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  • Havas Media India makes senior digital appointments

    Havas Media India makes senior digital appointments

    MUMBAI: Havas Media India which has added a slew of wins to the kitty in 2013 has strengthened its ‘digital’ segment with two key senior appointments.

    In tune with the group’s integrated structure, Havas Media India’s full services digital portfolio includes digital media planning and buying, display advertising, digital direct response, search engine marketing, SEO, pay-per-click, social media, as well as ‘Mobext’ for mobile solutions and performance marketing using data and analytics.
    Havas Media Group, India & South Asia CEO Anita Nayyar
    Havas Media India MD digital Anurag Bhatnagar

    To establish itself further in India, the company has appointed Sumit Kumar as General Manager; while S.V. Sunilkumar has joined as Business Head Digital-Mumbai, whose key responsibility will be to service the existing digital clientele in Mumbai as well as new business development.

    Speaking on the appointments, Havas Media Group, India & South Asia CEO Anita Nayyar said, “Digital is a focal point for us and these appointments will further consolidate our attempt to offer the latest digital services to our clients. Both Sumit and Sunil are talented and committed digital players – we are glad to have them on board.”

    “Sunil and Sumit are mandated to entrenching and expanding the Havas Digital footprint in Mumbai and India”, added Havas Media India MD-Digital Anurag Bhatnagar.

    “Mobext not only provides mobile solutions to engage the customer but can also help brands make their sales force more effective with our enterprise solutions – a unique proposition in itself. The profile is a huge challenge and opportunity to create unique experiences and expand the Mobext offering in India”, explained Sumit Kumar, General Manager, Mobext India
    Havas Media business head digital Mumbai Sunil Kumar
    Mobext India GM Sumit Kumar

    Business Head Digital-Mumbai S.V. Sunilkumar commented, “As a digital enthusiast, it is always exciting to work with an agency whose mantra is ‘Digital at its core’. Havas Media has been on an aggressive growth path and again it is good to be where the action is. I look forward to creating some of this action”.

    Sumit Kumar, with over eight years of leadership experience in business development, strategic partnerships, product management and corporate sales, was earlier leading the performance and app advertising business for InMobi India. Clients worked with include – Tata DOCOMO, Vodafone, Sony Entertainment, Disney, OLX, Viacom 18, Tencent, AOL, Cleartip , Hungama, Nazara, Opera and Times Group. 

    Sunilkumar with 18 years of media experience was working with Infosys as a Principal Consultant and a part of the core product development team at BrandEdge (the global cloud based digital marketing platform). Also, as digital media head at DDB Mudra, he has serviced clients including LIC, Star TV, McDonalds, IDBI Bank, India First Life Insurance, etc.

  • Havas Media India makes senior digital appointments

    Havas Media India makes senior digital appointments

    MUMBAI: Havas Media India which has added a slew of wins to the kitty in 2013 has strengthened its ‘digital’ segment with two key senior appointments.

    In tune with the group’s integrated structure, Havas Media India’s full services digital portfolio includes digital media planning and buying, display advertising, digital direct response, search engine marketing, SEO, pay-per-click, social media, as well as ‘Mobext’ for mobile solutions and performance marketing using data and analytics.

    To establish itself further in India, the company has appointed Sumit Kumar as General Manager; while S.V. Sunilkumar has joined as Business Head Digital-Mumbai, whose key responsibility will be to service the existing digital clientele in Mumbai as well as new business development.

    Speaking on the appointments, Havas Media Group, India & South Asia CEO Anita Nayyar said, “Digital is a focal point for us and these appointments will further consolidate our attempt to offer the latest digital services to our clients. Both Sumit and Sunil are talented and committed digital players – we are glad to have them on board.”

