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New business wins for Madison Bangalore
MUMBAI: Madison Media Omega, the Bengaluru office of Madison Media Group, has been on an account winning spree, having won key accounts including J G Hosiery, the makers of Amul innerwear, Metro Cash and Carry, Zivame, Ashirwad Pipes and Total Environment.
All the accounts put together are estimated to spend about Rs 100 crore.
The other accounts handled by Madison Media in Bangalore are Acer, TVS, Bharti Axa Life Insurance, Levis, Cafe Coffee Day and Enamor. Platinum Media handles ITC Foods through its Crest division.
Commenting on this development, chief operating officer Dinesh Rathore said, “Over the last one year our endeavour has been to increase our client portfolio by providing sound strategic advice to our clients and being their trusted communication partners in building their brands and business in the country.”
Madison Media Group had won a host of new businesses in 2014 including Lafarge Cement, Epic channel, Nirav Modi, Senco Gold, Wockhardt Hospitals, Cordlife, Lenskart, DHFL, Viber and the media mandate for BJP for the national elections and for Maharashtra, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir and the current Delhi election.
Madison Media Group is India’s foremost media agency handling media planning and buying for blue chip clients including Airtel, Godrej, Mondelez (formerly Cadbury), ITC, Marico, McDonald’s, TVS, Raymond, Piramal Healthcare, Levis, SpiceJet, Domino’s, Bharti AXA, Max Life Insurance, Asian Paints, Pidilite, Tata Salt, Acer, Times Television Network, Indian Oil, Enamor Lingerie, Gowardhan Dairy, HomeShop 18, Café Coffee Day and many others. The gross billing of Madison Media Group is about Rs 3000 crore.
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.
