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  • Conceptualises the new campaign launching Anushka Sharma as the brand ambassador

    Makani Creatives bags creative mandate of Lavie

    By A Correspondent

     

    Lavie’s latest ad campaign launching new brand ambassador Anushka Sharma, has been conceptualised and curated by Makani Creatives.

     

    Said Sameer Makani, CMD of Makani Creatives: “When creating a brand or campaign and keeping the dynamism of fashion in mind, we always strive to strike the right chord with the end consumer. With Lavie we have had a great relationship since 2015 and are very excited about working with them again. We had much fun with Lavie on last year’s campaign too, and with this year’s campaign launching Anushka Sharma, we have successfully strived to go younger and cooler. We are thrilled to know that both the client and audiences are both kicked about the current campaign too!”

     

    Added Sandeep Goenka, Chief Operating Officer of Bagzone Lifestyles: “We have always had a great and satisfying relationship with Makani as they have a keen understanding of the market and its challenging intricacies. And, once again, they have successfully reflected our brand proposition and communication into the best possible perspective. Fashion and our audiences being key. Makani also has a fabulous track record of building & sustaining top brands and we look forward to working with them into the future.”

     

     

  • Makani Creative has won the pitch in a multi agency pitch

    Lavie appoints Makani C reatives as its ad agency

    By A Correspondent

     

    Fashion accessory and footwear brand Lavie has appointed Makani Creatives as its advertising agency for its range of bags and shoes.

     

    Established in 2010, Lavie is India’s leading women’s accessory brand, with a pan India presence. Lavie launched its range of footwear in 2013. The brand leveraged the insight that women are indecisive and fickle in all their choices and worked on a communication platform – Fickle is Fun. The proposition was launched with a campaign with Kareena Kapoor which had very high stickiness with the consumers.

     

    Makani Creative has won the pitch in a multi agency pitch.

     

    Speaking on the development, Sandeep Goenka, COO said, “Makani Creative has an illustrious track record of building and sustaining some of the most high profile fashion and retail brands in the country. It’s this expertise that they leveraged in order to come up with a very fresh perspective on “Fickle is Fun”. Makanis based their pitch on consumer insights while retaining the fashion and aspiration quotient of the brand. We look forward to breaking new grounds with the path created along with Makani Creative.”

     

    Sameer Makani, MD, Makani Creatives said, ‘‘Lavie has created a very strong presence in a very short span of time in the market. Its strength lies in having a range of products right from wallets to bags and shoes all within an affordable range. Lavie gives women the liberty to amass more and more fashion accessories to go with their many moods and wardrobe. The Lavie (range of products) is able to straddle the everyday as well as occasion based need of a woman. Its pan India presence ensures style or trend is not just an urban phenomenon.”

     

  • Fickle is fun captures the indecisiveness of the evolved, fashion forward women in a witty and light hearted manner

    Fickle is fun, says Lavie

    By A Correspondent

     

    Accessories brand Lavie has unveiled its second advertising campaign ‘Fickle is Fun’. Conceptualized and executed by Cheil India, the campaign will use TV, print, cinema and digital mediums to promote the brand.

     

    Fickle is fun captures the indecisiveness of the evolved, fashion forward women in a witty and light hearted manner. It had a perfect match with the new line of offerings from Lavie, the sheer number of choices a woman would have to make and unmake to come to a decision. With this, the endeavor is to create a happy, carefree and proud world of Lavie women. The campaign was shot in Cape Town, South Africa with international models using the products and propagating Fickleness as an attitude and way of life.

     

    Commenting on the campaign, Sandeep Goenka, CEO, Bagzone Lifetsyle said, “Fickle is the word used to lightly describe the relationship between girls and their love of the trendy arm candy and footwear. Their love for bags and shoes is inevitable and eternal as eventually these accessories dominate & enhance the entire look; the concept by Cheil India was bang on and we are assertive that it will intensely connect with our target audience.”

     

    Atishi Pradhan, Chief Strategy Officer (Cheil India) said, “The brand was in a slot of easy or popular fashion, and the brief was to make it more aspirational and stylish, to appeal to a more evolved woman. The best fashion brands have a point-of-view, an attitude – and that is what we wanted to add for Lavie, to set it apart from other brands.”

     

  • Such alliances can provide the domestic partners with a slew of insights across the entire retailing process

    Local retailers partner global brands to launch own labels

    By Sarah Jacob

     

    Ramesh Tainwala believes that “women kindergarten teachers tend to be more confident mothers.” As analogies go, this one may border on the stretched but what the chairman of Planet Retail is attempting to convey is that retailers like him can pick up learnings by partnering with marquee brands, and then use them to boldly build labels of their own.

     

    Planet Retail, which has brought brands like Debenhams, Acceorize, Nautica and Next into the country, has begun flying solo with handbags brand Lavie. It’s not the only domestic retailer following a learn-and-launch strategy.

