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Mudra West wins BBC Top Gear account
MUMBAI:Mudra West has won the creative duties of Worldwide Media‘s (WWM) BBC Top Gear magazine.
This will be Mudra‘s fourth win of a brand from the stable Worldwide Media (WWM), a joint venture between The Times of India Group and BBC Magazines UK. In 2009, Mudra West had bagged the accounts of Lonely Planet, Filmfare and Femina.
For the motoring media brand‘s account, there was no incumbent agency and neither any pitch involved.
Lonely Planet magazine and BBC Top Gear publisher Debolin Sen says, “We are pleased to have Mudra West on board as our very able creative partners. They are a young, bright, dynamic and a committed team. I look forward to their continuous contribution to the brand in 2011, in what will be the year of BBC Top Gear in India.”
Mudra West president Arijit Ray adds, “We work very closely with the worldwide media team on Lonely Planet, Filmfare and Femina. It is our pleasure to have got the opportunity to contribute towards charting the journey of an iconic motoring media brand like BBC Top Gear in India. We look forward to working closely with the brand team to create a distinctive imagery for the magazine, amongst car lovers and auto enthusiasts.”
Owned by BBC Worldwide, Top Gear started as a television show in the UK in 1977. In 1993, the brand was extended to the new BBC Top Gear Magazine launched in the UK and currently is published in various international markets.
Brands
Dabur buys minority stake in Ras Beauty for Rs 60 crore
Dabur Ventures deal backs fast-growing luxury skincare brand
MUMBAI: Dabur India Limited has dipped into the world of luxury skincare, signing a definitive agreement to acquire a minority stake in Ras Beauty Private Limited for Rs 60 crore. The investment marks the first bet from Dabur Ventures, the FMCG major’s Rs 500 crore platform set up in October 2025 to back high-potential, new-age direct-to-consumer brands.
Founded in Raipur by Shubhika Jain, her sister Suramya Jain and their mother Sangeeta Jain, Ras Beauty has grown from a family-led passion project into a fast-scaling “Farm-to-Face” skincare label. Its range of face elixirs, serums and moisturisers blends essential oils with nature-derived actives, striking a balance between botanical purity and laboratory precision.
The numbers tell their own story. Ras has clocked a three-year Cagr of around 75 per cent and an annual run rate of approximately Rs 100 crore, all while maintaining strong gross margins. That growth has been fuelled by a digital-first approach, in-house R&D and manufacturing, and a sharp focus on clean, sustainable sourcing.
Dabur India executive director and group head corporate strategy Abhinav Dhall, said the company was drawn to Ras’s distinct positioning at the intersection of nature, science and luxury. He added that the premium beauty segment is poised for robust expansion over the coming decade, and that Ras is well placed to capture that opportunity.
For Ras, the partnership is as much about scale as it is about shared philosophy. Co-founder and CEO Shubhika Jain said Dabur’s 141-year legacy of building trusted, purpose-led brands makes it a natural ally. The capital infusion, she noted, will help accelerate the brand’s omnichannel footprint, deepen research capabilities and invest in team and brand building, with an eye on establishing Ras as a leading Indian luxury skincare name both domestically and overseas.
With this move, Dabur is not just investing in a skincare label. It is placing an early wager on India’s growing appetite for premium, conscious beauty, and signalling that heritage FMCG players are ready to play in the new-age D2C arena.
