MAM
Dentsu wins creative mandate for Max India corporate
MUMBAI: Dentsu Creative Impact, Dentsu India’s full service advertising agency, has been awarded the creative duties for Max India Limited, a leading multi-business corporate with commanding India presence in life insurance (Max Life), healthcare (Max Healthcare), health insurance (Max Bupa Health Insurance), clinical Research (Max Neeman) and the manufacturing of speciality products for the packaging industry (Max Speciality Films).
The agency has also won the creative mandate for the newest brand within the Max India Group – Antara, which is in the business of redefining how seniors live in India today through their upcoming residential communities for people over the age of sixty.
Dentsu India Group executive chairman Rohit Ohri said “We’re really excited to partner Max India in its next phase of growth and development in the market. Max India is focused on creating positive social impact in the country through its businesses. This vision offers us a unique opportunity to create communication that not only connects with audiences at multiple emotional levels but also through a wide variety of touch points. Another opportunity for us to demonstrate our integrated communication thinking!”
Driven by the spirit of enterprise, Max India Limited focuses on people and service-oriented businesses, the core of which revolves around ‘Life’. The Group is credited with forging and successfully nurturing strong and fruitful business relationships with leading global companies over the years. Max India enjoys strong relationships with its JV partners – Fortune 100 company New York Life, South African healthcare major Life Healthcare and leading international healthcare provider, Bupa.
Max India Head – Communications Nitin Thakur said, “We were looking for a creative partner to help us think through a distinct and meaningful positioning of brand Max that reflects our ethos and is a powerful enough core for our Group businesses to build their individual product positioning around it. Two things about Dentsu’s approach stood out for us. While strategy was at the forefront, the enthusiasm displayed by the new team at Dentsu Creative Impact helped fortify our belief that a lot of fresh thinking is on the cards for a stronger and resurgent Brand Max.”
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.
