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BBC World lines up two year end specials
MUMBAI: BBC World will be airing two special year-end one-hour episodes – Review 2004 and India: The Year Ahead. These specials will take a hard look at the year gone by.
These specials will be broadcast on 26 December and 2 January under the India Business Report segment.
UTV CEO Ronnie Screwvala will bring his insights of the macro economic headlines of the year. The programme produced by UTV, will be in the form of a panel discussion in which some of the most prominent economists and business leaders in India will discuss the main issues facing the Indian economy in 2004, and the challenges ahead in 2005. An audience featuring business students, entrepreneurs and corporate executives will also form a part of the discussion.
The panel discussions are preceded by viewpoints from Asian Development Bank deputy country manager Sudipto Mundle for 2004 and from Gurcharan Das for 2005.
The panel discussions include CRISIL Chief Economist Subir Gikran, Centre for Monitoring the Indian Economy MD Mahesh Vyas and Shell Group of Companies chairman Vikram Singh Mehta for the year that was and JM Morgan Stalnely MD Nimesh Kampani, Godrej Group chairman Adi Godrej and Oxus Research and Investments MD Surjit Bhalla for 2005 – what’s in store.
Brands
Marico names Ankit Porwal CEO for beauty and digital
Former L’Oréal leader to steer styling portfolio and power data-led growth
MUMBAI: Marico has brought in a seasoned beauty and e-commerce hand to sharpen its digital edge. The company has appointed Ankit Porwal as chief executive officer for beauty and styling in its digital business, tasking him with leading the portfolio while accelerating online and data-driven growth.
In his new role, Porwal will oversee Marico’s beauty and styling brands and drive the company’s push across digital commerce and omnichannel platforms. The mandate is clear: build stronger online visibility, harness data more intelligently, and turn clicks into consistent growth.
He joins from L’Oréal, where he spent more than thirteen years in a series of regional leadership roles across Asia and the Middle East. Most recently, he served as regional director and general manager for e-commerce and marketing transformation for the Sapmena region, where he focused on building large-scale digital, content and data transformation engines.
Before that, Porwal led the consumer products division as general manager for the Malaysia and Singapore cluster and earlier headed e-commerce for the South East Asia, India, Pacific, Middle East and North Africa region. His work spanned building digital infrastructure, expanding online penetration and leading cross-functional teams across sales, marketing, finance and supply chain.
His L’Oréal stint also included regional marketing leadership for Garnier across India and South East Asia, as well as senior marketing roles in Indonesia and India. Prior to L’Oréal, Porwal built his early career at Colgate-Palmolive and Wipro Consumer Care and Lighting, moving through sales and marketing roles across India and Thailand.
With this appointment, Marico is betting on deep beauty expertise and digital fluency to style its next phase of growth. For Porwal, it is a homecoming of sorts, back to the Indian consumer market, this time with a mandate to blend beauty, data and digital into a sharper growth formula.
