Gautam Thapar joins Bata board
Gautam Thapar, vice-chairman and managing director of Ballarpur Industries Ltd (Bilt), has been invited to join the board of the Canada-based Bata International, which the runs Bata's worldwide shoe business.

Mr Thapar will be travelling to Toronto later this month to attend his first meeting of the Bata International board.

Earlier, Tarun Das, director general of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), was appointed on the 12-member International Advisory Board of the Atlanta-based The Coca-Cola Company.
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Saregama reorganises music business
Kolkata: Saregama India Ltd (SIL), RPG group company, has reorganization its music business in order to promote further growth.

Under this reorganisation, while the company's managing director, Mr Abhik Mitra, will function as the strategic business unit head for the music business, other divisions have been created whose heads would report to Mr Mitra.

Mr Raj Grover, who was earlier with another group company - - MusicWorld, will now be head of operations and international business. Mr Kulmeet Makkar will act as head of new Hindi film acquisitions and regional marketing, taking over from Mr Harish Dayani, who was earlier heading domestic music business.
Mr Dayani will now be the chief executive of the film business.

Mr Atul Churamani, will be in charge of looking for new artistes, a new business into which Saregama entered recently.
Mr Biman Mitra will look after manufacturing. All these HoDs would report directly to the MD,

Saregama also aims at growth in two new areas — to emerge as a TV content hub and as a producer of quality Indian films.
The company has already set up a wholly-owned subsidiary, Saregama Films, to lead its foray into film-making and also look after its software business. The TV software business has now bought a large stake in Min Bimbangal Productions, a Rs 10-crore TV content provider for south Indian channels.
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