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OLX Autos collaborates with Rohit Shetty to launch its fourth ad film under ‘Shetty Ke Car-Naame’ campaign
Mumbai: India’s pre-owned automobile segment OLX Autos, along with Bollywood director Rohit Shetty and actor Sharman Joshi have released their fourth ad film titled ‘Normal Car’ under the ‘Shetty ke Car-Naame’ campaign. This film would be the final leg in their campaign.
The campaign, conceptualised by Lowe Lintas Delhi, once again resonates and showcases OLX Autos’ commitment to offering the ‘Best-Price’ for any every-day car.
The campaign is a humorous take on the common tropes found across Rohit Shetty’s movies, where cars are often shown performing a wide array of stunts and often forming the centrepiece of the movies – while delivering upon the value proposition of OLX Autos, offering the ‘Best-Price’ for pre-owned cars and conveys the delightful experience consumers can expect when selling their cars to OLX Autos.
The fourth film in this series titled – ‘Normal Car’ is a sudden twist in the tale, wherein Sharman Joshi leaves the audience in splits – trying to figure out what’s special with Rohit Shetty’s stunt-car this time around. Rohit Shetty, then makes fun about the fact – his films also include every-day cars – with no special qualities. Not surprisingly, Sharman Joshi, who portrays the role of an OLX Autos employee, delights Rohit Shetty by offering the best price for even the every-day car.
From selling Rohit’s first ‘Flying Car’ to ‘Exploding Cars’ to ‘Revolving Cars’, the campaign ends with Rohit Shetty getting the best price even for the ‘Every-day Car’.
With a low per capita car ownership rate in India, pre-owned cars outpace new cars in terms of cars sold and are often the first set of wheels for many consumers. The supply for pre-owned cars stems from existing car owners. However, given the largely fragmented nature of the pre-owned car market consumers often face difficulties in realising the right price while selling their cars. The campaign seeks to highlight key offerings by OLX Autos, which aims at removing this information and access asymmetry with transparent evaluation processes such as no hidden charges, free inspection, seamless RC transfer and more.
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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.
