robust 360 degree marketing campaign panning across print, digital, and TV, led by our new TVC starring our brand ambassador, Katrina Kaif.”

    The new range is available in two pack sizes of 25gms and 60 gms, priced at Rs 60 and Rs 100 respectively.

  • Anand Mahindra is Forbes India “Entrepreneur for the Year 2013”

    Anand Mahindra is Forbes India “Entrepreneur for the Year 2013”

    MUMBAI: Forbes India has been a champion of entrepreneurial capitalism, in line with the Forbes DNA defined almost a century ago in the US.

    It shares the vision that over the next 10 years, India will have a never-before chance to create an entrepreneurial renaissance. It believes in the spirit of fair play. It believes that entrepreneurs need to follow the rules. And this is recognised through Forbes India Leadership Awards wherein outstanding leaders are appreciated every year.

    Anand Mahindra at the Forbes India Leadership Awards

    This year, the entrepreneur of the year went to Mahindra & Mahindra chairman and managing director Anand Mahindra, who was chosen for the high honour for growing his group more than 10-fold in 10 years in several continents.

    The long-list of nominees for each category was prepared by June and was judged by jury headed by ICICI Bank non-executive chairman KV Kamath. McKinsey & Co India chairman Adil Zainulbhai, Blackstone Advisors India chairman Akhil Gupta, Indian School of Business Dean Ajit Rangnekar, AZB Partners senior partner Zia Modi, and founder and group editor of Network18 Raghav Bahl brought in years of experience to the jury.

    KPMG was the knowledge partners for the event, which helped with the number crunching essential for the process.

    The following are the Forbes India winners for 2013:

    1)Start Up for the Year

    Phanindra Sama  – redBus

    2)Nextgen Entrepreneur for the Year

    Tarang Jain – Varroc Engineering

    3)Entrepreneur with Social Impact

    Ranjan Sharma – IKSL

    4)Conscious Capitalist Company for the year

    HUL

    5)Best CEO – Multinational Company

    Francisco D’souza – Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp

    6)Best CEO – Public Sector

    Rakesh Tandon – IRCTC

    7)Best CEO – Private Sector

    Chanda Kochhar – ICICI Bank

    8)Woman Leader for the Year

    Chitra Ramkrishna – NSE

    9) Lifetime Achievement Award for the Year

    Brijmohan Lall Munjal – Hero MotoCorp

    10)Entrepreneur for the Year

    Anand Mahindra  – Mahindra & Mahindra

  • Burson-Marsteller Celebrates 60 Year Anniversary By Launching New Positioning: Burson-Marsteller, Being More

    Burson-Marsteller Celebrates 60 Year Anniversary By Launching New Positioning: Burson-Marsteller, Being More

    Burson-Marsteller, a leading global public relations and communications firm, today announced it is taking the opportunity of its 60th anniversary to launch a new global positioning under the title of Burson-Marsteller, Being More. Burson-Marsteller, Being More is an expression of the firm’s ambition to be the leading ideas-driven, results-oriented communications firm in the world alongside its long-standing commitment to evidence-based communications.

     

    To support the new positioning, Burson-Marsteller announced the launch of a new website at www.Burson-Marsteller.com. A newly produced video presentation (http://bur.sn/pH7fx) on the new website provides more detail on Burson-Marsteller, Being More.

     

    Around the world, companies, organizations and individuals are pressed every day, in their own way, to succeed at Being More in highly demanding environments. Burson-Marsteller, Being More is a commitment to help clients meet their challenges and seize their opportunities by harnessing the power of the increasingly dynamic and highly-connected world of communications. It is both about Burson-Marsteller being more for clients as their trusted advisers, as well as a recognition that today’s communications environment demands more of everybody who operates in it. Burson-Marsteller, Being More is based on the belief that the most successful organizations are guided by a clear sense of purpose – a distinct and powerful world view that shapes their business, guides their actions and ultimately determines their reputation and success.

     

    “Our 60th anniversary provides the perfect catalyst to ensure Burson-Marsteller is being more in the service we provide our clients in a fast-changing communications environment,” said Burson-Marsteller’s Worldwide Chair and CEO Don Baer. “Our purpose is to help our clients define and communicate their purpose of Being More and to inspire our people to make Burson-Marsteller the best ideas-driven, results-oriented communications firm in the world.” Baer continued: “For us, this is about being more focused on integrating a wide array of communications, marketing and reputation-building activities. It is about being more focused on creativity, on strategic thinking, on evidence-based communications and on more digital and social outreach.”