    “Sunil and Sumit are mandated to entrenching and expanding the Havas Digital footprint in Mumbai and India”, added Havas Media India MD-Digital Anurag Bhatnagar.
    Havas Media Group, India & South Asia CEO Anita Nayyar
    Havas Media India MD digital Anurag Bhatnagar

    “Mobext not only provides mobile solutions to engage the customer but can also help brands make their sales force more effective with our enterprise solutions – a unique proposition in itself. The profile is a huge challenge and opportunity to create unique experiences and expand the Mobext offering in India”, explained Sumit Kumar, General Manager, Mobext India

    Business Head Digital-Mumbai S.V. Sunilkumar commented, “As a digital enthusiast, it is always exciting to work with an agency whose mantra is ‘Digital at its core’. Havas Media has been on an aggressive growth path and again it is good to be where the action is. I look forward to creating some of this action”.

    Sumit Kumar, with over eight years of leadership experience in business development, strategic partnerships, product management and corporate sales, was earlier leading the performance and app advertising business for InMobi India. Clients worked with include – Tata DOCOMO, Vodafone, Sony Entertainment, Disney, OLX, Viacom 18, Tencent, AOL, Cleartip , Hungama, Nazara, Opera and Times Group. 

    Sunilkumar with 18 years of media experience was working with Infosys as a Principal Consultant and a part of the core product development team at BrandEdge (the global cloud based digital marketing platform). Also, as digital media head at DDB Mudra, he has serviced clients including LIC, Star TV, McDonalds, IDBI Bank, India First Life Insurance, etc.

  • Havas Media India wins Media Mandate of Halonix

    Havas Media India wins Media Mandate of Halonix

    MUMBAI: Havas Media India has won the media mandate of Halonix Technologies.

    Commenting on the win, Havas Media Group, India and South Asia CEO Anita Nayyar said, “It has been a good year at Havas, we have acquired a portfolio of new and interesting businesses and plan to close the quarter on the good note we began. Halonix is a company clearly on the growth path and we are happy to take them on course.”

    “The Halonix product has tremendous scope and use, the team is dynamic and I believe we are the right people to forward their plans. We look forward to a rich relationship”, continued Havas Media India managing director Mohit Joshi.

    Halonix has emerged as one of the largest manufacturer of Compact Fluorescent Lamps, LEDs and Halogen Lamps, suitable for commercial as well as residential establishments. The company has set its eyes on providing state-of-art lighting solutions for home, commercial, retail and outdoor spaces.

    Amar Wadhwa is confident that this venture with Havas Media will be fruitful as well

    Speaking on the appointment, Halonix Technologies COO Rakesh Zutshi said, “Halonix has very ambitious growth plans and in Havas Media we found the agile, creative and entrepreneurial partner that we were looking for.”

    Halonix has very ambitious growth plans and in Havas Media it has found its entrepreneurial partner believes Rakesh Zutshi

    CrystalEyes founder and executive director Amar Wadhwa, which has been given the mandate to run marketing for Halonix Technologies added, “Having worked with Havas Media on other clients, I have seen them bring great value to the table both in the area of planning and buying. Moreover, the hunger and passion that they exhibited for the business won them the mandate.”

  • Havas Media Group strengthens team with three appointments

    Havas Media Group strengthens team with three appointments

    MUMBAI: Havas Media Group India has made some senior management appointments in keeping with its growth pace and new business acquisitions since the beginning of 2013.

    In the light of the recently acquired LG business, the Havas Media Arena team has been strengthened with two key appointments. Love Guglani joins as vice president and Saurabh Bhatnagar joins as group account director-Digital. Their main mandate is to manage the LG business in keeping with the philosophy of being Digital at the core.

    Besides this, Havas Media Delhi has appointed Roopali Sharma as vice president, to manage key clients like MTS which are on their growth phase.

    Commenting on the appointments Havas Media Group India and south Asia CEO Anita Nayyar said, “Our growth strategy needs the right people. All three have had illustrious careers and collectively bring in huge wealth of knowledge and experience.”

    Love who has more than 12 years of experience across media agencies said, “Havas is looking at an aggressive growth path in India so I am glad to be here. I have worked with Anita Nayyar in the past – her passion and support is a fantastic proposition to drive a business, in addition to the working wavelength we share. My mandate presents opportunities and challenges. I look forward to giving brands, global or local a meaningful voice to further their business plans in India,” on his new role.

