Tag: Shipa Shetty

  • Nourish brings Shetty sisters for its new TVC ‘#SehatKiSunoNourishHiChuno’

    Nourish brings Shetty sisters for its new TVC ‘#SehatKiSunoNourishHiChuno’

    Mumbai: In a recently launched television commercial, “#SehatKiSunoNourishHiChuno” from Nourish, fitness icon and Bollywood actor Shilpa Shetty (aka Munki) is seen advising her on-screen and off-screen sister, Shamita Shetty (aka Tunki), on the benefits of consuming only unpolished pulses.

    Conceptualised by Leads Brand Connect, the commercial reinforces the importance of choosing the healthiest and most nutritious range of unpolished pulses. The ad intends to showcase the reasons and importance of eating unpolished pulses in comparison to polished pulses.

    In the opening scene of the ad, Shamita, dressed as a detective, is trying to look for the polished pulses from the dal box kept in the kitchen, to which Shilpa comments that she will not find any polished seed in the box as they consume Nourish pulses, which are 100 per cent unpolished, hygienic, and healthy. In the second scene, Shilpa advocates that Nourish pulses are nutritious and have high levels of protein. Being vacuum-packed and zip-locked, the freshness and hygiene of the pulses are maintained. Closing in on the lines

    #SehatKiSunoNourishHiChuno, Munki puts an end to Tunki’s struggle to find polished dal in Nourish’s unpolished dal and tells her to be smart and make the right choice for her health.

    “My staple lunch is always dal, chawal, and roti. I prefer food that is unpolished, high in fiber, and protein-enriched. What I like about Nourish is that its pulses are unpolished; it’s not about how it looks but what it does,” says Nourish’s brand ambassador Shilpa Shetty.

    Speaking on the latest ad, BL Agro managing director Ashish Khandelwal commented, “We have always believed in offering nutrition and healthy foods to our customers. Through this ad, we intend to further highlight our uniqueness in packaging the unpolished pulses to keep their freshness intact.”

    Leads Brand Connect managing director Richa Khandelwal added, “The ad takes a more quirky approach by showcasing Shilpa Shetty as the nutrition champion while Tunki (Shamita) is slightly jealous of the fact that Munki (Shilpa) is always right. We wanted to create an ad that can keep the viewers engaged to know what exactly Shamita is up to and then highlight the benefits of Nourish.”

    With the release of this ad, BL Agro is running a contest called #NourishTunkiMunki on all its social media handles. The company intends to engage existing and prospective customers through this contest, where winners are chosen on a daily basis. The questions of the contest revolve around nutrition and food.

    “The best part of the contest is that there will be not one but 100 winners every day. This will keep the excitement and engagement levels high as the chances of winning the Nourish hampers as gifts are higher,” adds Richa.

    The hashtags of the contest are “#SehatKiSunoNourishHiChuno” and “#NourishTunkiMunki,” and the tag is @worldofnourish.

  • Best Deal TV registers Rs 3 crore in sales in first month

    Best Deal TV registers Rs 3 crore in sales in first month

    MUMBAI: When newbie Best Deal TV launched so late in the day as a home shopping channel, the naysayers emerged saying that CEO and cofounder Raj Kundra (the co-owner of Rajasthan Royals) was throwing good money after bad. The home shopping television market is dominated by south Korean major, which runs Shop CJ (erstwhile Star CJ Alive) and HomeShop18. And with DEN Networks setting up a joint venture to promote DEN SnapDeal TV Shop, the market was clearly looking crowded and competitive. Star India in fact took note of this when it decided to sell out its stake in Star CJ Alive to PE firm Providence Equity.

     

    A month and a half into the business, Best Deal TV co-promoter Raj Kundra (the other partner is Akshay Kumar) says Best Deal TV is doing very well, thank you. He reveals that the newbie has managed to generate Rs 3 crore in sales in the month since its launch.

     

    “We are on target to reach our first year’s gross sales target of Rs 150 crore,” he says. “Our chairperson actually delivered the 10,000th order to one of our customers personally.”

     

    The channel’s USP is that celebrities like Sonakshi Sinha, Malaika Arora Khan, Bipasha Basu and more, will be endorsing their products.

     

     

    Kundra recently roped in well known home-grown kitchen appliances brand Sumeet Appliances to sell its reputed mixer grinder on the channel. The deal is for three years and will be renewed depending on the sales the product chalks up.