     

    “Being More is part of the Burson-Marsteller DNA,” said Harold Burson, Founding Chairman of the firm. ”While Being More has just recently been adopted as our number one priority, it is both recognition of our past and a directional beam for what we know will be a shining future.”

     

    “Genesis Burson-Marsteller in India, is realising the global vision of Being More by focusing on integrated communication to deliver real measureable impact to clients. At Genesis Burson-Marsteller, Being More is a promise to provide clients with strategic counsel, ideas and results across the spectrum of public relations, public affairs, corporate responsibility, digital, content and crisis communications services, thereby addressing the need companies have today for an integrated communication campaign for different audiences,” said Prema Sagar, Principal and Founder, Genesis Burson-Marsteller.

     

    In support of the new Burson-Marsteller, Being More positioning, the firm is rolling out a series of new initiatives over the next several months, including:

     

    • The Burson-Marsteller Conversations: A global thought leadership series of gatherings that will bring together many of the best minds in business, public policy and media to address important issues facing the world and our clients.

     

    • Burson-Marsteller, Being More Global Employee Training: This new training program is designed to ensure that Burson-Marsteller teams around the world learn the essential skills necessary to be more in today’s communications sector, including being more creative, savvy about digital and social media and growth-focused. For the first time, the firm has appointed a Managing Director of Global Talent Development to drive this global initiative.

     

    • Worldwide Strategic Leadership Team: The firm is creating a worldwide strategic leadership team to bring top strategic and creative leaders from different fields and regions to advise Burson-Marsteller’s clients. The firm announced the first member of this team is Jennifer Maguire Isham, a former President of the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City. Isham previously worked for CNN as Senior Vice President of Programming. She joined CNN from ABC News, where she was an award-winning producer at Primetime Live. Other members of the team will be announced in coming months.

  • Maxus, Stark, Aakanksha Healthcare, Aim High top Big Bang Awards 2013

    Maxus, Stark, Aakanksha Healthcare, Aim High top Big Bang Awards 2013

    BENGALURU: After its recent Smarties Agency of the year award, Maxus had an additional room to cheer as its team walked in slow motion to receive the media agency of the year at the Big Bang Awards 2013 organised by the Ad Club of Bangalore yesterday. 

    Stark Communication was named Creative Agency of the Year. Maxus was the biggest winner of the night bagging awards for Media, Mobile and Digital Agencies of the year.  Aakanksha Healthcare was Healthcare Agency of the Year and Aim High Consulting, PR Agency of the Year. A Special Judges Award was given to HP GBS Creative Services for their outstanding internal communication work.
    ‘Client of the Year‘ – Maxus
    ‘Media Agency Of the Year‘ – Maxus

    Contract Advertising won the coveted Ayaz Peerbhoy Trophy for best Integrated Campaign of the Year, Nirvana Films was the Production House of the Year and Abhishek Prabhu of HP GBS was crowned the Young Achiever of the Year. Nokia won the Client of the Year Award winning across several categories.

    Click here for List-of-award-winners

    The Ad Club Bangalore had roped in Bangalore Mirror as the lead partner; Suvarna Plus as the regional TV partner, Fever 104 FM as the official radio partner; Getty Images as the Image partner; Kinetic as the OOH partner; Suvarna News 24×7 as the news channel partner; Netcore as the mobile marketing partner; Inox as the multiplex partner; Ebeam as the LED display partner; and DNA as the event partner.
    ‘Creative Agency of The Year‘ – Stark Communications
    ‘PR Agency of the Year‘ – Aim High Consultant

    The awards received around 900 entries for the 2013 edition. The Ad Club Bangalore went fully online this year for the awards tying up with the US-based Global Best Awards for the same.

    Malavika Harita, President, The Ad Club Bangalore had said at that time: “It is commendable, because agencies welcomed the Awards going online and have supported the move wholeheartedly.”

    She had further stated that the Ad Club, Bangalore had roped in over 40 senior communications professionals from various cities to judge the entries and that in the future international jury members would also be invited.

  • Bangalore Ad Club’s Big Bang Awards tonight

    Bangalore Ad Club’s Big Bang Awards tonight

    BENGALURU: The countdown for many an ad agency has already commenced. The Ad Club of Bangalore’s Big Bang Awards function will be held tonight at the Jaya Mahal Palace Hotel in the garden city.

