Shah Rukh Khan meets Raees at the Mumbai Duty Free Store

~Mumbai Duty Free associates with Raees to give their customers a chance to meet King Khan~

Mumbai 23rd January, 2017: Mumbai Duty Free Store at T2 is once again offering its customers a chance to meet the beloved Badshah of Bollywood- Shah Rukh Khan. Mumbai Duty Free has associated with Red Chillies Entertainment to provide a quintessential Bollywood experience to the people travelling in and out from International airport (T2). One of the first ones to get a dekko of the set up was Shah Rukh Khan, who visited Mumbai Duty Free Store to promote his movie and interact with the customers.

The Mumbai Duty Free Store campaign ‘Ticket to Bollywood with Raees’ calls out to all travellers at the T2 terminal to shop for a minimum of 100 USD in order to win Raees movie merchandise and autographed posters. But it doesn’t stop here! One lucky winner gets a chance to meet Raees himself.

Talking about the association, Manishi Sanwal, MD, DFS India says, “We at Mumbai Duty Free Store (T2) always ensure that we offer our customers a novel and fun shopping experience with an extra scoop of excitement. With Raees touted to be the biggest blockbuster of 2017 and SRK fans waiting anxiously for the release, it deemed right to associate with Red Chillies Entertainment once again. We look forward to repeating the ‘Dilwale’ success through our ‘Ticket to Bollywood with Raees’ campaign. We are hopeful that travellers and fans of Bollywood will see maximum participation.”

To ensure maximum participation, DFS floor at T2 has curated a special humungous photo opportunity area. The travellers have to click a selfie in the photo area and upload it on their Facebook page tagging Mumbai Duty Free Store.

So if you are travelling abroad this January let your Bollywood side show up and shop your way to happiness!

Bharti AXA Life wants to Go Beyond Insurance for consumers

• Launches first-of-its-kind service for policyholders by providing emotional counselling,  financial planning and  will related services to support the family of deceased

Mumbai, January 23, 2017: Bharti AXA Life Insurance, the private life insurance joint venture between Bharti Enterprises and AXA, one of the world’s largest insurance companies, is all set to launch a unique service proposition, ‘Beyond Insurance’. With this proposition the company aims to provide first in the market initiatives that go beyond just providing insurance benefit and support customers at critical moments.       

The first launch in this series is the ‘Grief Support Program’, specially created for the family of the customers. ‘Grief Support Program’ offers the family of the deceased; most critical services that will help the family overcome the loss and steady their lives. The services include emotional counseling to manage the grief associated with the loss; financial planning for the lump sum they receive as part of the insurance benefit and will related advice for the family who may not be familiar with legal documents.         

Commenting on the launch, Sandeep Ghosh, MD & CEO, Bharti AXA Life Insurance said,

“Minimizing any distress to the family during an unfortunate event is the main driver behind an insurance buy. As an insurance company we protect the family against financial distress, but we feel that addresses only part of the issue. Loss of a dear one is a very difficult phase wherein families of the deceased often feel overwhelmed, and in some cases prone to depression. Through our Grief Support Program, we aim to provide families with the necessary emotional and other support that goes beyond insurance.”

“At Bharti AXA Life, customer-centricity is at the heart of every initiative. Our newest proposition of ‘Beyond insurance’ further highlights our commitment to our customers”, he further added.

Sharing the details of the campaign, Jitin Paul, Chief Marketing Officer, Bharti AXA Life Insurance said, “We are launching an integrated marketing campaign for #GoBeyond. It is going to be the biggest bang in the insurance industry and will encompass TV, digital and other interesting platforms. We are also the associate sponsors of the India Australia Test Series which will help us reach out to the male corridor of media effectively.”

Under ‘Grief Support Program’, the family of the deceased will get access to following services

To amplify the new initiative, Bharti AXA Life is launching a high decibel ATL/advertisement and digital campaign across Facebook, Twitter and Instagram slated for launch 26th January.

About Bharti AXA Life Insurance Company Ltd

Bharti AXA Life Insurance is a joint venture between Bharti, one of India’s leading business groups with interests in telecom, agri business and retail, and AXA, one of the world’s leading organizations with interests in financial protection and wealth management. The joint venture company has a 51% stake from Bharti and 49% stake of AXA.

xXx: Return of Xander Cage creates waves in India with 30 Cr Gross Box Office Collection

~ With an India-first premiere, Vin Diesel and Deepika Padukone starrer is a box-office super-hit ~

National, January 17: Indian audience welcomed Hollywood superstar Vin Diesel with open-arms to the country for the India-first premiere of his latest installment to the action-adventure franchise xXx. Making her Hollywood debut Deepika Padukone, has impressed all her fans as they rushed to the theatres over the weekend to watch the movie.

