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Tupperware gets a new CMO in Chandan Deep Singh Dang
MUMBAI: The household name in home products, Tupperware, has brought on board Chandan Deep Singh Dang as chief marketing officer.
In his new role, Dang is responsible for conceptualising, designing and implementing strategic initiatives to drive the company’s growth in India. This includes developing and launching India-specific products and programmes, building consumer insights, creating relevant communication, brand building, and driving effective incentive and loyalty programmes for the field force. Dang will also handle institutional sales for Tupperware.
Dang said, “Tupperware has built a strong brand and business in India with its unique combination of fascinating and innovative products, a motivated team, and a wonderful direct selling system. It is a privilege to be associated with Tupperware and I look forward to developing the business to the next level and beyond.”
Prior to joining Tupperware, Dang was working with Wrigley as sales director (India & south east Asia).
He started his career as a management trainee with Hindustan Unilever, where over eight years he worked in different Sales and Marketing roles. Thereafter, he moved to PepsiCo India as General Manager, marketing, and category head for the Indian snack foods category (featuring brands Kurkure and Lehar). After two years in PepsiCo, he joined Nokia India, where he spent seven years in different roles.
Brands
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.
