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Levi Strauss India appoints Venkataramani as marketing director
MUMBAI: Levi Strauss India (LSIL) today announced the appointment of K Venkataramani as marketing director. In his new role at LSIL, Ramani will be spearheading marketing initiatives for the Levis’s stable of products viz., Levi’s Red Tab, Red Loop, Levis Skyes etc. Ramani takes over from Shumone Chatterjee who recently moved on as the managing director of Levis Strauss India.
“Levi’s recognises India as one of the fastest growing markets in the world for jeanswear and other youth categories,” said Chatterjee. “We remain committed to making Levis’s one of the largest, most iconic and coolest brands for youth in the country and the last two years IIFA Awards for the ‘most admired jeans brand’ by thousands of consumers stand testimony to the same.”
Describing his new assignment at Levi Strauss India as both “exciting as well as immensely challenging,” Ramani said, “I look forward to an amazing time on Levis’s which today enjoys the status of being one of the true iconic youth brands in the country. Immense opportunities that the Indian youth and the economy provides along with the status of the Levis’s brand makes this one of the coolest marketing assignments in India.”
Ramani’s responsibilities would include consumer insight mining, product portfolio and brand architecture management, brand positioning, communication and developing an appropriate retail image for brand across India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal.
Ramani holds a Bachelors Degree in Engineering from The Regional Engineering College, Durgapur and a Masters Degree in Marketing Studies from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute, Mumbai. Ramani has over 12 years of national experience in the FMCG industry with most of the time spent in Unilever, India.
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Time brings TIME100 Next franchise to India with Reliance
List to spotlight 100 emerging leaders, gala set for December 2026 in Mumbai.
MUMBAI: It’s about time India’s next wave got a global spotlight and now, it’s on the list. New York-headquartered Time is expanding its TIME100 Next franchise to India, partnering with Reliance Industries Limited to launch TIME100 Next India, its first international extension of the rising leaders platform. The announcement was made at the Time100 Gala in New York by Jessica Sibley and Nita Mukesh Ambani, signalling a strategic push to tap into India’s growing influence across sectors.
The India edition will recognise 100 emerging leaders from the country and the global Indian diaspora, spanning business, science, sports, arts and social impact. The list will be curated by Time’s editorial team and published online, continuing the franchise’s focus on identifying individuals shaping the future.
The initiative will culminate in a gala event scheduled for December 2026 at the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre, anchoring the platform within India’s cultural and business ecosystem.
TIME’s broader Time100 franchise has steadily expanded its global footprint since 2021 through events and impact-led initiatives. Executives noted that India’s growing pool of influential voices and innovators made it a natural next step for the platform’s international ambitions.
For Reliance, the partnership aligns with its broader push to support emerging talent and ideas on a global stage. For Time, it marks a timely bet on India not just as a market, but as a talent engine shaping the next chapter of global leadership.
