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    Taj Mahal Palace, Mumbai

    Gautam Adani, Chairman, Adani Group

    * Was having dinner at the Chambers’ – a restaurant on Taj first floor – last evening. He was rescued at 9 am today.

    Ravi Kant, MD, Tata Motors

    * Unconfirmed reports say he was in a meet with the Korean delegation to discuss commercial vehicles, was rescued at 5 am.

    RK Krishna Kumar, MD, Taj Group of Hotels

    * Safely evacuated.

    The Oberoi Trident

    James Turley, Global Chairman & CEO, Ernst & Young

    * He checked out of Trident at 1 pm last afternoon to be there for the E&Y Entrepreneurs Awards at Taj Lands End

    Vinod Garg, Director, Ispat Industries

    * On a dinner outing with wife and friends, was rescued at 4 pm today.

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    Madhavi Puri Buch, Executive Director, ICICI Bank

    * She was at Oberoi along with her husband Dhaval Buch, a director at Hindustan Unilever Ltd. She was rescued at 4 am today.

    Hindustan Unilever Ltd Board

    Patrick Cescau, Group CEO, Unilever

    Paul Polman, CEO-elect, Unilever

    Harish Manwani, Chairman, HUL

    Nitin Paranjpe, CEO, HUL

    Dhaval Buch, Director, HUL

    * The Unilever management were huddled in a board meet, finally evacuated at 4 pm today.

    PRS Oberoi, chairman, Oberoi Group, was just about to talk to the media at about 10 pm after collecting the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year (Lifetime Achievement) Award at Taj Lands End on Wednesday where about 50 top CEOs had gathered. He must have perhaps expected a congratulatory call but, unfortunately, it was a call from his office about the terror attack at Trident on Nariman Point, about 18 km away. Extremely disturbed, he left the venue in a hurry.

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    HUL executives absolutely safeBy: Sandhya | 28-Nov-2008 Reply | Forward This is the statement being made on behalf of Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL).We wish to confirm that the Unilever Group CEO Mr. Patrick Cescau, the Unilever CEO-elect Paul Polman and the HUL Management team including HUL Chairman, Mr. Harish Manwani and HUL CEO Mr Nitin Paranjpe, who were at the Taj Hotel (Mumbai) yesterday, had left the hotel last night (November 26th) itself and they are all safe and accounted for. Our thoughts are with all those who have been affected by these unfortunate events.For more information on the subject do visit www.hul.co.in.For any queries write in to us at sandhya@windchimes.co.in
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