     

    DLF Retail, which has tied up with brands such as Claire’s and DKNY, launched in-house home decor chain Pure Home + Living a year ago. It is now set to flag off another format called Pure Kitchen Studio by November. Or take Lalit Kishore, master franchisee of sports footwear brand Lotto in India, who has launched his own brand of footwear called Globalite. And then there’s Devyani International, a franchisee for Pizza Hut, KFC and Costa Coffee in India, which has introduced South Indian fast-food chain Vaango independently.

     

    “It is easy to open outlets on your own. But international partnerships help in understanding the economics, food preferences and processes for standardised delivery,” said Virag Joshi, president & CEO, Devyani International.

     

    Alliances can provide the domestic partners with a slew of insights across the entire retailing process. Rohit Aggarwal, promoter of Lite Bite Foods, which started as a franchise for Subway, gives an example. “One takes for granted that the freezer or chiller is cold, but (working with an) international brand teaches you that the temperature needs to be checked every 30 minutes.” Lite Bite is now a Rs100 crore operation running not just Subway outlets but home-grown chains like Punjab Grill and Street Foods of India.

     

    International partnerships also help build a sophisticated team with focused skill sets. “Skills that the management feels can be leveraged without an additional cost to build their own brand in parallel with the primary brands,” said Gaurav Marya, president of Franchise India Holdings, which helps brands partner franchisees in India.

     

    There are plenty of synergies that can be availed of from sharing support functions and the supply chain. Economies of scale come into the picture on the advertising front, distribution, hiring and office space, too.

     

    Devyani International, for instance, has a common production unit or commissary in Gurgaon for brands across its portfolio. And Mr Kishore’s Globalite rides on the wholesale supply chain that is used to retail Lotto across multi-brand stores.

     

    Companies say that in the initial stages having international brands in the kitty helps with prospective trade partners. “A foreign partner carries a lot of weight,” said Mr Aggarwal.

     

    Kanchan Lall, associate VP at management consulting firm Tecnova, likens this trend to the development of private labels by retailers. “Once you grasp the understanding of a business, you look for avenues with higher margins and decision-making flexibility,” she said.

     

    The domestic brand builders rule out potential conflicts of interest, pointing out that the local labels typically operate in a different market segment. “Globalite would not matter to Lotto as the two cater to different price segments,” Mr Kishore explained. While Lotto retails at Rs2, 300 a pair on an average, Globalite is priced around Rs1,500 a pair.

     

    The seven-store handbags chain Lavie gains by being bundled with international brands in Planet Retail’s portfolio. “At the same time, Lavie also helps refine the strategy for the premium and super-premium brands in the portfolio and supports them with assurance of higher footfalls when negotiating with a mall,” said Mr Tainwala.

     

    Source: The Economic Times

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  • Lavie releases its first ever TV campaign, capturing the essence of the brand, ‘Handbags for the Many Moods of Women’.

    First TVC from Lavie

    By A Correspondent

    [youtube width=”350″ height=”250″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI7X1r-42OE[/youtube]

    Conceptualized by TBWA, the new television commercial of Lavie featuring the brand ambassador Kareena Kapoor, hits across various  TV channels this season. The new television commercial for Lavie captures the dilemma of the sales person who attends to innumerable women, with varied demands. It also highlights the perplexity of a woman who has a picture of requirement in mind but is unable to convey the same and is trying various options to come to a conclusion of what to shop for. The new television commercial for Lavie is created based on the notion of women with various moods.

     

    Talking about the insight behind the creative idea, Mr Rahul Sengupta, National Creative Director, TBWA India states, “Probably the most complex machine is the mind of a woman. It means one thing while it says something else. The statement is truest of all when a woman is shopping. If you have ever been a brother, suitor, husband or salesman, you will know. Watching this can be bemusing and amusing at the same time.”

     

    The TVC captures the essence of Lavie which has bags for all the moods of today’s jet-setting women.

     

    Mr Sandeep Goenka, Business Head of Lavie says, “Kareena very well resembles the personality of Lavie and the association with her is synonymous with our brand. And with this ad, Kareena captures the essence of shopping, for every woman with her proficient expressions. The Lavie collection offers stylish and accessible handbags for today’s jet-setting women which are now readily available all over India.”

     

    Talking about the objective of the campaign, Mr Nirmalya Sen, Managing Director, TBWA India says, “We aren’t the only brand that claims it has a wide range of styles and colours. But then, that truly is the competitive advantage of this brand – the widest range of colours, styles, genres of handbags. The challenge was to communicate range in a manner that is distinctive and endears the brand to its audience – confident, young, style-conscious women.”

     

    Credits:

    National Creative Director: Rahul Sengupta, (NCD TBWA India)

    Creative team: Rahul Sengupta, Rahul Ghosh, Siddharth Deo, Shagun Seda & Kimberley Flanagan.

    Account Management: Nirmalya Sen, Anand Narayan, Priya Chandni & Geetanjali Sharma

    Planning: Rajesh Sharma & Reny Thomas

    Production house: 30 Secs of Fame

    Director: Uzair Khan