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Mindshare adds apna.com, Launch My Career & Winzo to client roster
Mumbai: Mindshare North has started the year with several business wins across consumer internet and data-technology category. This includes professional network site apna.com, online career guidance platform Launch My Career and social gaming app Winzo.
“The new wins go on to demonstrate client’s confidence in Mindshare’s capability to deliver not just highly visible award-winning campaigns, but deliver across the funnel by driving awareness, consideration, and eventual conversion as well for brands,” said the statement. “The ability to wrangle data, capitalize digital, leverage content and most importantly deliver outcomes, is what has driven differentiation in the market for Mindshare.”
The agency has been focusing its efforts to leverage data, digital and content space in the last few years as part of its growth strategy. Mindshare has continued investments in products, platforms and people and built a future-ready team to partner with clients for their data, digital and content transformation and growth journey.
“Several wins across a sector like consumer-internet and data-tech is a testament to the client’s trust in our work,” said Mindshare North and East India senior vice president client leadership Ruchi Mathur. “Brands today are looking for a strategic partner who can co-create communication with smart data and tech to deliver efficient campaigns and brand messaging. Clients are increasingly opting for agencies who have the capability to deliver full- funnel solutions and we are fully capable of delivering on these requirements. We are proud to have won these accounts in these emerging categories and we are confident of delivering the best to the clients.”
“These wins contribute to our vision of growth,” said Mindshare South Asia CEO Parthasarathy Mandayam. “While Mindshare continues to deliver in the traditional media space, there is increased focus on performance, data, tech, content as well. It is a privilege to see our teams continue to work hard and adapt to these difficult times and an honour to have clients put their trust in us, this is what makes Mindshare. These wins show that the team’s hard work and our strategy is paying off.”
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Dabur buys minority stake in Ras Beauty for Rs 60 crore
Dabur Ventures deal backs fast-growing luxury skincare brand
MUMBAI: Dabur India Limited has dipped into the world of luxury skincare, signing a definitive agreement to acquire a minority stake in Ras Beauty Private Limited for Rs 60 crore. The investment marks the first bet from Dabur Ventures, the FMCG major’s Rs 500 crore platform set up in October 2025 to back high-potential, new-age direct-to-consumer brands.
Founded in Raipur by Shubhika Jain, her sister Suramya Jain and their mother Sangeeta Jain, Ras Beauty has grown from a family-led passion project into a fast-scaling “Farm-to-Face” skincare label. Its range of face elixirs, serums and moisturisers blends essential oils with nature-derived actives, striking a balance between botanical purity and laboratory precision.
The numbers tell their own story. Ras has clocked a three-year Cagr of around 75 per cent and an annual run rate of approximately Rs 100 crore, all while maintaining strong gross margins. That growth has been fuelled by a digital-first approach, in-house R&D and manufacturing, and a sharp focus on clean, sustainable sourcing.
Dabur India executive director and group head corporate strategy Abhinav Dhall, said the company was drawn to Ras’s distinct positioning at the intersection of nature, science and luxury. He added that the premium beauty segment is poised for robust expansion over the coming decade, and that Ras is well placed to capture that opportunity.
For Ras, the partnership is as much about scale as it is about shared philosophy. Co-founder and CEO Shubhika Jain said Dabur’s 141-year legacy of building trusted, purpose-led brands makes it a natural ally. The capital infusion, she noted, will help accelerate the brand’s omnichannel footprint, deepen research capabilities and invest in team and brand building, with an eye on establishing Ras as a leading Indian luxury skincare name both domestically and overseas.
With this move, Dabur is not just investing in a skincare label. It is placing an early wager on India’s growing appetite for premium, conscious beauty, and signalling that heritage FMCG players are ready to play in the new-age D2C arena.
