If you are the 70s/80s kid, you grew up with Rasna.
Rasna used to be a part of the household monthly shopping basket. Bottles of juice concentrates were kept handy, to help kid…
Raymond’s was the most prestigious and largest account for a small and successful agency called Nexus Equity.
In 1995, Nexus Equity came to know that Raymond’s (during that per…
Pizza was a unique idea in India when Domino's Pizza launched it. Only high-end consumers enjoyed it in fancy restaurants. The goal then was to educate and introduce customers to …
In the 1970s, the upstart Nirma, with a lower price tag and a catchy television commercial, caught the public attention. Though they had different price points, Nirma began to gro…
The mid-90s were the early days for mobile telephony in India. Everybody who was somebody was trying to get a piece of the pie. Ericsson was one of them, and Nexus Equity was thei…
In the late 70s, if you visited a cinema, chances are you would have seen Sunil Gavaskar driving the ball exquisitely in a Palmolive commercial, and with every drive, it was shown…
Nycil, the talcum powder was handled by many agencies before it reached the doorstep of Sista in the early 70s.
There were no consistent and good creatives until then. Nycil w…
In the 80s, Photophone Industries launched a simple, uncomplicated colour camera that promoted colour over the predominant black and white. (Btw cameras could use b/w and colour r…
The regular saree was boring for many women in the late 70s. Women were changing. While they wanted to wear sarees, the product was staid and boring. The stiff cotton material of …
With a loan of Rs 80, seven Gujarati ladies started Shri Mahila Griha Udyog Lijjat Papad. To grow their business, they wanted to advertise with a shoestring budget, far away from …
Circa 1976. Britannia Glucose-D was a biscuit targeted at children. Parle G was the go-to brand then and when customers asked for glucose biscuits, Parle G was the preferred choic…
Till recently, Nerolac was FCB Ulka’s oldest client. In fact, the Goody Tiger logo (discontinued a few years back) was tweaked to suit the brand by Subhash Tendle, an art director…
Godfrey Philips (a Philip Morris partner) launched Four Square cigarettes in 1961 in India.The brand was pottering along when GPI decided to revitalize the brand. In 1977, Lintas …
When the signal from a radio station was good, two curtains in the magic eye of the radio would converge.
The radio – Murphy.
A wooden box, an embroidered cloth …