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St. Botanica launches DVC with Kareena Kapoor Khan
Mumbai: St.Botanica, a leading direct-to-consumer (D2C) beauty brand and part of South Asia’s largest beauty and personal care conglomerate Good Glamm Group, launches a new DVC featuring actor and brand ambassador, Kareena Kapoor Khan for their Moroccan Argan Hair Care range, underlining the brand’s promise of curating the world’s finest ingredients to create effective self-care products.
The campaign underscores St.Botanica’s commitment to providing consumers with the world’s finest ingredients in their self-care products. With a range of luxurious, potent blends containing Argan Oil sourced all the way from Morocco, the campaign shines a spotlight on St.Botanica’s core principles: using powerful ingredients from around the world, crafting rich and effective formulations, ensuring products are free of harmful chemicals, and conducting rigorous scientific testing for guaranteed results. Leveraging Kareena Kapoor Khan’s widespread appeal, the Digital Video Campaign engages new generations of consumers, emphasizing the brand’s promise of delivering high-quality ingredients in their self-care essentials.
“At St.Botanica, our core focus and commitment lies in using the world’s finest ingredients in our products, ensuring that our customers experience unparalleled quality and luxury in their haircare rituals. Our latest DVC and partnership with Kareena Kapoor Khan further enhances the essence of St.Botanica’s philosophy and strengthens our dedication to providing consumers with the very best in self-care,” stated Good Glamm Group Good Brands Co CEO Sukhleen Aneja.
Expressing her excitement, actor and brand ambassador, Kareena Kapoor Khan said, “My association with St.Botanica has spanned for more than a year now, and during this time, I’ve wholeheartedly embraced the brand’s core philosophy. St.Botanica is dedicated to providing toxin-free products with meticulously created formulations featuring the world’s finest ingredients. My experience with the products and deep resonance with the brand’s values fuels my excitement to be a part of St.Botanica’s journey.”
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Zomato film highlights bias faced by women delivery partners
International Women’s Day campaign shines light on everyday stereotypes
MUMBAI: A food delivery may arrive in minutes, but the journey behind it can still carry a few outdated assumptions. This International Women’s Day, Zomato has released a new brand film that shines a light on the subtle but familiar biases faced by women delivery partners during their daily shifts. The campaign nudges viewers to rethink a simple idea that still surprises many people: a delivery partner’s ability has nothing to do with gender.
Instead of focusing on training for delivery partners, the film flips the perspective and gently turns the mirror towards society. Through a series of everyday moments, from collecting orders at restaurants to arriving at a customer’s doorstep, women delivery partners encounter reactions that many recognise all too well. Curious glances, surprised expressions and questions that hint at disbelief follow them along the route.
In a playful cinematic twist, the delivery partners break the fourth wall to address these reactions directly, offering light-hearted responses that quietly challenge the stereotypes.
The campaign also reflects a broader shift in India’s gig economy. As of February 2026, Zomato has more than 3,500 monthly active women delivery partners who collectively deliver over five lakh orders every month.
Eternal chief sustainability officer anjalli ravi kumar said building an inclusive platform economy requires both opportunity and acceptance. She said that as more women step into roles across urban last-mile logistics, the ecosystem around them must evolve to ensure they can work with confidence and dignity.
She added that enabling women to participate safely and comfortably in such roles is essential if India is to move closer to the goal of 70 per cent female workforce participation by 2047 under the broader vision of Viksit Bharat 2047.
Alongside the campaign, Zomato has been strengthening safety measures for women delivery partners. The company offers a 24 by 7 SOS emergency support system available in more than 800 cities, connecting partners to ambulance services, police and an internal response team when needed.
Women delivery partners also have the option to avoid certain delivery locations between 7 pm and 5 am if they feel unsafe. In addition, city-specific WhatsApp support groups in the top seven cities help women partners communicate easily, raise concerns and seek peer support.
For deliveries to hotels, lodges or guest houses, women partners can complete the order at the reception instead of going up to individual rooms. The delivery partner app also allows them to flag difficult or unsafe areas as black zones. More than 300 such zones have already been identified and temporarily marked unserviceable.
Through the film and these initiatives, Zomato hopes to spark a broader conversation about inclusion in the gig economy, one delivery at a time.