Viacom18 Motion Pictures held a grand India Premiere event in Mumbai on Thursday, January 12, followed by paid-previews on Friday, January 13, and the official release in 3D and IMAX 3D, in 4 languages across almost 1200 screens in the country on Saturday. Within two and a half days, the movie has successfully garnered a gross box-office collection of almost 30-crores in the country. xXx: Return of Xander Cage is scheduled to release in 2D on Wednesday, January 18, 2017.

Elated on the box office performance of the movie, COO – Viacom18 Motion Pictures, Ajit Andhare said, “The box office from just 3D itself & overall response has validated our confidence in the xXx franchise and xXx: Return of Xander Cage. With Deepika Padukone' s leading act in the film and Vin Diesel’s successful India visit, Viacom18 Motion Pictures has ensured India remains one of the priority market for Hollywood movies. We will continue to grow Hollywood tentpoles in India. For Viacom18 Motion Pictures, 2017 has started with a bang and we have a lot more in store. We are now opening 2D and adding more screens.”

Vin Diesel reprises his role as the action-adventure outlaw Xander Cage in xXx: Return of Xander Cage, along with recently crowned Asia’s sexiest woman Deepika Padukone who sets the screen ablaze through her daredevilry and heart-stopping action sequences. The movie also stars Nina Dobrev (The Vampire Diaries), Ruby Rose (Orange is The New Black), Chinese superstar Donnie Yen (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story), Thai action-star Tony Jaa (Furious 7), and Samuel L Jackson (Marvel’s The Avengers).

Distributed exclusively in India by Viacom18 Motion Pictures, xXx: Return of Xander Cage released in India before the world on January 14th 2017 in IMAX & IMAX 3D.

And nationwide in 2D on January 18th 2017 in theatres near you.

MAX DESIGN AWARDS 2016-17 Students Edition

After a whopping response over the last two years, Max Fashion is back with the third edition of Max Design Awards, a definitive platform to recognize and reward the budding Fashion Designers. The property created by Max, gives final year fashion design students a chance to showcase their best and reach out to the fashion world through their creations.

Max Fashion, being a design-driven company, is looking to support and celebrate new and upcoming fashion talents. Max Design Awards has seen a huge success since its inception with growing number of fashion design enthusiasts showcasing their creativity and taking the level of the competition to new heights. Last year the competition attracted more than 200 entries over 40 design colleges across the country. The third edition is a continuous effort to reward the young aspiring fashion designers and provide them a platform to springboard their fashion design careers!

The esteemed jury for Max Design Awards 2016-17 includes Fashion Designers Ms. Priyadarshini Rao, Mr. Varun Bahl and Mr. Nachiket Barve along with Executive Director Max Fashion Mr. Vasanth Kumar, Vice President Design Max Fashion Ms. Kamakshi Kaul and Project Head Mr. Marc Robinson.

Registration for the award programme is open. Check here to register –

http://www.maxdesignawards.com/participate.html

Who can sign up?

Final year Fashion Design students from selected and or accredited fashion designing institutes of India.

How do you participate?

The theme for the Max Design Awards 2016-17 is "The Dark Side"

Step 1: Select any one category – Men's wear or Women's wear. Prepare a mood board of your interpretation of the main theme.

Step 2: Based on your mood board, prepare two sketches.
- One sketch for prêt
- One sketch for Couture
Both sketches need to fall under any one category (men's wear or women's wear) selected by you.

Step 3: Prepare a 150 word count brief on your collection. Outline your colour pallet, fabrics, style, patterns, etc. for each of the designs

Step 4: Register yourself on www.maxdesignawards.com and file in your application OR apply by emailing high resolution scans of your sketches, mood board, along with a 150 word count brief on your interpretation of the theme “The Dark Side”. Email at maxdesignawards@gmail.com

Last Date for receiving the Entries/application is 16th February 2017

Step 5: It is mandatory to send the physical docket (Mood board, Both sketches and write up with fabric swatches to –

Krupa Kini/ Ranganathan V

Lifestyle international private limited

Max Retail division

77 degree town centre,

Building no.3 east wing

5th floor, Off old airport road

Yemalur P.O. Bangalore - 560037

Last Date for receiving the physical docket of the Entries/application is 20th February 2017

Sunburn Statement - David Guetta - Mumbai + New Delhi + Hyderabad ON

Regarding the Mumbai Show Harindra Singh, Managing Director & Chairman, Percept Limited, “We regret the cancellation of the Sunburn Arena with David Guetta this evening. We are happy to add that we have succeeded to reschedule the event for Sunday, January 15th 2017 between 1100 hrs - 1600 hrs at the same venue i.e. Jio Gardens, BKC. We are complying with all the regulatory requirements as prescribed by the authorities. The current tickets will be valid for the rescheduled show on Sunday. We regret any inconvenience caused and are grateful to all our fans for their love and support. We would like to thank David Guetta,  his team and also all the regulatory bodies for their support and agreeing to reschedule the show at such short notice.”

