MAM
ICICI Prudential Life launches TVC on Child Plans
MUMBAI: ICICI Prudential Life has launched a ad campaign that has been conceptualised and created by the company‘s creative AoR Lowe Lintas.
The life insurance company feels that child education plans are not actively considered in India. Building a bright future for their child is the primary and foremost concern for all parents but when it comes to saving for the child‘s future, it is mostly done through traditional investment options like FDs, property, post office schemes and gold.
The ad is aimed at creating awareness and informing the audience that Child Education Plans are an ideal way for them to secure their children‘s future.
One of the television commercials portray the special relationship that exists between grandparents and their grandkids. “At ICICI Prudential Life, we recognise the emotion behind the need of a grandparent to want to do something to secure their grandkids future,‘ the company said.
In other commercial, the story revolves around two brothers having a seemingly casual chat wherein the elder brother takes offence to the younger brothers informing him that the insurance company will ‘take care of the child‘ in case something happens to him and that no one else does this. There is a heightened moment of tension but in the end he realises that the company is lending only a helping hand and that he has an important role to play as well in ensuring the child‘s bright future.
Brands
Trump announces $300bn Texas oil refinery with Reliance, calls it the biggest in US history
First new US refinery in 50 years planned at Brownsville port with Reliance
WASHINGTON: The United States may soon see the first brand-new oil refinery built on its soil in half a century.
Donald Trump announced a proposed $300 billion refinery project in Texas, calling it a landmark moment for American energy production and jobs.
Posting on Truth Social on 10 March, Trump said the facility would be built at the Port of Brownsville and developed by a company called America First Refining, with major investment from India’s Reliance Industries.
The announcement frames the project as a centrepiece of the administration’s push for “energy dominance”, with Trump claiming it would deliver thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in economic activity to South Texas.
If realised, the plant would mark the first all-new major refinery constructed in the United States since the 1970s. In recent decades, oil companies have largely chosen to expand existing facilities rather than build new ones, citing high costs, regulatory hurdles and environmental scrutiny.
Trump described the proposed investment as the “biggest in US history”, positioning it as proof that policy changes such as streamlined permits and lower taxes are drawing large-scale energy investments back into the country.
The refinery is planned for the Port of Brownsville, a strategic Gulf Coast location that provides easy access to shipping routes and export markets.
A key partner in the project is Reliance Industries, controlled by billionaire industrialist Mukesh Ambani. The company already runs the world’s largest refining complex in Jamnagar, India, making it one of the most experienced operators in large-scale petroleum processing.
The Texas venture would mark a significant step for the group into America’s domestic refining sector, potentially strengthening industrial ties between the US and India.
The proposed refinery is being promoted as a next-generation facility capable of processing American shale oil while maintaining high environmental standards. Trump said it would be “the cleanest refinery in the world”, although the specific technologies behind that claim have not yet been detailed.
Industry observers also note that the $300 billion figure is unusually large for a refinery project, and analysts are waiting for more clarity on whether the number reflects total construction costs, long-term infrastructure investment, or broader economic impact estimates.
As of 11 March, Reliance Industries had not publicly confirmed the investment size or the structure of its involvement.
For now, the announcement has sparked equal parts excitement and curiosity in energy markets. If the plan moves from promise to pouring concrete, the refinery could reshape the Gulf Coast energy landscape, and reopen a chapter in American refining that has been quiet for nearly fifty years.
