Archive: June 25, 2022

Etihad Airways Launches Three New Offers for Guests to Enjoy their Stopover in Abu Dhabi

Hyderabad: June 2022: Etihad Airways is inviting guests for an unforgettable stopover in Abu Dhabi with three different offers that suit all tastes and budgets.

With the relaunch of Etihad Stopovers, travellers can benefit from 40% discounted prices at one of Abu Dhabi’s premium four-star and five-star hotels participating in this campaign, or from a one or two-nights complimentary stay in a three or four-star participating hotel*.

The third new option is Transit Connect, where the guests on eligible routes can book a complimentary hotel near Abu Dhabi International Airport if their flight connection time in Abu Dhabi is between 10 and 24 hours*.

Martin Drew, Senior Vice President Global Sales, Etihad Airways, said: “With the removal of the majority of travel restrictions, more people are travelling for the summer break. The Etihad Stopover has always been extremely popular, especially for guests looking to break up ultra-long haul travel with a couple of days enjoying the wonders of Abu Dhabi.”

He added: “Our new offers enhance that proposition even further, allowing guests to discover our beautiful Emirate with all of its diverse attractions. There’s something for everyone, from Louvre Abu Dhabi to the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, or Yas Island, home of the Formula 1 track, Warner Brothers amusement park and CLYMB, the region’s tallest indoor climbing wall. Not to mention the newly established cycling courses in Al Hudayriyat Island and beautiful golf courses spread across the Emirate.

“Abu Dhabi is inviting for a wide range of our guests, and we want them to make unforgettable memories.”

Abu Dhabi is a vibrant and diverse city offering visitors the chance to explore cultural highlights, impressive architecture, world-class theme parks as well as striking beaches and desert landscapes. The city appeals to solo travellers and couples in search of unique travel experiences as well as families looking to create extraordinary memories with their families, making it the perfect destination for a holiday within a holiday.

Premium Hotels where guests can enjoy a 40% discount include:

• Anantara Easter Mangroves
• Andaz Capital Gate
• Beach Rotana Abu Dhabi Hotel
• Courtyard by Marriott WTC Abu Dhabi
• Crowne Plaza Abu Dhabi Yas Island
• Dusit Thani Abu Dhabi
• Fairmont Bab al Bahr
• Grand Hyatt Abu Dhabi
• InterContinental Abu Dhabi
• Khalidiya Palace Rayhaan (Dry Hotel)
• Le Meridien Abu Dhabi
• Novotel Al Bustan
• Park Hyatt Abu Dhabi Hotel and Villas
• Park Rotana Abu Dhabi
• Radisson Blu Yas Island Hotel
• Saadiyat Rotana Resort and Villa
• Shangri La Hotel Qaryat Al Beri
• Sheraton Abu Dhabi Hotel & Resort
• Sofitel Abu Dhabi Corniche
• The St. Regis Abu Dhabi
• The Westin Abu Dhabi Golf Resort and Spa
• Traders Hotel Qaryat Al Beri
• Yas Island Rotana

Three and four-star hotels where guests can enjoy their Abu Dhabi stopover for free include:

• Centro Al Manhal Abu Dhabi
• Hawthorn Suites by Wyndham
• TRYP by Wyndham Abu Dhabi
• Premier Inn Abu Dhabi Capital Centre
• Premier Inn Abu Dhabi International Airport
• Ramada Abu Dhabi Corniche (Dry Hotel)
• Ramada Abu Dhabi Downtown
• Traders Hotel Qaryat Al Beri

Isthara Co-living partners with Atmasetu to provide health and wellness services to residents

Bengaluru, June 2022: Isthara Co-Living, India’s premium co-living brand and Smart Food Court pioneer has collaborated with Atmasetu, a holistic healthcare and wellness center that follows a preventive, curative and therapeutic process of healing by focusing on the mind, body and soul.

Through the partnership, Isthara aims to provide their residents with physical and mental wellness services during the course of their stay at any of Isthara’s student living or co-living properties. The service, which will be provided free of cost to residents, aims to resolve individual issues related to productivity, burnout, stress management, sleep, nutrition and diet, fitness, and quality of life. The partnership with Atmasetu adds to the company’s list of premium amenities and features that it provides to residents across all its properties.

