Das ka Dum with Dr Bhaskar Das | After 75 years, Everest Advertising has moved its HQ from Mumbai to Bengaluru. Do we see a larger shift in creative agencies to the Garden City?

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Bhaskar DasWe were wondering if there is a trend, when perhaps there isn’t one right now. But we asked Dr Bhaskar Das the question nevertheless for the July 19 edition of Das ka Dum. Read on…

 

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Q. After 75 years and seven months, Everest Advertising has moved headquarters from Mumbai to Bengaluru. Do we see a larger shift in creative agencies to the Garden City (the many, many Cannes Lions winning metals were also from Dentsu Creative BLR)

 

A. I feel happy when a legacy organisation gets out of its comfort zone and embrace discontinuity (even if it is a geographical relocation). I am more than confident that this relocation represents a strategic intent that is in sync with the emergent realities of business-scape. Incidentally, Bengaluru weather (metaphorically for business too) is better than Europe now. So, here’s wishing Everest advertising Godspeed.