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Apollo Tyres mandates Mirum, a WPP agency, to create & release the latest campaign
Mumbai: Apollo Tyres has launched an awareness campaign #RacingHeartsSince1909 for Vredestein in India. The campaign, which is created and launched by Mirum, a WPP agency, is all set to get the hearts racing!
The awareness campaign is being taken live on social media, OOH, print magazines, in addition to BTL activations in prominent cities across the country.
The campaign targets the auto enthusiasts. It aims to raise awareness of the superior performance and rich legacy of the Vredestein brand.
The company also focuses at bringing out the outstanding qualities that differentiates Vredestein from other tyre brands — a longstanding legacy of delivering tyres with premium styling and ultra-high performance. And, these are the two most important factors considered by owners of luxury cars and superbikes, the segments catered to by Vredestein.
The campaign brings forward the brand’s ideology of tyres not just being another shoe of one’s vehicle, but a product which makes driving fun, fast and exhilarating. And this is a feeling that brand Vredestein has been delivering successfully for over a century, especially in Europe, with many of its tyres getting high ratings from automotive magazines in their tyre tests, much ahead of the competition.
Commenting on the awareness campaign, Apollo Tyres Middle East and Africa & Asia Pacific president Satish Sharma said, “Vredestein is synonymous with premium styling and ultra-high performance tyres. We are looking at promoting these qualities of the brand, along with its heritage and legacy, which is winning hearts of the consumers, through this campaign, which is being rolled out across mediums.”
Mirum North India director Arvind Nair added “Our attempt with racing hearts was to bring forth the love for driving combined with the heritage of the brand. For a brand like Vredestein, we focused on the emotion and the legacy of performance that sets it apart for over a century.”
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Beacon Group appoints Dr Rajesh Patel as Group CEO
36-year healthcare veteran to lead Beacon Diagnostics, Vector Biotek, Biogeny.
MUMBAI: A new chief, a fresh diagnosis and a sharper prescription for growth. Beacon Group has appointed Dr Rajesh Patel as its Group Chief Executive Officer, effective April 1, 2026, signalling a decisive push to scale its presence in the diagnostics and IVD space. Patel steps into the role with 36 years of experience across the healthcare and diagnostics industry, bringing a career shaped by leadership roles spanning sales, marketing, business development and operational strategy. His mandate is both expansive and precise: to steer the group’s overall strategic direction while tightening coordination across its three core entities Beacon Diagnostics, Vector Biotek and Biogeny Diagnostics.
In practical terms, that means driving cross-company synergies, accelerating market expansion and strengthening organisational capability areas increasingly critical as diagnostic players compete for scale in a fragmented yet rapidly evolving healthcare ecosystem. The group is positioning itself to capture unmet demand across chain laboratories, key accounts and standalone labs, segments that remain underserved despite growing diagnostic needs.
The appointment comes at a time when the In Vitro Diagnostics (IVD) sector in India is entering a more competitive and innovation-led phase, with companies focusing not just on product pipelines but also on service delivery, integration and customer-centric models. Beacon’s leadership appears to be betting that Patel’s execution-focused approach can help translate ambition into operational momentum.
Welcoming the appointment, Chairman Dr D K Joshi described Patel’s induction as a strategic move aligned with the group’s long-term vision, emphasising the role of leadership depth in navigating the next phase of growth.
For Beacon Group, the message is clear, in a sector where precision matters, leadership is the new differentiator—and this appointment is intended to set the tone for what comes next.
