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Bbrother Shailendra Singh steps down as Joint MD but will continue as a passive shareholder in Percept. He will also no longer be a part of the Board of Directors

BestMediaInfo Bureau | Mumbai | March 23, 2017

Harindra Singh

Shailendra Singh has stepped down as Joint Managing Director at Percept Group. His elder brother Harindra Singh will now exclusively manage operations of the organisation.

Shailendra, who joined the organisation shortly after it was founded in 1984 by Harindra, will no longer be involved in the management of Percept Group. He will also no longer be a part of the Board of Directors which comprises five other individuals including chairman Harindra Singh; Ajay Upadhyay, COO, and three Directors Ajay Chandwani, RK Chaturvedi and Rubeen Malkani. Shailendra, however, will continue as a passive shareholder in Percept.

In an e-mail statement, Harindra said, By the grace of God and with the assistance of family elders and members, Shailendra and I have executed a family settlement and arrangement in relation to the business of the Percept Group Companies and properties. While Shailendra will continue as a passive shareholder in Percept, he will not be involved in the management of the Percept Group and I will hereafter exclusively manage the operations of the Percept Group.

The announcement puts an end to a three-decade-old partnership between the brothers which saw the entertainment, media and communications company go from strength to strength. Today Percept Limited has 42 offices in India and the Middle East and its billings are pegged at Rs 17.26 billion as of last year.

Shailendra is believed to be the brains behind Sunburn which is now amongst worlds biggest dance music festivals.

Percept operates in two core business domains. Creative, media and other marcom services are provided by their marketing and communication services arm called Percept One. Filmed content and live entertainment content come under the umbrella of Content and Intellectual Properties.

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Breakbulk carrier Westlink Logistics has transported a cargo of ammonia flow control units to the U.S. from Australia.

The consignment involved project management, operational supervision, ocean freight, and transportation by road to several U.S. sites.

We managed to reduce costs and time for this project by shipping the over-dimensional cargo on conventional container lines. This successful first delivery for our client has resulted in the awarding of further contracts for similar scopes of work, said Alex Cecchi, business and operations coordinator at Westlink.

Westlink Logistics is a member of the Project Cargo Network, or PCN, a breakbulk association that connects carriers, operators and forwarders worldwide.

Hong Kong PCN member OLA Logistics recently delivered two sets of truck cranes via Nansha Port using 40-foot flat racks.

As truck cranes are self-propelled cargo, we would usually use a ro-ro service. However, the ro-ro service only runs one vessel per month from the required port and the customer was eager to receive the cranes, said William Wan, director of OLA.

Photo : Westlink transported the AFCUs across the U.S. by road. Credit: Westlink

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Mission Control Media has hired producer and development executive Brent Burnette as the new vice president of development,Variety has learned.

In his new role at Mission Control Media, the production company behind unscripted series likeHollywood Game Night and Face Off,Burnette will be tasked with creating and developing original formats in addition to forging new creative and talent partnerships, with a focus on comedy and digital.He will report to MCMs senior vice president of development Nicholas Oakley-Tilley as well as co-presidents Michael Agbabian and Dwight D. Smith.

Brent brings a rich background as both a veteran developer and a skilled executor that complements our existing team incredibly well, Smith said. We are thrilled to have him join us at Mission Control and look forward to creating great content together.

I am so excited for the opportunity to work with the Mission Control team and am looking forward to helping them expand their slate of projects Burnette added.

Most recently, Burnette served as head of development for Wanda Sykes production company, Push It Productions. Previously, heheld vice presidentpositions at Magilla Entertainment and Zodiak NY and also served as thedirector of programming for the New York Television Festival. His producer credits include unscripted series such as Undercover Boss, Wife Swap, What Not To Wear, and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

In addition to Hollywood Game Night and Face Off, Mission Control Media also produces Planet of the Apps with Gwyneth Paltrow, Jessica Alba and will.i.amfor Apple andCelebrity Food Fight hosted by Andy Richter for the Food Network among many other shows.

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The president was referring to his Twitter account. But recently he has taken steps to control news coverage.

The Trump administration has given preferential access to favorable outlets while excluding others -- a move critics say is dangerously reminiscent of state-controlled media.

In the latest incident, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson invited Fox News to cover his meeting at the Korean Demilitarized Zone, on the North-South Korea border, but denied access to the press pool that provides all media outlets with an account of the secretary's activities.

"Fox unilateral network team was allowed into this meeting -- pool asked for access and was blocked," wrote CNN's Pamela Boykoff, the author of Friday's pool report. "Local embassy official told the pool it was 'the Secretary's decision.'"

Tillerson was already being criticized for refusing to allow pool reporters to accompany him on his plane during the trip, which had been a standard practice for his predecessors at the State Department. Tillerson did allow a reporter from the conservative Independent Journal Review to accompany him, but not as a pool reporter.

That reporter, Erin McPike, has not filed any stories from the trip so far -- a source of consternation among other members of the media. A spokesman for IJR said McPike was with Tillerson to write a profile piece, not to write spot news stories about the trip.

"There was absolutely no agreement with State" to forgo daily writing or reporting, McPike told CNNMoney. "I am also not the pool reporter. I'm doing a longer piece." McPike also said she prizes objectivity and fairness: "I completely reject the state-run media charge" leveled by some observers.

On the domestic front, the administration has also given preferential access to favorable media outlets. Five of the seven in-person interviews Trump has given to the media since becoming president have gone to Fox News.

Last month, White House press secretary Sean Spicer blocked CNN, The New York Times, Politico and several other news outlets from attending an off-camera White House press briefing that other reporters were hand-picked to attend. When reporters from these news organizations tried to enter Spicer's office for the gaggle, they were told they could not attend because they were not on the list of attendees.

At Friday's joint press conference, one German reporter asked Trump, "Why are you scared of diversity in the news?"

Trump declined to answer that question.

--CNNMoney's Brian Stelter contributed to this report.

CNNMoney (Los Angeles) First published March 17, 2017: 3:50 PM ET

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