Brands
Bisleri’s Anjana Ghosh steps down as international director – marketing & business development
Mumbai: After a 16-year long stint with the bottled water brand Bisleri International as director – marketing & business development, Anjana Ghosh has decided to move on. Ghosh was with Bisleri for approximately 16 years, having joined the company in 2006. She is currently taking a break even as her next move is yet to be disclosed.
Sharing the development on LinkedIn, Ghosh posted: “Routine can make one complacent, we hide our true self, the spark dwindles, our outputs are more mechanical and that can drain you. I want to make an attempt to step out of my comfort zone, challenge myself to begin fresh towards brand building and marketing for another brand and transform its growth journey.
After spending 16 years in Bisleri I am looking out for the next Challenge.”
“In my association I saw the brand rise to become brand number one, build huge consumer connects with clutter breaking campaigns, saw the company grow leaps and bounds, the experience of which I shall cherish for the rest of my life. Undoubtedly, I carry loads of memories of good times spent at Bisleri,” she further said, adding, “Time to challenge myself again!”
Ghosh was primarily responsible for bringing innovation to the brand and was involved in a lot of pioneering projects including the brand makeover from blue to green and the latest foray into the e-commerce industry. She handled multiple roles in the organisation including strategy and planning for the brand. Ghosh also worked with the brand on a slew of sustainability and plastic recycling initiatives.
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Ghosh joined the beverage company as deputy general manager, sales & marketing after 15 years in the steel industry. She grew into the roles of general manager and later, director, over the next three years.
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.