    “Havas is a great opportunity and I am thrilled to be associated with great minds. I look forward to institute a richer, multi level digital experience for the clients and create new business associations in India. The expectations and challenges are big and I consider them as motivators to achieve greater results and growth”, said Saurabh Bhatnagar who comes with rich experience of 12+ years, most of which have been with digital.

    On the move, Roopali said, “I look forward to an exciting and enriching career at Havas. My role and responsibility is to further strengthen our quality of work and lead the clients to more strategic directions helping them achieve their business goals. I look forward to working in this exciting and inspiring work place under the inspiring and always motivated leadership”. She has over 13 years of experience which spans across strategy, planning and buying.

  • Bloomberg TV India boomerangs back to Havas Media India

    Bloomberg TV India boomerangs back to Havas Media India

    MUMBAI: The Bloomberg TV India media account has bounced back to Havas Media. The business news channel has decided to part ways with Aegis Media’s Vizeum India which has handling its media spends for a while and go back to Havas. Bloomberg TV India’s estimated media spend about Rs 7 crore per annum, and the win means that another blue-chip brand – this time in the media space – has been added to its client roster.

    Says Bloomberg TV India President Sriram Kilambi: “Bloomberg TV India is all about catering to the elite key decision makers. Havas has demonstrated expertise in using media innovatively and we look forward to a great new relationship.”

     

    Havas officials are of course pulling out the bubbly and celebrating. “It is wonderful to renew ties with Bloomberg TV India. We are closely tuned in to their brand philosophy and keen growth path. Our meaningful brands framework is perfectly suited and will increasingly be applied to create connections to further enable Bloomberg TV India to talk to their audience on this trajectory”, says Havas Media Group CEO India & South Asia Anita Nayyar/

    “We are glad Bloomberg TV India thought us the correct people to partner with for their future plans. It is an interesting product and they are good people to work with; it is wonderful to have them back”, adds Havas Media India Managing Directorn Mohit Joshi.

     

     

  • Havas Media wins media mandate for Neo Milk Products

    Havas Media wins media mandate for Neo Milk Products

    MUMBAI: Havas Media has won the media mandate for Neo Milk Products, a five year old diary company based in Delhi/NCR.

    Talking on the appointment, Neo Milk Products director and president Dinkar Suri said, “Neo Milk Products – the Delhi/NCR dairy products company – have conceived a unique ‘Dahi‘ as the flagship product of our Neo value added dairy range. The Neo ‘Ghar Jaisa Dahi‘ needed an equally unique communication partner who could get the message across to consumers. We know Havas Media understands the category where branding and strategy plays a big part to be a major plus in this regard. Their meticulous, innovative and tailor-made approach convinced us that they are the people to partner with in our growth plans.”

    Havas Media Group India and south Asia CEO Anita Nayyar said, “We are delighted with yet another win further establishing our services proposition. It is an important one as value-added-products in the dairy segment gains prominence, providing health and nutrition to busy India. The company is backed by strong players and a management keen on pan-India presence; we look forward to working with them.”

    Havas Media India managing director Mohit Joshi added, “2013, has been a very good year to date. We are working towards extending this winning streak and plan to get very aggressive.”

    With the help of private equity company Ambit Pragma, Neo expand its horizon from its B2B business of sweet condensed milk to value-added dairy products. The brand has a theme of ‘Happiness in Health‘ and it aims to make its presence felt with consumers across the country.

  • Havas Media walks away with Shaadi.com’s media biz

    MUMBAI: Havas Media has bagged the media duties for matrimonial portal Shaadi.com, following a multi-agency pitch. The account will be serviced out of agency‘s Mumbai office.

    Shaadi.com COO Gourav Rakshit said, “We were seeking a partner who not just understood what we do and how we do it, but also why we do it. In Havas Media we found a partner who reciprocated our needs with efficient ideas that positively reflect their understanding of the category and the brand. We believe they will significantly contribute to the growth of the brand in the future.”

