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Infosys to start hotel type facility
BANGALORE: Following Wipro’s footsteps which had established 100 room hotel type facility in its Sarjapur complex way back in 2001, Infosys plans to set up a similar facility at Electronics City in Banaglore.
Bad roads, room shortages have prompted the IT major to build an in-campus five star hotel-like facility, says media reports. Infosys gets about 50 to 60 visitors a day, apart from high value overseas clients. Shortage of quality rooms, bad roads and the long and traffic filled drives result in loss of more than three hours a day, according to Infosys CFO Mohandas Pai.
Working late hours compounds the problems and hence Infosys has hired a builder to build an in-house five star 500-room hotel type facility for its clients and other visitors coming to Bangalore.
Infosys plans to call it ‘Infosys Residence” and the project will be built in its 275,000 square feet area in the Electronics City campus at an estimated cost of Rs.375 million.
On the anvil is a similar facility by Wipro at their Electronic City Complex.
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Prakash Nair reportedly quits Ogilvy after 23 years
One of the agency’s longest-serving leaders has moved on, with his next destination still unknown
MUMBAI: After more than two decades at one address, Prakash Nair has left the building. The president and head of office, north at Ogilvy has moved on from the agency, according to highly placed industry sources. His next move remains unknown. Ogilvy did not respond to requests for comment.
Nair spent over 23 years at the agency, making him one of its longest-serving senior figures. He was elevated to lead the Gurugram office in April 2022, a role that put him at the helm of Ogilvy’s northern operations at a time of considerable churn across the advertising industry.
Before taking charge in the capital, Nair served as associate president at Ogilvy Mumbai, where he worked on some of the agency’s most prized accounts, including Mondelez, Tata Motors, and BP Castrol. Over the years, he built a reputation for driving modern, integrated, and award-winning work, the kind that wins metals at Cannes and keeps clients from straying.
His departure was marked in style. A farewell gathering was held in Delhi, attended by senior figures from across the advertising fraternity, a signal of the regard in which Nair is held in an industry that does not always pause to say goodbye properly.
Where he goes next is the question the industry is now asking. After 23 years at one of the world’s most storied agencies, the answer, when it comes, will be worth watching.
