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NIIT Technologies is now a Business Superbrand
| New Delhi September 9, 2005: The Business Superbrands Council conferred the Business Superbrands status on NIIT Technologies, the global IT Solutions organization. Mr Praful Patel, Union Minister of Civil Aviation presented the Business Superbrands award to Mr Arvind Thakur, CEO, NIIT Technologies, the only IT services company from India to be awarded this status.
 Speaking on the occasion, Mr Arvind Thakur, CEO, NIIT Technologies, said, “The Business Superbrands status acknowledges the spirit of innovation that we follow at NIIT Technologies. The new brand responsibility will inspire us to reinforce the trust that our global customers place in us.”
The Council, an independent authority on branding, spread across 44 countries, was established more than a decade ago in the UK. The members of the Business Superbrands Council include marketing gurus and CEOs of some of the most successful global businesses in India.
The Business Superbrands Council included Anmol Dar, MD, Superbrands India; Mukesh D. Ambani, CMD, Reliance Industries; Gurcharan Das, former CEO, Procter & Gamble; R. Gopalakrishnan, Executive Director, Tata Sons; Prithvi Haldea, MD, Prime Database; Naina Kidwai, Deputy CEO, HSBC; K N Memani, former Chairman of Ernst & Young; Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman & Group MD, Bharti Enterprises; Nandan Nilekani, CEO, President & MD, Infosys Technologies; Deepak Parekh, Chairman, HDFC; M S Ramachandran, Chairman, IOC and Subir Raha, CMD, ONGC.
About NIIT Technologies Limited NIIT Technologies, the global IT solutions organization, services customers in the USA, Europe, Japan, Asia Pacific and India. It offers services in Application Development and Maintenance, Enterprise Integration and Business Process Management to organizations in the Financial Services, Transportation, Retail and Government sectors.
NIIT Technologies follows global standards of development, including an ISO 9001:2000 certification and assessment at Level 5 of SEI-CMMi and Level 3 of People CMM framework. NIIT Technologies’ subsidiaries NIIT SmartServe Limited and NIIT GIS Limited offer Business Process Management and GIS Solutions, respectively.
Its major global customers include British Airways, Channel 4, Holcim group, ING Group, Office Depot, SEI Investments, Singapore Airlines and Toyota Motors.
For media queries, please contact: Antara Das, NIIT Technologies Limited, Ph: +91 11 26203324, Fax: +91 11 26203386; Email: antara.das@niit-tech.com |
The prestigious Business Superbrands selection follows a rigorous year-long assessment of over 834 corporate entities in 92 categories by the Business Superbrands Council. Besides NIIT Technologies, the other prominent winners include Gujarat Ambuja, HDFC, Godrej & Boyce.
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Senior media executive Madhu Soman exits Zee Media
Former Reuters and Bloomberg leader says he leaves with “no regrets” after brief stint at WION and Zee Business
NOIDA: Madhu Soman, a veteran of global newsrooms and media sales floors, has stepped away from Zee Media Corporation after a short stint steering business strategy for WION and Zee Business.
In a reflective LinkedIn note marking his departure, Soman said his time within the network’s corridors was always likely to be brief. “Some chapters close faster than expected,” he wrote, signalling the end of a nearly two-year spell in which he oversaw both editorial partnerships and commercial strategy.
Soman joined Zee Media in 2022 after more than a decade abroad with Reuters and Bloomberg, returning to India to take on the role of chief business officer for WION and Zee Business. His mandate was ambitious: bridge the newsroom and the revenue desk while expanding digital and broadcast reach.
During the stint, Zee Business reached break-even for the first time since its launch in 2005, while WION refreshed programming and strengthened its digital footprint across platforms such as YouTube and Facebook.
But Soman suggested the cultural fit proved uneasy. Describing himself as a “cultural misfit”, he hinted at deeper tensions between editorial instincts shaped in global newsrooms and the realities of India’s television news ecosystem.
Before joining Zee, Soman spent more than seven years at Bloomberg in Hong Kong as head of broadcast sales for Asia-Pacific, expanding the company’s news syndication business across several markets. Earlier, he held senior editorial roles at Reuters, overseeing online strategy in India and managing Reuters Video Services from London.
His career began in television and wire reporting, including a stint with ANI during the 1999 Kargil conflict, before moving into digital publishing as India’s internet media landscape took shape.
Now, after nearly three decades in broadcast and digital media, Soman is leaving Delhi NCR and returning to his hometown, Trivandrum.
Exhausted, he admits. But unbowed. And with one quiet line that sums up the journey: he didn’t sell his soul — because some things, after all, are not for sale.
