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HUL is top advertiser in week 41: Barc
Mumbai: FMCG major Hindustan Lever Ltd was the top advertiser in Broadcast Audience Research Council (Barc) week 41 (from 9-15 October) delivering ad volumes of 5025.96 (‘000s), higher than last week’s 4779.73. With 3501.67 (‘000s) Reckitt Benckiser (India) Ltd was at the second position and Cadbury India Ltd (960.27) latched on to the third spot.
Godrej Consumer Products Ltd, Brooke Bond Lipton India Ltd, Amazon Online India Pvt Ltd, Ponds India, ITC Ltd, TVS Motor Company, and Procter & Gamble bagged the remaining positions.
Among the brands, HUL’s Horlicks with 489.37 (‘000s) was most advertised in week 41. It was followed by Amazon.in, Dettol Toilet Soaps, Harpic Power Plus 10X Max Clean, Lalithaa Jewellery, Dettol Antiseptic Liquid, Clinic Plus Shampoo, Lizol, Nykaa, and Moov Pain Balm, in that order.
Lalithaa Jewellery and Nykaa were new entrants to the list.
MUMBAI: In India’s fast-moving payments race, Visa has just swiped in a new leader. The company has named Suresh Sethi as its India country head, marking a key leadership shift as it sharpens its focus on digital payments growth in the market. Sethi steps into the role following his recent exit from Protean eGov Technologies, where he served as chief executive officer. He succeeds Sandeep Ghosh, who has moved on after more than four years at Visa to pursue an external opportunity.
The appointment comes at a time when Visa is doubling down on its expansion strategy across India and the wider region, deepening partnerships and accelerating adoption in an increasingly competitive digital payments ecosystem.
Sethi brings with him a broad, cross-market perspective shaped by decades of experience across corporate banking, retail financial services, mobile money and large-scale government technology initiatives. He began his career at Citigroup, where he spent 14 years working across India, Africa, South America and the United States, focusing on transaction banking services within the corporate bank.
His appointment signals a blend of institutional experience and market familiarity qualities that could prove critical as Visa navigates a landscape where fintech innovation, regulatory evolution and consumer adoption are all accelerating at once.
As digital payments in India continue to scale rapidly, the leadership change underscores a simple reality, in a market where every tap, scan and swipe counts, who leads the charge can matter just as much as the technology itself.
