Brands
Lotto puts its best foot forward with Happy Feet
MUMBAI: Lotto is letting its feet do the talking. Riding high on early success in India’s sportswear and athleisure scene, the brand has launched Happy Feet, a campaign celebrating the simple yet profound way our feet express energy, joy, and individuality.
The film pairs modern, dynamic visuals with the iconic Kishore Kumar and R.D. Burman track Yeh jawani hai deewani, capturing everyday moments where every step tells a story. It’s a playful, youth-driven narrative that positions feet as the ultimate storytellers, and Lotto as the brand empowering them.
Happy Feet also kicks off a wider community movement, inviting audiences to celebrate authenticity and personality in motion. With this campaign, Lotto reinforces its place in India’s growing sneaker culture, blending heritage with contemporary relevance.
Agilitas, holding exclusive rights for Lotto in India, South Africa, and Australia, plans to expand the brand into sportswear, apparel, and accessories over the next year, signalling a shift in the market towards performance-driven yet personality-packed sportswear.
Brands
Lululemon picks former Nike executive to be its next chief
Heidi O’Neill, who helped grow Nike into a $45 billion giant, will take the top job in September
CANADA: Lululemon has found its next chief executive, and she comes with serious credentials. The athleisure giant named Heidi O’Neill as its new CEO on Wednesday, ending a search that has left the company running on interim leadership since earlier this year. O’Neill will take charge on September 8, 2026, based out of Vancouver, and will join the board on the same day.
O’Neill brings more than three decades of experience across performance apparel, footwear and sport. The bulk of that time was spent at Nike, where she was a central figure in one of corporate sport’s great growth stories, helping take the company from a $9 billion business to a $45 billion global powerhouse. She oversaw product pipelines, brand strategy and consumer connections, and played a significant role in shaping how Nike spoke to athletes around the world. Earlier in her career, she worked in marketing for the Dockers brand at Levi Strauss. She also brings boardroom experience from Spotify Technology, Hyatt Hotels and Lithia and Driveway.
The board was unequivocal in its enthusiasm. “We selected Heidi because of the breadth of her experience, her demonstrated success delivering breakthrough ideas and initiatives at scale, and her ability to be a knowledgeable change and growth agent,” said Marti Morfitt, executive chair of Lululemon’s board.
O’Neill, for her part, was bullish. “Lululemon is an iconic brand with something rare: genuine guest love, a product ethos rooted in innovation, and a global platform still in the early stages of its potential,” she said. “My job will be to accelerate product breakthroughs, deepen the brand’s cultural relevance, and unlock growth in markets around the world.”
Until she arrives, Meghan Frank and André Maestrini will continue as interim co-CEOs, before returning to their previous senior leadership roles once O’Neill steps in.
Lululemon is betting that a Nike veteran who helped build one of the world’s most powerful sports brands can do something similar for an athleisure label that has genuine love from its customers but is still chasing its full global potential. O’Neill has done it before at scale. The question now is whether she can do it again.