As a part of this program, Atmasetu will focus on occupational wellness, mental and emotional well-being, and physical fitness, and will curate a plan basis which it will tackle a specific aspect of wellness each month. The healthcare practitioners from Atmasetu will conduct sessions on different themes, with the aim of helping students and young professionals to lead healthier and more productive lives. The company will provide these services through on-site/ online workshops and webinars, therapy sessions (Yoga, meditation, and breath workout), mindfulness session, self-help and time management sessions, improved physical activity, diet consultations, and fitness drives.

Through their preventive-curative-therapeutic healing process, Atmasetu aims to bringing health awareness in earlier stages of life, thereby taking a preventive approach. The company’s integrative approach in all the treatment protocols are evidence-based and scientifically proven, and the line of treatments are planned and designed in a way that will easily blend with daily schedules. The sessions follow an evidence-based holistic approach, which brings about a complex blend of both physiological and energetic perspectives, leading to a balance of the Body, Mind, and Spirit.

Speaking about the initiative, Gilbert James, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Isthara said, “The pandemic has highlighted that the health and mental wellbeing of individuals remain a critical societal need, and we’re enabling our residents to take a more active role in their well-being. We are delighted to partner with Atmasetu, whose holistic and engaging wellness programs will enable our residents to rejuvenate the body and mind, which is a key necessity for our young residents who lead fast paced lives. At Isthara, it is our constant endeavor to offer innovative services and solutions that enrich the lives of our residents, and we are confident that the initiative will place a greater emphasis on healthy living, and make a positive difference to the lives of our residents.”

Speaking on the collaboration, Dr. Vishal Bhat, Founder, Atmasetu stated, “Over the past two years, the critical importance of physical and mental wellness has come more into prominence, and we are delighted to collaborate with a brand like Isthara that is committed to drive positive change. The path to wellbeing starts with early identification and prevention of life stressors, and we believe that the unison of the mind, body, and spirit, and the expansion of access to much-needed healthcare, and guidance will immensely benefit the young residents of Isthara co-living. With our designated plan of action and specific months dedicated to different forms of wellbeing like stress management, sleep hygiene, natural healing & naturopathy diet counselling we aim to empower Isthara residents to attain their true potential, and look forward to help them lead well balanced and healthier lives.”

Founded in 2017, Isthara has been revolutionizing the co-living segment operating over 24,000 beds, providing fully-furnished shared-living accommodation for working professionals and students, with a host of amenities paired with premium features. Isthara has exhibited a revenue growth of over 35X since the first month of operations, and has also witnessed a monthly run rate growth of over 120 times since inception. In 2022, the company expects to double bed capacity to around 50,000 beds in the student living and co-living space. Recently, the company acquired software product engineering firm, ‘Letsmobility’ to enhance tech solutions in the co-living and food-tech verticals.

In 2020, the company launched the smart food court business, and signed up 50 food courts across Telangana, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, catering to over 200,000 people. Placing tech at the core of its business, these smart food courts operate a multi-cuisine, multi-vendor aggregator format and have set new standards in food safety, quality, service and choice for urban millennials, thereby redefining the cafeteria experience. In the food court segment, Isthara aims to grow by 10X to 500 food courts across 30 cities in the next 3 years, catering to a million people on a monthly basis.

CoCreate Ventures and PES University to invest in 50 start-ups

June 2022, Bengaluru- PESU Venture Labs , a partnership with PES University & CoCreate Ventures today announced that they will be investing in 50 start-ups. CoCreate partnered with PES University in 2021 and set up PESU Venture Labs (PVL), a concept stage fund and has invested in over 24 deep tech startups across sectors like weather tech, ed tech, and cyber security, crypto, and pet wellness. This initiative has proved that interesting and scalable startups can emerge from Indian Universities.

With the goal of identifying budding entrepreneurs and innovative startup ideas. CoCreate and PVL started programs like ‘Unicorn Launchpad’, which is a search for ideas from campuses that could be unicorns. These ideas would be assessed by VCs and analysts and would be built toward becoming a successful start-up. Another program ‘Venturethon’ is a month-long event where teams submit their ideas and these ideas would be assessed by a jury of VCs and analysts. Ideas & Entrepreneurs with the potential to create a large impact will be provided funding of up to $200K. They would also be provided with technology, GTM, Branding, or any other support that they would require. Some of the startups that were incubated last year that have reached interesting market traction include Fond, Assert, Seminar Room & Frizzle.

