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Livon Silky launches ‘Break Free’ campaign
Mumbai: DDB Mudra has conceptualised the new ad campaign for Livon Silky tat introduces the brand‘s latest range of products. The campaign‘s aim is to showcase Livon’s main attribute of giving girls back the ability of leaving their hair open everyday.
The television commercial named ‘Break Free’ highlights the new formula which promises for the stylish hair that can be manageable every day.
The TVC propagates the USP of how the product helps to break free from hair that looks dull and tangled. The ad is directed by Jim Sonzero.
DDB Mudra CCO Sonal Dabral said, “It was very exciting and challenging to work on the new Livon TVC. An important milestone in the life of this brand, this new TVC is more than just a TVC. Besides being a befitting tribute to the free-spirited, modern indian girl who loves freedom, it‘s also an effort to do a total make-over of the Livon brand. I feel on both counts the TVC has been a great success. I‘m sure it will be loved by the target audience and will do wonders in the market place.”
DDB Mudra executive creative directors Talha Bin Mohsin and Mahesh Parab addeds, “We have used this campaign to mirror the insecurity a woman feels in being caged and tied down in her modern daily life. This film attempts to synonymously ask the contemporary woman to adopt change by taking actions into her own hands. No one can communicate this change any better than a spirited brand such as Livon”.
Marico India Sameer Satpathy EVP and business head shared, “This is our first TVC on Livon post our acquisition of the brand. We would like to increase the penetration of the category by driving the relevance of the same. The TVC highlights the brand’s ability to deliver on a women’s desire for open hair anytime and anywhere”.
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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.