    The Ad Club Bangalore has started many new categories over the past few years, including Health Care, Digital, PR and Mobile advertising. Recognising the ever growing media options, the ad club has a separate set of media awards which have become extremely popular. It has also instituted awards for young achievers, creative persons under 30, etc. to recognise and nurture their creative abilities and to offer them a platform to showcase their talent.

    The Ad Club Bangalore has roped in Bangalore Mirror as the lead partner; Suvarna Plus as the regional TV partner, Fever 104 FM as the official radio partner; Getty Images as the Image partner; Kinetic as the OOH partner; Suvarna News 24×7 as the news channel partner; Netcore as the mobile marketing partner; Inox as the multiplex partner; Ebeam as the LED display partner; and DNA as the event partner.

    In keeping with the global trend, the Bangalore Ad Club has tied-up with Global Best Awards, US to make the Big Bang awards online from this year.

  • Media agencies go ‘deewana’ with Max

    Media agencies go ‘deewana’ with Max

    MUMBAI: Is busy schedules, hectic targets and meetings all you can picture while imagining a media agency? Well! At least for a change, you can shed that image as the agencies are gearing up for Sony Max’s No Talkies.

    The media agencies that are busy brushing up on their knowledge of movies and not brands for the dumb charades are now also discovering a bit of deewangi in one another.

    As reported earlier by indiantelevision.com, the game which is spread over three rounds will be held in Delhi, Bengaluru and Mumbai. The registrations for the competition began 3 September and continued for two weeks on the microsite http://notalkies.sonymax.tv/.

    The list of agencies who have already registered for the fun-zone are Madison, Group M, Maxus, Starcom, Lodestar, MPG, Zenith Optimedia and OMD.

    Excited, Platinum Media (Madison media) CEO Basab Dutta Chowdhry exults: “I think it’s a great initiative taken by Max. It sounds great and fun for agencies. Generally people are so busy and caught up with work and life; this is a new niche initiative where everybody can participate. There are very few initiatives like these- ‘Max-No Talkies’ which gives a chance to everyone to participate.”

    The agencies are all kicked about this competition, which is more of nostalgia for a lot of them.  To top it all, they see it as a good opportunity to meet and interact with new people. Vivaki Exchange CEO Mona Jain agreeing on this says: “No Talkies is a good and interesting initiative. It’s a first time initiative, unlike the regular parties. It also goes back to the DNA of the channel. The industry was very small earlier and people knew each other well, but the scenario is different now, the industry has expanded, so it will be a good opportunity to meet and interact with new people.”

    “It is not going to be a typical game of dumb charades,” says Sony Max VP marketing Vaishali Sharma. She further goes on to say that the channel is bringing loads of innovations to ensure engagement and an exciting evening for those who are participating.  The finale will have a Bollywood theme with different rounds, all with a twist. To amplify all the fun and frolic, the finale will be hosted by the witty and charismatic VJ, actor and presenter Gaurav Kapoor.

    Lintas Media Group vice-president Ramachandran Venkatasubramanian states: “The initiative is very interesting and this kind of activity has never been done before. No Talkies is supposed to be an interactive game and I am waiting for it. Normally bonding with people happens differently, with a game like dumb charades the bonding will happen uniquely. The game itself is very engaging and people interact with each other through it, also dumb charades is all about movies and it gets back to the genre of Max.”

    The city rounds of the activity will take place in Delhi on 18 September, followed by Bengaluru on 19 September and will close with Mumbai on 25 September. A total of five shortlisted teams – two from Delhi, one from Bengaluru and two from Mumbai will battle it out in the finale scheduled in Mumbai on 1 October at Blue Frog.
    So for agencies, it’s ready, steady, Po!

  • News X strengthens leadership with new hires

    News X strengthens leadership with new hires

    MUMBAI-NewsX, India’s new news leader has augmented its leadership team with a number of key appointments to consolidate its position for future growth.

    The channel, now India’s leading English news channel with a consistent performance of being a market leader over the last 17 weeks has some aggressive growth plans and the addition of fresh talent is in line with the same.

    Rahul Shivshankar, executive editor and a renowned anchor on Headlines Today, has joined as the managing editor with NewsX. Diptosh Majumdar, ex-National affairs editor with CNN-IBN, also joins the team in the same capacity. To augment channel’s business operations, Raktim Das, erstwhile Business Head and Senior Vice President at Zee News Limited has joined as President. Shivshankar, a celebrated name in the news fraternity, has been associated with brands like Times Now, and Headlines Today in the past. Majumdar joins in from DNA. Prior to DNA, he was a senior editorial resource with CNN-IBN.

