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Kokuyo Camlin bags Asia’s Most Promising Brand award
MUMBAI: Kokuyo Camlin, a stationery and art material manufacturer, has been awarded as Asia’s Most Promising Brand under the stationery category. Asia’s Most Promising Brands 2014, an initiative by WCRC (World Consulting and Research Corporation) brings to the fore companies that have shown tremendous brand growth in the past few years.
Kokuyo Camlin executive director Nobuchika Doi, CEO A Srikanth and CMO Saumitra Prasad received the award on behalf of Kokuyo Camlin at a ceremony during the Brand and Leadership Summit 2014 on 12 January at The Oberoi, Gurgaon. The brand will be listed on the web portal and would also be entitled to receive the logo and communication rights of ‘Asia’s Most Promising Brands 2014.’
Doi said, “I am very honoured to receive this award and to be here today. I would like to thank all our colleagues especially marketing members who made outstanding efforts to increase the value of our brand. We have been investing in our brands Kokuyo Camlin keeping consumers at the core, and providing them the best overall experience. Also, we stand for making learning fun and thus making a big contribution to the society. We are delighted to see that our efforts have been recognised with this award. And our company’s vision is to be ‘Honor of Asia.’ All our employees are making a lot of efforts to realise this vision in day to day activities. So, I’m very happy now that we received this award Asia’s most promising brand 2014. Finally I would like to thank you again and hope I will be here again next year.”
Asia’s Most Promising Brands 2014 is a brand project where the process is validated, advised and evaluated by KPMG in India. Out of a list of 500 brands, 100 brands were featured across 25 industry categories to form the Asia’s Most Promising Brands for the year 2014.
MUMBAI: In India’s fast-moving payments race, Visa has just swiped in a new leader. The company has named Suresh Sethi as its India country head, marking a key leadership shift as it sharpens its focus on digital payments growth in the market. Sethi steps into the role following his recent exit from Protean eGov Technologies, where he served as chief executive officer. He succeeds Sandeep Ghosh, who has moved on after more than four years at Visa to pursue an external opportunity.
The appointment comes at a time when Visa is doubling down on its expansion strategy across India and the wider region, deepening partnerships and accelerating adoption in an increasingly competitive digital payments ecosystem.
Sethi brings with him a broad, cross-market perspective shaped by decades of experience across corporate banking, retail financial services, mobile money and large-scale government technology initiatives. He began his career at Citigroup, where he spent 14 years working across India, Africa, South America and the United States, focusing on transaction banking services within the corporate bank.
His appointment signals a blend of institutional experience and market familiarity qualities that could prove critical as Visa navigates a landscape where fintech innovation, regulatory evolution and consumer adoption are all accelerating at once.
As digital payments in India continue to scale rapidly, the leadership change underscores a simple reality, in a market where every tap, scan and swipe counts, who leads the charge can matter just as much as the technology itself.
