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If you are into high-end skin and hair care, you must be familiar with Body Shop and its products. It’s a world-known beauty brand known for its high-quality products. The Body Shop has roped in Shraddha Kapoor as its brand ambassador in India. The association was revealed through a commercial featuring the actress on 4th September, 2019. This is the Body Shop’s first-ever TVC in the country.
On becoming the associate of the brand, Body Shop, India, Shraddha Kapoor said, “The Body Shop is a brand that believes that everyone is beautiful, and fights for a greener, kinder, better world every day. I am overjoyed to have the opportunity of representing this brand and lend my voice for causes that actually matter. I look forward to being a part of The Body Shop and together partner for a more beautiful world inside-out,”
On association with Shraddha, Shriti Malhotra, CEO, The Body Shop India, said, “The Body Shop welcomes the vibrant and multi-talented Shraddha Kapoor as The Body Shop India’s Brand Ambassador.
Other than the Body Shop, we have also seen the versatile actor endorsing brands like Lakme, Veet, Lipton Green Tea, Flipkart, Hair & care oil, Vaseline, Global Desi etc.
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Mumbai, India –Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, today announced the launch of the latest innovation in male grooming technology – the Philips OneBlade. A revolutionary product, the Philips OneBlade combines capabilities for styling, trimming and shaving in one hybrid tool. Setting a new benchmark in the male grooming segment in India, OneBladeis a one stop solution fortoday’s men who love experimentingwith their facial hair style without too much hassle.
UniqueOneBladecombines modern-day technology of Philips break-through innovation which allows men to style, trim and shave with just one tool, while keeping the skin feeling soft. The dual sided blade enables easy styling and shaping of beard. Its shaving technology features a fast-moving cutterthat moves 200 timesper second for precise sharp edges and comfortable shave. It includes a single replacement blade, built with a rechargeable handle that offers three trimming combs of 1, 3 and 5 mm, respectively that lasts up to four months. It comes with a protective plate on top of the cutter, preventing the blade from touching skin anda long-lasting battery that holds 45 minutes of styling in a single charge.
Commenting on the launch, Gulbahar Taurani, President, Personal Health, Philips India Subcontinent said, “At Philips, our endeavour is to design all our products keeping in mind the evolving needs of our consumers. Our latest addition, the Philips OneBlade stands out in its category and provides a one stop solution for men looking to embrace their own style without the rigidity of traditional male grooming. It gives a superior cutting performanceand empowers millennial men to experience the power of three – Style, Trim and Shave. We hope our consumers across India would make the most of this innovative product while achieving their best styled look.”
Speaking about the product, Virat Kohli, Brand Ambassador for Philips Male Grooming said, “I have always loved experimenting with my looks – it goes with my personality. I prefer Philips products as they guarantee great styling with convenience and comfort. I am really excited about the newly launched Philips OneBlade – it combines trimming, styling and shaving in one device with the reliability, comfort and convenience one can expect from Philips products. Given my busy schedule, Philips OneBlade is a must have for me.”
Convenient and hygienic, the styling tool gives a confident sense of facial styles, from a chin curtain and a perfect stubble to a clean-shavenlook while gently gliding through facial hair regardless of the length. Encased in a waterproof body, the OneBlade is water resistant, can groom both wet and dry hair and provides a refreshed look without any cuts and nicks.
The Philips OneBlade is priced at an MRP of1899/- and comes with a two years warranty and one-year extended warranty on product registration through Philips India website- https://www.philips.co.in/
About Royal Philips
Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) is a leading health technology company focused on improving people's health and enabling better outcomes across the health continuum from healthy living and prevention, to diagnosis, treatment and home care. Philips leverages advanced technology and deep clinical and consumer insights to deliver integrated solutions. Headquartered in the Netherlands, the company is a leader in diagnostic imaging, image-guided therapy, patient monitoring and health informatics, as well as in consumer health and home care. Philips' health technology portfolio generated 2018 sales of EUR 18.1 billion and employs approximately 77,000 employees with sales and services in more than 100 countries. News about Philips can be found at http://www.philips.com/newscenter.
