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  • Carat to handle Garuda Polyflex Foods’ media duties

    Carat to handle Garuda Polyflex Foods’ media duties

    MUMBAI: Soon after adding Dixcy Textiles to its client kitty, Carat, the independent media communications specialist from the Dentsu Aegis Network, has added yet another client.

     

    The agency has been roped in to handle the media duties of Garuda Polyflex Foods (GP Foods). Carat won the account in a multi-agency pitch. The agency will handle the account from its Bangalore office. Mudra is the incumbent agency.

     

    GP Foods managing director P.K. Gopalakrishnan said, “When we met the team led by Joydeep, we were very impressed with their professional approach. We were also very impressed with their strategic thinking, which has enabled their client base and the long standing relationship they have with some of the great brands. We are extremely happy to be associated with Carat.”

     

    Carat – South senior VP Joydeep Raha added, “We are delighted and honored to have GP Foods on board. Our thorough understanding of urban consumers with respect to their attitudes and aspirational needs in granularity and through proprietary cutting-edge tools (CCS &CCS Planner) enabled us to provide a customized solution, based on the client brief.”

     

    GP Foods is a joint venture between GarudaFood and Polyflex India. GarudaFood is a $500 million entity that is part of the Tudung Group that deals in agribusiness, food and beverage manufacturing and distribution. 

  • FCB Ulka appoints Tushar Pal as creative director

    FCB Ulka appoints Tushar Pal as creative director

    MUMBAI: Tushar Pal has joined FCB Ulka as creative director. Pal, started his career at Euro RSCG (now Havas), has over 12 years of experience in mainline advertising.

     

    He has had successful stints at Mudra, Leo Burnett, Rediffusion Y&R and Ogilvy. Over the years, he has worked on iconic brands like Onida, Godrej, Future Group, HDFC Bank, Sony Entertainment Network, Sony Max, Zandu, Times Group, Air India, McDonald’s, LG and Vodafone to name a few.

     

    Commenting on his appointment, Pal said, “I’m very excited to work on FCB Ulka’s vast portfolio of clients. I look forward to some great opportunities and help raise the creative bar on our key clients.”

     

    FCB Ulka executive creative director Haresh (Harry) Moorjani said, “We are happy to have Tushar on board. He brings with him diverse experience on a varied set of brands. We look forward to him adding value to an important set of accounts he is aligned to.”

  • Pepperfry.com collaborates with Evok

    Pepperfry.com collaborates with Evok

    MUMBAI: Keeping up with the promise of offering the largest selection of furniture and home products, Pepperfry.com has now announced a tie-up with Hindware Home Retail Private Limited (HHRPL).

     

    Operating under the brand name Evok, HHRPL is a 100 percent subsidiary of HSIL. The collaboration will help Evok leverage Pepperfry’s large online customer base and expand its presence across the country. Evok retails its products through 19 outlets in key cities of India.

     

    Commenting on the association, Evok COO and business head Ajay Seth said, ‘Pepperfry will help us in reaching out to a larger customer base as in the last few years, E-commerce market has evolved in India and due to paucity of time, lot of customers are shopping from comforts of their homes Pepperfry will enable us in connecting with these customers.’

     

    In addition to the existing portfolio of over 11,000 furniture designs, Pepperfry will showcase the entire furniture range from Evok, which has been designed using high-quality materials and finishes to suit every type of style interior style and theme on the website. Through this partnership, it plans to expand its furniture range to offer differentiated furniture designs across the country and strengthen its leadership position.

     

    Talking about their focus on developing a strong merchant base in the online furniture segment, Pepperfry.com COO and founder Ashish Shah said, “Our alliance with Evok, one of the leading brands in the home interiors segment makes perfect sense as the products offered by the brand matches our ethos of providing a large range of high quality modern designs at affordable prices.”

     

    Currently, Pepperfry hosts a range of local and international brands and also offers a wide range of made-to-order solid wood furniture. “We have built a strong foundation in supply chain that has enabled us to distribute large quantities of furniture to hundreds of towns across the country. With this infrastructure we will continue to empanel more and more merchants and brands from across the country to fulfill our value proposition of providing our customers with an extensive choice of furniture designs at the click of a mouse,” he further added.

     

    Pepperfry.com will showcase entire furniture range from Evok including designs for living room, dining room & bedroom. It already offers a large portfolio of around 70+ furniture brands with leading names like Mudra, Nilkamal, Spacewood, @Home, Durian, Furniture Kraft and HomeTown selling on the website.

