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Brand Street Integrated expands to Gujarat with Siddharth Mishra as business director
Mumbai: Brand Street Integrated, a marketing agency known for transforming brands and fostering meaningful connections, has announced its expansion into Gujarat. With this, the company has announced the strategic appointment of Siddharth Mishra as the new business director (West). This move underscores the agency’s commitment to broadening its operational footprint and driving growth in the western region of India.
Siddharth Mishra brings over 11 years of dedicated experience in integrated marketing communications. His background in integrated marketing communication, combined with his extensive industry experience, equips him to adeptly navigate and implement diverse marketing strategies and tools. He is known for his innovative problem-solving skills and a keen ability to adapt to evolving environments, driven by a passion for creativity and continuous personal development.
Siddharth’s professional journey includes significant roles at major agency networks such as Publicis, Dentsu, DDB, and Schbang. His expertise spans business development, brand management, strategic management, integrated marketing communications, and sales management.
Headquartered in Gurgaon, Brand Street Integrated, offers a wide range of services, including consumer marketing, trade marketing, rural marketing, OOH, merchandising, digital marketing, and creative services, among others.
Expressing his enthusiasm about joining Brand Street Integrated, Mishra stated, “I am thrilled to be part of Brand Street Integrated’s journey. The Gujarat market holds immense potential, and I am committed to leveraging my skills and knowledge to drive our organizational objectives and achieve significant growth in this region. Together, we will create impactful and immersive brand experiences that resonate with our audience.”
Brand Street Integrated’s CEO Surendra Singh welcomed Siddharth Mishra to the team with great optimism. He remarked, “Siddharth’s extensive experience and innovative approach make him a valuable addition to our leadership team. His appointment reflects our commitment to expanding our operations and enhancing our service offerings in Gujarat. We are confident that under his leadership, we will achieve new milestones and continue to deliver exceptional results for our clients.”
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Fevicol releases its last ad campaign by the late Piyush Pandey
The adhesive brand’s last campaign by the late advertising legend Piyush Pandey turns an everyday Indian obsession into a quietly powerful metaphor
MUMBAI: Fevicol has never needed much of a plot. A sticky bond, a wry observation, a truth that every Indian instantly recognises — that has always been enough. “Kursi Pe Nazar,” the brand’s latest television commercial, is no different. And yet it carries a weight that no previous Fevicol film has had to bear: it is the last one its creator, the advertising legend Piyush Pandey, will ever make.
The film, released on Tuesday by Pidilite Industries, fixes its gaze on the kursi — the chair — and what it means in Indian life. Not just as a piece of furniture, but as a currency of ambition, a vessel of authority, and a source of quiet social drama that plays out in every home, office and institution across the country. Who sits in the chair, who waits for it, and who eyes it hungrily from across the room: the film transforms this sharply observed cultural truth into a narrative that is, in the best Fevicol tradition, funny, warm and instantly familiar.
The campaign was Pandey’s idea. He discussed it in detail with the team before his death, but did not live to see it shot. Prasoon Pandey, director at Corcoise Films who helmed the commercial, said the team needed five months to find its footing before they felt ready to shoot. “This was the toughest film ever for all of us,” he said. “It was Piyush’s idea, magical as always.”
The emotional weight of that responsibility was not lost on the team at Ogilvy India, which created the campaign. Kainaz Karmakar and Harshad Rajadhyaksha, group chief creative officers at Ogilvy India, described the process as “a pilgrimage of sorts, on the path that Piyush created not just for Ogilvy, but for our entire profession.”
Sudhanshu Vats, managing director of Pidilite Industries, said the film was rooted in a distinctly Indian insight. “The ‘kursi’ symbolises aspiration, transition, and ambition,” he said. “Piyush Pandey had an extraordinary ability to elevate such everyday observations into iconic storytelling for Fevicol. This film carries that legacy forward.”
That legacy is considerable. Over several decades, Pandey’s partnership with Fevicol produced some of the most beloved advertising in Indian history, building the brand into something rare: a household name that people actively enjoy watching sell to them.
“Kursi Pe Nazar” does not try to be a tribute. It simply tries to be a great Fevicol film. By most measures, it succeeds — which is, in the end, the most fitting send-off of all.