At Zomato, we’ve committed to work-life integration and workplace sensitivity as core to employee happiness. Last month, we went ahead with a new 26-week parental leave policy – a move that has been largely appreciated by our employees, the media and our peers. Through the feedback, we realised that whether folks were parents or not, they were touched by our empathy. It was humbling reading all the emails and texts.
We have always believed that a meaningful alignment of people’s personal and professional goals allows us to bring our best to work.
However, we can’t be done yet; there’s a lot of work to do. After all, parental policy can’t merely stop at leave policy, it must extend to parental care – and much more as well.
With this belief in our hearts, we recently inaugurated our first in-house creche — in partnership with Ipsaa — at our headquarters in Gurgaon. Parents in our organization with children between the age group of 6 months up to 7 years are now availing this option from Monday to Friday between 8:30 am to 8:00 pm. And the entire facility carries zero cost for zomans.
Some of the activities provided here for the children include book reading, storytelling, clay modelling, music, sensory development, language and communication, motor skills and coordination, mobility and exercise. The creche has been designed keeping in mind a child’s need for space and nurture.
In our organization, there are several parents, who have been depending on family members or creches outside for child care. We have tried to lessen their domestic worries as they would be relieved to know that their children are barely a few steps away from them — at any given point of time. Most importantly, with this initiative, we hope to provide a stress-free daycare option for Zoman parents.
By all accounts, it has been an encouraging start but the idea doesn’t end here for us. We are already working on expanding this facility and introducing creches to other offices in various cities — where we have large teams.
[Courtesy: https://www.zomato.com]
With an aim to curb food wastage and provide food for unprivileged, Zomato has acquired not-for-profit organisation Feeding India. Both firms have been working together for the past six months and Feeding India team led by Ankit is now completely integrated into the foodtech unicorn.
As a part of the deal, Zomato will fund the entire salaries of the team – and some core initiatives like the development of the ‘Feedi.ng’ app.
The app will essentially connect donors and volunteers with an aim to serve at least 100 million underprivileged people every month. Zomato will also revamp Feeding India web portal and publish its quarterly financial report starting from October 2019, revealed Zomato’s blog by Deepinder Goyal.
Importantly, all the money with Feeding India will remain with the organisation and will be deployed towards its mission “food for everyone”.
Zomato has been working behind this social cause for a long time and collaborated with organsations like Feeding India, Robin Hood Army, and Akshaya Patra Foundation.
They have closely worked behind the project to find out the actual reason behind food wastage ranging from multiple levels like harvesting, transporting to major sources such as weddings, events, restaurants, hostels, and houses.
Among the aforementioned organisations, Feeding India had also collaborated with Zomato during Odisha cyclone. Both firms have provided 75,000 meals along with necessities for daily survival for a month to more than 16,500 people in the coastal state.
Further, Zomato’s 6 months effort behind the organisation has now started bearing fruit as it achieved a milestone of distributing 1.1 million meals a month to underprivileged from 78,300 monthly meals.
During the same period, the number of cities Feeding India is active in has risen from 65 to 82 and the number of Hunger Heroes (volunteers at Feeding India) has grown from 8,500 to 21,500
[Courtesy: https://entrackr.com]
A Solution to Indian Real Estate Market Issues
Mumbai, 25th June, 2019: IndiaMLS, a company whose mission statement is to create the largest and most accurate database of property listings in India, has come out with India's first Multiple Listing Service platform, customized for Indian property brokers which does not use a Pay-Per-Listing model. IndiaMLS has brought to India and customized the MLS, also considered as the greatest invention in real estate technology.
The Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA) has now been in place for more than two years, yet the Indian real estate market remains fragmented and unstructured, but equally bad are the traditional web portals which display their property listing data to the public.
While speaking to Mr. Jay Patel, founder and CEO of IndiaMLS, he said, " Almost every one of the real estate websites in India uses a “Pay-Per-Listing” model which essentially means brokers must pay to advertise their listings on the websites. The result is tons of garbage data because anyone can post anything they want as long as they’re willing to pay for it. Thus, 80% of the listings on these sites are fake, duplicate, or old, and have very few unique listings."
