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Former COO, Style Spa - Birla Group, joins Ebony Gautier
November 21, 2008
Ebony Homes– the specialty retail venture of the USD 3 billion DS Corp, has announced the appointment of KA Parameswaran as the CEO of Ebony Gautier. Parameswaran, former COO of Style Spa Furniture Limited - a KK Birla group company, has been specifically mandated to drive the home adornment retail business of Ebony Gautier.

In his new role as the CEO of Ebony Gautier, Parameswaran will spearhead the company’s long term and development strategy which would include undertaking expansion of Ebony Gautier specialty retail stores across the country over the next two years.

Tesco HSC appoints Sandeep Dhar as CEO
Tesco Hindustan Service Centre (HSC), the global services arm of the global retailer Tesco, has appointed Sandeep Dhar as its new CEO. Prior to this, Dhar, served as the managing director of the India operations for technology consulting company, Sapient Technologies. Dhar replaced Meena Ganesh at Tesco HSC, who quit to start her own venture.

Avery India appoints new chairman
Avery India, a leading electronic scale manufacturer and supplier of weighing machines and weighing automation, has named Andrew Caffyn as the new chairman of the company in place of Carl Cramer. The company made the announcement today in its filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE).

Further, the company also announced about the resignation of Rajiv K Luthra as a director on the board of the company.

Titan appoints Parthasarathy as additional director
Titan Industries, India's leading manufacturer of timewear and jewellery, has appointed V Parthasarathy as an additional director in the board of the company. The annoncement came as a company filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange.Parthasarathy is senior general manager - finance at Tamilnadu Industrial Development Corporation Ltd (TIDCO).

Further, the company said that S Susai, nominee director, TIDCO has resigned as director of Titan Industries.

Timex appoints Gopalratnam Kannan as new president
TIMEX, one of the world’s leading watchmakers, has appointed of Gopalratnam Kannan as president for India operations. Kannan would be reporting to Kapil Kapoor, MD, TIMEX Group India Limited (TGIL).

Prior to joining TIMEX, Kannan has more than 18 years of experience as country manager for the Swatch Group, with the responsibility of all India operations for esteemed brands like Omega, Longines, Rado, Blancpain, Tissot and Swatch.

AK Dasgupta joins Grasim Industries
Grasim Industries, a part of Aditya Birla Group, has appointed AK Dasgupta as the additional director of the company. The decision was taken in the board meeting held today.

Grasim is world’s second largest producer of Viscose Rayon Fiber with about 21 per cent market share and contributes to 15 per cent of the Aditya Birla group turnover.

Additional role for BIGFlix COO; to head BIG Pictures distribution too
Kamal Gianchandani, chief operating officer (COO), BIGFlix, now, has a wider portfolio to his name under the Reliance BIG Entertainment brand.

Apart from heading BIGFlix.com, the DVD rental business, Gianchandani will also head the distribution of BIG Pictures. He replaces Manoj Chauhan, COO, BIG Pictures, who has quit the organisation.

Aditya Birla Retail's marketing head joins Tatas
Trexa, the mall management company of Tata Group's retail arm Trent and a global private equity firm The Xander Group, has hired Sanjay Badhe as its new CEO, according to sources. Badhe will be making the shift from Aditya Birla Retail where he served as head of marketing.

Badhe has earlier worked with companies such as Shoppers Stop, Raymond, Al Futtaim Watches & Jewellery and MARG Marketing Group.

Gitanjali Group appoints Dhiresh Sharma as retail head
Gitanjali Group, country's leading integrated jewellery maker, has announced the appointment of its new retail head — Dhiresh Sharma.

Sharma, on his appointment said, "I am extremely excited to have been entrusted with the task of leading the retail function at the Gitanjali Group. I am confident that all together we will write yet another page of the success story of the Gitanjali Group."

Zhongpin appoints Feng Wang as new CFO
Zhongpin, a leading meat and food processing company in China, has named Feng Warren Wang as its new chief financial officer (CFO). Yuanmei Ma, company's former CFO, had earlier resigned from the post for personal reasons. Wang's career spans over 10 years with key leadership positions in finance, audit, accounting, strategic planning, and mergers and acquisitions. He most recently served as group finance controller for Agria Corporation, an agri-solutions provider.

Zhongpin is a meat and food processing company. With over 2,960 retail outlets across China, the company also sells fruits and vegetables.