    Havas Media Group, India and South Asia CEO Anita Nayyar added, “It is our endeavour to bring customised business solutions to our client brands and category taking from a deep understanding of people insights and analysis coupled with innovation. We are glad Shaadi thinks the same of us and look forward to working on the account.”

  • All About Outdoor partners Havas Media to launch Outdoor Media Plan

    MUMBAI: Introducing the country‘s first outdoor media knowledge repository, All About Outdoor has teamed up with Havas Media to launch Outdoor Media Plan. The official launch of the entity is slated on 1 July.

    The initiative is an online knowledge bank of trade insights, which will showcase tailor made ready-to-use reports, helping meet the objectives of brand custodians, media planners and buyers and media asset owners, who often struggle with sourcing dependable information while planning their outdoor media campaigns.

    It will collate and process inputs on customised research gathered from nationwide knowledge partners, bringing in credible extracts on category spends, brand-wise-investment, supplier database, innovations, media-price benchmarking, latest campaigns and emerging technologies.

    All these services will be available as paid reports and Outdoor Media Plan will also engage in offline corporate consultancy and preparation of need based reports for clients.

    Outdoor Media Plan founder and chief strategist Ankur Rastogi said, “Bringing in structured knowledge is one of the key prerogatives that this industry needs and I strongly feel this will not only broaden the horizons, but with the experience of our knowledge partners, it will put forward instant marketing solutions for trade professionals.”

    Havas Media India and South Asia chief executive officer Anita Nayyar said, “We are delighted to be a strategic partner in this new venture as we have always believed in the power of knowledge for our others offerings on TV, print, radio and digital. Outdoor advertising has not grown at the expected rate and to attain growth and maturity we need to invest in research and knowledge. I‘m glad that Havas Media is a co-custodian for this initiative.”

  • CareerBuilder India awards the digital mandate to Havas Media

    MUMBAI: Online job portal CareerBuilder India appointed Havas Media as its digital AoR after conducting a two month long multi agency pitch.

    CareerBuilder MD Premlesh Machama said, “We decided to appoint Havas Media after careful consideration as their response to our brief and strong experience within the category confirmed them as the best partner moving forward. We also found the Havas Media team in sync with the thought process of our objectives for 2013. We are sure that a strong working relationship with Havas will not only drive the growth but also work as a stepping stone for the initial brand recognition movement for CareerBuilder India.”

    Havas Media India and South Asia CEO Anita Nayyar said, “It was a very tough but a ‘well-organized‘ pitch with practically all the leading agencies in the fray. We are extremely proud to have won the business and are looking forward to being their true partners for mutual growth. More than that they are wonderful people to work with and we are sure it will be a great partnership.”

    Havas Media head digital Anurag Bhatnagar said, “CareerBuilder is a crucial win for us as it establishes our capabilities and credentials across every single service line of the digital ecosystem. As the web continues to grow in India the need to leverage the digital channel effectively and deliver ROI was imperative and we demonstrated that in our pitch.”

  • Havas Media bags media duties of Amway India’s beauty vertical

    MUMBAI: Amway India, a wholly owned subsidiary of $11.3 billion Amway Corporation, has awarded the media duties of its beauty vertical to Havas Media. The agency will handle media planning and buying duties of Amway‘s beauty range of products.

    The direct selling FMCG company, which offers 131 products in five categories of Personal Care, Home Care, Nutrition & Wellness, Cosmetics and great value products, had earmarked Rs. 530 million towards advertising in 2012.

    Amway India CMO Naveen Anand said, “Amway today is a well known brand in India and our range is getting even more extensive to cater to a higher range of customer needs. So far we were focussed on building our Mother brand “Amway” and health & nutrition brand “Nutrilite”.

    “Now we have decided to launch our beauty vertical in mass media. We were looking for an agency that would do justice to our beauty vertical – we found Havas Media to be the right partners with a sound strategy and a team which showed a lot of passion for our Business.”

    Havas Media Group, India and South Asia CEO Anita Nayyar said, “We are delighted to have Amway as a part of our portfolio. It is a great brand to be associated with but more importantly they are a great client to work with. This is yet another very important milestone in Havas Media India‘s ambitious growth plans.”