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Kaizzen bags communication mandate for Konica Minolta
Mumbai: Konica Minolta announced on Thursday that it has appointed Kaizzen, India’s fastest-growing agency, as a strategic communications partner. With this partnership, Kaizzen will drive corporate reputation management, thought leadership, and brand partnerships across multiple stakeholders and communities.
Japan-based Konica Minolta has expertise in empowering enterprises through digital printing and intelligent work solutions. Driven by innovation, Konica Minolta is a customer-centric organisation undertaking challenges to optimise other ventures through inclusiveness and collaboration with customers and partners.
Konica Minolta general manager-office marketing division Sanjay Monga said, “We are delighted to partner with the country’s fastest-growing public relations agency, Kaizzen. We believe, with this collaboration, we hope to create a more vocal presence as a brand that helps organisations build, sustain, and thrive digitally.”
Through an integrated communications strategy, Kaizzen will propel Konica Minolta towards building lasting brand recognition, media positioning of the top-brass, and increasing social visibility through an integrated communications strategy, while also assisting with their greener, sustainable initiatives.
Speaking on the partnership, Kaizzen CEO Vineet Handa said, “Konica Minolta has established itself as a leading brand that empowers businesses through digital intelligent work solutions and printing. We are privileged to have them on board and look forward to creating success stories for our patrons. For us, each new client is equivalent to an award win that we cherish most. Our goal at Kaizzen is to strengthen our client’s reputation and to bring their leadership views to the stage.”
Over the years, Kaizzen has grown into a prominent PR and digital media agency with a diverse portfolio in education, hospitality, FMCG, and technology. The company has recently won the “Agency of the Year (mid-sized)” at the ET Brand Equity – Kaleido Awards’21.
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UltraTech Cement appoints Jayant Dua as managing director
Dua will succeed K. C. Jhanwar after his term ends in December 2026
MUMBAI: UltraTech Cement, the flagship cement arm of the Aditya Birla Group, has elevated Jayant Dua as managing director, effective 1 April, 2026.
The company’s board also approved his appointment as additional director, managing director and key managerial personnel, effective 1 January, 2027, following the completion of the current managing director K C Jhanwar’s term on 31 December, 2026, according to a regulatory filing.
Dua will serve as managing director for a four-year term from 1 January, 2027 to 31 December, 2030.
A veteran executive with more than 37 years of professional experience, Dua joined the Aditya Birla Group’s cement business in 1996 and spent nearly a decade in various functional and leadership roles.
Over the past two decades, he has held several profit-and-loss and chief executive responsibilities across multiple group businesses, including insulators, insurance, Century Cement and the chlor-alkali segment. In 2023, he was elevated to lead the group’s renewables and textiles businesses.
Within the group, Dua has received several internal honours, including the chairman’s individual award for exceptional contribution in 2002, the outstanding leader award in 2009 and the leader of leaders recognition in 2022.
He holds an engineering degree from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, an MBA from International Management Institute and has completed the advanced management programme at Harvard Business School.
