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Dentsu Webchutney bags digital mandate for Aditya Birla Capital
MUMBAI: Digital agency Dentsu Webchutney has won the digital mandate for two of Aditya Birla Capital’s businesses, namely Aditya Birla Health Insurance and Aditya Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund.
The agency has been entrusted with the task of providing strategic and creative inputs across various platforms within the digital ecosystem.
Aditya Birla Capital chief marketing officer Ajay Kakar says, “We are launching a new category – Money, and are committed to creating new benchmarks in a way customers engage with our category. The digital platform will play a key role in this journey and innovation will be the cornerstone.”
Dentsu Webchutney executive vice president growth Gaurav Soi adds, “Financial planning and financial services are extremely significant today and the digital ecosystem is the most efficient medium to cater to diverse age and need bands. We are looking forward to helping Aditya Birla Capital establish their brand philosophy with respect to the health insurance and mutual funds businesses, through innovative positioning and properties across the digital landscape.”
Denstu Webchutney Mumbai EVP and branch head Nishi Kant mentions, “We are confident of a long-lasting and impactful partnership with Aditya Birla Capital. We look forward to working together to create engaging and result-oriented campaigns that significantly and positively impact their health insurance and mutual fund businesses.”
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.
