Brands
TimesPro onboards L&K Saatchi & Saatchi India to develop its brand campaign
Mumbai: EdTech platform TimesPro announced the appointment of L&K Saatchi & Saatchi India to create and launch its brand campaign.
The agency won the business as part of a multi-agency pitch. The agency has been invited on board to actualize TimesPro’s efforts to build brand visibility across all learner categories, and the project will be managed by the Mumbai team of L&K Saatchi & Saatchi.
TimesPro head of brand marketing & communications Gaurav Barjatya said, “We look forward to collaborating with L&K Saatchi & Saatchi on this important project. Their creative approach, built on consumer insights and business effectiveness, is exactly what the brand requires during its growth phase.
Sharing his views, L&K Saatchi & Saatchi joint national creative director Rohit Malkani said, “This has been a particularly rewarding win! The education space is ripe with innovation and new thinking. And TimesPro is poised to create an extraordinary product. We’re delighted to partner them on a journey that promises to be exciting, uncharted and rewarding all at once.”
L&K Saatchi & Saatchi EVP & business head Nikhil Kumar commented, “We are truly proud to have won the TimesPro mandate after a multi-agency pitch. With the edtech boom in the country and the private sector playing a pivotal role in facilitating this, we felt it was an opportunity to not only scale up this vertical of the Times Group, but also partner with them in defining its core purpose and reason to exist.”
Brands
Godrej clarifies ‘GI’ identifier after logo similarity debate
Says GI is not a logo, will not replace Godrej signature across products.
MUMBAI: In a branding storm where shapes did the talking, Godrej is now spelling things out. Godrej Industries Group (GIG) has issued a clarification on its newly introduced ‘GI’ identifier, addressing questions around its purpose and design following a wave of online criticism. At the centre of the debate were two concerns: whether the new mark replaces the long-standing Godrej logo, and whether its geometric design mirrors other corporate identities.
The company has drawn a clear line. The Godrej signature logo, it said, remains unchanged and continues to be the sole logo across all consumer-facing products and services. The ‘GI’ mark, by contrast, is not a logo but a corporate group identifier intended for use alongside the Godrej signature or company name, and aimed at stakeholders such as investors, media and talent rather than consumers.
The need for such a distinction stems from the 2024 restructuring of the broader Godrej Group into two separate business entities. With both continuing to operate under the same Godrej name and signature, the identifier is positioned as a way to differentiate the Godrej Industries Group at a corporate level.
The rollout, however, triggered a broader conversation on design originality. Critics pointed to similarities between the GI mark’s geometric composition and logos used by companies globally, raising questions about distinctiveness.
Responding to this, GIG said its intellectual property and legal review found that such overlaps are common in minimalist, geometry-led design systems. Basic forms such as circles and rectangles appear across dozens of brand identities worldwide, the company noted.
It added that the identifier emerged from an extensive design process and was chosen for its simplicity, allowing it to sit alongside the Godrej signature without competing visually. While acknowledging that elemental shapes may appear less distinctive in isolation, the group emphasised that the mark is part of a broader identity system that includes a custom typeface, sonic branding and other proprietary elements.
Following legal and ethical assessments, the company said it found no impediment to using the identifier, reiterating that the GI mark is a corporate tool not a consumer-facing symbol.
In short, the logo isn’t changing but the conversation around it certainly has.
