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Brave New World’s Women’s Day for Project Eve-Song for the Strong
MUMBAI: Project Eve by Reliance Retail is a premium retail brand unlike any other. Its unique concept ensured that independent, sophisticated women between 25 and 40 would be treated to a destination store built to provide everything a woman would need – from clothes, footwear, accessories, cosmetics, in-house salon, personal stylist – to look and feel fabulous. Today Project Eve is going strong with 20 stores and counting across all the big Indian metropolitans.
This season, Project Eve is honouring a woman's softer strengths: her loving nature, her graciousness, her elegance, her willpower, her tact, her drive with the Soft is Powerful campaign.
To celebrate International Day and being a brand by women and for women, Project Eve envisaged that that the celebration needed to come from a place personal to the brand, something one would take real pride in. This meant celebrating every woman for all her strengths and putting a smile on her face.
"The power of music to strike the right chord never goes out of fashion. Add to that the charm of fact over fiction and personalization over carpet-bombing and you can create cost-effective, content-smart ideas. While the charm of heavily produced content still causes thumbs to stop, we're living in an age where simplicity and authenticity have more power than ever before. With such a hungry and dynamic customer environment, it's important to earn the attention of an audience by connecting, creating, and contributing." says Joono Simon- Founder of Brave New World, the agency behind the campaign.
Extending the brand’s celebration of these qualities, Brave New World designed Songs for the Strong, a Women's Day campaign where a platform was given, to tag the special ladies in their lives on the brand’s social handles, explaining why they are unique and what their soft strengths are.
Over the course of four days leading up to Women's Day, the best comments were hand-picked. And together with Kenishaa Francis – the Instagram-famous singer-songwriter, original songs were reproduced with lyrics inspired by comments, which included the names of the nominees and their special qualities. The lyrics were brought to life with tunes that suited each nominee's personality – some upbeat, some mellow and some downright charming.
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Hardik Jhaveri named senior director marketing at Colgate-Palmolive Asean hub
Former Hill’s Pet Nutrition general manager returns to the company to steer marketing for South Asean from Kuala Lumpur
KUALA LUMPUR: Hardik Jhaveri has been appointed senior director marketing for the South Asean hub at Colgate-Palmolive, marking a return to the consumer goods major after a three year stint with Hill’s Pet Nutrition. He will be based in Kuala Lumpur and will lead marketing strategy for the region.
Jhaveri joins the role after serving as general manager at Hill’s Pet Nutrition in Taipei, where he led a cross functional team and oversaw the business with full profit and loss responsibility. The role placed him at the helm of operations in Taiwan, managing growth in what he described as a start-up style environment within a global multinational.
Before that, Jhaveri spent over a decade with Colgate-Palmolive across several marketing and innovation roles in Asia. As associate director innovation for Apac excluding China, based in Hong Kong, he led new product development and launches across multiple markets.
His portfolio ranged from developing specialised oral care products such as a diabetes focused toothpaste for the Indian market to launching premium oral care experiences under the Colgate Total brand in Australia. Alongside innovation, he also worked on launch planning, brand strategy and communications for the company’s oral care portfolio.
Earlier in his Colgate-Palmolive journey, Jhaveri held roles including marketing manager innovation, senior brand manager and brand manager. His work spanned urban and rural markets in Mumbai and customer development responsibilities in the Greater Kolkata Area.
Prior to his long association with Colgate-Palmolive, Jhaveri worked as brand officer home care at Unilever, where he helped drive marketing initiatives for the Rin detergent brand, including nationwide relaunch and on ground activation campaigns.
He began his career in advertising with Bates David Enterprise, working on brands such as IDBI Bank, The Leela Hotels and The Times of India.
Jhaveri holds a post graduate programme in management from the Indian School of Business and has also completed a level 4 diploma in wine from the Wine & Spirit Education Trust.
Announcing the move, Jhaveri said he is excited to begin his new chapter at Colgate-Palmolive’s South Asean hub and thanked colleagues and mentors who supported his journey at Hill’s Pet Nutrition.
