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<ul><li>Ajay will report into <keyword id="2932117" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Amit-Wadhwa" source="Orion">Amit Wadhwa</keyword>, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), <keyword id="12016868" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Dentsu-Creative" source="Orion">dentsu Creative</keyword> India.</li><li><keyword id="1688376" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Ajay-Gahlaut" source="Orion">Ajay Gahlaut</keyword> resigned from Publicis Worldwide in July, 2020.</li></ul><keyword id="188613" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="dentsu-india" source="Orion">Dentsu India</keyword> has announced the appointment of creative veteran Ajay Gahlaut as Group Chief Creative Officer (GCCO), spearheading creative excellence across dentsu India’s award-winning creative agencies. Ajay will report into Amit Wadhwa, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), dentsu Creative India and will be responsible for accelerating dentsu India’s creative businesses under one optimised service line. Dentsu India initiated the formation of a new structure for its Creative service line in June this year. The redesign - part of the network’s global plan to transform into the most integrated group in the world by 2024, brings together its agencies under one umbrella and catapults dentsu India into its fresh journey to 2.0. The agency brands that come together under this new creative design are <keyword id="2805202" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Dentsu-Webchutney" source="Orion">Dentsu Webchutney</keyword>, Taproot Dentsu, WATConsult, Perfect Relations, Isobar, Dentsu One, Dentsu India and Dentsu Impact. A creative genius with over 27 years of experience in advertising, Ajay wrote the line ‘Do Boond Zindagi Ki’ that anchored the famous Pulse Polio Immunisation campaign with the superstar Amitabh Bachchan. He also created more than a dozen commercials for the campaign and played a significant part in eradicating polio from India. He was also behind the line ‘Make It Large’ for the whiskey brand Royal Stag that transformed its fortunes and made it the highest selling whiskey in its price range. He created the character ‘Mr. Murthy’ for Voltas Air Conditioners and catapulted Voltas to the number one position in the category. Ajay has also created work for the whiskey brand Imperial Blue with the famous ‘men will be men’ sign off. He has won multiple Cannes Lions, One Show and D&amp;AD awards in his more than a quarter century journey in this business. But what deserves a special mention here is the way he led Ogilvy Delhi to win 8 Lions at Cannes in 2013. Not only did he surprise the country but surprised himself as well. Some of the most significant brands that Ajay has worked on are Pernod Ricard, BMW, HT Mint and KFC at some of the world’s best known Creative shops. Commenting on Ajay’s appointment, Amit Wadhwa said, “Dentsu India is in the midst of an exciting transformation journey towards dentsu India 2.0 and Ajay’s joining is a critical part of the plan. Ajay is a well-respected Creative leader with years of experience across categories and the right mindset that matches with dentsu India 2.0. With the brilliant Creative minds in our business, we will be a force to be reckoned with, delivering growth for our clients while continuing our creative evolution at pace and scale.” Ajay Gahlaut said, “Dentsu’s creativity defines generations. When the opportunity came to join Amit and his team, I could not refuse. Creativity is in the spotlight, with brands looking to differentiate themselves in a disrupted marketplace – it has never been a more exciting time to work in this field rich with opportunity. I am excited to join dentsu, Amit and the Creative teams, delighting clients and creating era defining work together.”

