RMAI announces Flame Awards Asia and Leadership Awards 2016

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Economic Reporter :
Rural Marketing Association of India (RMAI) announced the winners of the 7th edition ofFlame Awards Asia and Flame Leadership Awards 2016, during a gala evening recently in New Delhi. Over 300 Business leaders, corporate, GOI & leading rural marketing agency representatives attended the presentation ceremony.
Vritti Solutions bagged maximum six golds, followed by four by PHD Media and three by JWT. Impact Communications topped the charts with 14 awards including 2 golds. Other Gold winners are Accenture Services, Apollo Tele Health Services, Ayurvet Ltd, Coromandel International Ltd, Grey RC&M, ICAR, MART, Ministry of Agriculture & Farmer Welfare, Netcore Solutions, OMD India, Smriti Television Media & Films Ltd.
Rural Development Academy of Bangladesh, Market Access Providers Ltd., Bangladesh and
Lemon Pvt Ltd from Nepal won metals in overseas categories.
Commenting on the awards, S Siva Kumar, CEO ITC (ABD) and Jury Chair, Flame Awards Asia said “It was good to see the way technology was leveraged innovatively by several companies to reach out the rural consumers, as well as the depth of engagement with them to build brands across different categories.”
RMAI also felicitated Business leaders, industry professionals for their extraordinary contribution in Rural Marketing & development sector.
S Siva Kumar and RMAI office bearers presented Flame Leadership Awards 2016 to Arvind Sonmale, MD & CEO at SAFL; R S Sodhi, Managing Director of Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (AMUL); Ram Mudholkar, President, DuPont South Asia and Regional
Business Director, DuPont Crop Protection; Dalveer Singh, Head Experiential Marketing, APAC at GroupM; K S Bhatia, Founder, CEO, Pumpkart.com; C S Sadasivan, Chief Executive Marketing, J K Lakshmi Cement Ltd; Osama Manzar, Founder & Director, Digital Empowerment Foundation; Bhushan Chandorkar, DGM Market Activations, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd; Sharad Agarwal, Chief Executive Officer, Hindustan Latex Family Planning Promotion Trust; Muntasir Bhuiyan, COO, Market Access Providers Limited, Bangladesh and Venkat Ram Vasantavada, President-Agribusiness, Deepak Fertilizers and Petrochemical Corporation Ltd.
In his welcome address, Sanjay Kaul, President RMAI spoke about the renewed direction that RMAI has taken in terms of being more relevant to the changing needs of the industry.
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