Under Jaitly’s stewardship, Diageo India gained significant market share while embedding purpose-driven storytelling and sustainability at the core of its marketing and business strategy.
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Asia-Pacific Power List 2025: Ruchira Jaitly, Diageo
Does your brand have the soul to succeed?
After shepherding billion-dollar brands at HP, Mars, and Unilever through an era where AI threatens to make marketing more mechanical than ever, veteran CMO Siew Ting Foo challenges conventional wisdom with a powerful argument: the future belongs to brands that dare to be human.
CreativeX report finds brands waste millions on assets that are never used
Nearly all global campaign toolkits are never activated in local markets, according to the findings.
Asia-Pacific Power List 2024: Ruchira Jaitly, Diageo
Making commensurate shifts in go-to-market strategies post pandemic, Jaitly has strengthened Diageo brands’ positioning, while ensuring gender equality and inclusion in advertising.
Rise 2024 conference: Marketing chiefs offer six lessons on the benefits of DEI
Marketing chiefs from Diageo, Lego, and Procter & Gamble at the Rise conference emphasised that diversity and inclusion drive better ROI.
Asia-Pacific Power List 2023: Deepika Warrier, Diageo
Warrier is constantly working to make Diageo’s portfolio of global and Indian alcohol brands category leading in terms of progressive portrayal, inclusion and future consumer needs.
Diageo vows to keep marketing through 'challenging times'
Drinks behemoth tells investors that increased marketing spend has delivered strong growth.
Smirnoff kicks off global branding review
The Diageo-owned vodka brand is parting ways with 72andSunny after nearly a decade.
Asia-Pacific Power List 2022: Deepika Warrier, Diageo
Warrier’s determination to support local ingredients and craftspeople is reaping rewards for the alcohol conglomerate.
Former P&G and Diageo marketer joins Sephora
Stuart La Brooy will join the beauty retail giant as VP of marketing in Southeast Asia and Oceania.
Forsman & Bodenfors to combine with 72andSunny in Singapore
Combined agency will operate as Forsman & Bodenfors led by Po Kay Lee while 72andSunny leaders Ida Siow and Johnny Tan will move on to new opportunities.
'Don't be obsessed with where people sit': Diageo's four tips for working with top talent
Diageo's Isabel Massey told Campaign Connect why the company is being more open-minded on hiring.
Deepika Warrier to join Diageo India as CMO
Current CMO Julie Bramham will move into a global role within the brand as Warrier joins from PepsiCo.
Asia-Pacific Power List 2020: Julie Bramham, Diageo
Julie Bramham oversees the marketing and product portfolio of dozens of brands in a critical market for Diageo, and does so while promoting progressive gender portrayals.
Diageo stops 'ineffective' advertising and promotional spend
Drinks giant said closure of bars and restaurants was having 'significant impact on the performance of our business'.
Diageo: Focus on effectiveness helped us up media spend by $260m
Drinks giant reported organic sales growth of 4% in last six months of 2019.
Diageo shortlists three agency groups in global media review
Payment terms have been issue for some participants.
Diageo and Creative Equals take #CreativeComeback scheme global
Returner scheme supports women going back to work in creative industries following career break.
How Diageo is using data to fix gender imbalance in creative work
We caught up with Diageo's India CMO Julie Bramham with questions about how the brand is working to make its creative more representative.
Diageo's India CMO on avoiding 'falling into the stereotyping trap'
Julie Bramham makes a strong case for doing away with gender stereotypes at the inaugural session of Spikes Asia 2019
Diageo CMO presses agencies to speed up hiring of female creative chiefs
'The pace of substantive change has been too slow', agencies told.
Avon calling James Thompson after leaving Diageo
Diageo's former chief marketing and innovation officer joins Avon as chief beauty and brand officer with an "aggressive" plan to grow in APAC.
Diageo, Samsung and eBay chief marketers respond to Unilever's influencer challenge
The answer is to work only with influencers who are genuine and are part of your brand story, said top marketers from Diageo, Samsung and eBay.
Baileys picks VML as global digital agency
Mother previously handled some digital work for Baileys but VML is its first global digital agency-of-record appointment.
When trust is snapped
Diageo's decision to pull ads from Snapchat following an ASA ruling reflects a broader problem with media trust, argues the global MD of the company's luxury portfolio.
Moët Hennessy Diageo hires W Asia
Agency will handle communications strategy for key brands in Singapore.
Leo's Oscar and why I hope the industry sticks with awards
Work that wins acts as an example to the rest of the industry, writes Diageo's James Thompson.
Personal labels increase Johnnie Walker sales
Diageo is going global with a label 'studio' for Johnnie Walker, executed by Singapore's Untitled Project.
Bravery in advertising is a relative concept
One of James Thompson's ads was praised for its boldness, but here's the true story.
Diageo retains Carat after global media review
The spirits company retains Publicis' Mediavest and Leo Burnett in Australia, chooses Dentsu Aegis Network to handle Southeast Asia.
Guinness Indonesia wraps itself in Batik Day colours
INDONESIA - Seeking connection with a younger demographic in Indonesia, Guinness worked with BBDO on a campaign centred on the traditional symbolic fabric art form.
Mirum Vietnam wins Diageo beverage brands
SINGAPORE - Alcoholic beverage giant Diageo has appointed Mirum Vietnam as its digital agency for Smirnoff and Johnny Walker, as well as Diageo’s nightlife events platform 9Life on the back of their successful work last year.
Diageo's James Thompson named CMO of North America
GLOBAL - Diageo has promoted James Thompson, currently managing director of Global Reserve, to chief marketing and innovation officer for North America, effective 1 August.
Diageo and BBH end 15-year relationship
LONDON - Diageo and Bartle Bogle Hegarty have ended their 15-year relationship, as the Baileys and Gordon's accounts move in-house.
Purpose-driven branding is critical
In a consumer-savvy world, why shouldn’t brands be expected to behave with ever higher standards?
Targeting works, but can be controversial
A BMW promotion using fine-grained targeting on WeChat recently proved that few things are so inviting as being excluded, writes James Thompson.
Diageo announces winners of the Women’s Empowerment Journalism Awards 2015
HONG KONG – Diageo, the world’s leading premium drinks company, has announced the winners of the Women’s Empowerment (WE) Journalism Awards 2015, recognising exemplary work in women’s empowerment reporting at an Awards Gala Dinner held in Hong Kong.
L'Oréal’s Stephanie Bell to join Diageo in global role
GLOBAL - Stephanie Bell, L’Oréal’s regional digital and media director, is to step up to a global role at Diageo later this month.
From panic to exhilaration: Johnnie Walker offers a ride with Jenson Button
SINGAPORE - Iris Singapore has created a film for Johnnie Walker that entices people to sign up for a chance to win a driving experience with McLaren Mercedes Formula 1 Driver Jenson Button.