Uniqlo expands footprint in India, aims to build LifeWear concept and promote sustainability

Tomohiko Sei, CEO, Uniqlo India, tells Storyboard18 that the company aims to build the LifeWear concept in India, which requires strong operations and well trained store managers. The LifeWear concept is about the Japanese values of simplicity, quality, and longevity.

Tomohiko Sei, CEO, Uniqlo India, discusses the opportunities and challenges of a complex market like India.

Wavemaker India promotes Sairam Ranganathan to chief digital officer

Team Wavemaker NorthStar will bring in the right experts across platforms, commerce, analytics and tech to orchestrate data-led solutions that yield business results. In his new role, Ranganathan will continue to report into Vishal Jacob, chief transformation officer at Wavemaker India.

As the head of Wavemaker NorthStar, Ranganathan will work with clients to drive business outcomes.

Honasa Consumer hires Nishchay Bahl as SVP – offline business

Nishchay Bahl comes with over 15 years of leadership experience managing cross functional teams in various [P&L roles in the FMCG domain across channels (GT, MT, e-commerce) with functional expertise in sales, key account management, digital marketing, customer and shopper marketing and brand management across some of the leading CPG companies in India like Britannia and Reckitt.

In his last role, Bahl was the chief business officer (offline) for Good Glam Group.

Ranjan Pai to invest in unicorn beauty brand Purplle

The online beauty market in India is about 17 percent of the total beauty market and it is growing at almost twice the speed of the offline market.(Representative Image: Raphael Lovaski via Unsplash)

According to Moneycontrol, Pai is likely to buy JSW Ventures’ shares in the firm for Rs 60-70 crore. This would be the second instance of JSW Ventures offloading shares in Purplle in five months.

WPP’s Martina Suess Cromer joins FCB as global chief communications officer

Cromer joins FCB from WPP, where, for the last four years, she led corporate communications across the U.S., the company’s largest market. Prior to joining WPP, she was the global head of marketing and communications at Hearst-owned agency iCrossing and, before that, the vice president of global corporate communications at Wunderman.

Based in New York, Cromer joins FCB’s global leadership team reporting to global chief executive officer Tyler Turnbull and global chair and global chief creative officer Susan Credle directly.