     

     He reveals that the idea to join hands with Sumeet came from his personal concerns to address Sumeet’s distribution issues. Having known Sumeet Appliances MD Ajay Mathur for a long time, Kundra was surprised to know that the once leading kitchen mixer-grinder brand was having distribution issues.

     

    “I was appalled to find out that most of the 30,000 to 40,000 Sumeet products, which were being sold in the market were all fakes. Ajay shared how it was next to impossible to lodge litigation at each and every fakes in the market. That’s when I suggested that they re-launch the product with Best Deal TV,” shares Kundra.

     

     When asked if Best Deal TV will have exclusive rights in selling all Sumeet products, Mathur clarifies, “Not for all products, but we are introducing the new and improved Sumeet mixer grinder, the ‘Grinder Man’ through Best Deal TV, which will also have exclusive selling rights for it.”

     

    Best Deal TV will, however, have to go through the grind if it wants to penetrate the Rs 2,200-odd crore Indian home shopping market.

  • Raj Kundra & Akshay Kumar partner to launch shopping channel

    Raj Kundra & Akshay Kumar partner to launch shopping channel

    MUMBAI: Entrepreneur Raj Kundra has joined hands with actor Akshay Kumar to launch Best Deal TV – a 24 hours shopping channel. With a motto of Sirf Bestest, the channel promises to present exclusive products at best possible rates. The free to air celebrity channel will be available on all major cable and DTH (Direct to home) platforms from 18 March, 2015 onwards.

     

    The products available on Best Deal TV are categorized in lifestyle, home, fashion, health and beauty. 

     

    Speaking at the launch, Best Deal TV founder and CEO Kundra said, “We are pleased to launch a new and unique home shopping channel on which our products will be exclusive, aspirational and above all affordable. All products will go through our vigorous Quality Lab tests before obtaining approval. Today most brands rely on celebrities to sell their products. Best Deal TV offers the perfect combination – of quality products and celebrities endorsing them on the same platform. To me it is perfect example of a Product – Celebrity Match. We match quality approved products with celebrities, and by controlling the end to end supply chain we ensure savings of our customers that guarantee they, literally get the best deal.”

     

    Co-owner Akshay Kumar shared his experience with teleshopping. He said he saw a teleshopping channel offering astrological suggestions and when he took part in it he found that the rates quoted in the channel were bargainable, which means many customers might have been cheated. He also was of the opinion that products that are sold in the channels now available have no quality assurance. He elaborated, “When Best Deal first came to me with the idea of a home shopping channel the first thing I wanted to be sure about is that if my name is going to be attached to something, it has to be for something unique, never done before by a celebrity, and a quality which is worthy of my 100 per cent. I am happy to say that for the first time, consumers will be able to fulfill their celebrity style aspirations as far as their look and feel is concerned at very affordable prices.”

     

    Best Deal TV is expected to cater to those who admire Bollywood glitteratzi and always aspire to dress up similarly. The challenge will be pricing, as the products come with a celebrity how much impact will it leave on the price tag remains to be seen. Every product has to be endorsed by a celebrity and only then will it feature on the channel. The concept is, the manufacturer has to approach a celebrity and convince him or her in terms of quality. And if a celebrity wants to launch his or her own product Best Deal TV can be a platform. 

     

    The chairperson and brand ambassador of the channel Shilpa Shetty Kundra said, “As a self-confessed shopaholic I love the concept behind Best Deal TV. TV commerce is a growing trend, an easy and convenient way to shop from the comfort to your home. Now customers can be reassured of quality products which are being endorsed by their favourite celebrities. Best Deal TV aims to offer something, which is special to its consumers; products that solve a problem, make a difference, offer great value for money and deliver exceptional results. It makes me very proud to be a part of this transparent and top quality platform, truly making us bestest.”

     

    Former AVP of Home Shop 18 Meghna Krishna has been named COO of the company. Speaking at the launch, Krishna said the motto of the channel is to provide better than the best i.e bestest product to the consumers, “Celebrities always gain eyeballs and enhance the popularity of the product, Best Deal TV will convert eyeballs into transactions. The teleshopping industry is growing bigger and bigger, it is now a $4 billion industry and by 2020 it will become a $10 billion industry, hence the sector has a future and Best Deal TV will emerge as the ruler.”

     

    Key personalities behind the Channel are:

     

    · Raj Kundra, Founder and CEO

     

    · Akshay Kumar, Co – Owner 

     

    · Uday Kothary, Co – Owner 

     

    · Shipa Shetty Kundra, Chairperson and Brand Ambassador

     

    · Meghna Krishna, COO

     

    · Hemant Vastani, CFO