Brands
American Swan ropes in Yo Yo Honey Singh as brand ambassador
MUMBAI: The global online fashion & lifestyle brand American Swan has signed up the Indian rapper Honey Singh as its brand ambassador. Launched in 2013, the brand is known for its smart casual wear for the youth and is targeted at the youngsters.
About the partnership Honey Singh said, “I am excited to partner with American Swan and to be able to connect with the youth and inspire them to chase their dreams and script their destinies. It has been a great year for me and I am looking forward to create a music video for the brand. The brand positioning resonates with my quintessential approach to my life, music & work. The video will see me style in looks that my fans haven’t seen before.”
American Swan will unveil the new identity along with the launch of its new collections-AS Premium and AS Original. As the youth in India look for global designs and standards with affordable pricing at the convenience of a click, American Swan expects to garner a significant share of the apparel & lifestyle market in the burgeoning ecommerce and mobile commerce market.
Speaking about the association, American Swan director & CEO Anurag Rajpal said, “We are glad to announce our association with Yo Yo Honey Singh. We hope will be an iconic new avatar. While we constantly aim at building a fashion brand that can resonate in the hearts and mind of Gen Y youth, these major milestones will only cement the evolution of American Swan as we take a constructive leap towards a major expansion across the online space.”
The brand has been promoting young talent since long by associating itself with various young achievers in past like Unmukt Chand , Shruti Hasan and Lauren Gottlieb and has espoused its Young Achievers campaign with them. The brand has also stepped into social media by initiating various online programme and formats like tweet store and beauty and the blogger event which has attained enormous success.
To reinforce the brand’s philosophy, the brand will soon invite showbiz aspirants to get a chance to be featured in the Yo Yo Honey Singh music video.
The company will build a customer base through a strong mobile, digital and social activation. The new brand video will be launched across touch points through a series of differentiated and engaging campaigns on website, social channels and mobile properties.
Brands
Faber-Castell India appoints Sunaina Haldar as director – marketing
With stints at Tata, SleepyCat and ADF Foods under her belt, Haldar is primed to redraw Faber-Castell’s brand story
MUMBAI: Faber-Castell India has poached Sunaina Haldar from ADF Foods, appointing her director – marketing as the German stationery brand looks to muscle up in a category that is rapidly reinventing itself around creativity and self-expression.
Haldar hit the ground running. “My first couple of weeks have been incredibly energising, understanding consumers, visiting markets, engaging with retailers and immersing myself into the world of Faber-Castell Group,” she said.
She arrives with considerable firepower. At ADF Foods, Haldar ran marketing across India and international markets for a portfolio spanning Ashoka, Aeroplane, Camel and ADF Soul. Before that, she was vice-president – marketing at direct-to-consumer mattress brand SleepyCat, where she helmed brand, content and performance marketing. Her résumé also includes a stint leading marketing, new product development and CRM for Tata SmartFoodz at Tata Consumer Products, no small proving ground.
Between corporate roles, Haldar also operated as a fractional CMO for early-stage startups, building marketing strategy and operational structures from scratch, a signal that she knows how to move fast with limited resources.
With 18 years straddling FMCG, D2C and the startup world, Haldar now takes the reins at a brand that has long owned the classroom but is clearly hungry for the living room. In a stationery market where the pencil has become a lifestyle statement, Faber-Castell has picked someone who knows exactly how to sell that story.