Regarding the New Delhi + Hyderabad Shows- Karan Singh, CEO, Sunburn, "The David Guetta Sunburn Arena show in New Delhi on the 15th and Hyderabad on the 14th will take place as originally planned. The venue for New Delhi is Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium while the venue for Hyderabad is Hitex Exhibition Center. " 

The official Twitter handle of Hyderabad police posted , "Welcome to Hyderabad David Guetta. Look forward to hosting you tomorrow. @cyberabadpolice committed to ensure a glitch free event as always."

Concur Technologies Wins CIO CHOICE 2017 Honor & Recognition in Travel and Expense category

Mumbai, India – Jan 13, 2017 – Amidst a gathering of 400+ CIOs and ICT Business Leaders Concur Technologies has been recognized with CIO CHOICE 2017 Honor & Recognition Title in the Travel and Expense category. They were awarded at the exclusive Red Carpet Night wherein CIO CHOICE celebrated its 5th Anniversary, the only independent ICT Vendor Recognition platform – Voice of CIOs in India.

This marquee 5th Annual CIO CHOICE Recognition landmark event, focusing on companies based or operating in India, was by far the most competitive in its history this year as well, with the highest number of nominations and entry submissions to date with a distinguished CIO Advisory. More than 200 entries were received this year, from a wide array of public and private ICT Vendor companies, both Large as well as Small & Medium Enterprises and from a variety of geographic regions in India.

Winners of CIO CHOICE 2017 were determined by an independent CIO voting survey from across the country on product performance, customer satisfaction and continued customer service. It is a recognition and validation that CIOs can trust because it is ‘By the CIO and for the CIO’. It offers the CIO community an authentic aid to finding and considering the most preferred and stable products, services and solutions. Having earned the honor to wear the CIO CHOICE logo, ICT vendors will be enjoying new media campaigns and amplified CIO exposure resulting in increased sales.

CIO CHOICE 2017 Honor & Recognitions were presented in 52 categories, recognizing 28 distinct ICT Brands.

Travel and expense is the second largest controllable spend for companies, after payrolls. Concur offers a comprehensive end-to-end solution that automates travel and expense management, as well as vendor invoice processing. The vast portfolio of online solutions from Concur can help companies, with frequent employee travel, closely manage policies and reduce costs associated with travel and expense.

“We are honored to receive this recognition from the CIO community as it validates the value of service we provide to business and our esteemed clients” said Mr. Anukumar Ramesh, Marketing Director, Concur Technologies, India. “It is a matter of great pride that CIOs and our partners have voted us. This recognition showcases our expertise in T&E management as well as our strength and leadership in the sector” he added.

“By being voted by CIOs Concur Technologies has proven their expertise in T&E technology areas. This places them among the top percentile of enterprise ICT vendors in India.” said Anoop Mathur President at Centre of Recognition & Excellence. “When CIOs look for an ICT partner to meet their business challenges, choosing a company that has ‘THE TRUST’ of CIO Choice Logo is an intelligent move. It is a set of CIO endorsed ICT brands with successful deployments at their customer ends.”

KPMG is the knowledge partner for CIO CHOICE 2017.

Bollywood fans bid 2016 goodbye with favourite movie stars|Star Screen Awards

New Year’s Eve was a Bollywood party right at home for 71.4 million Indian TV viewers who tuned in to watch the last Hindi movie award show of 2016. The ‘Star Screen Awards’ gave Star Plus a whopping 1.6x rise in Primetime weekend viewership compared to previous weeks in December. Zapr Media Labs tracks viewership for the show which gripped viewers up till the very last hour of the year.

Using cutting edge TV-to-Mobile mapping technology, we identified these viewers and profiled their award show consumption in 2016. Our insights reveal an audience segment who tuned into almost every major Hindi movie award show aired on Television.  

Hourly viewership breakdown of the telecast shows drastic rise from the first to the second hour as Box office hits like Pink and Udta Punjab bagged several award categories. 24.7 million viewers tuned in between 8:00 PM and 9:00 PM. The number rose to 38.1 million viewers between 9:00 PM and 10:00 PM.

The rest of the telecast received highly consistent viewership maintaining 38 million viewers until the show ended.

Our viewership overlap studies at Zapr Media Labs show that significant percentages of Star Screen Awards viewers previously consumed other Bollywood award shows on Television.