Suresh Narasimha, co-founder and Managing Partner of CoCreate said, “We are fascinated about the kind of ideas & commitment that we are witnessing from students. The support structure that we have created at PESU is enviable and aspirational for any startup founder & the kind of idea flow we see from students is unseen outside. We believe this is going to be the future of entrepreneurship & destination for the brightest students. “

CoCreate is on a mission to empower student entrepreneurs and help turn ideas into reality. The venture builder approach has been replicated by CoCreate Ventures in five other universities. The venture has been successful in building a strong network of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and mentors that can help any upcoming start-up scale up and reach the series A stage.

BharatMatrimony’s “PehlePadhaiPhirShaadi” social initiative wins 14 creative awards

New Delhi, June 2022: At the recent Kyoorius Creative Awards, BharatMatrimony’s “Pehle Padhai Phir Shaadi” – a social initiative to empower girls to choose education over marriage, bagged 14 awards including 1 purple elephant for driving gender equality, and 5 blue elephants. The awards are a celebration of the most outstanding and innovative work in advertising and marketing communications.

Arjun Bhatia, Chief Marketing Officer – Matrimony.com elaborates, “We were pretty sure to win awards because the “Pehle Padhai Phir Shaadi” social experiment championed the cause of educating girl children. This is in line with our vision of driving social impact by empowering women to be choosy and redefine their lives, and we want to be the enabler in that positive social change. The elephant means recognition of the brand’s ability to take risks, drive larger impact and deliver creative solutions to social issues.”

Arjun further added, “I’m glad that Dentsu partnered with us in this creative journey. The fact that a jury of the best in the advertising and marketing domain evaluates and selects winners adds to the joy of bagging the awards.”

Go Grocer launches pure products to take care of your daily kitchen needs

With people becoming more conscious about their health, natural food demand has increased. Not much attention was paid to the ingredients and composition earlier. However, now many people first read a product’s nutritional value before buying it.

In a world with so many pertaining health problems, finding pure food is the biggest challenge. Food is the most essential and fundamental thing when it comes to health. If you are not eating healthy/pure food, you are inviting health issues on your own.

Go Grocer, a venture of Aadianant Food and Beverages Pvt. Ltd., has recently launched a pure range for kitchen essentials like pulses, wheat, oils, spices, etc.

Mr. Vikas Kumar Agarwal, Founder of Go Grocers, says, “Purity is our priority. We feel that if we are producing pure food, we are taking care of our consumers’ health.”

Go Grocer has expanded itself from being just an Indian company to being a global player in the world of Pulses, Dry Fruits, and Rice. “More than expansion, we believe in offering safe, effective, and valuable products to the customers,” Mr. Vikas shares.

In spices, the FMCG brand is set to offer everyday-kitchen needs like Turmeric, Coriander, Red Chili, Garam Masala, Cumin Seeds, Cardamom, Black Cardamom, etc.

To take care of the protein intake in your family, Go Grocers has pulses like Sabut Moong, Sabut Urad, Urad Chilka, Kala Chana, Chana Dal, Masoor Malka, Kabuli Chana, Arhar, Safed Matar, White Lobia, Urad Dhuli, etc., are also available.

In rice, they have four varieties, Super Basmati Rice, Premium Basmati Rice, Dabur Basmati Rice, and Rozana Basmati Rice.
The brand also launches its Dry fruits and oils like Canola Oil, Fresh Peanuts, Whole Almonds, Crude Palm Oil, Groundnut Seed, Palm Oil, Salted Peanuts, White Cashews Nuts, Soya Crude Oil, Yellow Raisins, Sunflower Oil, and Dried Figs.

These daily products are currently available on the website and other platforms like More, Spencers, E-store India, and Lulu. Apart from that, Go Grocer will be listing its products on platforms like Amazon, Supplyco, and Jiomart.