LSG appoints new VP, Middle East
LSG Sky Chefs has announced that Michael Malchartzeck will take on the role of vice president - sales and services, Middle East, based in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Malchartzeck will take the charge on November 1. Michael Malchartzeck has been VP sales and services for the company's Asia/Pacific region since August 2006. Previous to that, he held various sales and managerial positions with LSG Sky Chefs as well as in-flight positions at Etihad Airways in Abu Dhabi. LSG Sky Chefs is the world's leading provider of in-flight services that include airline catering, in-flight equipment and logistics as well as the management of onboard service and in-flight retail.

Kesa Electricals appoints new CEO
Kesa Electricals, Europe’s third largest electrical retailing group, has announced that Jean-Noel Labroue has decided to retire. He will leave after a handover period to Thierry Falque-Pierrotin who is joining the Group on January 5, 2009 as CEO. Falque-Pierrotin joins from PPR Group where he has been chairman and CEO since 2001 of Redcats Group.

McDonalds India MD on RAI’s governing board
Retailers Association of India (RAI) at its recent governing board meeting inducted Vikram Bakshi, managing director, McDonalds India (North and East) into the board.

C Subramaniam joins Gitanjali Group
Gitanjali Group has announced the appointment of C Subramaniam as the group president human resources of Gitanjali Group. Subramaniam comes with eighteen years of experience in the HR function. He was earlier employed with Siyarams Silk Mills, Ashai Glass, Videocon International Ltd, Mirc Electronics Ltd (Onida).

Simon Tang joins Datamax O'Neil as vice president
Datamax O'Neil, a subsidiary of Dover Corporation, announced the appointment of Simon Tang to the position of vice president of the Asia-Pacific region. Tang will be responsible for leading the company's market growth throughout the region.

Ashok Bhasin joins Wadhawan Retail as MD
Wadhawan Food Retail Pvt Ltd (WFRL) has announced the appointment of Ashok Bhasin as its new managing director for its entire business.

Partha Datta Gupta quits Barista as CEO
Partha Datta Gupta, the chief executive officer of Barista, has left the company to join the Swatch Group.

Kunal Sachdev quits Hidesign to start own retail venture
Kunal R Sachdev has quit as CEO of Hidesign to set up his own venture in the retail space.

Vivek Kaul joins DLF Retail
Vivek Kaul has moved from Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) to DLF Retail, as Head Leasing. Before joining DLF, Vivek was the National Director in Retail & Leisure Advisory practice at JLL.

Ashish Kirpal Pandit quits Fortis HealthWorld, joins VLCC
Moving over from Fortis Healthworld, Ashish Kirpal Pandit has joined VLCC as divisional chief operating officer- education business, indian subcontinent and head of business and senior vice president – corporate affairs, group companies- indian subcontinent.

Parsvnath appoints independent director for its retail wing
Parsvnath Retail Limited, a subsidiary of Parsvnath Developers Limited (PDL), one of India’s leading real estate companies, has appointed RJ Kamath as independent director for its retail business.

Vivek Seigell resigns from HCL Infosystem
Vivek Seigell has resigned from HCL Infosystems from the position of country head-Retail, Etail (E-commerce and consumer finance).

Andrew Levermore quits HyperCity
After putting in four years as CEO of HyperCity, Andrew Levermore is set to leave the K. Raheja group. An official statement from the company confirmed that Levermore will be returning to South Africa at the end of December 2008.

Munish Baldev joins DLF
Munish Baldev, former president of Indiabulls Real Estate Limited (IBREL), has joined DLF, one of the country’s leading real estate developers, as vice president, marketing.

Shilpa Malik quits Select Citywalk
Shilpa Malik has left the team of Select Citywalk where she was associated as the vice president.

Pranay Sinha steps down as Select Citywalk CEO
Pranay Sinha, the renowned real estate and shopping centre professional, stepped down as president & CEO of Select Infrastructure.

Sanjay Sethi joins Technopak
Sanjay Sethi has joined Technopak Advisors Pvt Ltd. as Vice President, Food Industry Practice. Before joining Technopak, he was vice president, Premium Farm Fresh Produce Limited (Bharat Hotels).

Abdul Rab joins Carrefour
Abdul Rab, vice president for retail and business development at Parsvnath Developers has joined Carrefour.