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  • Naveen Anand to take up global role at Amway

    Naveen Anand to take up global role at Amway

    MUMBAI: Effective 1 December, Amway India senior vice president marketing Naveen Anand will be seen in his new role of global marketing director of core nutrition. His new position requires him to relocate to Amway headquarters in Michigan. Reporting to Naveen will be the global nutrition marketing core team. In his new role, Anand will be responsible for the development and execution of the global nutrition marketing strategy.

    He began his career at Amway India almost 16 years ago as marketing manager in India overseeing India’s marketing department, and since then has been instrumental in building the Amway India business to approximately $400 million in sales. Under Anand’s leadership nutrition and prestige beauty business (Nutrilite and Artistry) has been market leaders; Nutrition clogged a market share of 23.8 per cent in Vitamin and dietary supplements category; whereas Artistry acquired 59.3 per cent in premium facial care category in the year 2012.

    Anand also spearheaded highly successful Amway mass media campaigns, starting with mother brand Amway and later on adding Nutrilite, Artistry and Attitude to the mass media campaign.

    Anand has also been a member of the global CMO Council for over five years. In this role he contributed significantly towards strengthening of global marketing brands both in Amway India as well as across the globe.
    Prior to Amway, Anand worked at Karishma Adverting (part of Lowe Lintas) and Reckitt and Colman.
     

  • Naomi Watts to star in Errol Morris-helmed Holland, Michigan

    Naomi Watts to star in Errol Morris-helmed Holland, Michigan

    MUMBAI: Naomi Watts is in talks to star in Holland, Michigan, a thriller that will be directed by Oscar-winning documentarian Errol Morris from a script by first time screenwriter Andrew Sodroski. The script is described as a suburban thriller with pitch black humor. Le Grisbi Productions’ John Lesher and Adam Kassan are producing and Sean Murphy will be co-producer. Production will start in April.

     

    Watts will be seen next as Princess Diana in the Oliver Hirschbiegel-directed biopic Diana. She just wrapped the Ted Melfi-directed St. Vincent De Van Nuys with Bill Murray and the Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu-directed Birdman, the latter of which Lesher produced.

     

    Morris is at Toronto to unveil his latest documentary, The Unknown Known and his past work includes The Thin Blue Line, Tabloid and the Oscar-winning The Fog Of War: Eleven Lessons From The Life Of Robert S. McNamara. Morris served as executive producer on Joshua Oppenheimer’s documentary The Act Of Killing.

     

    Lesher is currently in pre-production on the David Ayer-helmed WWII film Fury with Brad Pitt. He produced Blood Ties, Guillaume Canet’s English language debut which premiered at Cannes, and was acquired by Lionsgate. Watts is repped by CAA and Untitled Entertainment.