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  • Hero comes on board as title sponsor of Olympics’ hockey qualifiers

    Hero comes on board as title sponsor of Olympics’ hockey qualifiers

    MUMBAI: Two-wheeler major Hero MotoCorp Ltd (formerly Hero Honda) has renewed its commitment towards national sport Hockey by coming on board as the title sponsor of the upcoming men‘s and women‘s Olympic qualifying tournament for 2012 London Olympics.

    The deal was brokered by Commune Sports & Entertainmen, the commercial representative of FIH in India.

    Titled as ‘Hero FIH Road to London’, the event is first of the three leg Olympic qualifying events for the London Olympic Games scheduled for July this year and will be played at Major Dhyan Chand Hockey National Stadium in New Delhi from February 18-26.

    The event will feature six teams from both men’s and women’s category competing against each other in a round robin format for two Olympic berths out of the six berths available (1 of 3 men’s and 1 of 3 women’s) in the 2012 London Olympics.

    The tournament holds great importance for the Indian men’s and women’s hockey team as this will be their only window to qualify for the 2012 London Olympic Games.

    Following the round robin league, the teams ranked first and second will play and the winner will qualify for the London 2012 Olympic Games, while the remaining four teams will play placement games for FIH World Ranking points.

    Commenting on the partnership, Hero MotoCorp MD & CEO Pawan Munjal said, “Hockey, being the national sport of the country, holds a special place in our hearts and we are pleased to partner with FIH in presenting the “Hero FIH Road to London” Olympic Hockey Qualifiers. We have always believed in nurturing and supporting various sporting disciplines including cricket, golf, shooting and hockey.”

    The India leg of the Hero FIH Road to London Olympic qualifiers will feature the men’s national field hockey teams from India, Italy, Poland, Singapore, Canada and France. The Indian National women’s hockey team will play against South Africa, Canada, Italy, Poland and Ukraine.

    The tournament will be aired on Ten Sports.

    In 2010, Hero MotoCorp started its partnership with FIH, by bringing the coveted men’s hockey World Cup event to India, titled “Hero Honda FIH Men’s Hockey World Cup 2010”. The company executed a multi media campaign, “Phir Dil Do Hockey Ko” featuring Hero brand ambassadors – cricketer Virender Sehwag, Olympic silver medallist shooter Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore and popular Hindi movie actor Priyanka Chopra.

    Further aligning with the company’s objective of long-term promotion of the game at the grassroots level, Hero MotoCorp also organised pan-India inter-school hockey tournaments.

    Speaking on the partnership, FIH partnership Leandro Negre said, “Hero are ideal partners for hockey and FIH in that they really help us promote the event and hockey in India. Their promotion for the FIH Hockey World Cup in 2010 was fundamental in leading to a renaissance of hockey enthusiasm in India and we hope that the Hero FIH Road to London will build on that.”

  • Honda Civic bags ‘NDTV Profit Car & Bike Award’ Car of the Year

    Honda Civic bags ‘NDTV Profit Car & Bike Award’ Car of the Year

    MUMBAI: Hero Honda CBZ X-Treme & Honda Civic were named as the best bike and the best car of 2006 at the annual ‘NDTV Profit Car & Bike India Awards’ event in Mumbai. Honda Civic and TVS Apache won the Viewers’ Choice awards and the Marketing Team award went to General Motors. Mr. Anand Mahindra was awarded the ‘NDTV Profit Car & Bike Automobile Man of the Year’.

    Speaking on the occasion, Honda Siel Cars India president and CEO M Takedagawa said, ‘Civic has done us proud across the world with its style, technology and its ability to adapt ongoing innovation and its heartening to know it’s the same for India’.

     
    Hero Honda managing director Pawan Munjal while accepting the Bike of the year for CBZ X-Treme said, ‘This award is a tribute to Hero Honda and all in the Hero Honda family’.

    Mahindra and Mahindra vice chairman and managing director Anand Mahindra on being awarded Automotive Man of the Year award said, ‘I am happy to receive the award from a prestigious and credible organization like NDTV and I dedicate this award to the entire Mahindra team’.