Mr. Patel also highlighted three main problems with the Pay-Per-Listing (PPL) concept:
Unlike any other property portal in India, IndiaMLS is unique in its approach and creates one central database of all residential and commercial property listings in each city called a Multiple Listing Service (MLS), and the MLS system maintains the quality of that database, thus little or no duplicate, sold, or junk listings would be found. Brokers do not need to waste time looking on many sites to find properties for their clients.
The MLS is not a Pay-Per-Listing concept. It utilizes a subscription-based model, where brokers pay a flat annual membership fee. They get unlimited listings, and they must agree to operate by the MLS’ Code-of-Conduct. The MLS is a proven concept which comes from the United States where it has been the backbone of the entire real estate industry there. IndiaMLS is a similar B2B solution designed for all professional brokers in India, and it will contain the most accurate sale or rental, residential and commercial listings in the country. This allows sellers to quickly find buyers for their sale properties, making it the most effective target marketing tool for the industry, unlike any other realty portal in India.
About IndiaMLS:
IndiaMLS Software Pvt Ltd., founded in 2017 by Jay Patel, is designed to aggregate the largest and most accurate database of property listings in India. The MLS includes both residential and commercial properties (sale and rental), as well as buyers’ requirements, making it the only true property exchange in the country, similar to a Stock Exchange, but for properties. This allows sellers to quickly find buyers for their sale properties, and vice versa, making it the most effective target marketing tool for the real estate industry, unlike any other realty portal in India. The MLS is a B2B solution used by real estate brokers and builders, but consumers also benefit greatly from the quality of the data compared to other real estate portals in the market.
About Jay Patel:
Jay Patel is a veteran of the real estate industry from the US having more than 20 years of experience in multiple facets of real estate including land development, property rehabs, and sales and brokerage. Jay also holds a Managing Broker license in the state of Illinois (USA), and has a vast level of experience in real estate technology. He and his team have brought the MLS concept to India and fully customized it for this country in an effort to help improve the industry and the quality of the data available for brokers, builders, and consumers.
Mumbai, June 19, 2019: Colgate-Palmolive (India) Limited launched the special edition of Super Flexi Black toothbrushes – the Virat Kohli Signature Series!
Available for a limited period – till August 2019 – the Colgate Super Flexi Black Virat Kohli signature series toothbrushes are available in markets across India. These limited-edition toothbrushes mark the first ever autographed range of toothbrushes by Colgate.
While the collaboration between Colgate and Kohli to come up with autographed toothbrushes is a first of its kind, the Indian Cricket Team captain has been associated with the oral care brand for a while now. And the launch of the Super Flexi Black Virat Kohli signature series comes at a time when Kohli is away for the World Cup, giving his fans another reason to celebrate.
Talking about the limited-edition Super Flexi Black toothbrushes, Virat Kohli said, "I am as disciplined about my oral care habits as I am about my game and fitness, even to the extent of replacing my toothbrush regularly.
I have been using and also recommending Colgate toothbrushes to my friends/fans for years now, which is why the idea of doing a limited-edition autographed Super Flexi toothbrushes got me intrigued and excited - primarily because I haven't autographed a toothbrush before. And interestingly, it's a first for Colgate too! Also, it felt like a nice, new way to reach out to my fans, and at the same time encouraging good oral-hygiene. I hope people like it."
About Colgate Super Flexi: Colgate Super Flexi is India’s largest selling toothbrush. Its flexible neck reaches the hard to reach areas of the mouth for a superior clean with a gentle feel. It is available in three variants Super Flexi Base, Super Flexi Black and Super Flexi Sensitive.
About Colgate-Palmolive (India) Limited: Colgate-Palmolive (India) Limited is the market leader in Oral Care in the country. The company manufactures and markets toothpastes, toothpowder, toothbrushes and mouthwashes under the ‘Colgate’ brand, and a specialized range of personal care products under the ‘Palmolive’ brand. Colgate has been ranked as India’s #1 Most Trusted Oral Care Brand for the eighth consecutive year, from 2011 to 2018, by The Economic Times- Brand Equity -Most Trusted Brands Survey, conducted by Nielsen. For more information about Colgate's business and products, visit www.colgatepalmolive.co.in
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From being alerted to potential maintenance issues via remote vehicle diagnostic monitoring to automated calling for emergency breakdowns or targeted offers and infotainment content designed to enhance the overall travel experience, there are no shortage data-enabled use cases that focus on providing drivers and passengers new features and services.
