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Religare aims to change the youth mindset to health insurance
MUMBAI: In its endeavour to emphasise and bring to attention how widespread serious illnesses are and how expensive it is to treat them, Religare Health Insurance has gone live with its first ever YouTube mast-head video. The message is that lack of proper financial planning and absence of adequate health coverage spiral into financial distress.
In order to highlight these underlying issues, the company has created a thought-provoking video that has received over 8 million views in a single day.
With the campaign, Religare Health Insurance apprises its audiences that some critical health issues such as cancer or coronary heart ailments have become far more common than we think.
Titled ‘Be Responsible’, the campaign urges people to be more responsible towards their loved ones by insuring their health; thus making them financially independent to manage any health-related misfortune.
Religare Health Insurance business head of digital and business development Sachin Maheshwari says, “We have observed that even first time buyers of health insurance are usually of relatively progressed age. This is because customers believed that they would not encounter any serious medical condition in their younger years. This campaign is part of our sustained efforts to apprise customers with facts that would enable them to secure themselves with a health insurance as early in their lives as possible.”
Religare Health Insurance wishes to bring a change in this behaviour and resolves to educate the younger audience which is why this day-long campaign was executed on the YouTube platform. It’s the first time a health insurance brand has taken a stance like this.
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.