  • Maxus brings Navin Khemka on board as managing partner

    Maxus brings Navin Khemka on board as managing partner

    MUMBAI: Maxus has appointed Navin Khemka as its managing partner. Khemka will be heading the north and east regions for the media agency and will also be responsible for new business development across the country. He will report to Maxus south Asia managing director Kartik Sharma.

     

    With over 17 years of experience in the advertising and media industry, Khemka’s last appointment was with ZenithOptimedia, where he left as managing partner. With a tenure spanning the last eight years, he was initially the trading lead for key accounts such as Nestle and HP. He subsequently took over the business leadership of the HP account, delivering some award winning campaigns such as the HP Serena Williams campaign at Lakme Fashion Week. Thereafter he took on the additional role of new business director for India. He was instrumental in bringing on new clients such as Honda, Toshiba, Uninor, McVities, Karbonn Mobiles, Godfrey Philips, Best Rice, Greenlam Laminates, Olx.in, Jabong.com, Yatra.com at ZenithOptimedia.

     

    Sharma said, “Navin comes with a varied skill set and extensive experience across various product categories. He is an ideal leader to spearhead the Maxus team, and uphold our PACE value system across the organistaion.  At Maxus we endeavour to push the boundaries to delivering excellence for our clients, to achieve our 10/10 mandate.”

     

    Khemka said, “I am delighted to be a part of India’s most dynamic agency – Maxus.  Brand needs are changing and Maxus is geared up to providing a holistic solution to its clients. I look forward to work closely with the team and help provide seamless, media neutral solutions to our clients. Driving growth for Maxus in existing and new geographies also makes my role challenging. I am looking forward to exciting days ahead.”

     

    A graduate of St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata and MICA, Khemka started his career with Mudra where he worked for five years. Prior to ZenithOptimedia, Navin worked at Cheil Communications, Mindshare and Carat.

  • Wonder-la plans Rs15 crore marketing spends in 2014-15.

    Wonder-la plans Rs15 crore marketing spends in 2014-15.

    BENGALURU: Indian amusement park major Wonderla Holidays (Wonderla) plans to up its marketing spends by about 10 per cent during FY-2014-15 from the Rs13 crore it spent in the last fiscal. The company also will spent about 1 per cent of the total value of its IPO amounting to a maximum of Rs185 crore that opens on 21 April this year.

     

    “Our mass media communications are season specific. We generally target people within a 300 kilometre radius from our amusement parks. We use radio, newsprint, outdoor and social media to a limited extent,” revealed a source in Wonderla to www.indiantelevision.com on the side lines of a press conference to announce the company’s IPO.

     

    “For both our properties – the one in Bengaluru and the first one in Kochi, depending upon the season, we use around 80 to 100 billboards spread across each district of Karnataka and Kerala. Besides, periodically, we use local channels and cable networks, print and radio during seasonal times for mass media communications in our target catchment areas,” added the source.

     

    “Typically we spend between 9 to 10 per cent of our topline towards marketing expenses, which includes payments to our agents in each district of the two states,” said the source. The company reported revenues of Rs139 crore in FY 2012-13.

     

    “For our IPO, we will be spending around 1 per cent of about Rs185 crore or roughly about Rs 2 crore towards the mandated television and newsprint ads as well as on road shows and investor presentations,” revealed the source further.

     

    The company’s creative duties are handled by Windowseat Communications and media buying by Mudra.

  • DDB Mudra’s campaign for UBI lets the common man dream

    DDB Mudra’s campaign for UBI lets the common man dream

    MUMBAI: With exciting offers, flexible interest rates and additional returns in form of freebies or points, the private banks are giving public sector banks (PSU) banks in the country a run for their money. But Union Bank of India (UBI) has launched a new campaign to let everyone know that Union Bank of India’s products and services are not only at par with private banks but also surpasses them in many ways.

    The campaign conceptualised by DDB Mudra borrows stories from real life. Stories about a common man’s aspirations, dreams and the hurdles faced in order to achieve them as the bank’s baseline is “your dreams are not yours alone”.

    In its last campaign, the bank brought on board the most dependable partners of renowned celebrities to bring alive the brand promise – Ajit Tendulkar, Aruna Anand, etc. Keeping with the tradition, this time it features actor Pankaj Kapoor.