Data is quickly becoming the new ‘fuel’ for the automotive industry. Forward looking automakers envision a future in which they have the ability to combine and analyze various pieces of information from different vehicle systems to reveal things like driving habits, frequently visited locations, tastes in music and numerous other insights into consumer behavior.
For the consumer on the other hand, assuming they are open to it, there are a plethora of benefits that can come from providing ready-made access to their data.
From being alerted to potential maintenance issues via remote vehicle diagnostic monitoring to automated calling for emergency breakdowns or targeted offers and infotainment content designed to enhance the overall travel experience, there are no shortage data-enabled use cases that focus on providing drivers and passengers new features and services.
However, as a 2017 McKinsey & Company Car Data Monetization Survey notes, “No matter which features car data can make possible, capturing value from them is not feasible if consumers do not see the benefit” and perhaps most importantly, “customers must trust that the data they share will be held and used responsibly.”
As our CEO and Executive Chairman, John Chen said before ; “The inevitable implications of a data-driven economy are right in front of us and we now stand before a moral, ethical and public policy crossroads. How we collectively decide what the rules of the game for this new data-driven economy is, I would argue, one of the most important issues facing global policymakers today.”
In the near future, drivers might buy or rent software-powered services for the weekend, such as enhanced navigation capabilities, blind spot detection or even engine management and suspension software to prep their high-performance car for a racetrack or road trip.
Car makers will receive so much data from their vehicles out in the field in real-time that they will be able to improve their future models, right down to what buttons to swap out of the dashboard because no one uses them. It may be hard to believe but today, manufacturers know little about their vehicles once they’ve left the dealership. With connected vehicles, data flows back to automakers, enabling software updates in real time.
Putting Data to Work
In the future, data from sensor-packed and connected vehicles could even be packaged and shared with cities. Data showing a lot of braking, for instance, on a cold morning may alert city officials to a dangerous patch of black ice that requires salt.
In all ways, automakers will look to leverage the data that vehicles produce. And that amount of data is growing exponentially as software and electronics become the key differentiators among like classes of cars. Lux Research says that by 2030, electronics and software will account for 50% of car costs, up from about 30% today while the software opportunity in autonomous cars will grow from less than one billion to $25 billion.
Modern luxury cars are already marvels of software and electronic engineering, containing on average more than 100 million lines of code and six to eight operating systems. Indeed, just one connected car will generate more revenue than ten conventional ones . Additionally, eight in ten auto industry executives say data will fuel future automotive business models and 83% believe they will make money off that data.
With data a highly sought-after commodity, and many big tech companies building their business models on monetizing data, it’s important to note that at BlackBerry, it’s our sworn principle and mission to protect data, not to exploit it. We simply move it, and of course do so securely, as opposed to use it or profit off of it.
Cybersecurity Risks Mount
Despite the exciting opportunities they present, connected cars increase cybersecurity risks and that challenge must be met for autonomous vehicles to reach their full potential. Attack surfaces are constantly being added to vehicles via elements such as sensors, automated steering wheels, brakes, accelerators, infotainment systems, mobile apps and wireless key fobs .
Like any other product or ecosystem, as the number of connected ‘things’ grows within a vehicle, so too does the attack surface and the threat potential.
In recent years, nearly every OEM has experienced some sort of hack, driving home the reality that security cannot be an afterthought or bolted on. It has to be baked into vehicles and their components at every stage of the process. That means securing the supply chain, using only trusted components, in field monitoring and responding quickly to issues.
DISCLAIMER: The views expressed are solely of the author and ETAuto.com does not necessarily subscribe to it. ETAuto.com shall not be responsible for any damage caused to any person/organisation directly or indirectly.
[Courtesy: https://auto.economictimes.indiatimes.com]
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