    Das, comes with an exhaustive experience in the media space spanning newspaper, magazine and television. As part of his new mandate, he’ll be responsible for brand development and exploring new avenues of revenue generation. He has earlier worked with brands like India Today, Times of India and Zee News.

    Kartikeya Sharma, MD, ITV Network said in an official communiqué “We are delighted to induct seasoned talent on board at this important juncture, and we are confident that their experience and understanding of the business will help us to achieve our objective of sustaining the leadership in the genre, and will set new benchmarks in Indian news television.”

  • News X strengthening its editorial team

    News X strengthening its editorial team

    MUMBAI: Well known anchor on Headlines Today, Rahul Shivshankar, is packing his bags back to his favourite news channel – News X – with a mission in mind. From 2 September, he will be seen as managing editor with the channel and will be hosting the primetime show. Diptosh Majumdar, former National affairs editor with DNA, also joins the team in the same capacity. Majumdar will be reporting to Shivshankar while Shivshankar will report to Karthik Sharma, the owner of the channel.

     

    Shivshankar has years of experience. He was associated with News X as editorial director for a year between February 2011 and 2012 and six years with Times Now before that. He was also one of the members of the core team that launched Headlines in 2003. “I am emotionally involved with News X and my plan is to consolidate and give the channel a new direction and focus, which I have successfully done for Headlines Today as well,” says Shivshankar. He will be filling a vacant position.

        
    Majumdar has been political affairs editor with CNN-IBN and editorial director with News X in 2010 after which he left for DNA and now he’s back with News X. Recently, News X was acquired by India News. Financial constraints at the channel had led to Shivshankar leaving for Headlines but now since it seems stable he is back with it. One of the things Shivshankar plans to do is build the weekend news programming. This is one affinity to a channel!

     

    Three months ago, Priya Sehgal joined them as political editor from India Today magazine.

     

    When the whole industry seems to be laying people off, News X seems to be doing the opposite. More people are expected to join the channel in the coming months.

  • News X strengthening its editorial team

    News X strengthening its editorial team

    MUMBAI: Well known anchor on Headlines Today, Rahul Shivshankar, is packing his bags back to his favourite news channel – News X – with a mission in mind. From 4 September, he will be seen as managing editor with the channel and will be hosting the primetime show. Diptosh Majumdar, former National affairs editor with DNA, also joins the team in the same capacity.

    Shivshankar has years of experience. He was associated with News X as editorial director for a year between February 2011 and 2012 and six years with Times Now before that. He was also one of the members of the core team that launched Headlines in 2003. “I am emotionally involved with News X and my plan is to consolidate and give the channel a new direction and focus, which I have successfully done for Headlines Today as well,” says Shivshankar. He will be filling a vacant position.

    Majumdar has been political affairs editor with CNN-IBN and editorial director with News X in 2010 after which he left for DNA and now he’s back with News X. Recently, News X was acquired by India News. Financial constraints at the channel had led to Shivshankar leaving for Headlines but now since it seems stable he is back with it. One of the things Shivshankar plans to do is build the weekend news programming. This is one affinity to a channel!

    Three months ago, Priya Sehgal joined them as political editor from India Today magazine.

    When the whole industry seems to be laying people off, News X seems to be doing the opposite. More people are expected to join the channel in the coming months.

  • Hollywood attorney Irwin Russell dies at 87

    Hollywood attorney Irwin Russell dies at 87

    MUMBAI: Entertainment attorney Irwin Russell, who represented industry notables including Michael Eisner, Jim Henson, David Wolper and Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss), passed away on 23 August from complications related to Leukemia. He was 87.

     

    “Irwin Russell was a brilliant lawyer, an insightful executive, an eloquent writer and, in all things, a true gentleman,” said Eisner, the former CEO of The Walt Disney Company, in a statement. “He represented me for 40 years, including my tenures at ABC, Paramount, Disney and, until the day he died, at Tornante.”

     

    Eisner added: “He was able to write – and get all parties to agree to – a one-page deal, something unheard of in American business. Ethics, doing it right and being fair were embedded in his DNA. This is a deep loss for all of us.”

     

    Born in 1926, Russell arrived in Los Angeles in 1971 after experience serving on the National Wage Stabilization Board in Washington, DC and working in private practice in New York City. He was involved in the takeover of the Walt Disney Company in 1984 and served on the Disney board.

     

    Among the many industry deals he is credited with, Russell helped bring the Muppets to Sesame Street and Candid Camera to television. The lawyer is survived by his wife, Suzanne. A memorial is set for September.