Dentsu Creative appoints Ajay Gahlaut as Group Chief Creative Officer

<ul><li>Narayan Devanathan is now President - Strategy &amp; Integration for dentsu India &amp; Head - Strategy &amp; Consulting, APAC.</li><li>Shamsuddin Jasani &amp; Sidharth Rao also get additional roles.</li></ul>On the back of its global organisational redesign, dentsu international has created a new structure for its creative service line in India. The restructure will bring together some of India’s best agencies along with their digital &amp; PR capabilities - all from the house of dentsu - under one umbrella with an aim to provide a more collaborative and aligned offering to clients. The brands that will come together as part of this redesign as dentsu Creative include Dentsu Webchutney, Taproot Dentsu, WATConsult, Perfect Relations, Isobar, Dentsu One, Dentsu India and Dentsu Impact. With the eventual consolidation under the two strong global brands - dentsumcgarrybowen (dentsuMB) and Isobar, dentsu Creative will provide digital-native, brand-led, customer-centric, creative, and strategic solutions to clients, effortlessly. In India, the dentsu Creative service line will be led by Amit Wadhwa as its chief executive officer (CEO). Amit will be responsible for the integration, co-ordination, and implementation of the overall strategy for dentsu Creative in the market. He will lead the dentsu India creative service line leadership team, reporting into Anand Bhadkamkar and the regional dentsu Creative leadership. Sidharth Rao, in addition to his current responsibilities, will now also be in charge of the brand dentsuMB Group in India as its CEO. He will work with the leadership team on dentsuMB’s brand strategy for the market. Shamsuddin Jasani, who continues to oversee the Isobar brand in South Asia as its Managing Director (MD), will also take on an additional role at dentsu Creative. He will now work with the regional and global leadership teams to support the Isobar practice area and will work closely with the Isobar Global leadership team on the same. Speaking on the new development, Anand Bhadkamkar, CEO India said, “This global restructure is about consolidation of capabilities across our brands and businesses with an aim to bring the best of our services to our clients and provide those specialisms without any hassles. The idea is to ultimately stand true to our #OneDentsu strategy and thus, transform into a sharper and leaner business partner to brands. The changes in the India leadership team only reflects a step ahead in bolstering and scaling up our market ambitions. Amit, Sid and Shams are amongst the strongest creative leaders not just within dentsu but across industry; and with the kind of experience and knowledge backing them, I am certain that they will steer dentsu towards excellence not just in India but beyond.” The network has elevated Narayan Devanathan as President - Strategy &amp; Integration for India, in addition to his current role as CEO, dentsu Solutions. This new role is designed to support and achieve dentsu’s strategic objectives by defining, implementing, and driving growth and other vital initiatives for the market. He will continue to report into Anand Bhadkamkar for his additional responsibility as part of the India market leadership team. Meanwhile, Narayan will now also don a regional hat as APAC Head for the dentsu Creative Strategy &amp; Consulting practice. “Narayan has been instrumental in driving integration across our units and, as part of the South Asia integration initiatives, he will be supporting the Sri Lanka team in strategy and integration across the two markets. He will now be moving away from his current additional role as Chairperson, Creative Service Line for India and will take up a regional leadership role as APAC Lead - Strategy &amp; Consulting Practice in the creative service line. In this role, he will be working with the Regional and Global leadership teams within the creative service line to help develop the area of Strategy &amp; Consulting Practice in the APAC region,” Anand added.

Dentsu India consolidates eight agencies under dentsu Creative, brings digital and PR capabilities together; Amit Wadhwa to lead the new structure as CEO

<ul><li><keyword id="10032656" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="dentsu-international">dentsu International</keyword> is undergoing a massive global restructuring and will cut down around 6,000 jobs globally in the next two years.</li><li>It will also consolidate it's 160+ global brands to six global leadership brands.</li><li>We talk to <keyword id="7491447" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Anand-Bhadkamkar">Anand Bhadkamkar</keyword>, CEO, India, dentsu, who tells us the impact this global consolidation will have on its India business.</li></ul>Japanese advertising network dentsu International is undergoing a massive global restructuring. The company announced last week that as a part of its accelerated restructuring plans, it will cut down around 12.5% or roughly 6,000 jobs globally. In an official statement, a dentsu spokesperson said, “Consumer intelligence is at the heart of everything we do at dentsu international. We believe integrating our business around the consumer is the greatest advantage we can give our clients and the greatest competitive advantage we can give ourselves. We will do this by accelerating the transformation journey we started last year to simplify further how we operate, delivering even greater agility through a focused portfolio of six global leadership brands with prioritized investment and resources in capabilities of high client demand and growth. “In our H1 2020 financial results, we announced a comprehensive review of our business. As we work through this process, we will take the critical and necessary steps, that many other companies are, to address the impacts the global pandemic has had on our business and ensure we work closely with our people and our clients as we move through this period of accelerated transformation.” As a part of the restructuring, denstu will consolidate its 160+ brands into 6 consolidated leadership brands - Carat, <keyword id="4814486" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Merkle">Merkle</keyword>, dentsu X, <keyword id="4120995" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="iProspect">iProspect</keyword>, dentsumcgarrybowen, and Isobar. Closer home, dentsu India Network currently has around 3,200 employees under its 20 agencies. In a recent conversation with Anand Bhadkamkar, CEO, India, dentsu, we tried to understand what the global restructuring will mean for dentsu in India, and whether employees in India need to worry about the proposed jobcuts. Excerpts: Q) Dentsu has announced a massive restructuring globally, which will also include around 6000 job cuts. What kind of impact will this have on dentsu India? Globally, we are reorganizing our businesses under three service lines – Creative, Media and Customer Experience Management. Currently, on a global level, we have around 160 brands that are a part of the organization and dentsu is planning to bring that down to six global brands by the end of 2022. In India, along with the 6 brands, Carat, Merkle, dentsu X, iProspect, dentsumcgarrybowen, and Isobar, we will have Posterscope as an additional brand because OOH has been our strength over the last few years. Currently, almost 45% of our revenue is coming from Digital. While the pandemic affected OOH and Experiential really badly, things should start to come back to normal soon. The global restructuring is more about centralization of capabilities across service lines and we aim to achieve this over the next 2 years. The idea is to ultimately stand true to our One Dentsu strategy. Our focus will be on bringing the best of our services and capabilities to our clients and providing those specializations without any hassles. In India, increasingly we will invest in the high growth areas. We are quite strong on digital, be it performance, customer experience, social media or digital transformation journeys for our clients. We will continue investing in those areas. And as part of our overall business process, the underperforming teams or staff will be re-oriented. Q) So how concerned do your employees in India need to be, considering there are plans of job cuts globally? Globally they need to restructure 160 brands to 6. In India, things won’t be as drastic because we have already started our consolidation journey. All our businesses are working closely, based on our One Dentsu strategy. It is more about re-investing in the high-growth areas. Q) There is a talk that globally Dentsu will aim to reduce its focus on the traditional creative and media agencies and focus more on the data-focused businesses. Will the organization go a similar route in India too? It is not about reducing focus on traditional creative or media versus data focused businesses, but working with the clients on solving their business problems. The focus is on partnering with clients to help them gain competitive advantage in the market. As a network, we are ideas-led, tech-enabled and data-driven, and that is at the core of everything Dentsu does. So, ideas will always remain at the center of whatever we do. The solution can be either through creative, digital or personalized experience, based on the client problem we need to solve. So overall our focus remains unchanged. However, the current year has led to a lot of changes. Consumer behavior has undergone a lot of change, adoption of digital has fast tracked which is resulting in the entire value-chain moving to digital platforms or e-commerce. So our focus and investments will be on coming up with the best solutions for our clients on their digital transformation journeys. A lot of our investments will go to Adtech, Martech, content creation, providing personalized solutions and experiences will be critical for us. Q) We’re almost at the end of 2020. As a leader, what will your key focus areas be in 2021? 2020 has been a challenging year, not just from a business but from a societal perspective. As an industry, we are seeing a de-growth of around 16-18%. So that has had an obvious impact on our business as we saw spends come down. However, we started seeing recovery from Q3, during IPL and the festive period. The last quarter has been even better than we anticipated. Some of our agencies have also recovered much faster. And, our digital businesses have been doing well. So while overall the year has been muted, we have seen much faster recovery. For 2021, our focus will remain on the high-growth areas – digital, providing relevant data driven solutions for clients and creating relevant experiences for consumers with investments in ad-tech, martech. We will also focus on e-commerce which we've been working on extensively with a lot of our clients across brands. Last year, there was also a lot of focus on voice, video and vernacular, and that will continue to remain a key focus area because it became even more relevant in this pandemic year. We are also seeing gradual recovery of OOH so we will also focus on Digital OOH next year.

