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Kareena, new face of Dabur Amla Hair Oil
MUMBAI: Dabur India Ltd, a leading natural personal care company in India, has announced Bollywood Actress Kareena Kapoor Khan as the new face of India’s most preferred hair oil brand, Dabur Amla Hair Oil. Enriched with the natural goodness of Amla (Indian gooseberry), Dabur Amla Hair Oil enriches hair, making them strong from inside and beautiful from outside to keep you looking absolutely gorgeous all day long.
Dabur Amla Hair Oil’s new identity now has Kareena Kapoor Khan’s face on the front label, making the 75-year-old brand more contemporary and appropriate in consonance with today’s lifestyle. “Dabur Amla hair Oil has always been associated with beauty and has been known as the key behind strong, healthy, long and beautiful hair. Kareena’s vibrant persona, pan-India appeal and her confident attitude makes her a great fit for our brand,” said Rajat Nanda, DGM – Hair Oils, Dabur India Ltd.
Kapoor said, “Dabur Amla Hair Oil has always showcased the epitome of strength & beauty for Indian women. I am really excited to undertake this new journey with them.”
“Hair oil is an integral part of traditional Indian lifestyle, and generations of women have relied on the natural benefits of oil to keep their hair strong and healthy. The brand Dabur Amla has been synonymous to hair oiling and has proved itself generations after generations to be the best choice when it comes to making your hair strong & beautiful, ” Nanda added.
Brands
UK’s OnlyFans seeks US investor at $3bn valuation after owner’s death
The adult video platform is seeking stability after the death of its billionaire owner
LONDON: OnlyFans is looking for a new partner. The London-based adult video platform is in advanced talks to sell a minority stake of less than 20 per cent to Architect Capital, a San Francisco-based investment firm, in a deal that would value the business at more than $3bn (£2.2bn).
The move is driven by an urgent need for stability. Leonid Radvinsky, the Ukrainian-American billionaire who owned OnlyFans, died of cancer last month at the age of 43, leaving the future of one of Britain’s most profitable privately held businesses suddenly uncertain.
The choice of Architect Capital is not arbitrary. The firm has deep expertise in financial services, which aligns neatly with OnlyFans’ ambitions to offer banking products to its creators, many of whom have long struggled to access basic financial services because of the nature of their work.
The numbers behind OnlyFans are, by any measure, staggering. The platform posted revenues of $1.4bn in the year to 30th November 2024, with a pre-tax profit of $684m, up four per cent on the prior year. Payments to creators totalled $7.2bn over the same period, a rise of nearly ten per cent. Radvinsky personally collected $701m in dividends from the business in 2024 alone, on top of more than $1bn in such payments he had already received. The platform, run through its parent company Felix International, hosts 4.6m creator accounts, with performers keeping 80 per cent of subscription proceeds and the platform pocketing the remaining 20 per cent. It has 377m fan accounts in total.
The current minority stake talks represent a notable scaling back of ambitions. In January, OnlyFans was reported to be in discussions with Architect about selling a majority stake of 60 per cent. Before that, the company had explored a sale to a consortium led by Forest Road Company, a Los Angeles-based investment firm. Neither deal materialised.
OnlyFans has built an enormously lucrative business on content that mainstream finance has long refused to touch. Now, with its owner gone and a $3bn valuation on the table, it is looking for the kind of respectable institutional backing that might finally persuade the banks to take its calls.
