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HiveMinds bags digital marketing mandate for Kuvera
Mumbai: HiveMinds Innovative Market Solutions, a unit of Madison World has won the digital marketing mandate for the investment platform Kuvera.
HiveMinds also manages digital marketing duties for brands including Dominos, Max Life Insurance, BigBasket, CoinSwitch Kuber and e-commerce mandates for brands like Crompton, PG, Nivea, Sugar Cosmetics, ITC Dermafique and Stanley Black & Decker.
Trusted by 1.3 million+ investors with over Rs 34,000 crore in assets; Kuvera enables investments, loans and remittances. It offers online personal finance services and has pioneered goal-based, direct plan mutual fund investment for Indians. It uses technology to help users make smart decisions and navigate the nuances of personal finance.
Speaking about this partnership, Kuvera founder and CEO Gaurav Rastogi said, “At Kuvera we are creating a safe space to invest for every Indian. We believe that HiveMinds’ category understanding and strategy can really drive the next phase of our growth.”
On winning the mandate HiveMinds founder and CEO Jyothirmayee JT commented, “Digital investment platforms are driving a sea change in the way Indians invest. Kuvera is riding this wave through product innovation, an agile platform and customer onboarding at scale. We’re happy to be associated with the team and look forward to creating new benchmarks in growth together.”
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.
