Month: September 2023

Britannia Bel Foods’ CMO Mustufa Arsiwalla quits

Mustufa Arsiwalla's first stint at Ferrero was in 2014, where he held the position of brand manager for Ferrero Rocher. His last position was associate general manager for Kinder Joy.

Mustufa Arsiwalla comes with over 17 years of experience, having worked across categories such as foods, personal care, and over-the-counter products.

Avinash Pandey re-elected as president of NBDA

Avinash Pandey started his career with The Indian Express assistant manager. He has also worked at TV Today.

MV Shreyams Kumar is re-elected as VP and Anuradha Prasad Shukla will continue as Honorary Treasurer of NBDA for the year 2023-24.

Nestle India’s Suresh Narayanan hopes for a better Diwali season, pegs on core categories to deliver growth

Suresh Narayanan revealed that the foods major Nestle faced higher inflation in 2023 compared to the preceding years, including 2020 and 2021.

Suresh Narayanan hopes to be lucky enough to hit double digits, with the only dampener in the equation being food inflation, although witnessing premiumisation in Nestle products at the same time.

NBDA given four weeks to come up with fresh guidelines for self-regulation of media: Supreme Court

The bench comprising Justices Surya Kant and KV Viswanahan has informed the Ajit Pawar Group that serious action will be taken if the order wasn’t obeyed.

A bench made up of the Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra took into account the submissions that the NBDA was in consultation with current and former chairpersons Justice (retd) A K Sikri and R V Raveendran to frame a fresh set of guidelines.

Anand Mahindra’s response to fan asking him to gift SUV to Mohammed Siraj goes viral

Indians have been commending the performance of Mohammed Siraj's pace attack in the Asia Cup Final 2023 which won him 6 wickets and led to India’s win against Sri Lanka. (Image sourced from Moneycontrol)

In a tweet, Anand Mahindra, chairperson of Mahindra Group expressed, “I don’t think I have EVER before felt my heart weep for our opponents… It’s as if we have unleashed a supernatural force upon them… Mohammed Siraj, you are a Marvel Avenger.”

Here’s why Boat’s Aman Gupta puts a pause on marketing when on Shark Tank

A Delhi native, he carved his path from humble beginnings to becoming a prominent figure in India's entrepreneurial landscape. Born in 1982, Gupta received his early education at Delhi Public School, R.K. Puram. Despite familial expectations, Gupta diverged from the conventional career trajectory by venturing into entrepreneurship.

Aman Gupta, co-founder and chief marketing officer, Boat was the third-best performing shark as he invested in 12 of the 28 startups he had committed funds to which translates to an investment rate of 43 percent.

Generative AI poised to impact labour markets significantly: World Economic Forum

While ML, Python and SQL continue to dominate current skills requirements in AI; GitHub, PyTorch and Databricks are also beginning to emerge as important skills. (Representative image by Andrea De Santis via Unsplash)

As per World Economic Foum, 19,000 distinct tasks across 867 different occupations likely to be impacted by LLMs. The industries with the highest estimates of overall potential exposure – both in automation and augmentation – are financial services and capital markets, along with insurance and pension management.

Bajaj Auto’s biggest Pulsar will come in FY24, Chetak will get upgrades and a new CNG bike is likely too

On the biggest Pulsar from the stable, Rajiv Bajaj said: "We think we have a fantastic product to offer. We want to do it within this financial year so that you know the full benefit of that in terms of growth and profitability is available to us next year". (Image source: Moneycontrol)

Bajaj Auto will launch seven new Pulsar products, including the biggest one yet, this financial year, its MD Rajiv Bajaj said in an exclusive interview with CNBC-TV18. He also shared plans for new Chetaks after the festive season and hinted at a CNG bike. Here’s what he shared.

Kapture CX hires Garima Rai as VP of marketing

Garima Rai's expertise lies in assessing market potential, devising new market entry strategies, defining precise customer profiles and buyer personas, and shaping product roadmaps, to drive business growth.

Garima Rai joins from ClearTrail Technologies, where she was the director of marketing.

YouTube’s anti-vaccine content controversy: study shows no proof found

The average share of anti-vaccine or vaccine hesitancy videos remained below 6 percent at all steps in users' recommendation trajectories,” said Margaret Yee Man Ng, an Illinois journalism professor and lead author of the study. (Representative image via Unsplash)

Researchers spoke to participants of the study trained by the World Health Organisation to specifically look for an anti-vaccine video on YouTube with as few clicks as possible. They were asked to begin their search from the first informational Covid-19 video uploaded by WHO on the video-streaming platform.