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This Friendship Day, Cadbury Dairy Milk spreads the joy with new limited edition flavors
MUMBAI: Cadbury Dairy Milk, India’s favorite chocolate, enjoys a special place in the hearts of consumers during festivals and special occasions. The brand has a legacy of creating delicious moments of joy. In line with this spirit and the joy of giving something special to friends on Friendship Day, Mondelez India has launched two new flavors Cadbury Dairy Milk Honey Nut Crunch and Cadbury Dairy Milk Coffee Almond to surround friends in the sweetness of friendship. These limited edition flavors have been launched keeping in mind the country’s flavor preferences and unlock the joy of trying something different while maintaining the rich experience of eating their favorite chocolate – Cadbury Dairy Milk. Since every friend adds a special flavour to one’s life, this Friendship Day; we encourage you to make your friends feel special by treating them with new limited edition flavours and our new television commercial also supports this thought.
The launch of the limited edition Cadbury Dairy Milk is supported by a 360-degree communication campaign that includes a new TVC, as well as outdoor, print & digital campaigns targeting the brands core target audience i.e. youth. On the social media front, the brand is leveraging upon this occasion to bind friends through Twitter #Madfie contest which has gone viral and has grabbed eyeballs. Through its Cadbury Dairy Milk Twitter handle and Facebook page, the brand is asking friends to get their crazy bunch together, take a mad selfie and post it on their Twitter handle using #Madfie. The chosen best #Madfie will be featured on Cadbury hoarding or cover page. On-ground activations at point of sale in select modern trade and traditional trade outlets will also be part of the campaign to drive awareness for the product.
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UK’s OnlyFans seeks US investor at $3bn valuation after owner’s death
The adult video platform is seeking stability after the death of its billionaire owner
LONDON: OnlyFans is looking for a new partner. The London-based adult video platform is in advanced talks to sell a minority stake of less than 20 per cent to Architect Capital, a San Francisco-based investment firm, in a deal that would value the business at more than $3bn (£2.2bn).
The move is driven by an urgent need for stability. Leonid Radvinsky, the Ukrainian-American billionaire who owned OnlyFans, died of cancer last month at the age of 43, leaving the future of one of Britain’s most profitable privately held businesses suddenly uncertain.
The choice of Architect Capital is not arbitrary. The firm has deep expertise in financial services, which aligns neatly with OnlyFans’ ambitions to offer banking products to its creators, many of whom have long struggled to access basic financial services because of the nature of their work.
The numbers behind OnlyFans are, by any measure, staggering. The platform posted revenues of $1.4bn in the year to 30th November 2024, with a pre-tax profit of $684m, up four per cent on the prior year. Payments to creators totalled $7.2bn over the same period, a rise of nearly ten per cent. Radvinsky personally collected $701m in dividends from the business in 2024 alone, on top of more than $1bn in such payments he had already received. The platform, run through its parent company Felix International, hosts 4.6m creator accounts, with performers keeping 80 per cent of subscription proceeds and the platform pocketing the remaining 20 per cent. It has 377m fan accounts in total.
The current minority stake talks represent a notable scaling back of ambitions. In January, OnlyFans was reported to be in discussions with Architect about selling a majority stake of 60 per cent. Before that, the company had explored a sale to a consortium led by Forest Road Company, a Los Angeles-based investment firm. Neither deal materialised.
OnlyFans has built an enormously lucrative business on content that mainstream finance has long refused to touch. Now, with its owner gone and a $3bn valuation on the table, it is looking for the kind of respectable institutional backing that might finally persuade the banks to take its calls.
