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D’damas offers upto 15 per cent discount on Raksha Bandhan
MUMBAI: On the occasion of Raksha Bandhan, D’damas has launched a Raksha Bandhan end of season sale offer of upto 15 per cent discount on all its various diamond jewelry brands till 5 September, 2005.
In an attempt to add the sparkle and dazzle of fine jewelry to this occasion, D’damas has made available this unique offer at all their outlets — D’damas (exclusive store Hughes Road), Pallazzio (Crossroads), Lifestyle Mall (Malad and Lower Parel), InOrbit Mall (Malad), Popley La Classique (Bandra), and Oyzterbay showrooms.
On purchase of diamond jewelry above Rs 20,000 one can avail a discount of 15 per cent. For all purchases between Rs 10,001 to Rs 20,000 there will be 10 per cent off and 7 per cent off for purchase upto Rs 10,000.
The following D’damas brands are part of the special Raksha Bandhan offer – Glitterati, Bridal range, Occasion Wear range, Unique Settings range, Origin and Victoria’s Desire, at prices ranging from Rs 1,000 and above.
D’damas offers a certificate from International Gemmological Institute with every diamond jewelry product. The brand has a host of brand ambassadors for their various products that include the likes of Amitabh Bachchan, Suneil Shetty, Akshay Kumar, Mahima Choudhry, Celina Jaitely, Simran, Lara Dutta, Sheetal Mallar and former Miss Universe Jennifer Hawkins.
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Abhay Duggal joins JioStar as director of Hindi GEC ad sales
The streaming giant brings in a seasoned revenue hand as the battle for Hindi television advertising heats up
MUMBAI: Abhay Duggal has a new desk, and JioStar has a new weapon. The media and entertainment veteran has joined JioStar as director of entertainment ad sales for Hindi general entertainment channels, adding 17 years of hard-won revenue experience to one of India’s most powerful broadcasting operations.
Duggal is no stranger to big portfolios or bruising markets. Before joining JioStar, he spent a brief stint at Republic World as deputy general manager and north regional head for ad sales. Before that, he put in three years at Enterr10 Television, where he ran the north region for Dangal TV and Dangal 2, two of India’s leading free-to-air Hindi channels. The north alone accounted for more than 50 per cent of total channel revenue on his watch, a number that tends to get attention in any sales meeting.
His longest stint was at Zee Entertainment Enterprises, where he spent over six years rising to associate director of sales. There he commanded the Hindi movies cluster across seven channels, owned more than half of north India’s revenue across flagship properties including Zee TV and &TV, and closed marquee sponsorships across the Indian Premier League, Zee Rishtey Awards and Dance India Dance. He also handled monetisation for the English movies and entertainment cluster and the global news channel WION, a portfolio that would stretch most sales teams twice his size.
Earlier in his career Duggal closed what was then a Rs 3 crore single deal at Reliance Broadcast Network, one of the largest in Indian radio at the time, before that he helped launch and monetise JAINHITS, India’s first HITS-based cable and satellite platform.
His edge, by his own account, lies in marrying data and instinct: translating audience trends, inventory signals and client demands into long-term partnerships built on cost-per-rating-point discipline rather than short-term deal chasing. In a media landscape being reshaped by streaming, fragmented attention and AI-driven advertising, that kind of rigour is increasingly rare and increasingly valuable.
JioStar, which blends the scale of Reliance’s Jio platform with the content firepower of Star, is doubling down on its advertising business at precisely the moment the Hindi GEC market is getting more competitive. Bringing in someone who has spent nearly two decades doing exactly this, across some of India’s most watched channels, is a pointed statement of intent. Duggal has spent his career turning audiences into revenue. JioStar is clearly betting he can do it again, and bigger.
