{"id":25727,"date":"2018-03-23T12:23:55","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T12:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=25727"},"modified":"2018-03-23T12:23:55","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T12:23:55","slug":"kumar-mangalam-birla-to-be-chairman-of-merged-vodafone-idea-entity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/kumar-mangalam-birla-to-be-chairman-of-merged-vodafone-idea-entity\/","title":{"rendered":"Kumar Mangalam Birla to be chairman of merged Vodafone-Idea entity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi,<br \/>\nIdea Cellular and Vodafone Group on Thursday announced the new leadership team of the soon-to-be merged entity that will have Kumar Mangalam Birla as the non-executive chairman.<\/p>\n<p>Announcing the top deck for the merged entity, a regulatory filing by Idea Cellular said that Balesh Sharma (currently chief operating officer of Vodafone India) will be the CEO. He will be responsible for the combined business strategy and its execution as well as driving integration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe existing leadership teams of Idea Cellular and Vodafone India will continue to manage their separate businesses and be accountable for each company\u2019s operational performance until the merger becomes effective,\u201d Idea Cellular said.<\/p>\n<p>It may be recalled that the two companies had, in 2017, announced they will combine the operations to create the country\u2019s largest telecom operator worth over USD 23 billion, with a 35 per cent market share.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Idea Cellular and Vodafone Group on Thursday announced the new leadership team of the soon-to-be merged entity that will have Kumar Mangalam Birla as the non-executive chairman. Announcing the top deck for the merged entity, a regulatory filing by Idea Cellular said that Balesh Sharma (currently chief operating officer of Vodafone India) will [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25728,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[410],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25729,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25727\/revisions\/25729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}