The Hindu : New chairman for ABC

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Sunday, Sep 28, 2003

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New chairman for ABC

By Our Special Correspondent

MUMBAI Sept. 27. Krishan Premnarayen, partner, Prem Associates Advertising and Marketing, Mumbai is the new Chairman of the Audit Bureau of Circulations.

Mr. Premnarayen brings with him over 30 years of experience in advertising industry. He was the youngest president of Advertising Agencies Association of India (AAAI), Mumbai, at the age of 35. He is a representative on several industry bodies and is the Chairman-AAAI Government Relations Committee and also its Executive Committee Member since 1985. Mr. Premnarayen was elected to the Bureau's Council of Management in the year 1994 and has held important honorary positions as the Bureau's Honorary Secretary and Deputy Chairman of the Council.

The list of members on the ABC's Council of Management for the year 2003-2004 is: Advertising Agencies Representatives — Mr. Premnarayen, Anil Kapoor, FCB-Ulka Advertising Ltd, Prem Mehta, Lintas India Pvt Ltd, Sam Balsara, Madison Communications Pvt. Ltd. Advertisers Representatives — Kurush N. Grant, ITC Ltd, Nabankur Gupta, Raymond Ltd, Arvind H. Mittal, UTI Asset Management Co Pvt Ltd, Subroto Chattopadhyay, Pepsi Foods Pvt Ltd. Publishers Representatives — K.N. Shanth Kumar, ``Prajavani'', The Printers (Mysore) Pvt Ltd, Philip Mathew, The Week, Malayala Manorama Co. Ltd, Ashwini Kumar Chopra, Punjab Kesari, Hind Samachar Limited, Shobhana Bhartia, Hindustan Times, The Hindustan Times Ltd, C.H. Kiron, Eenadu, Ushodaya Enterprises Ltd, Smruti S. Shah, Gujarat Samachar, Lok Prakashan Ltd, Ravi Dhariwal, Navbharat Times (New Delhi), Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd and Vijay Darda, Lokmat, Lokmat Newspapers Pvt Ltd.