33.4% watched IIFA Awards on Colors, 27.2% watched Guild Film Awards on Sony TV and 30.7% watched the Sansui Colors Stardust Awards.

Since these viewers diligently followed Hindi stars across major award shows, we were curious to know the actual shows and movies that interest them. So we profiled the Television consumption patterns of Star Screen Awards viewers and shortlisted their Top Five most watched Hindi Movies and Entertainment shows in the month of December 2016.  

The Zapr ad-tech platform enables Brands and advertisers to identify Bollywood movie buffs and viewers of specific Hindi Entertainment shows by their content consumption patterns. These viewers comprise niche interest groups in the Zapr audience pool, much like Facebook interest groups with high potential for brand engagement.

Zapr geographically maps out viewers at highly granular levels like states, cities, towns and even smaller localities. The Star Screen awards had the largest number of viewers located in Maharashtra – 10.3 million viewers. Uttar Pradesh followed closely with 9.9 million viewers. Gujarat had 6.8 million viewers. West Bengal and Madhya Pradesh made it to Top Five with very close margins of 4.5 and 4.2 million viewers respectively.

Indian Paints Industry to grow to INR 70, 875 Cr by 2019 – 2020

The 28th Indian Paint Conference will witness congregation of the paint industry stalwarts

The theme for this 3-day conference is Varnam 2017- ‘Where Paint Meets Technology’

Mumbai, 6th January, 2017: Indian Paint Association (IPA), the apex body of the Indian paint industry today announced the commencement of the 28th biennial   Indian Paint Conference from January 6-8, 2017 in Bengaluru. Taking inspiration from the IT Capital of India, the conference theme ‘Varnam - Where Paint Meets Technology’ is based on leveraging technology for the paints industry. At the pre-conference media briefing, the IPA governing body members discussed the to-be launched report on the Indian Paint Market - “Size & Future of coating industry” compiled by Nielsen Corporation.

Key highlights of report:

• The Indian paint market which was around INR 40,300 crores in 2014-15 is expected to reach INR 70, 875 crores by 2019-2020
• The decorative paint market is expected to witness CAGR of 12.7%
• The industrial paint market is expected to witness CAGR of 9.5%

• The split of the decorative paint market to industrial market is around 75-25 (Decorative Paint market size in India was INR 30,385 crores and the Industrial Paint was INR 9,915 crores in FY 2014-15)
• The industry has grown at a CAGR of 12.9% from 2011-12 to 2014-15 in terms of value
• For FY 2014-15, per capita consumption of paint in India was estimated at 3.34 Kg
• High growth is witnessed for
• Exterior and Interior emulsions in the decorative paints category
• Auto refinish and Powder coatings in the industrial paints category

Speaking on this occasion, Mr. Jalaj Dani, President, IPA said, “The Indian paint industry is on a growth trajectory. This biennial conference provides an ideal and common platform for industry discussions on providing differentiated customer experience, opportunities, challenges, market trends and best practices”

“This three-day conference will witness participation from a large number of paint manufactures and raw material vendors. There will be power packed sessions on a wide range of topics including GST, Skill development, Automation, Digital Transformation, Innovations and so on, which will be deliberated and moderated by renowned experts” he added.

The conference will be inaugurated by the Hon’ble Chief Minister of Karnataka Shri. Siddaramaiah and Shri R.V. Deshpande, Hon’ble Minister for Commerce and Industries, Government of Karnataka.

The Indian paints industry has been growing at a rapid pace over the years. However the growth hasn’t been accompanied by supply of adequate skilled talent. IPA has been working closely with National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) to bridge the talent gap. Recently, IPA signed a MoU with NSDC under which it will train three lakh painters over the next three years.

END OF SEASON SALE ARRIVES AT INORBIT MALL, Vashi

~Indulge in some serious shopping with Flat 50% off on some of the best brands~

Vashi, January, 2017: The much awaited ‘End of Season Sale’ has arrived at Inorbit Mall, Vashi. The weekend of 6^th & 7^th January 2017, Inorbit mall invites you to explore some of the best national and international brands that will offer incredible discounts. The shopping extravaganza promises a Flat 50% of on major categories like Men’s formal and casual wear, Sportswear, Women’s ethnic wear, Women’s Western wear, and accessories.

The end of season sale has something for everyone. No one goes empty handed. The annual sale offers genuine discounts on some of the best brands. Be it apparel, accessories or footwear, you name it and you get it. It is time to begin the new year with some serious shopping. Get ready to fill your shopping bags by indulging in some exhaustive shopping.  

Rush to Inorbit mall and grab the best before it is gone.

Details:

Date: 6^th to 7^th January 2017

Time: 10 am to 11pm