Friday, April 15, 2011

KP Namboodiri's Group into Hospitality Business




Guruvayoor now has a new abode of hospitality. the hospitality venture of the renowned business group K.P. Namboodri’s, Hotel Devaragam opened on February 2011. Located conveniently close to Guruvayoor temple, Hotel Devaragam offers all the modern comforts of a star hotel in a traditional way. Be it the well-equipped rooms, the fine dining restaurant or the comfortable banquet hall, Hotel Devaragam offers blissful hospitality in the holy town of Guruvayoor. Designed to be an abode of comfort, calm and peace, every aspect of hospitality here is a feature of excellence.


Hotel Devaragam captures the divine mood of the holy town with its serene ambience. The guest rooms & suites here are among the most spacious in the town and are fitted out to the highest specifications. It offers the guests 37 staying options to choose from including suites, superior, deluxe and standard rooms. All rooms are air-conditioned with individual controls, television, 24 hour room service, internet, laundry and more.



Sapthaswaram, the 24-hour thematic restaurant at Hotel Devaragam will serve traditional food which is meant to delight the taste buds. Be it the buffets, Sadhyas or ala carte, the chefs here can cook up a culinary magic that’s sure to satisfy any palette and heart.

Sapthaswaram promotion (teaser)

Hotel Devaragam also features an elegant and comfortable banquet hall, Varnam. With a 350 pax-sitting and 190 pax-dining arrangements, it is an excellent choice for wedding, reception and other family functions.

for more information click - http://devaragam.in/

Sunday, April 10, 2011

New campaign for Club FM




Mathrubhumi owned private fm channel Club FM launched it's new campaign which promotes it's programmes and RJs with the spoof of some of the famous advertising campaigns and taglines which are popular to malayalies. club fm is the first fm in kerala to launch programme Branding in a funny way. the campaign have been conceptualized by Maitri Advertising works, Kochi . the bill boards carrying the new campaign are put up at the locations of Kochi and Trissur. OOH operations are carries by Point of View - the ooh division of Maitri.


Club fm is the first fm in kerala to launch
program Branding in a funny way.







In the campaigns the RJs of club fm appered as the models for promoting their programs. the programmes of club fm like Good Morning, Kalakkan Recharge, Meals Ready, Ladies Neram, Love Bytes, Kabadi Kabadi etc are promoted with their RJs by spoofing famous ads of Kalyan, Original Choice, Kerala Volley League, Nike etc. of that major attraction is the spoof of controversial campaign of Original Choice starred by Mohanlal.

RJ Appuni promoting meals ready by
imitating Mohanlal's Original choice campaign





RJ Smriti Imitating Mammooty's Kerala volley league campaign




Thursday, April 7, 2011

Our roads are filled with idiots..!




Ceat is looking to increase their market share in Bike tyre segment , have launched a new campaign - Our Roads are filled with idiots. The major objective of the campaign is to promote the usp of the product - the superior grip in their tyres. the superior grip gives better break control for the rider. the brief was to establish the brand in the bike tyre segment. and the 'idiot' concept launched. it says that the roads are filled with idiots who ignores the road traffic laws, which can leads to accidents.

The idea communicates that - CEAT tyres are the best tyres to navigate the disorder on the Indian roads because of it's superior grip.

They launched campaign with

  • TVCs
  • Print Ads
  • Digital
  • Ooh etc
The TVCs are aired with three different stories.


Please click to watch the above TVC - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ3FuwJyC9E


Please click to watch the above TVC http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li0AzJUnFFs

apart from these promotions, the company also undertakes an initiative to create awareness about road safety. they launched a website called
www.beidiotsafe.com. the website showcase the contents of bad driving and also the videos and photographs of bad driving etc. website every day updates latest messages regarding road safety
and also there is a contest where the contestants can spot the traffic violation in the uploaded videos and win prizes.

CEAT is the dominant player in the truck & bus and Passenger tyre market with the market share of 14% and 17% respectively. now they are aggressivly tapping the two wheeler segment. the tyre Industry in India witnesses a CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate) of 8.3% mainly due to the growth of domestic auto Industry. The Industry has high entry barrier because of the capital intensive nature. it's raw materials like rubber and crude oil accounts more than 70% of it's operational costs. thus the raw materials to sales ratio in the industry is more than 60%.