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Food brand Five Star Chicken revamps brand name to Five Star
MUMBAI: Five Star Chicken has announced the revamp of its brand name from Five Star Chicken to Five Star. The name change is a part of the strategic plan by the brand to introduce more vegetarian products to their portfolio. With this move, the brand name will also be synonymous to its international counterparts in other countries under Thai Multi-National Conglomerate, Charoen Pokphand Foods.
With a growing network of stores and rapid consumer acceptance, Five Star is all set to introduce a wide and interesting range of vegetarian products to the market. 50% of Indian population are vegetarians and as a brand we do not want to miss out the opportunity to reach out to half the population. Though 40% of our product line is Veg offering people had a strong perception that we are only a chicken brand. Adapting to the local taste, flavor and developing products that appeals to masses has been one of the key strengths of the brand. The company has its own state of the art infrastructure for storage and distribution and exercise complete control over the quality from ‘Farm to Fork’ to ensure consistent quality and food safety.
Five Star places significant importance on research and development to meet their customers and consumers’ needs as well as to improve production efficiency at every step of operations. The brand has a dedicated team of R&D and chefs who help in continuous innovation to deliver wide variety of products and great quality taste at an affordable price. Based on the brand’s R&D and customers research survey in Bangalore, burgers and hot dogs are massively the most preferred consumers choice of fast food product. Capitalizing on this trend, Five Star is all set to launch a whole new range of burger products by the end of this quarter, while Hot Dogs are already introduced.
“While, we have a new name, we are still the same brand build upon the vision of offering great quality and delicious range of products at affordable prices to consumers. The name change is in line with the brand plans to capture the vegetarian segment of the market and give them a taste of our offerings. Moreover, we would also like to retain and reinforce our global brand name – Five Star, in the Indian market “, said CP Foods assistant VP Rijoy Prabhakar.
“India is one of the top five priority markets for Five Star globally. We place significant importance on research and development to meet our customers and consumer’s needs as well as improve production efficiency at every step of operations which ultimately benefits our business partners”, further said CP Foods senior VP Sanjeev Pant.
In India, Five Star launched its first outlet in November 2012 in Bangalore. With a production and processing facility at Budigere near Bengaluru and Chittoor in AP the brand has grown to 350+ outlets across Bengaluru, Chennai, Kochi, Goa, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Pune. The brand has tied up with IRCTC for Bangalore, Chennai and kerela markets and with key delivery website Swiggy, Zomato, Food Panda, Road Runners and Ola.
Five Star offers a wide range of chicken and vegetarian products in spicy Indian flavors as well as other Asian and Thai flavors. The brand also undertakes catering for birthday, home parties and corporate events through Five Star catering. Five Star also plans to launch 150 stores by the end 2016 expanding through the franchisee route while entering tier-II and III towns and in the existing cities.
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Vikram Kannan exits Times Network after seven years
Media veteran may explore entrepreneurial venture after long stint
MUMBAI: Times Network associate vice president – revenue Vikram Kannan, has exited the company after a seven-year stint.
His next move remains undisclosed, though sources familiar with the matter say Kannan may explore an entrepreneurial venture.
A media industry veteran with more than two decades of experience, Kannan has worked across television, radio and print during his career.
Before joining Times Network, he held roles at Star India, where he managed revenue for the Hindi movie cluster. He has also worked with The Walt Disney Company India, Radio City and The Times of India.
Kannan served as region head for Star India’s flagship Hindi movie network Star Gold between 2015 and 2019, overseeing monetisation for Star Gold SD, HD and Star Gold Select. Earlier at the company, he worked on advertising and branded content solutions for the youth entertainment channel Channel V and supported music and Bollywood content acquisition.
Between 2014 and 2015, he worked with The Walt Disney Company India in advertising sales and brand solutions, managing ad sales and branded content monetisation for kids’ channel Hungama TV across key western markets including Mumbai, Gujarat and Maharashtra.
Earlier in his career, Kannan spent more than eight years at Radio City, where he handled advertising sales and branded content solutions across the western region and led digital revenue initiatives for the network’s online platform.
He began his media career at Bennett, Coleman and Co LImited, publisher of The Times of India, as part of the special features team working on projects such as ET 500 and the Brand Equity Brain Teasers quiz series.
