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Shemrock and Shemford group of schools launches new campaign with Chhota Bheem as brand ambassador
NEW DELHI: The school chain Shemrock and Shemford group of schools has launched its first-ever television commercial with Chhota Bheem as brand ambassador.
The campaign delivers how the group has revolutionised the face of education in India making learning fun and exciting.
Chhota Bheem who is a perfect combination of strength, intelligence and humour is the protagonist of this campaign. He has found his new resort for learning and education and is therefore calling his friends and all the children to his favourite schools – Shemrock and Shemford.
The campaign is created by the in-house creative team of designers and visualisers. The campaign embarks by releasing TVC as well as online marketing. The print campaign has begun. There is a plan to organize various Chhota Bheem themed activities at various locations.
Commenting on the campaign, group chairman & managing director Amol Arora said, “Moving forward from the old hackneyed style of learning, schools today need to adopt the advanced learning methods to make learning interesting, engaging & motivating for the children. Understanding this need, we at Shemrock and Shemford group of schools are making constant efforts to impart quality education to the children through innovative methods. We aim to make their learning journey at our schools a fun- filled, enriched and engaging experience.”
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He added, “The campaign focuses on how we have made our education system more interactive by incorporating children’s favourite cartoon characters in their learning process.”
This animated TVC clearly targets the little ones, showcasing a boring scene from the classroom with an angry teacher teaching A, B, C to a class of extremely bored students. Then comes, Chhota Bheem to their rescue doing his signature move as he eats his laddoo, and invites them all to his favourite school where fun, learning and excitement never ends. He talks about the various activities and facilities offered at the Shemrock and Shemford group of schools such as the Activity Centre, Sanskar Room, Music & Dance Studio and Art & Craft Workshop etc.
The 9-year old character Chhota Bheem has become every child’s new best friend with his extraordinary intelligence, wit and humour. His charismatic personality perfectly exemplifies the aim of Shemrock & Shemford group of schools to develop an overall personality of a child and not just focus on education.
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How beverage brands are rethinking marketing strategies for weather-led demand
SLMG Beverages Private Limited joint managing director Paritosh Ladhani.
MUMBAI: As Sun climbs up the hemisphere, summer has clearly arrived in India. On 7th March 2026 Delhi registered a maximum temperature of 35.7 degrees Celsius which is the highest reading logged for the first week of March in the last 50 years. Climate Change has been prolonging summers by causing earlier spring warming, delayed autumn cooling, and more frequent, intense heatwaves that persist for much longer periods.
In an endeavor to stay ahead of the curve, Beverage Brands are shifting from fixed seasonal marketing tactics to weather responsive strategies backed by data-driven insights, flexible campaigns, and diversified portfolios to capitalize on unruly temperature spike. In 2025, India’s beverage market experienced a massive, heat-triggered surge with carbonated drinks and ice cream volumes spiking 20–25 per cent in the March quarter itself on the back of hottest February in 125 years.
Clearly campaign timelines are being advanced to reap the seasonal shift in line with the jumping mercury. In the Indian context where Cricket is nothing short of religion, big ticket tournaments like T20 World Cup, Indian Premier League, ICC Champions Trophy provide plethora of opportunities to calibrate marketing campaign designs and associated business strategies to associate refreshment with community viewing both outdoor and indoors. A new trend that has taken the world by storm is that of booking the theatres for bonhomie viewing. It has also opened avenues for joint marketing initiatives by the Multiplex and Beverage Brands.
Price disrupting small potions and value packs tend to drive significantly higher volumes owing to volumetric flexibility and affordability to the consumers. Ramping up of cold supply chains for transit and at point of sales (POS) are strategic business imperatives that again define success of beverage brands.
In the era of AI and Big Data it is easy to track and calibrate messaging based on daily or weekly weather changes. Geo-targeted digital advertisement campaigns are also being run during heatwaves to make the business and marketing imperative very contextual. These pre-emptive strategies fueled by real time data and technology immensely help beverage brands to adjust supplies to the areas that are likely to generate more demand.
Novelty brings premium to the FMCG Sector and Beverage Brands are no exception. Newer SKUs build up excitement in consumers besides imparting the scope of frequent revitalization of brand marketing campaigns. Ensuring continuum of supply chain across material suppliers, logistics providers, distributors/wholesalers, and retailers become a strategic business strategy imperative for beverage brands during peak season.
Carbonated drinks among other beverages including packaged mineral water sell like hotcakes in summers, a period where holiday season gives big impetus to sales volumes. Tying up with air carriers railways, amusement parks, malls, convention centers for inclusion in the onboard beverage deck also holds a big window of opportunity for brands.
Limited period diversification into special summer categories entailing juices and functional beverages to capture the broader hydration market is also a business cum marketing imperative that beverage brands eye on. This also brings to fore the responsible side of the brand placing the compass on wellness of consumers.
Seasons are cyclic, hence summers are inevitable. Further, due to anthropogenic climate change, summers surely have been staging prolonged appearance that keep bringing beverage brands on to their drawing boards frequently for strategizing business and marketing campaigns that are agile, refreshment-focused, visually dominant in retail, affordable, and optimally promoted through seasonal campaigns in above and below the line media.
