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Pidilite’s Roff teams up with Pro Kabaddi League for 2024 season
Mumbai – Roff announced that it has renewed its partnership with the Pro Kabaddi League (PKL) for its 11th season.
Commenting on the partnership, Pidilite Industries Ltd., CMO Manish Dubey said, “We are excited to extend our association with the Pro Kabaddi League (PKL) for yet another thrilling season. Kabaddi is one of India’s most loved and indigenous sports. PKL provides a perfect platform to highlight the core promise of Roff—superior grip and lasting strength. Just as the players demonstrate a strong grip through powerful tackles, Roff embodies the same attributes with its unmatched bonding strength, captured in our tagline ‘Magar ki Jakad’. By aligning with a sport that mirrors our values of strength, resilience, and strategy, we continue to underscore Roff’s leadership in offering advanced and reliable solutions for every tile fixing need.”
Roff will maximise its visibility throughout the tournament, with key branding integrated at pivotal moments of the game. This season also brings enhanced graphic integration to further deepen the brand’s impact. Roff’s communication will be prominently displayed during the most thrilling moments of the game – the most prominent being the Super Tackle, to reinforce its proposition of crocodile-like grip.
Brands
Faber-Castell India appoints Sunaina Haldar as director – marketing
With stints at Tata, SleepyCat and ADF Foods under her belt, Haldar is primed to redraw Faber-Castell’s brand story
MUMBAI: Faber-Castell India has poached Sunaina Haldar from ADF Foods, appointing her director – marketing as the German stationery brand looks to muscle up in a category that is rapidly reinventing itself around creativity and self-expression.
Haldar hit the ground running. “My first couple of weeks have been incredibly energising, understanding consumers, visiting markets, engaging with retailers and immersing myself into the world of Faber-Castell Group,” she said.
She arrives with considerable firepower. At ADF Foods, Haldar ran marketing across India and international markets for a portfolio spanning Ashoka, Aeroplane, Camel and ADF Soul. Before that, she was vice-president – marketing at direct-to-consumer mattress brand SleepyCat, where she helmed brand, content and performance marketing. Her résumé also includes a stint leading marketing, new product development and CRM for Tata SmartFoodz at Tata Consumer Products, no small proving ground.
Between corporate roles, Haldar also operated as a fractional CMO for early-stage startups, building marketing strategy and operational structures from scratch, a signal that she knows how to move fast with limited resources.
With 18 years straddling FMCG, D2C and the startup world, Haldar now takes the reins at a brand that has long owned the classroom but is clearly hungry for the living room. In a stationery market where the pencil has become a lifestyle statement, Faber-Castell has picked someone who knows exactly how to sell that story.
