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Mid Day conducts sampling exercise through dabbavalaas
MUMBAI: Mid Day has launched its new lifestyle section, Your Life, with sample copies being sent along with dabbas to office goers in South and Central Mumbai through the legendary Mumbai dabba service.
This is the first ever for a print media brand, with over 100,000 consumers have been targeted through this sampling exercise which will also take place in local trains, colleges, cinemas and multiplexes. In addition to extensive sampling, this section is also being promoted through outdoor, print, radio and cinema, states an official release.
Your Life is the new lifestyle section from Mid Day that covers food, shopping, health and fitness, fashion among a host of other issues in an all colour daily section.
Developed with inputs from research carried out over the last few months, this section appeals to the changing tastes and aspirations of the emergent middle class Mumbai consumers. Designed to function as a ‘how to’, ‘what to’ and ‘where to’ guide, Your Life is positioned as a better living guide for Mumbai.
Brands
Faber-Castell India appoints Sunaina Haldar as director – marketing
With stints at Tata, SleepyCat and ADF Foods under her belt, Haldar is primed to redraw Faber-Castell’s brand story
MUMBAI: Faber-Castell India has poached Sunaina Haldar from ADF Foods, appointing her director – marketing as the German stationery brand looks to muscle up in a category that is rapidly reinventing itself around creativity and self-expression.
Haldar hit the ground running. “My first couple of weeks have been incredibly energising, understanding consumers, visiting markets, engaging with retailers and immersing myself into the world of Faber-Castell Group,” she said.
She arrives with considerable firepower. At ADF Foods, Haldar ran marketing across India and international markets for a portfolio spanning Ashoka, Aeroplane, Camel and ADF Soul. Before that, she was vice-president – marketing at direct-to-consumer mattress brand SleepyCat, where she helmed brand, content and performance marketing. Her résumé also includes a stint leading marketing, new product development and CRM for Tata SmartFoodz at Tata Consumer Products, no small proving ground.
Between corporate roles, Haldar also operated as a fractional CMO for early-stage startups, building marketing strategy and operational structures from scratch, a signal that she knows how to move fast with limited resources.
With 18 years straddling FMCG, D2C and the startup world, Haldar now takes the reins at a brand that has long owned the classroom but is clearly hungry for the living room. In a stationery market where the pencil has become a lifestyle statement, Faber-Castell has picked someone who knows exactly how to sell that story.
