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Random House awards social media duties to Creativa India
MUMBAI: Random House India, the Indian arm of English language general trade book publisher Random House Inc, has entrusted its social media mandate to Delhi-based Creativa India.
The agency will handle their social media as well as digital banners across various sites and will be responsible for online promotion for the publishing house’s book on social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and Pintrest.
Creative India founder Himanshu Bhalla said, “We’re pretty excited about working with such a big name in the publishing industry and teaming up with them to establish a digital footprint.”
Creativa India co-founder Dinesh Juneja said, “With the publishing industry booming in India, we have a great potential to do good work across social platforms.”
Creativa India is a content generation firm that specialises in social media marketing and creative advertising. It was launched in 2010 and since then has worked with clients across segments like airlines, publishing, mobility, education and e-commerce portals. The agency provides service like social media management, online reputation management, real-time video production and online media buying.
Random House India was started in July 2005 and publishes work by writers like Rujuta Diwekar, Anita Desai, Namita Devidayal, Mohammed Hanif, Jhumpa Lahiri, Manju Kapur, Daniyal Mueenuddin and Basharat Peer.
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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.
