Brands
Kalyan Jewellers announces campaign winners for a Mercedes Benz
MUMBAI: Jewellery brand Kalyan Jewellers has recently announced the top 25 winners from the “Shop and win 25 Mercedes Benz CLA” global campaign. The campaign, which was started as part of the brand’s Akshaya Tritiya offer in April, drew to a close on 9 June.
The winners from India were selected via an electronic raffle while the winners from other countries like UAE, Qatar, Oman and Kuwait were identified through the individual lucky draw from each country. As announced at the start of the campaign, 10 winners were selected from India, seven from UAE, three from Qatar, three from Oman and two from Kuwait. The cars keys will be handed over in the coming weeks after the formalities are completed.
Kalyan Jewellers chairman and managing director TS Kalyanaraman said, “I would like to congratulate the all the lucky winners. At Kalyan our endeavour has been to enable our customers to extract value from their purchase while providing a great shopping experience. This campaign was an extension of that thought, and I am delighted that we could play a small part in helping realise the dreams of our customers.”
The campaign marks the single largest offer of free Mercedes Benz CLA in a raffle draw in India and GCC. Customers participated in the promotion by making a minimum purchase across Kalyan Jewellers showrooms in their respective countries.
The list of all winners is as follows.
Brands
Godrej clarifies ‘GI’ identifier after logo similarity debate
Says GI is not a logo, will not replace Godrej signature across products.
MUMBAI: In a branding storm where shapes did the talking, Godrej is now spelling things out. Godrej Industries Group (GIG) has issued a clarification on its newly introduced ‘GI’ identifier, addressing questions around its purpose and design following a wave of online criticism. At the centre of the debate were two concerns: whether the new mark replaces the long-standing Godrej logo, and whether its geometric design mirrors other corporate identities.
The company has drawn a clear line. The Godrej signature logo, it said, remains unchanged and continues to be the sole logo across all consumer-facing products and services. The ‘GI’ mark, by contrast, is not a logo but a corporate group identifier intended for use alongside the Godrej signature or company name, and aimed at stakeholders such as investors, media and talent rather than consumers.
The need for such a distinction stems from the 2024 restructuring of the broader Godrej Group into two separate business entities. With both continuing to operate under the same Godrej name and signature, the identifier is positioned as a way to differentiate the Godrej Industries Group at a corporate level.
The rollout, however, triggered a broader conversation on design originality. Critics pointed to similarities between the GI mark’s geometric composition and logos used by companies globally, raising questions about distinctiveness.
Responding to this, GIG said its intellectual property and legal review found that such overlaps are common in minimalist, geometry-led design systems. Basic forms such as circles and rectangles appear across dozens of brand identities worldwide, the company noted.
It added that the identifier emerged from an extensive design process and was chosen for its simplicity, allowing it to sit alongside the Godrej signature without competing visually. While acknowledging that elemental shapes may appear less distinctive in isolation, the group emphasised that the mark is part of a broader identity system that includes a custom typeface, sonic branding and other proprietary elements.
Following legal and ethical assessments, the company said it found no impediment to using the identifier, reiterating that the GI mark is a corporate tool not a consumer-facing symbol.
In short, the logo isn’t changing but the conversation around it certainly has.
