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Ambi Pur asks people to ‘open their nose to see’
NEW DELHI: With most people sheltering in place for the past several months, they have been compelled to manage most of their household chores themselves. Acknowledging this fact, P&G’s air care brand Ambi Pur recently kicked off the Naak Khol Ke Dekho (Open your nose to see) challenge, inviting consumers to #CleanUpWithAmbiPur. This campaign establishes the importance of odour-free air.
Television’s leading ladies Anita Hassanandani and Krystle D’souza participated in the challenge and captured personable tension points. Anita shared her experience of converting the home office to a fitness studio and vice versa daily that has been causing sweaty and stuffy odours; while Krystle discussed leaving the living room cluttered with windows and curtains closed during busy shoot days causing stale and musty smells. The line-up also includes popular youth bloggers, who believe in doing things themselves at home.
Procter & Gamble commercial leader – skin, personal and homecare Rohini Venkateswaran said, “Ambi Pur has always been creating awareness about the need to clean odours from the air around us and not just masking the odours with fragrance. People get used to the malodours in their home and hence, tend to be nose blind to the malodours. Today, with consumers spending a lot more time at home, the malodour problems are stronger, hence, the higher relevance of cleaning up the air. The clean-up challenge brings to life the brand’s message in a very interesting and relevant manner.”
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.
