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TBWAIndia, Madison win WLCI account
MUMBAI: In the wake of a multi-agency pitch, TBWAIndia has secured creative duties of Wigan and Leigh College India (WLCI) while Madison India has secured its media duties.
Confirming the development, WLCI VP marketing Philip Abraham says, “We chose TBWAIndia because of their out-of-the-box ideas and innovations and the track record that Madison India has in handling the media duties. The account size is pegged at Rs 120 million.”
Agencies including Mudra, Newton and Euro RSG pitched for the creative duties while Lintas Media Group, MPG and Mudra Connext pitched for the media duties.
“We are glad to handle the account for WLCI and will start working with them from 1 January. We plan a complete 360 degree initiative which will include print, TV, OOH and below-the-line activities. The prime focus of our campaign will be print. As this is related to education, a lot of emphasis will be on digital and web also,” says TBWAIndia MD Nirmalya Sen.
“The campaigns will be breaking within a period of two months. There will be two types of campaign namely cyclic and regular. While the cyclic would break in February, the regular campaigns that will be out in May will run till September. Since we have courses for post graduates and also for working executives, the campaigns will break accordingly,” avers Abraham.
Prior to this, media duties of WLCI were being handled by Portrait Advertising. The college‘s creative duties were handled in-house last year. Prior to that, the creative duties were handled by Crayon Advertising.
When asked why WLCI again scouted for a creative agency, Abraham replies, “We have a massive expansion plan and college will have a complete brand makeover. And hence, we have gone ahead with this decision.”
MUMBAI: In India’s fast-moving payments race, Visa has just swiped in a new leader. The company has named Suresh Sethi as its India country head, marking a key leadership shift as it sharpens its focus on digital payments growth in the market. Sethi steps into the role following his recent exit from Protean eGov Technologies, where he served as chief executive officer. He succeeds Sandeep Ghosh, who has moved on after more than four years at Visa to pursue an external opportunity.
The appointment comes at a time when Visa is doubling down on its expansion strategy across India and the wider region, deepening partnerships and accelerating adoption in an increasingly competitive digital payments ecosystem.
Sethi brings with him a broad, cross-market perspective shaped by decades of experience across corporate banking, retail financial services, mobile money and large-scale government technology initiatives. He began his career at Citigroup, where he spent 14 years working across India, Africa, South America and the United States, focusing on transaction banking services within the corporate bank.
His appointment signals a blend of institutional experience and market familiarity qualities that could prove critical as Visa navigates a landscape where fintech innovation, regulatory evolution and consumer adoption are all accelerating at once.
As digital payments in India continue to scale rapidly, the leadership change underscores a simple reality, in a market where every tap, scan and swipe counts, who leads the charge can matter just as much as the technology itself.
