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CPM India & Candid Marketing join hands
Mumbai: CPM India, a leading name in the world of sales and marketing, and Candid Marketing, a dynamic force in Experiential Marketing, are excited to announce their strategic partnership aimed at establishing a powerful, integrated sales & marketing Activation solution for brands. Through this strategic collaboration, CPM India will harness Candid’s brand strength and expertise to offer a comprehensive suite of services to clients across India. These services will extend CPM India’s existing portfolio and catapult the Candid brand into the forefront of PAN India execution, leveraging an extensive network spanning over 1000 cities and towns nationwide.
Over the years, both CPM India and Candid Marketing have forged distinctive paths, each mastering specific facets of the marketing landscape. CPM India has excelled in trade marketing, sales, and brand activation, while Candid Marketing has become synonymous with experiential marketing, events, and digital activation. The amalgamation of these two industry leaders will pave the way for an unparalleled range of services, covering sales support, customer experience, merchandising, auditing, data, analytics & insight, brand activation, experiential marketing, events, online & digital activation and mobile marketing.
Speaking about the partnership, CPM India CEO & MD Mandeep Singh said, “At CPM, we possess a rich legacy of partnering with major clients across diverse industries, particularly in the retail and channel sales sectors. Our pride stems from the enduring relationships we’ve nurtured with our clients, founded on unwavering trust in our trade marketing and sales initiatives. The desire to delve into brand activations and consumer engagement has always been a shared aspiration.”
“The collaboration with Candid Marketing heralds a new era, unlocking fresh possibilities for both us and our clients. Together, we’ll harness our scale and profound insights into channel and consumer behaviour within the retail domain through experiential marketing. We eagerly anticipate a transformative journey in the consumer activation landscape, driven by our shared commitment to scale and innovation,” he further added.
Commenting on the announcement, Candid Marketing Founder/MD Atul S Nath said, “Over the years, the Candid team has developed a deep understanding of go-to-market strategies & building strong brands – especially through strong creative and omni-channel experiential marketing. CPM’s extensive network and intensive national execution capability will allow us to deliver even better brand campaigns for our clients. I am super-excited with this handshake and look forward to doing some great brand work together in the future!”
Brands
Zepto sets up mini delivery hub at AI Summit
Quick commerce goes live at venue with 1,700 daily orders
NEW DELHI: At a summit devoted to the future of artificial intelligence, quick commerce quietly stole the show at ground level. Zepto set up a compact Delivery Hub at the India AI Impact Summit, turning the venue into a live demonstration of instant retail in action.
Built at roughly one third the size of a standard 4,000 sq ft dark store, the scaled down hub was engineered for speed. Despite its smaller footprint, it was stocked with more than 10,000 stock keeping units curated specifically for summit attendees. From mid morning cravings to late afternoon slumps, the shelves were primed for every possible need.
Till Wednesday, the hub was processing an average of 1,700 orders a day. Lunch hour emerged as the clear rush period, as delegates swapped panel discussions for paneer puffs and product demos for Diet Coke. Snacks topped the order charts, followed by tea and other beverages.
Among the fastest moving items were samosas, plain Maggi, chicken puffs, Bisleri packaged drinking water bottles, Coca-Cola Diet Coke cans and Lay’s India’s Magic Masala potato chips. In short, comfort food met cutting edge tech.
The on site hub gave attendees near instant access to essentials without stepping outside the venue. More than just a convenience counter, it served as a real time case study of how technology led operations can power seamless commerce even at large scale events.
While speakers debated how humans and intelligent systems will co create and co work, Zepto offered a practical reminder that sometimes the smartest innovation is simply getting a hot snack into hungry hands, fast.
