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Pimpri Chinchwad Corporation invites outdoor tenders
MUMBAI: Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has invited sealed quotations from experienced agencies, advertisers and prospective entrepreneurs for grant of advertising rights of outdoor advertising media viz hoardings, unipoles, kiosks and balloons.
The deal will be for a period of six years, to be erected / installed on public places as specified by PCMC which manages the civic affairs of the city of Pimpri-Chinchwad and has emerged as one of the biggest industrial cities of Maharashtra.
Types of media
Tenderable Groups
E.M.D
Hoarding along different roads 15 groups of 7-11 hoardings each Rs.10,000 per group
Unipoles 7 nos. at various roads in seven groups Rs.10,000 per group
Kiosks on street poles 1500 nos. at various roads in a single group Rs.10,000 per group
Maximum E.M.D. Rs 1,00,000 per applicant
Cost of information booklet Rs 3,000 per booklet
Cost of tender form Rs 100 per tender able group per media
The notice placed by the Municipal commissioner in a daily newspaper says that the information booklet and tender forms of the above advertising media will be available from 23 April to 7 May 2003 at the Stores Department, Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation Head Office, Ground Floor, Pimpri, except Sundays and holidays in working hours on payment by cash.
Tender forms duly completed in all respects accompanied by all the documents as specified in the tender document should reach the Stores Department latest by 1 pm on 8 May, 2003.
The bids will be opened on the same day at 4 pm or on any other day and the same will be informed to all the bidders.
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Sameer Nair shares heartfelt note as he exits Applause Entertainment
After nine years building the streamer’s content engine, one of India’s best-known TV men is moving on
MUMBAI: Sameer Nair is out. The chief executive of Applause Entertainment, the content studio backed by Kumar Mangalam Birla’s media empire, has announced his departure after nearly nine years at the helm, closing the chapter on one of Indian entertainment’s more quietly consequential careers.
Nair, who built Applause from the ground up in its current avatar, oversaw a slate that spanned Indian originals and international adaptations, threading together a hub-and-spoke business model that partnered with streaming platforms, broadcasters and production houses alike. The results were uneven, as they always are in content, but the ambition was not.
In a post on LinkedIn, Nair was generous to his outgoing patron. He thanked Birla for being an “inspirational boss and a great patron of the arts,” and signed off with a cheerful “Au Revoir” and a promise to remain Applause’s biggest cheerleader. Whether that sentiment survives the next chapter remains to be seen.
No successor has been named. Applause Entertainment did not immediately comment.
Nair built the machine. Now someone else has to run it — and in a streaming market that is simultaneously consolidating and convulsing, that is no small ask.
