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O&M Mumbai ranked sixth in Asia by Campaign Brief Asia
MUMBAI: O&M Mumbai is the sixth most awarded agency in Asia in the annual Campaign Brief Asian Creative Rankings. Last year the agency was in eight position.
Four other Indian agencies rank in Asia’s top 50 agencies – Ambience D’Arcy Mumbai (now part of the Publicis group) at number 23, Leo Burnett Mumbai at number 25, O&M New Delhi at number 47 and McCann-Erickson at number 48.
For the third time in a row O&M Singapore has topped the rankings. This is also the third time in a row they have beaten 1999’s winner Saatchi & Saatchi Singapore.
The 2003 Campaign Brief Asia Creative Rankings tabulated the performances of the top 123 ad agencies and 787 individual creatives in the Asian region. Only performances at award shows over the past two years (2002, 2003) count.
However in terms of the top five most awarded networks in Asia Saatchi & Saatchi came out on top with 4237 points. They were followed by O&M with 3864 points, BBDO with 1678 points, Leo Burnett with 1372 points and JWT with 1001 points. As far as India’s top 10 creatives were concerned O&M Mumbai’s Rajiv Rao was on top with 296 points. He was followed by his colleague Piyush Pandey with 244 points. This is way below the top 10 creatives in Asia. BBDO Singapore Renee Lim was numero uno with 781 points.
The top 10 most awarded agencies in Asia are:
Agency Points
O&M Singapore 1314
Saatchi & Saatchi Singapore 1276
Saatchi & Saatchi Hong Kong 1182
Saatchi & Saatchi Bangkok 1077
BBDO Bangkok 991
O&M Mumbai 688
Dentsu Tokyo 603
JWT Bangkok 596
Bartle Bogle Hegarty 575
O&M Malaysia 481
The annual Rankings were first published in 1998 by Campaign Brief Asia. Awards won in four international shows and 2 regional shows count in the Rankings. Points are allocated for finalists and award winners at Cannes, Clio, D&AD, One Show, Asian Advertising Awards and Asia Pacific AdFest. Importantly, only the previous two years results at these shows count.
Campaign Brief Asia is a regional advertising magazine whose sole focus is creativity. It launched in Asia in 1996. Sister publication Campaign Brief Australia has come out monthly since 1987.
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Ember Cookware appoints Amit Singh as chief of supply chain
10-year veteran to lead operations as brand scales across D2C, quick commerce and retail.
MUMBAI: Ember just handed its supply chain the perfect seasoning because when your cookware is non-toxic and non-stick, the operations behind it better be fast and flawless. Ember Cookware has appointed Amit Singh as chief of supply chain and Services, bolstering its leadership team at a pivotal growth phase. Singh brings over a decade of experience in supply chain strategy, operations and large-scale network buildouts.
He began his career at Singapore-based retail giant Giant Hypermarket before joining Pharmeasy in 2015, where he played a foundational role in building and scaling its pan-India supply chain across B2B and B2C channels. At API Holdings, he later led supply chain operations for North India, managing end-to-end execution across complex, multi-city networks.
In his new role, Amit will oversee Ember’s complete supply chain and service ecosystem including sourcing, manufacturing coordination, logistics, last-mile delivery, post-purchase support and workforce development. His mandate focuses on building cost-efficient, resilient operations that shorten fulfilment times, strengthen inventory management and deliver a consistently high-quality consumer experience as the brand expands nationally.
Ember Cookware co-founder & CEO Siddharth Gadodia said, “Supply chain is where growth either holds or breaks. As we scale across channels and geographies, we need operations that are efficient, resilient, and built for speed, without ever compromising on the consumer experience. Amit has done this before, at real scale.”
Ember Cookware co-founder & CMO Himanshi Tandon added, “As we scale, supply chain efficiency becomes as important as product and brand. Amit’s mandate is to build the operational foundations that make our promise consistent at scale.”
Amit Singh commented, “Ember is building something genuinely different, a category-defining brand with a clear purpose and the ambition to match. I’m looking forward to building supply chain infrastructure that doesn’t just keep pace with growth, but enables it.”
The appointment forms part of Ember’s broader push to deepen leadership across key functions as it invests in its Innovation Lab, proprietary material technologies and operational backbone to support national expansion.
In a kitchenware world where non-stick promises are easy but delivery is hard, Ember isn’t just cooking up products, it’s cooking up an operation that keeps every promise sizzling from factory to fork.