    The second edition of ‘CNB-AAA Awards 2007’, in association with Car India and Bike India was witnessed by the nation’s top professionals corporate honchos from the auto industry. The NDTV Profit Car and Bike awards celebrates the best design, unmatched technology, style and performance in the automobile industry and awards the best vehicles that dominated the markets.

    CNB-AAA Awards is an attempt to award the best in the automobile industry as showcased in the Car and Bike and All About Ads shows. The event was presented across 30 different categories at a special awards ceremony at Mumbai.

    Some of the unique award categories that were incorporated this year included best commercial vehicles awards, vehicle Design and imported vehicles award.
    ** Winners in respective categories:

    Cars

    Honda Civic – Car of the Year

    Maruti and General Motors – Car Manufacturer of the Year.

    The category saw a tie between the two automobile manufacturers.

    Chevrolet Aveo U-VA – Small Car of the Year

    Hyundai Verna – Mid-size Car of the Year

    Honda Civic – Executive Car of the Year

    Toyota Camry – Premium Car of the Year

    Honda CR-V- SUV of the Year

    Audi Q7- Import SUV of the Year

    Porsche 911 Carrera 4S- Import Car of the Year

    Aspire Asymmetric Tyre, Apollo Tyres – Automotive Product of the Year

    ABS ESP from MICO BOSCH – Automotive Technology of the Year

    Bikes

    Hero Honda CBZ X-Treme – Bike of the Year

    Bajaj Auto Limited – Bike Manufacturer of the Year

    Bajaj Platina – Bike of the Year upto 100 cc

    Yamaha Gladiator – Bike of the Year upto 125 cc

    Hero Honda CBZ X-Treme- Bike of the Year upto 150 cc

    Kinetic Blaze – Scooter of the Year

    PGM-FI from Hero Honda – Bike Technology of the Year 

    Commercial Vehicles

    Force MAN L49 Tractor Head – CV of the Year

    Tata Motors Limited- CV Manufacturer of the Year

    Volvo B7R – CV Technology of the Year
    Special Award

    Karun Chandhok – Indian Motorsport Award

    Honda Civic – Automotive Design of the year Automotive
    Man of the Year Mahindra & Mahindra vice chairman and managing director Anand Mahindra

    CNB/NDTV AWARDS

    M&M Scorpio – CNB-AAA Creative Print Campaign of the year

    Zen Estilo – CNB-AAA Creative TV Campaign of the year

    General Motors – CNB-AAA Marketing team of the year 
    Honda and General Motors (Tie & award shared between the two)

    CNB-AAA PR & Viewer’s Choice Awards

    TVS Apache – CNB-AAA Viewers’ choice Bike of the Year

    Honda Civic – CNB-AAA Viewers’ choice Car of the Year 
    Aamir Khan (Toyota Innova) – CNB-AAA Brand Ambassador of the Year.

  • NDTV Profit to launch ‘Business on Course’

    NDTV Profit to launch ‘Business on Course’

    MUMBAI: Starting 18 November, NDTV Profit will showcase a new show Business on Course. The show will bring interviews with top notch CEO’s over a gaming session of golf .

    The discussions will focus on business strategies that they advocated as amateurs, the faults and mistakes they have made and learnt from. Until the present time with well honed skills and elegant swings, how they navigate themselves and their corporations through the intimidating course of business. A show on interesting experiences the businessmen have been through in their lives to be the pros and icons they are today, according to an informs.

    The repeat will air on 19 November at 8.30 am and 6 PM respectively. Its well accepted that golf as a sport reveals character. Top notch business executives have been known to use time on the golf course to plan business strategies, gain intimate knowledge of business associates, and strike the biggest deals over a shot on the greens.

    Business on Course spends half an hour every weekend evaluating the golf swing with CEOs on some of the best fairways across the country. With names like Pawan Munjal (Hero Honda), Gunit Chadha (Deutsche Bank, India), Arvind Thakur (NIIT) and V K Sibal (directorate general of Hydrocarbons) teeing off on Business on Course, the show will bring you a side of the best business minds that you have never seen before.

    NDTV Profit managing editor Vikram Chandra said, “They say 30 per cent of the world’s biggest business deals are sealed on the golf links. NDTV Profit is proud to turn this concept into a show that will bring to the viewers the real masters of the game who have made winning strokes both on and off the field.”