Brands
Flamingo renews collaboration with Hrithik Roshan as brand partner
Mumbai: Flamingo, a flagship consumer healthcare brand of Ascent Meditech Ltd, has renewed its brand partnership with Bollywood actor Hrithik Roshan.
With the continued collaboration with the star, Flamingo aims to sustain and magnify their vision of ‘Making the World Pain Free.’ Over the years Hrithik has epitomised fitness, trust and quality, fundamentals that resonate with the brand’s aesthetics, functionality and product portfolio, said the company in a statement.
Talking about the collaboration, Hrithik Roshan said, “My association with Flamingo comes from my history of dealing with aches and pains through my journey as an actor, where I’ve had to put pressure on my body for various requirements like performing action or a difficult dance step. From a disturbed nights sleep to hindering the most basic daily tasks, pains lead to unrest in the mind and body.”
“The products offered by Flamingo serve as pain relief solutions to various types of injuries. With over 30 years of being in the market, Flamingo has observed the physical struggles of the public and developed aids to live pain-free. I’m happy to be associating with a brand that works wonders for me personally,” added the actor.
The renewed collaboration will kick start a 360-degree brand campaign that will engage the existing and potential brand audience through diverse media interfaces such as television, print, digital, BTL and DTH network, said the brand.
Ascent Meditech Ltd founder and MD Rajiv Mistry said, “Our partnership with Hrithik has been going very strong and our flagship brand Flamingo, has now emerged as one of the Most Trusted Brands in India. Through our earlier campaigns, brand Flamingo has been able to cement its space in the consumer’s mind as a ‘Trusted Partner in Pain’ offering ‘An Aid for a New Life’. Hence, when the question of renewal of association came, it was a no-brainer, for myself and my team.”
“During the initial years of the association, Flamingo with its 350+ products had focused its efforts towards corporate umbrella branding with the objective of garnering awareness among the targeted audience. This renewed association would see brand Flamingo unfurl a campaign where our Brand Ambassador is seen using Flamingo products to combat pain and partaking in everyday activities,” Ascent Meditech Limited VP Sales & Marketing Rakesh Kumar said.
Brands
Samsung certifies 1,000 Maharashtra students in AI and coding
The South Korean electronics giant marks its first large-scale skilling push in the state, with women making up nearly half the national programme’s enrolment
PUNE: Samsung has put 1,000 students in Maharashtra through a certified training programme in artificial intelligence and coding, the largest such drive the South Korean electronics company has run in the state and a signal that corporate India’s skilling ambitions are moving well beyond the boardroom brochure.
The certifications were awarded under Samsung Innovation Campus (SIC), the company’s flagship corporate social responsibility programme, which launched in India in 2022 with the stated aim of democratising access to future-technology education. The 1,000 graduates were drawn from four institutions: 127 from Savitribai Phule Pune University, 373 from Pimpri Chinchwad University, 250 from D.Y. Patil University’s Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology and 250 from Anjuman-I-Islam’s Kalsekar Technical Campus. All completed training in either AI or coding and programming, the two disciplines Samsung has identified as the critical pillars of the digital economy.
The programme does not stop at technical training. Soft-skills development and career-readiness modules are baked into the curriculum, a deliberate attempt to close the gap between what universities teach and what employers actually want.
“India’s digital growth story will ultimately be shaped by the quality of its talent pipeline,” said Shubham Mukherjee, head of CSR and corporate communications at Samsung Southwest Asia. “As technologies like AI move from the periphery to the core of industries, skilling must evolve from basic training to building real-world capability. This milestone in Maharashtra reflects how industry and academia can come together to create a future-ready workforce that is both globally competitive and locally relevant.”
The Maharashtra drive sits within a rapidly scaling national effort. Samsung Innovation Campus trained 20,000 young people across India in 2025, hitting its stated target for the year. Women account for 48 per cent of national enrolments, a figure the company cites as evidence of its push for an inclusive technology ecosystem. The programme is implemented in partnership with the Electronics Sector Skills Council of India and the Telecom Sector Skill Council.
Samsung, which is marking 30 years in India this year, runs SIC alongside two other initiatives, Samsung Solve for Tomorrow and Samsung DOST, as part of a broader effort to build what it calls a generation of innovators with both the technical depth and the problem-solving mindset to thrive in a fast-moving digital world.
A thousand certified students is a tidy headline. Whether they find jobs that match their new skills is the harder question, and the one that will ultimately determine whether corporate skilling programmes like this one are genuine pipelines or well-photographed gestures.