    DDB Mudra Group chairman and CCO Sonal Dabral said, “Union Bank of India always puts people first. It is this thinking that gave birth to the now famous platform of ‘Your dreams are not yours alone’. DDB Mudra Group has already created two very successful brand campaigns on this platform and in this third installment, the line gets a product spin. In keeping with their vision, Union Bank has come out with many innovative offerings that put the consumer at the forefront, with technology becoming an enabler making life more convenient and relationships richer. We decided that the best way to communicate this was through simple human stories that could be happening everyday in any Indian household. All seen through the eyes of the same family. The biggest triumph of this campaign is the very real tonality and its perfect casting with Pankaj Kapoor lighting up the screen as the head of this ordinary Indian family. We are very excited with this latest campaign for Union Bank of India and I’m sure people will love these films as much as we do. Like our earlier campaigns for this brand, this too is less advertising more life.”

    The five-film campaign (out of which three will be out in January 2014), revolves around five members of a family, their dreams and the role played by UBI to turn them into reality.

    The agency’s group creative directors Aman Mannan and Ashish Phatak said, “The simple observation in life that kick-started the entire process was to acknowledge, that unlike west, our dreams do not feed on individual aspirations but collective energy of every family member. For example, to have your own home is a dream not owned by an individual but an entire family. The entire campaign is based on this simple understanding. We wanted people to believe that Union Bank of India is part of their everyday life. And hence, all the five stories revolve around ‘shared Indian dreams’ and the role played by Union Bank’s products and services to make them come true.”

  • RAPP India appoints Kapil Bhatia as associate VP

    RAPP India appoints Kapil Bhatia as associate VP

    MUMBAI:  RAPP India has roped in Kapil Bhatia as AVP for the agency’s growing clientele in Mumbai.

    Kapil joins RAPP India from Squad Digital, Nairobi, where he was general manager overseeing the operations of the agency across digital strategy, creative solutions, media planning, social media marketing and mobile marketing.

    Before moving to Nairobi, Kapil worked with the DDB Mudra Group for four years and was primarily in-charge of client servicing for one of the agency’s largest clients, LIC.

    On joining RAPP India, Bhati said, “This is going to be an exciting opportunity to tap into my through the line communication understanding. I look forward to help RAPP with the building its multi-channel capabilities.”

    RAPP India and Tribal Worldwide India president Venkat Mallik said, “We are going through an interesting phase of transformation and growth at RAPP in India. Kapil joins RAPP at just the right time as we look to remodel the agency and introduce a set of new initiatives to strengthen  the multi-channel RAPP offering across Mass Media, E Commerce, Social Media, Email marketing & CRM. RAPP is one of the few agencies with the ability to offer genuinely integrated communication thinking and Kapil’s skills and experience complement this really well.”

    Commenting on this, Vice President, RAPP India vice president Bijoe George said, “As we go about building RAPP INDIA as a media agnostic, data-led agency we needed leaders who can champion this cause amongst clients. Kapil comes with the requisite experience and fits the bill perfectly”.

  • DDB Mudra south brightens up Peter England

    DDB Mudra south brightens up Peter England

    MUMBAI: Peter England, the apparel brand of Madura Fashion & Lifestyle has launched a new campaign which features Siddharth in colourful denims and smart young formals and is aimed at the late university youth and early jobbers.

    The campaign was mounted on the insight that today’s youth thinks formal wear stands for boring office clothing. Given this context Peter England wanted to tell them that office wear can also be exciting and expressive. So the campaign idea was simple – ‘Brighten up’ in office with the new line of young formals from Peter England.

    DDB Mudra south strategic planning VP Rajesh Sharma said “Youngsters these days do not want to conform to existing codes, even if they are early jobbers in workplaces. It’s not about ‘rebelling’ but about the belief in ‘expressing’ themselves. The young formals campaign is a celebration of this spirit. The idea on the PE jeans campaign is to tie up the product innovation to something deeper and meaningful about the youth of today. The campaign has been executed with appealing non-office colours and off-the-trodden-path ensembles.  The campaign was shot with Siddharth, who’s been Peter England’s brand ambassador for the past three years.”

    Peter England’s jeans business has taken different route in this segment with innovation in the product. The innovation story has been a recurring theme for the brand. The objective this season was to take the innovation story forward and to bring out the functional features of the product.

    Peter England chief operating officer Kedar Apshankar said, “Formals has always been considered to be ‘boring/conformist’ by the younger generation today. The challenge was to, catch their imagination by portraying “formals” in a new light. This campaign is a significant step in that direction. Denim has a very crowded brand landscape, with multitude of brands positioned across various platforms. PE Jeans, in this context is attempting to carve out its own niche by focusing its offering on meaningful consumer benefits and a communication which provides an inescapable focus on the merchandise and the much needed cut-through in the cluttered ad-space.”

    For both young formals and PE Jeans, print & OOH campaign have been created and released across all major markets in India.

