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Lowe India appoints Brent Gosling as chief strategic officer for Unilever portfolio

Indiantelevision.com Team

(14 May 2007 6:00 pm)

MUMBAI: Lowe India has appointed global planner Brent Gosling as chief strategic officer for their Unilever brands. Based in Mumbai, Gosling will provide strategic planning leadership on global Unilever brands, for which Lowe India is the global/ regional hub: Lifebuoy, Fair & Lovely, Clinic Plus and Surf Excel.

"We found Brent through a long worldwide search for a top quality planner. I am delighted to have been able to interest a global planner like Brent to move to India", says Lowe India president and COO Pranesh Misra. "In addition to his role on Unilever, Brent as the chief strategy officer, would be leading the 22-strong planning community at Lowe India."

Prior to this assignment, Gosling was head of Gosling Research Ltd., a boutique research agency, specializing in brand positioning, strategy and communications. Some of their key clients included ASDA, BSkyB, Burger King, ICI Dulux, Kimberly Clark (Andrex), Mastercard and Unilever (Comfort, Flora, Colman's) among others, informs an official release.

Previously, he was a partner at HHCL and Partners and was responsible for AA & AA Insurance and its de-mutualisation. Gosling has also worked as a copywriter at Cowan Kemsley Taylor and a planner at Ogilvy and Mather. He won the first APG Creative Planning Awards, Gold & Grand Prix, Nik Naks, in 1993 and the IPA Advertising Effectiveness Awards, Second Prize, Radion, 1990.

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