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<ul><li><keyword id="11892772" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="dentsu-india" source="Orion">Dentsu India</keyword> brings together <keyword id="11893852" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="data-transformation" source="Orion">Data Transformation</keyword>, Digital Transformation, and CX Consulting into one unit. </li><li>Anubhav Sonthalia will lead <keyword id="11893851" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="dentsu-cxm" source="Orion">dentsu CXM</keyword> in India as its Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in addition to serving his current role as CEO, <keyword id="11892768" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="sokrati" source="Orion">Sokrati</keyword>.</li></ul>Following the restructure of its creative and media businesses in India, <keyword id="11893853" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="dentsu" source="Orion">dentsu</keyword> has now announced the launch of a unified <keyword id="11892771" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="merkle" source="Orion">Merkle</keyword>-led CXM proposition in the market. The announcement brings together Data Transformation, Digital Transformation, and CX Consulting into one unit to create the most specialised CX practice in India under brand Merkle. Part of the network’s global organisational redesign, the <keyword id="11893850" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="dentsu-india-CXM" source="Orion">dentsu India CXM</keyword> business will now house the agencies - Sokrati, Fractal Ink Design Studio and Merkle B2B, under one umbrella. Anubhav Sonthalia will lead dentsu CXM in India as its Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in addition to serving his current role as CEO, Sokrati. He will continue to report into Anand Bhadkamkar, CEO, dentsu India, and Z Shen, CEO, dentsu CXM, APAC. Anubhav will be responsible for the integration, co-ordination, and implementation of dentsu CXM's overall strategy across the country. The CXM business will be aimed at building differentiated customer experiences through data, design &amp; technology transformations, and will work with partners like <keyword id="11892769" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="salesforce" source="Orion">Salesforce</keyword>, Adobe, <keyword id="11893854" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="google-cloud-" source="Orion">Google Cloud &amp;</keyword> AWS. Speaking on the launch, Anand Bhadkamkar said, "Keeping up with our #onedentsu strategy, the new CXM business will help us move closer towards our growth journey. CXM is growing rapidly, and it is soon expected to become 35% of our overall business in India. By 2025, we project that this growing field will have a 50% contribution to our business. With this new CXM line of business, our clients will see a host of benefits as it will be a one-stop solution for all their CXM needs. I have complete faith in Anubhav’s leadership and in CXM to create numerous opportunities for clients as well as for the network.” Commenting on his new role, Anubhav Sonthalia added, “I am looking forward to leading dentsu India CXM and to develop newer strategies to up our customer experience game. We aim to provide world-class services to our clients and prioritise data-driven experiences &amp; personalisation of the entire end-to-end customer experience. Our key focus will be to create a holistic view for the clients, and a focused strategy for delivering personalised experiences that they demand.”

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