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EVOK’s ad spends to touch Rs 200 mn this fiscal
BENGALURU: Hindware Home Retail‘s home interiors fashion brand EVOK will be spending around Rs 200 million towards advertising and marketing spends this fiscal as told to Indiantelevision.com by company officials.
The brand spends between five and 7.5 percent of its revenues towards advertising and marketing and an additional burst spend of around Rs.1.5 to two million with every new store launch inform the sources.
EVOK mainly uses print and outdoor as well as in-store branding for ATL activities for brand building, and promotional activities and roadshows for BTL. It is also looking at radio, since the brand has met with a fair bit of success with the medium with its Ludhiana and Gurgaon stores. EVOK has seven different creative agencies signed up and does its media buying through Lintas.
This financial year, EVOK plans to open 25 new stores to take its store count across India to 42. The brand is targeting to up its revenues from Rs.1.5 billion in 2012-13 to Rs.2.5 billion during the current fiscal. With the new stores launch, EVOK will add 200,000 square feet to its existing 150,000 square feet of retail space. The brand has two store formats – the mega store of about 10,000 to 13,000 square feet size and the super specialty store of about 2000 to 3000 square feet size.
EVOK estimates the home furniture business to be worth about Rs one trillion annually, of which organized retail has a five percent share that will grow to fifteen percent over the next five years. The brand says that it caters to the requirements of the value as well as the high net worth customer.
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WPP Media elevates Dipti Gulati to vp, client growth for APMEA
Singapore-based executive to commercialise AI-powered solutions business across the region
SINGAPORE: WPP Media has promoted Dipti Gulati to vice president, client growth, handing her the mandate to lead the commercialisation of its solutions business across APMEA.
Based in Singapore, Gulati steps up after serving as senior director, client growth, where she drove expansion across APAC spanning programmatic, search, social, CTV, DOOH and cross-channel offerings. Now, she is tasked with translating advanced AI, data and technology ecosystems into scalable growth strategies for global brands across FMCG, luxury, F&B and financial services.
“I commercialise the future of media — at scale, across APMEA,” Gulati said, announcing her appointment. She added that she turns advanced data, AI and technology ecosystems into real commercial outcomes, shifting the conversation “from a pure media play to owning business outcomes”.
Her brief is unapologetically future-facing: addressable, accountable and AI-powered media. She will work with cross-market teams across APMEA, bringing together diverse perspectives and cultures to accelerate growth and build what she calls the “future of media”.
Gulati’s rise caps nearly two years at WPP Media and follows a six-month stint as regional director of growth, APAC, at Mindshare, where she led new business development and expanded capabilities for existing clients. Earlier, as global account director for integrated marketing communications on the Unilever business, she drove communications strategy for multi-million dollar beauty and wellbeing brands across Southeast Asia.
Before that, Gulati spent close to two years as associate director at Warner Bros. Discovery in Singapore. She also served as director, strategic partnerships and market development at TrustSphere, leading go-to-market and growth initiatives across Asia and evangelising relationship analytics to C-level executives. TrustSphere, credited by industry and Harvard Business School case studies as a pioneer in relationship analytics, became a springboard for her deeper engagement with data-driven growth.
Her board and evangelist roles at the Asia Cloud Computing Association and its Asia Analytics Alliance further sharpened her regional policy and analytics credentials. Earlier chapters include marketing consultancy at Blockchain Foundry and a seven-year run at Warner Bros. Discovery in India, where she led ad-sales and business development for HBO and WB across north and east India, delivering record billings. She began her career at Diligent Media Corporation Ltd and Bennett, Coleman and Co. Ltd..
From ad-sales floors in Delhi and Mumbai to boardrooms in Singapore, Gulati’s arc mirrors the industry’s own shift — from selling spots and slots to engineering outcomes through data and AI. At WPP Media, the brief is clear: scale smarter, move faster and turn algorithms into advantage.