    On the new segment, DDB Mudra south creative director Ajesh N said, “What one wears has a great influence on one’s mood and how one performs in office. Peter England’s young formals collection reflects the youthful spirit through vibrant colours and young cuts. Clothes make the work atmosphere lively and brightens you up.  That is precisely what we tried to capture in the campaign.”

    Added, the agency’s creative director Saurabh Doke said, “Simplicity and fashion always goes hand in hand. In today’s cluttered ‘wallpaper fashion advertising’ especially where every other denim brand uses the grunge look to showcase denim attitude, the new PE Denim campaign stands out. Perfect balance between product innovations and core brand values.”

  • DDB Mudra appoints Sambit Mohanty as creative head, North

    DDB Mudra appoints Sambit Mohanty as creative head, North

    MUMBAI: DDB Mudra has roped in Sambit Mohanty (fondly known as Sam) as creative head, North. Sambit will be based out of Delhi and will report in to DDB Mudra Group chairman and CCO Sonal Dabral.

    Sam joins DDB Mudra from McCann Erickson where he was executive creative director, New Delhi, instrumental in creating memorable work for Coca-Cola (Haan, Haan, Mein Crazy Hoon) and Aircel (Thoda Extra Milta Hai Toh Achcha Lagta Hai).

    With over 14 years in advertising and design, Sambit has worked with world-class brands in categories ranging from Telecom, Food & Beverage, Automotive, Retail, Media & Publications, Healthcare and Lifestyle. In his diverse career, Sam has been a part of well-known agencies including Leo Burnett, Publicis, Lowe and Elephant Design and worked on an envious list of clients such as Coca-Cola, GM, Nestle, HP, Pernod-Ricard, Virgin Mobile, Hitachi, Max Bupa, Godfrey Philips, The Indian Express, BBC World, Tanishq, Britannia, Reckitt-Benckiser and more.
    DDB Mudra Group chairman and CCO Sonal Dabral

    On joining DDB Mudra, Delhi, Sambit said: “It’s a privilege to be part of DDB’s creative culture that’s guided by play books not rule books. With Sonal’s help, I’m keen on creating a place where one looks forward to coming to work – even on a Monday morning. And also producing some glorious work along the way!

    An avid quizzer, Sambit is well-known on the Delhi quiz circuit. He has had the distinction of being a finalist in BBC Mastermind as well as a National winner of the Brand Equity Quiz.

    Sambit has won national and international awards including a Silver World Medal at New York Festivals. He has also been acknowledged by 4Ps business magazine as one of ‘India’s Gen-Next Creative Brains’.  
    DDB Mudra Delhi president Vandana Das

    DDB Mudra Group chairman and CCO Sonal Dabral said: “New Delhi is an extremely important market for us so I’m really happy that a talent like Sambit will lead our creative offering there. Sambit is among the rare breed of creative professionals in India who are equally comfortable with Hindi or English, with paper and pen or mouse and computer screen. I’m certain Sambit will play a big role in helping shape an exciting creative future for DDB Mudra Group.”

    DDB Mudra Delhi president Vandana Das added: “We have got to dot our “I”s in the creative business. I am looking at ushering, welcoming, embracing creative leadership in DDB Mudra Delhi through Sambit. He is a phenomenal talent and he has got the three Is – Inspiration, Imagination and Involvement. Many “I”s put together becomes “We” and I look forward to generating some more incredible work from our office.”

  • Bates CHI & Partners to handle creative duties of General Insurance Council

    MUMBAI: Bates CHI & Partners, Delhi has bagged the creative duties of General Insurance Council, the apex body of all licensed non-life insurers in India.

    Bates has won the duties following a rigorous multi-agency pitch that saw participation from the likes of JWT and Mudra.

    The first campaign will create awareness for the general insurance category and will cover the verticals that fall under the purview of non-life insurance such as Health, home, rural and motor insurance.

    The General Insurance Council represents the collective interests of the non-life insurance companies in India and speaks out on issues of common interest; participates in discussions related to policy formulation, and acts as an advocate for high standards of customer service in the insurance industry.

    Commenting on the win, Bates CHI & Partners India Group CEO Sanjay Thapar said, “General Insurance has very little awareness & low penetration in this country. We are therefore, delighted to be working with GI Council and look forward to driving their vision.”

    General Insurance Council secretary general R. Chandrasekeran said, “We are delighted to choose Bates, CHI & Partners to handle our creative duties. Their understanding of the sector & our vision coupled with the innovative theme they presented made us choose them as our partner of choice. We look forward to a continued association with them to help us achieve general insurance business growth.”

    The campaign will comprise a mix of radio, print and television commercials and is expected to go live shortly.