Brands
Livspace names Abhishek Gupta as new CFO
MUMBAI: Livspace has roped in seasoned finance leader Abhishek Gupta as its new chief financial officer, signalling a sharper focus on discipline as the home interiors major steps on the growth accelerator.
Gupta will steer Livspace’s financial strategy, planning, transformation and corporate governance, while partnering the leadership team on key strategic moves. In simple terms, he will be the numbers man making sure big ideas land on solid ground.
With over two decades of experience, Gupta is no stranger to fast-growing consumer and digital businesses. Most recently, he was CFO at Myntra, where his remit stretched beyond balance sheets to include risk management, real estate and workplaces. Before that, he clocked senior stints at Flipkart, Unilever, Abbott and ITC, handling everything from supply chain finance to large-scale business transformations.
Livspace founder and CEO Ramakant Sharma, said the appointment comes at a pivotal moment. As the company scales, he noted, financial rigour and clarity become essential growth tools. Gupta’s track record across retail, e-commerce and supply chain-led models is expected to strengthen controls and sharpen decision-making.
Gupta, for his part, sees finance as more than a reporting function. He said Livspace operates in a complex category where design flair meets on-ground execution, making strong financial foundations critical. His focus, he added, will be on building clarity, discipline and resilience, helping the business bring predictability to a dynamic environment.
A Chartered Accountant, Gupta holds a bachelor of commerce degree from St. Xavier’s College, University of Calcutta. He has earned multiple industry accolades over the years, including the CFO of the Year award in the digital and e-commerce sector for 2024-25 from bodies such as CII and Assocham. He is also a member of the national CFO Council at Ficci and Assocham.
With Gupta stepping in, Livspace appears keen to prove that even in the creative world of home interiors, good design works best when the numbers add up.
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.
