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Starcom wins LVMH media account
MUMBAI: The Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy (LVMH ) Watch and Jewellery account has finally found its media house in India. In a pitch against eight other media agencies, Starcom MediaVest Delhi bagged the account and it is now ready to spearhead their launch in India.
The Paris-based LVMH, one of the world’s leading luxury product groups, recently launched its watch & jewellery division in India. TAG Heuer and Christian Dior, two of the group’s star brands, will herald their entry into the country, said to be an extremely important and promising market for them, an official release states.
“We are thrilled and proud to be associated with LVMH. Starcom will handle all the brands under the W&J division: Christian Dior, TAG Heuer, Ebel and Zenith. The product category is still unexplored in our country and therefore our work will be extremely challenging. We cannot rely on past examples – we will have to create them. India is a key market for LVMH and our strategies coupled with their excellent team will ensure that India retains its priority and develops strongly in the coming years,” the release quoted Andrey Purushottam, managing director, Starcom MediaVest India, as saying.
“One of my key responsibilities is to spearhead our Delhi operations,” Ravi Moorthy, media director, Starcom MediaVest Mumbai. “Delhi is an exciting market and our recent big wins show the faith the clients have reposed in us in the face of established competition. Starcom has begun investing strongly in Delhi in terms of people and systems. As is our norm in a people’s business, we are going through a rigorous process in setting up a strong team at Delhi.”
Gilles Mangin, general manager LVMH Watch & Jewellery India, confirmed that “India will be an important pillar for the Watch & Jewellery business in the near future, so we needed to choose our media partner very carefully. Starcom showed the best understanding of the product category – luxury watches – which is not a sector widely advertised in India and needs careful analysis to avoid wastage. They also demonstrated professionalism and reactivity. Moreover, the W&J division will be the first one to advertise in India.”
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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.