‘It’s a 10 now ventures into the Indian Market

America’s top brand that offers 10 haircare solutions in one product is now available in India

National, June, 2022: America’s leading hair care brand – ‘It’s a 10!’, has now entered the Indian market. These 10 solutions in one product range caters to all hair types. Created using intense research and implementing formulas that nurtures the hair. Founder, Carolyn Aronson caters to fulfill the dream of having perfect hair with a classic mixture of a therapeutic Berry based compound and Linalool Citrus and Castor oil that makes sure your hair is shinier, stronger, thicker, softer and bouncier. Regardless of the hair problem- whether it is fizzy, damaged or plain old hair fall – ‘It’s a 10’ promises that with the help of the cruelty free natural ingredients in the products your hair will revive its original form.

‘It’s a 10’ has established itself as one of the ‘go-to’ haircare brands in America and promises to help bring back the good old great hair days in India too with its popular collection- ‘Miracle Leave-in’. The brand aims to launch the entire haircare range in India with the mission to deliver ‘strength in simplicity’ that consists of shampoo, conditioner and mask.

Miracle Hair Leave-In Shampoo: This controls frizzy and unruly hair and with the help of linseeds and sunflower seeds. Moreover, it has a no sulfate formula and gives a smoother and shinier look from the very first wash!

Miracle Leave-In Conditioner plus Keratin: This repairs and rejuvenates damaged hair from the core with the help of Green Tea extracts and vitamin C goodness.

Miracle Leave-In Keratin 5: This Keratin-infused product revitalizes coloured or heat- treated hair by providing deep root nourishment and enhancing smoothness.

Miracle Hair Mask

Miracle Shampoo

Miracle Daily Conditioner

Blow Dry Miracle Glossing Leave-In

Miracle Silk Hair Mask

Miracle Leave-In Lite

Miracle Leave-In for Blondes

Potion 10 Instant Repair Leave-In Conditioner

Faircent, India’s 1st and largest P2P Lending platform invites tech professionals to be a part of the company under #DoMoreThanAJob campaign

New Delhi, June 2022: One of India’s leading Fintech and the 1st and largest P2P digital lending platform, Faircent, has launched the #DoMoreThanAJob campaign. The endeavour invites technology and analytics professionals to be part of the mission to enable credit access at lower rates utilising the power of P2P lending.

Faircent provides credit at a large scale, on a pan-India wide basis, to empower women, enabling small businesses to grow, professionals to take up skill enhancement courses, etc. It has disbursed Rs 100 Cr+ to empower women. In total, the platform has disbursed loans worth Rs 3200 Cr+ and changed the lives of more than 35 lakh people across India. So, by joining Faircent, technology professionals will in effect ‘do more than a job’. It is a matter of pride for Faircent employees to write codes and create analytical models that create a positive impact on the lives of millions of people in the need of credit.

As part of the campaign, the company will enable an additional contribution of a loan amount of Rs 50,000 for every application to the candidate’s choice of any one of three segments – SMEs, women empowerment and education. This will hence enable applicants to make a contribution to society by just applying for a job at Faircent.

The company is looking at recruiting mobile developers, full-stack developers, database managers, product designers, and data scientists– with more than four to five years of experience from the Gurgaon, and Delhi areas. The skills required in an ideal candidate can be in any of the Node.js, React.js, MongoDB, MySQL, React Native, Amazon RedShift, Power BI, AI/ML, Predictive Analytics, and data mining technologies. The digital lending platform seeks highly motivated and driven candidates to apply and register for an interview with Faircent through its #DoMoreThanAJob campaign.

Faircent aims to hire over 200 employees in the next 3-6 months

Talking about the launch, Rajat Gandhi, founder & CEO, said, “The motive behind this campaign is to get more and more technology professionals to come and work with us with the feeling of pride that at Faircent they will be doing more than a job. They will be helping others in our society by enabling better finance options for them on our platform. They should realize that at Faircent they will not just be doing a job, but will also contribute to the nation’s growth. It is the reason we have named the campaign – #DoMoreThanAJob. We offer the opportunity to do more than a job, a greater purpose with a significant contribution to society.”

Suguna Foods Conducts Suguna Bandhan Suppliers meet

Bengaluru, June 2022: Suguna foods, India’s leading poultry conglomerate organized “Suguna Bandhan”, a suppliers meet in Hoskote, Bangalore on 22nd June 2022. The event saw participation of over 35+ suppliers who were given training and industry perspective on primary feed sources like soya, grains and alternate poultry options. The programme featured distinguished speakers who educated participants on product quality compliance and the stringent standards used by Suguna Foods to offer high-quality goods.